Being Many

What is Plurality?

Most people experience themselves as always being one person in one body.

Plurality is a framework for any experience that doesn't fit inside that box: two people sharing a body, a person with parts, a bunch of brain voices in a trenchcoat, dissociative identity disorder, spiritual possession, etc.

In-depth explanation...

Plurality 101

• About Plurality (zine) (pdf)
• One Person Per Body
• Plural Glossary
• What's It Like to Be Plural? (zine) (pdf)

Guides

• Advice from Those Who Came Before: for New Systems (pdf)
• Autonomancy for Self Discovery (pdf)
• Building Trust
• Communication Methods
• Finding Headspace
• Fronting and Switching
• I Think We're Alone Now (pdf)
• Settling Arguments
• Some Methods for Voluntary Switching
• Surviving The First Few Weeks
• Unnaming

Internal Family Systems

• Basics of IFS
• Getting to Know your Parts
• Moderating Intensity
• Modifying Internal Family Systems for Plurals
• Parts
• Self
• Unblending

Links

• Big Plural Books Zipfile
• Links about Hearing Voices
• Links about Integration
• Links about Medianhood
• Links about Plurality
• Tools

Living

• Living as Many
• Names Not Required
• Should I Tell? (pdf)
• The Isolation of Stereotypes
• The Mundane
• You Don't Have to Know

Medianhood

• Median is More than People With Parts

Psychiatry

• Diagnostic Criteria over The Years
• On Amnesia, Flashbacks, and Diagnostic Muddiness
• On Diagnosis
• On Headmate Death
• OSDD and Medical Labels
• Psychiatry and The Assumption of Absolute Diagnosis and Treatment

Questioning

• Am I Plural?
• How Do I Know If I'm Plural? (pdf)
• Is This A Headmate or Something Else?
• Plurality is Not Absolute
• The Genie Offering Plurality
• The Right Labels

Silly

• You Know You're Plural If...

Books

For The Many (epub) (pdf)

Plurality is the experience of having more than one self in the same body. There are few guides written for those who don't fit into "one person per body", and it can be hard to figure out how to live a life where you're never alone, especially if you struggle with internal conflicts or trust issues. For the Many offers over 100 pages of guides on self-discovery, communication, and developing an internal community.