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﹙ Medical Terminology ﹚
ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) ADD has been outdated for years. A lot of people spread misinformation that the term is still used but it's not. The terminology technically expired with the revision in 1987 to ADHD in the DSM-III-R. In the DSM-IV, ADHD with sub-types was presented, aka where "ADD" stands as ADHD attentive-type.
OLD (Obsessive Love Disorder) OLD isn't a real condition. Social media made it up to be a psychological condition that presents as an overwhelming, obsessive desire to protect and possess another person, potentially in a "yandere" obsessive form. This was taken from BPD to demonise it. Therefore nobody, or only people with BPD, can use it.
MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) MPD is the outdated name for DID. DID was called multiple personality disorder up until 1994 when the name was changed to reflect a better understanding of the condition. MPD suggested that you have "multiple personalities" but it's rather actually that you have less than one, split apart into individual identities.
Aspergers (Autism Spectrum Disorder) The term "Aspergers" was named after an Austrian psychiatrist, Hans Asperger, who followed nazi-ideology. Asperger studied disabled children and separated those with low and high needs. Those with high needs, were not seen beneficial to the nazi regime and were sent to be tortured and/or killed. It was created to make it seem like those with aspergers were superior to those diagnosed with autism (formerly known as "aspie supremecy"). It was removed from the DSM-5 in 2013, now renamed as a part of ASD.
Psychopath / Psychopathy Disorder The term "psychopath" when talked about as a disorder, is extremely harmful and doesn't truly exist because psychopathy isn't real. It's a misreprentation of multiple different neurological disorders, mainly antisocial personality disorder, formerly ASPD.
Conversion Disorder Conversion disorder is another outdated term. It also supports the notion that DID is comorbid with factious disorder and malingering which is harmful and not true.
﹙ Plural / Systems / PwOSDDID ﹚
Core / Original / Base The terms "Core", "Original", and "Base" are extremely harmful when referring to your own or someone else's system. Cores, bases, or originals, are the part of the self that existed before individuals with DID developed other alters. Core theory is outdated and not used by most trauma-informed psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists. It also generally shuts down the rest of the system and makes them represent as invalid since it makes them seem less important.
Doubles This is an extra common misconception and has a lot of discourse around it, but generally, this term isn't real in the system community. It's used by a lot of fictives specifically, but fictives are not their source therefore "doubles" are not duplicates of them and proves the term isn't valid. The term originated as a kin-term.
Personalities This terminology was used when MPD was still used and therefore is outdated generally. Some pwosddid and systems still prefer to call alters personalities, but without permission from said system you have no right to call alters "personalities" as it's highly offensive and shuts down the alters as people.
Alter ego / Ego state These terms actually have no specific colleration to systems, but a lot of singlets, uneducated systems, and endogenic systems, use these wrongly to describe their and others alters, when it's extremely dehumanising and is used to devalue the existence and individuality of headmates, and makes them seem unimportant.
Birth Personality In a system that follows the idea of having split off from a single person, this is sometimes still used to describe the original. Mostly it’s used by ableists to mean a headmate they believe to be the only real one. Summary: the same as "Core"
Alter Race Alter race is a massive racist misconception in the system community. Alter race DOES NOT exist. An alters race only the same race as the body is. You don’t have different races in headspace, alters can have different features, languages, or skin tones that are dominant in other races but you are not that race if not bodily and you cannot claim to be as you do not experience the racism, discrimination and prejudice from that group.
Bodily afab with transfem alters? This is not possible. This goes the same for bodily amab systems with transmasc alters, and bodily perisex systems with intersex alters. This is only possible for tma intersex systems. The whole system shares a collective agab, and that's the one that the body is born as, if the body is afab, all of the alters are, and they have only had that exact experience. "But they have source memories of-" source memories aren't real, they are pseudomemories. The headspace isn't real so you can't be anything outside the limits of the body.
If the body is afab, you will never experience transmisogyny, the source memories are just what your brain thinks it's like, that does not mean you have the transfem experience. No transfem is tme. The expectancy of life for transfem and transwomen is under 30 years. Not being trans is a privilege. If the body is afab and you're fighting to use transfem labels, and vise versa, you're transphobic.
More information here
Bodily abled system and "disabled" alters This is also not possible. This goes the same for any disabled systems with alters that have "disabilities" that the body doesn't have. It's the same rundown as alter race. It's not possible, but in the headspace they may have different "disabilities" that may classify them as that, but that doesn't mean they are actually disabled.
﹙ RAMCOA/TBMC/DHMC ﹚
Internal Roles Internal roles are a group of RAMCOA roles that non-ramcoa misinterpreted as a whole system option. Internal handlers, Internal programmers, etc.. are RAMCOA only.
Specific Roles System roles are sometimes made up and coined to be easier, which is understandable, but some make ridiculous roles that just shut down and contradict RAMCOA. So roles like "Coder", are RAMCOA only and only to be coined by RAMCOA systems.
System Hopping System hopping is a RAMCOA term that was stolen and demonised by endogenic systems which have made these terms viewed as bad in the system community, when they're not. "System hopping" is a term originally coined by RAMCOA survivors/programmed systems. There are things called "sidesystems" which are entirely self-contained systems within one body that have no knowledge of the existence of others, and usually there are specific programmed alters who are able to move between these sidesystems.
System Resets This is another RAMCOA term that has been butchered by the system community. It is used when abusers force dormancy in majority of alters.
Shell Alters
This a fragment that's whole purpose is to mask who is fronting so detecting switches becomes even harder. They are described as acting like a 'mask' that hides the system.
