natural multiplicity terms

Lately several DID sufferers have expressed the view that natural multiples using the term ’system’ to describe themselves is in some way appropriative or dismissive toward their illness. 

While I don’t agree that that’s the case, I am not someone who likes to offend people for the sake of it, nor have I ever had any particular attachment to the word ‘system’.

I’ve had other multiples in the past tell me that they don’t like the word system either. They feel its too clinical, or just doesn’t describe them. Personally, my gripe with the term is that its just not particularly clear what it means.

Due to these factors I will no longer be using the term ‘system’ to refer to myself and my headmates. Instead I will be using the term mental collective.

I feel that mental collective is easily understood by anyone in or out of the multiple community, and it carries no connotations of being a clinical term.

If you feel that mental collective describes you, or someone you know please use it and spread it around.

I will still be answering asks, or replying to posts that use the term system, even for natural multiples, soulbonders, etc, but I will not be using the term to apply to myself from now on.