As someone with DID, I am asking you to take ‘fictive’ out of your ‘alterhuman’ definition. Please. It feels really disrespectful of my disorder and the clinical words we use pertaining to it. These are for alters only and do not belong under the ‘alterhuman’ umbrella. We have our own words for those, fictive is one word we use for an alter with traits/name/experiences of a fictional character, introject is another. This is very disconcerting as someone who needs this word to stay clinical.

Fictive was a word coined by the alterhuman/soulbonding/endogenic community. The clinical word is fictional introject. confirmation: LINK see the 4th paragraph of this answer.

In my experience through the soulbonding community – one of the major difference between soulbonds and headmates is the lack of ability to front or to front alone without the “host”. Just because you don’t have DID and/or have fictives doesn’t mean your multiplicity experience is automatically soulbonding.

This CAN be a decent indicator, but its not always the case. Soulbonding covers a much wider spectrum of communication than other multiplicty experiences generally…

inexplicablehanyou: hamiltoes: Why do people need to appropriate a mental illness so much that they say their imaginary friends are alters? Just get over the…

just because a source stretches back more than a decade doesn’t mean it’s true. you could say exactly the same thing about vaccines causing autism. again, you’re completely ignoring what i’m saying here. multiplicity and being a system are symptoms of DID and OSDD-1 exclusively. why are you taking terms from a disorder and using them to describe something completely different.

And you are not listening to me. I am a part of a multiple system. We do not have DID or trauma. Why are you…