(Formerly known as; "Shells")
Programming
Programming is also a common thread of abuse among RAMCOA survivors. Programming refers to both the method and the result of teaching the mind unquestioned obedience. Programming is often triggered/activated by specific words, phrases, signals, or events.
RAMCOA education coming soon
Number Names Number names are quite common amongst RAMCOA survivors, as it's a mind control tactic. These have been watered down to day to day life names by people, but they shouldn't be used willy nilly. RAMCOA survivors to this day are still commonly called number names, and to further extent, Jews have many years of number name abuse too.
﹙ Extra + ﹚
Endogenic "systems" and terms
Endogenic systems are not valid, but a lot tend to undergo as different specific labels which a lot of people don't realise are endogenic. So here are a few origin names they go by; Tulpa/Tulpagenic, Demosystem, Paragenic, Neurogenic, Parogenic, Protogenic, Spirigenic and a lot more.
To shorten it, the ones that are allowed, are Traumagenic systems and Quoigenic systems unless later Endogenic discovery.
Nonverbal online This is another extreme misconception with multiple layers behind it. You cannot go nonverbal, it is something that lasts for a long period of time and you can only go nonverbal if you have a mute disorder such as selective mutism. Adding onto that, you can't go nonverbal online as it's not verbal, that would be going nonscribal. You can go nonscribal, you cannot go nonverbal.
Functioning labels Functioning labels, such as "High Functioning" and "Low Functioning" are still being tossed around commonly, but are very harmful. They separate autistics (and others) to being less or more autistic, pressuring them with social expectations. Correct terminology: High support needs, Low support needs.
Delusional Attachment / DA "Delusional attachment" is not a medical term. You will not find it in any version of the DSM, and if you bring it up to a medical professional, they're going to have no clue what you're on about. "D/A" is an identity created for people who are irls or kin. These people don't want anybody else to relate to this character or person that they obviously have some sort of attachment to, so they say that they are this person or character, themselves, as to "claim" this individual.
To back up this claim, these people will usually also claim to have a disorder that commonly causes delusions of grandeur and/or psychosis in general. This wouldn't be such a big issue if these kids were just saying it to be better, but they've dragged serious disorders into a petty argument of "who's better at being this character", actively misrepresenting those disorders, and more often than not furthering the stigmatisms surrounding these disorders.
"Anxiety Tics" This is a really common misconception. But straight into it, this is not possible. You can have anxiety twitches or adhd twitches or insert specific disorder twitches, but you absolutely cannot have anxiety tics. Tics are neurological and are only caused by a tic disorder or tourettes syndrome. Legally if you have any tics, you are qualified for a tic disorder diagnosis, formerly tourettes syndrome possible. But under no circumstances can anxiety or anything else cause tics.
Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder There's a trend going round about Maladaptive Daydreaming, saying it's a disorder, when it's not. Maladaptive Daydreaming has never been medically recognised as a disorder, and most likely never will. On the other hand it can be a sign of another disorder but it's most commonly just a coping mechanism for anxiety, it is not a disorder.
Manic / Mania / Manic Episodes This term has been watered down by society in general. People go day to day saying "Omg I'm so manic rn", but it's infact a symptom that only Bipolar, and Schizoaffective people can reclaim. Mania is a symptom to these disorders, you cannot be manic if you do not have one of these disorders. Common misconception: People with BPD can be manic, but they cannot. The closest they experience is euphoria, which is a symptom to mania itself.
Euphoria Euphoria is a type of joy high that people with BPD will experience from minutes to hours. It is a symptom to mania, but they cannot reclaim the whole term as euphoria is a thing itself with BPD. Euphoria is an unexplainable type of high that is usually characterised with black and white thinking.
Narc-abuse / Disorder-abuse Narc-abuse is not real, the only narc-abuse that is real is if you're talking about narcotics but narcissist abuse doesn't exist. Abusers are abusers and that's that, a disorder doesn't make them abusive, it's just demonising cluster b disorders and normalising blant ableism.
M-spec lesbian/gays Formerly known as multispec lesbians/gays, aka pan lesbians, omni gays, good faith labels, and so on. These are not possible and are homophobic and harmful to the community. It's just including men into lesbianism and vise versa.
Cultural Titles Cultural titles are closed to asians, norse pagans, and indigenous people. They are for showing respect to those who are above oneself (Ex. "Shi who is no longer human", "He who lives to entertain"). These have been misused for "aesthetics" which is disrespectful to these cultures.
Closed Pronouns Some pronouns are closed to specific groups for reasons, most of the time, of which, are due to the history behind these. For example; Hesh/Herm, these pronouns are closed to intersex people because it is build from "Hermaphrodite", a common slur used against intersex people. Or Fae/Faer, an especially normalised pronoun which is actually closed to celtic pagans due to the Fae, in their culture.
Femboy/Tomboy explanation here
Yandere Trope The yandere aesthetic and trope not only romanticises abuse but it also mocks and demonises bpd. Yanderes harmfully exaggerate how pwbpd act around their fp, and portray it as being crazy, which perpetuates the stereotype of people with bpd being insane and a danger to the people around them. Not to mention the yandere trope was made by an ableist and sanist that doesn't believe in DID. To add onto that, even if the yandere trope doesn't seem so bad, it also heavily normalises and romanticises RAMCOA and TBMC abuse, which causes nobody to take it seriously or romanticise it. + it is also a very racist trope against Asian women that is constantly shut down. STOP USING RACIST AND DEMONISING TROPES FOR KAWAII-NESS.
ADD, Maladaptive Daydreaming, doubles, and the yandere trope are the least needed to be moderated, they are at the bottom of the moderation list.