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When Your College’s President is a Rapist (and No One Cares)

This is yet another survivor story. TW abuse, rape. In 2017 our alma mater, Ithaca College, announced that the college’s new president would be Dr. Shirley Collado. We, along with the majority of the campus community, were thrilled at the announcement; Dr. Collado is a woman of color with backgrounds in psychology and sociology, andContinue reading “When Your College’s President is a Rapist (and No One Cares)”

Abolition and BLM

We’ve had this in our drafts for a couple of weeks now while we tried to gauge whether it was appropriate to continue posting about DID, or whether we should put that on hold in favor of talking about the Black Lives Matter and abolitionist movements going on across the States and all over theContinue reading “Abolition and BLM”

Percy

Littles are child alters and many (but not all) systems have at least one, though it’s not uncommon for systems to have several. We have just Percy; he’s somewhere around 7-8 years old and has been since the system first formed. It’s difficult for us to retroactively trace his origin — that’s going back almostContinue reading “Percy”

One Year Later

When we first started this site the idea was that we’d update it at least every few days; then at least once a week; then maybe once a month (?); then Ok, Surely We Can Manage Something Regularly; then it just fell off the radar entirely. So, here’s why and where we’ve been in theContinue reading “One Year Later”

Mothers’ Day

We’re very fortunate to have the relationship with Ros’ parents that we do. Bob and Chris are wonderfully supportive and make a real effort to get to know us as individuals; we’ve never known–or even known of–another system in such a position. For a great number of people with DID, the parents are responsible forContinue reading “Mothers’ Day”

9

Oi there! Ros mentioned me some time ago and I’ve not had the chance to write my own follow up. Decided to stick with the name 9. Not uncommon for alters to have numbered names and I think it suits me. Plus it’s kinda badass, eh? I’ve been round a couple years in an inContinue reading “9”

Update

Hey, everyone. We’ve been lax about keeping up with the site lately; it’s been a particularly rough few months for us. As open as we are about the workings of the system and the realities of DID, we aren’t keen on disclosing the intimate details of our personal lives, and there’s been little else we’veContinue reading “Update”

Hollywood and DID

Hollywood has a long history of utilizing DID as a sensationalized plot device, particularly for the horror and thriller genres. The list includes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Lizzie (1957) The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Psycho (1960) Sisters (1972) Magic (1978) Funeral Home (1980) Dressed to Kill (1980) Psycho IV: the Beginning (1990)Continue reading “Hollywood and DID”

Joining the System

We’ve realized gradually over the course of the past 1.5 years or so that we have another alter forming — this makes 9 of us in total, at least that we’re aware of — so I thought we’d talk a bit about what it’s like when a new alter forms! For most of us (me,Continue reading “Joining the System”

Headspace

Alters don’t disappear when we’re away from front, nor do we fade into darkness. Systems have any number of different names for where we go when we’re no longer fronting: “headspace” and “inner world” being most common. We use the former, which I will continue to utilize here. The headspace is customized by each system.Continue reading “Headspace”