poly-fragmented vs. "traditional" DID

[FreyasSpirit]

We want to say thank you for this thread. When we were initially looking through this forum, this was the thread which really caught our eye and made us decide to join. Before this, we had never encountered the term polyfragmented.

We were very curious about the term and came back to it several times over the last 6 months. Last night, we were questioning whether the term applied to us and came to the conclusion that our fascination with the term meant that we probably were (we had similar fascinations with gender and plurality before we discovered our identities with those). We had previously come to the conclusion that we would not be surprised if there were >100 of us (2 years ago, we did not know we were plural, 1 year ago, we had 6 identified, a week ago, we had ~30 identified and were still growing). Last night, we decided to search for subsystems by asking. In response, we had three Ericas and four Helixes respond. Today, we tried to split innerworld and were able to split into three shadows for the Ericas and later four birds for the Helixes though we were not able to hold either split for longer than 15 seconds. In our mind, this confirms the existence of subsystems and allows us to reasonably confidently use the label "polyfragmented" on ourselves.

Acquiring additional labels is incredibly helpful because it simplifies the language we need to describe who we are. Thank you orek and others on this thread for introducing us to this term and helping us discover more about ourselves.