How do I know if I’m Plural?

• When you perceive, feel or hear the distinct voices or presence of separate, conscious entities, these are often referred to as Systemmates or Headmates. Other terms used by the Plural community include beings, selves, parts, alters, entities, spirits, or members. For some people, fragments or parts can collectively form one person, as seen in some OSDD and Median Systems.
  
  
• In the case of Dissociative Identity Disorder, as explained in the DSM-5, these different ‘parts of the personality’ make up 1 person with 1 personality. Many (but definitely not all) Plurals identify as sentient individual entities, and they make up a System together. They use various words to describe their Plurality, their Headmates, and their Plural experiences. They identify themselves as Traumagenic or Adaptive Systems, as mixed origin Sytems or use the umbrella term Plural or any of the 350+ labels that fall under it. (PS. the umbrella does include DID and OSDD too! Everymany who is more than one, is welcome to use the Plural community label to self identify with!)
  
  
• Many, but not all, Plurals experience that those Systemmate people aren’t just voices they hear, but those Systemmate can talk together and can speak out loud and can front: ‘use the body.’ – When you share your body with systemmates who take over or you suspect they do.
  
  
• Other Plurals experience that those Systemmate people can influence their behavior or those Systemmates together form the person(s) ‘using the body.’ – When you share your headspace with other Systemmates but they don’t front.
  
  
• Some people experience their emotions as people, parts or Headmates. Some people experience themselves as different parts, facets or ages of the same person and some of them use Median as a label.
  
  
• When you find letters, notes or journal entries you didn’t write. And/or when you have distinct different handwriting at different times.
  
  
• When you don’t identify with being referred to by your birth name, as you know that is someone else in your body or that person actually does not exist at all and is just a mask.
  
  
• When you experience out of the ordinary forgetting, sometimes called, losing time, by that we mean not remembering what you did yesterday, not remembering why you were going to the kitchen, not remembering childhood, or not remembering personal information like your current phone number. Not everyone experiences out of the ordinary forgetting (amnesia) and total blackouts for the current day time are possible, but rare.
  
  
• When you experience clinical distress because of hearing voices, losing time, or other Systemmates are doing things you don’t agree with or that scare you. Not everyone experiences clinical distress.
  
  
• When you have distinct spiritual experiences that can be explained in part or in full as Multiplicity.
  
  
• When you discover fictional or factional people you write about or talk with, are in the same body as you are in.
  
  
• If you think, read, dream, envision or fantasize a lot that you are Plural or what it would be like, you might want to check if you are actually fantasizing or if these people might actually already exist within you.
  
  
• Denial is often something Plurals experience and should not really be used as an indication if you are or are not Plural. People who fake Plurality know they are faking because they planned it and have a clear end goal in mind.
  
  
• We feel that it’s worth to note that in our work we see that there seems to be a large overlap between trans and Plural identities.
  
  
• We feel that it’s worth to note that in our work we see that there seems to be a large overlap between Autistic people and Plurality.

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