Age Slider – A headmate or person who changes age or identifies with different ages at different times. How much control they have over the process, the age ranges involved, and all other aspects of agesliding vary widely between and even within systems. [Age Shifter]
Co-fronting - When two or more members of a system are controlling the body at one time. [Co-running, Co-driving]
Dissociative Identity Disorder – The ‘official’ diagnosis for plurality. This applies to some plurals but not all. It is a state in which a person’s mind ‘dissociates’ and becomes several different minds. Sometimes this is caused by trauma, sometimes not. Psychology believes this is the only cause for plurality, but most plurals beg to differ. Symptoms include extreme memory loss and losing time. Formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder. You can find an official definition in the DSM-IV. [Multiple Personality Disorder]
Fictive – A headmate who identifies with or believes they are, spiritually or psychologically, a person, creature, or race from fiction. They may believe they are a specific character or a non-canon character of the same race or world. [Mediakin, Otakukin/Otakin] Note: Otakukin/Otakin are usually considered derogatory.
Front – The body’s view of the world. When someone is in the control of the body, they are said to ‘be at the front’. [Out]
Fronter – A person who is using the front of the body, or controlling the body. Some systems have ‘main fronters’, or a person who is usually at the front. [Driver, Runner]
Fronting – The act of controlling the body. [Being out, Driving, Running]
Gateway System – A system where it is believed the headspace is another reality/dimension/place, and the headmates use the body to interact with the world/Earth.
Headmate – A member of a plural system. They generally share mental space with the other members. [Systemmate]
Headspace – A place where system members reside. It can be considered a mental space or another realm altogether. Some systems do not have headspaces, while some singlets do. Some people can manipulate their headspace in supernatural ways and some cannot; they vary infinitely. [Innerworld,
Soulscape]
Healthy Plurality – Being plural and still having a functional life, regardless whether it’s natural or caused by trauma.
Host – In cases of DID and MPD, the ‘original’ person, from which the other minds broke off. In other cases, used to refer to the main part of a median system. [Core, Center]
Integration – The ultimate goal of psychology when it comes to plurals: to get the system members to merge into one person. This works rarely and when it
does, often does not stick. Most of the time it makes things worse, and is generally undesired by plurals, as it’s equated with dying or murder. [Merging]
Plural – An umbrella term for when more than one person shares the same physical body with others. In general, plurals fall on a scale of infinite variation from singlet to median to multiple along a spectrum. There are many personal theories as to the cause.
Singlet – A person who is the only occupant in a body.
Splitting – The act of one person becoming more than one person as described by the psychological theory behind DID. [Dissociating]
Soulbond – Forming a strong connection with a fictional character or other person. May result in the soulbond becoming a headmate. [Muse, Introject]
Switching – The act of changing who is in control of the body.
System – A term commonly used to mean the group of people in a plural’s body. [Group]
Co-fronting - When two or more members of a system are controlling the body at one time. [Co-running, Co-driving]
Dissociative Identity Disorder – The ‘official’ diagnosis for plurality. This applies to some plurals but not all. It is a state in which a person’s mind ‘dissociates’ and becomes several different minds. Sometimes this is caused by trauma, sometimes not. Psychology believes this is the only cause for plurality, but most plurals beg to differ. Symptoms include extreme memory loss and losing time. Formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder. You can find an official definition in the DSM-IV. [Multiple Personality Disorder]
Fictive – A headmate who identifies with or believes they are, spiritually or psychologically, a person, creature, or race from fiction. They may believe they are a specific character or a non-canon character of the same race or world. [Mediakin, Otakukin/Otakin] Note: Otakukin/Otakin are usually considered derogatory.
Front – The body’s view of the world. When someone is in the control of the body, they are said to ‘be at the front’. [Out]
Fronter – A person who is using the front of the body, or controlling the body. Some systems have ‘main fronters’, or a person who is usually at the front. [Driver, Runner]
Fronting – The act of controlling the body. [Being out, Driving, Running]
Gateway System – A system where it is believed the headspace is another reality/dimension/place, and the headmates use the body to interact with the world/Earth.
Headmate – A member of a plural system. They generally share mental space with the other members. [Systemmate]
Headspace – A place where system members reside. It can be considered a mental space or another realm altogether. Some systems do not have headspaces, while some singlets do. Some people can manipulate their headspace in supernatural ways and some cannot; they vary infinitely. [Innerworld,
Soulscape]
Healthy Plurality – Being plural and still having a functional life, regardless whether it’s natural or caused by trauma.
Host – In cases of DID and MPD, the ‘original’ person, from which the other minds broke off. In other cases, used to refer to the main part of a median system. [Core, Center]
Integration – The ultimate goal of psychology when it comes to plurals: to get the system members to merge into one person. This works rarely and when it
does, often does not stick. Most of the time it makes things worse, and is generally undesired by plurals, as it’s equated with dying or murder. [Merging]
Plural – An umbrella term for when more than one person shares the same physical body with others. In general, plurals fall on a scale of infinite variation from singlet to median to multiple along a spectrum. There are many personal theories as to the cause.
Singlet – A person who is the only occupant in a body.
Splitting – The act of one person becoming more than one person as described by the psychological theory behind DID. [Dissociating]
Soulbond – Forming a strong connection with a fictional character or other person. May result in the soulbond becoming a headmate. [Muse, Introject]
Switching – The act of changing who is in control of the body.
System – A term commonly used to mean the group of people in a plural’s body. [Group]
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