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The Creation of the Term "Endogenic"
EDIT AGAIN: Trash Can Collective is now the Lunastus Collective and we've re-updated the post.
Hi everybody, it's Sneak again, and I am on a plural history Wiki roll! ^_^ Today I learned when and how the word "endogenic" got created! :D Coincidentally, it's also right around the same time as the first citation I can find for the urban legend of "'multiple' and 'system' are DID-only words and other plurals aren't allowed to use them"! Score!
Seeing how the "endogenic" term got created to try and be a completely separate form of language from all existing plural terminology at the time to avoid spurious claims of "cultural appropriation," only to then be claimed as cultural appropriation anyway, I think this helps prove just how bad-faith the original argument is. DID plurals, we can do better! We SHOULD do better!
Quick Details
Coined By: the Lunastus (FKA Trash Can Collective, Alnilam)
Date Coined: 2014, August 8
Location Used: tumblr
On August 7, 2014, the Lunastus Collective found themselves "being told that using those terms [multiple and multiple system] is appropriative of the DID community [...] Being told [natural multiplicity] can’t possibly be a thing, and it’s trivializing DID folks to say it happens" (2014, August 7). In their attempts to avoid spurious claims of cultural appropriation and come up with "words to use for 'multiplicity', without using the word 'multiplicity', 'plurality', or anything relating to that" they came up with "the -genesis words. And we kind of liked the looks of some words, once we took of the -esis part!" (ibid). The most successful of these terms was "endogenous," which later was changed to "endogenic."
Unfortunately for TLC, coming up with a completely separate terminology utterly seperate from the rest of the plural community didn't work. For instance, the Entropy System states, "I see the word 'endogenic' as equivalent to the confederate flag. [...] It still attaches them to a problematic past and encourages oppression of a minority group." (2018, May 13) (Note: this post is factually incorrect about the history of "endogenic" and the status of non-DID plurals within plural online communities. It is cited not as an accurate source on plural history, but a source on the kind of opinions that float around the term "endogenic.")
Citations
the Lunastus Collective [not-your-fucking-pet]. (2014, August 7). Fellow plural people? [tumblr post]. Retrieved 2019/03/14 from http://not-your-fucking-pet.tumblr.com/post/94111819808/fellow-plural-people
the Lunastus Collective [not-your-fucking-pet]. (2014, August 8). Long ramble on terminology creation [tumblr post]. Retrieved 2019/03/14 from http://not-your-fucking-pet.tumblr.com/post/94222698873/long-ramble-on-terminology-creation
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Yup. Disability culture is a thing, but just RECEIVING A DIAGNOSIS does not automatically make you part of disability culture. You have to, like, MEANINGFULLY PARTICIPATE in social interactions with other disabled people AND pay attention to the people who came before you and paved the way for what you have now. Suffering does not automatically make you part of some precious culture which can be "appropriated" from, either, contrary to what "anti-endo" people seemed to think. Suffering is not a culture! If anything, it's a human universal which cuts across all cultures, groups, and eras!
(Not venting at you, don't worry. Just venting at this... entire concept that crying appropriation gives you the moral high ground in any situation and absolves you from having to make a case that someone else's existence, beliefs, or identity are somehow offensive to you just by existing.)
-Istevia
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Miranda: Well said. Our culture shouldn't be mere deference to medical authority. Medical authority should NOT be the same as cultural authority.
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~L.
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--Mori