Editing Multiplicity (subculture) (section)

== Characteristics ==
Multiplicity communities exist online through social media blogging sites like [[LiveJournal]], [[Tumblr]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Riesman |first=Abraham |date=2019-03-29 |title=The Best Cartoonist You've Never Read Is Eight Different People |url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/lb-lee-dissociative-identity-disorder-comics.html |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>https://www.lycoming.edu/schemata/pdfs/Sullivan.pdf</ref> and more recently, [[TikTok]], [[Reddit]], and [[YouTube]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Styx |first=Lo |date=2022-01-27 |title=Teens Are Using TikTok to Diagnose Themselves With Dissociative Identity Disorder |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/dissociative-identity-disorder-on-tiktok |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=Teen Vogue |language=en-US}}</ref> Composing their members are "systems" of multiple distinct identities or personalities in the same body. Those identities are often called "headmates", "systemmates", and sometimes "alters", and can have different names, ages, genders, sexualities, and personalities from one another.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Parry |first1=Sarah |last2=Eve |first2=Zarah |last3=Myers |first3=Gemma |date=2022-07-21 |title=Exploring the Utility and Personal Relevance of Co-Produced Multiplicity Resources with Young People |journal=Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma |language=en |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=427–439 |doi=10.1007/s40653-021-00377-7 |issn=1936-1521 |pmc=9120276 |pmid=35600531 |quote=}}</ref><ref name=":5" /> Some other [[jargon]] used within multiplicity communities includes:
* "Fronter", the headmate currently controlling the body.
* "Fronting", the act of controlling the body.<ref name="Vice" />
* "Co-fronting", when one or more headmates are fronting simultaneously.
* "Switching", when the fronting headmate switches out to another headmate.<ref name=":3" />
* "Plural" or "Plurality", other terms for multiplicity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stronghold |date=2023-04-18 |title=How they took the Multiple out of Multiplicity - Understanding the history |url=https://powertotheplurals.com/how-they-took-the-multiple-out-of-multiplicity-understanding-the-history-of-dissociative-identity-disorder-did-terminology/ |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=powertotheplurals.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
* "Headspace" or "inner world", the concept of a mental space in which headmates interact together.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Vice" />
* "Singlet", referring to a person that does not experience plurality.<ref name="Ribáry" /><ref name="Vice" /><ref name="aeon" />
* "Traumagenic", a form of plurality caused by or rooted in [[psychological trauma]].<ref name=":5" />
* "Endogenic", a form of plurality that has non-traumagenic roots.<ref name=":5" />

=== Role as a support community ===
Participating in online multiplicity communities can remedy social isolation.<ref name="Ribáry" /><ref name=":4" /> Ribáry et al. found that for participants, adopting a plural [[Identity (social science)|identity]] helps them cope with identity disorders and that discovering the notion of multiplicity and participating in related communities "is helpful and therapeutic".<ref name="Ribáry" /> According to ''The Plural Association'' (a Netherlands-based nonprofit founded to "empower Plurals, no matter the words or labels they use to define their unique and individual experiences"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stronghold |title=TPA Nonprofit |url=https://powertotheplurals.com/tpa-nonprofit/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=powertotheplurals.com |language=en-US}}</ref>), "Denying the existence of separate experiences can be harmful and may not facilitate healing. Acknowledging and respecting the multiplicity-plurality of individuals with DID [Dissociative Identity Disorder] is essential for promoting understanding, acceptance, and support."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stronghold |date=2023-04-18 |title=How they took the Multiple out of Multiplicity - Understanding the history |url=https://powertotheplurals.com/how-they-took-the-multiple-out-of-multiplicity-understanding-the-history-of-dissociative-identity-disorder-did-terminology/ |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=powertotheplurals.com |language=en-US}}</ref>