Question 1: Introduce Yourselves

[beepbird]

Let's get this community talking! 

Tell us about yourselves. What are your lived experiences with plurality? How do you understand yourselves?

If you're still figuring this all out (as we all are), then what do you know so far about your own experiences? What do you want to know?

Comments and posts responding to this prompt are both welcomed, though comments keep this question's answers easier to find (consider linking back to this post if you answer in your own post- it makes it easier to track!).

Comments

[sagittaoftime]

We're Sagitta et al., aka a few other things and names. We've used plurality as a framework for over half a decade, going through various models and a couple system overhauls. Currently I'd describe us as a phenomenon of many voices, trying their best to be embodied. (It's a learning process.) We can differentiate, but we're not very discrete at the moment.

We've been at this for a while, so I feel like I understand how we operate pretty well, but y'know, make a map and it's immediately out of date. I think I would say that I don't know if we would be plural (or plural in the same way[s]) if we hadn't encountered the concept when we did. And the model we encountered encouraged us to see ourselves as separate people, which I don't know that we would have had naturally. But being consciously aware of our contradictory thoughts, feelings, personalities, etc. and purposefully differentiating ourselves led to treating ourself with much more compassion and kindness than I think we otherwise would have, or even been capable of.