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@Xx4NT0NYMPHxX: yes it is! We have a core as well (technically two but that's alot to explain), so we use that term too! I just forgot to include that in my comment

@yourtommy: Ty for helping! I'm looking into all the roles that alters can have!

yes, there's a lot (there's also others that aren't like, medically recognized, they don't have to be it's very much up to the headmate to identify themselves), the dissociative spectrum that typically involves *a system* would include DID, OSDD (A and B), P-DID, UDD but there's other dissociative disorders besides that (like depersonalization-derealization disorder), yes, and yes.

systemhood is very complex and if you have a question of "is it possible to-" the answer is probably yes. are you experiencing it? that's what matters the most. My system is very fictive-based because we are easily influenced by medias we are interested in, we're also heavily fragmented and layers tend to split off when we're stressed, which are traits of polyfrag systems, but due to a near complete lack of amnesia or communication barriers we do not consider ourselves polyfrag. We have an almost filter through which alters interact with the outside world, which could be perceived as a host to people who are not us, but we don't have a host. We experience intense, almost "phantom limbs" without the "limb" part in regards to in-headspace height, clothing, and even environment, as well as bodies. This is true for human and nonhuman headmates that simply look different or are in a different environment from where we physically are. (all strange little things about our system)

It's an interesting subject.

yeah it totally is!!!

we're a OSDD-1B system, and we're friends with a lot of other systems! literally about 95% of us are introjects, and one of our friends is a introject-only system! it's totally possible, especially in autistic systems due to the fact that autistic people get special interests and find comfort in characters more often. it's also possible to have only one alter other than the host!!

theres a LOT of different types of alter roles!! alters can have very specific roles, especially fragments, who only have a job to do one thing (ex : we have a fragment who's only job is to give us showers! her name is Joice :3), the most common alter roles however (or the roles you probably will hear about the most) are caretaker, little, persecutor, protector, host, co-host, trauma holder, symptom holder, and avenger.

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