Finally able to have internal“meetings” and to openly say “we” :)
Hi! This is a post about my recent progress and acceptance of my plurality :) I’m just hoping to celebrate with you all.
We’ve been exploring our plurality for about a year now, and it’s been a bit of a confusing journey. I spent a while feeing uncomfortable calling myself plural, largely because I (like many others in this sub) worried about using that term without having DID/OSDD. Some of my headmates were much more comfortable with it, but I specifically struggled. I also got confused because my therapist and I use Internal Family Systems, and I was worried I was reading too much into the “normal” ‘parts’ present in that therapeutic framework.
But! I am super comfortable with it now, largely due to reading through the resources in this subreddit. I realized that as long as plurality feels good and helpful to me, i might as well embrace it. And this week, we were all able to have a really nice “System Meeting” for the first time. And it felt so so good! It’s really nice being able to hear what everybody is thinking about and worrying about.
And! We all feel much more comfortable saying “we” out loud now. Our girlfriend (who is dating all of us) actually noticed it before we did haha. She was like “i love hearing y’all say ‘we’ so comfortably. it’s so nice to hear.” We hadn’t even realized we were doing it hahahah.
So yeah :) things are good. And we all feel MUCH more able to be fully “ourselves” than we ever have before. It’s really really nice :)