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lb_leeSneak: This is a (forever IN-PROGRESS) hub page for all our deep dives into the origination, rise, and fall of terms used for what we loosely call "spirited" or "many-selved" folks from 1816-2016, including: various forms of medical multiplicity (dual consciousness, MPD, DID,etc.), medical backlash multiples (empowered multiples, natural multiples, endogenic multiples), plurals, soulbonders, and whatever else we trip over, just so we can have it all in one place.
We are cutting it at 2016 because that gives us a good 200 year window going back to our earliest medical multi records in English, and also because we do not want to dig into the microlabel boom. Pluralpedia is better for things like that. We might later kick the earliest year back, but I doubt we will go any further into the present than 2016.
Quick Alphabetical Index:
A ~ B ~ C ~ D ~ E ~ F ~ G ~ H ~ I ~ J ~ K ~ L ~ M ~ N ~ O ~ P ~ Q ~ R ~ S ~ T ~ U ~ V ~ W ~ X ~ Y ~ Z
Previous Glossaries Used in the Making of This Document
AHPI : see alterhuman
Alter-human: see alterhuman
alterhuman (adjective): "A category of personal identity which encompasses identification that is alternative to the common societal idea of humanity," including nonhumans (otherkin, therians, etc.), many-selved/spirited, etc. Coined 2014/9/24 by Lio of the Crossroads System on tumblr.
alternating personalities (noun)
Alternative Humanity Personal Identity: see alterhuman
blend (intransitive verb): see blending.
blending (noun)
caretaker:
closeted (adjective)
core (noun)
dar’morende (noun): 1: original meaning: see soulbond. Due to misunderstanding it became 2: a fictional character who takes on an independent life to their creator or audience, but who doesn’t stick around for long. Coined by Catherine Rain by 1999/9/17, used by soulbonders but never spread further.
DDNOS: see Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.
disintegrated personality (noun)
dissociated personality (noun)
Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (noun)
Dissociative Identity Disorder (noun)
double consciousness (noun)
double personality (noun)
duplex personality (noun)
ego state (noun)
empowered multiple (noun)
endo: see endogenic.
endogenic (adjective): 1. A multiple who doesn't see themselves as created by trauma. 2. The "bad" multiples. Coined by the Lunastus Collective 2014/08/08 on tumblr, spread through there.
False Memory Syndrome (noun)
False Memory Syndrome Foundation (noun)
front (noun, intransitive verb)
frontrunner (noun)
headmate (noun): The relationship between any tenants of the same body. Coined by 2005/4/18 on the DesperateFans Livejournal roleplaying comm, spread through Livejournal via RPers, muses and muns (2006-01), soulbonders (2006-05), before finally getting picked up by multiples (2007-02). With the fall of LJ, the term spread to tumblr, where it became so widespread that even Urban Dictionary heard about it.
headspace (noun)
helper (noun)
host (noun, verb)
household (noun)
inner self-helper (noun)
insourced (adj.)
integration (noun)
ISH: see inner self-helper
losing time:
manifold personality (noun)
many-selved (adjective)
median (noun, adjective): Coined by 2002/7/31 by Blackbirds, who founded plural pseudo-activist group Pavilion Hall, as far as I can tell, purely to spite Vicki(s), the creator of midcontinuum (and also the ex of Astraea, another Pavilion Hall member).
medicalized multiplicity (noun)
midcont (noun)
midContinuum or midcontinuum (adjective)
MP (noun): see multiple person or multiple personality
MPD (noun, adjective): see Multiple Personality Disorder
MPD/DID (noun, adjective)
multi (noun, adjective)
multiple (noun, adjective): "Two or more people who use the same body; The experience of sharing the body with others." (Dark Personalities, 2001). Coined by Shirley Mason (AKA Sybil) by 1973.
multiple person (noun)
multiple personality (noun)
Multiple Personality Disorder (noun)
multiplex personality (noun)
natural multiple (noun)
original (noun): see original personality
original [personality, state, self] (adjective)
original [soulbond] (adjective)
OSDD (noun): see Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder
OSDD-1b (noun):
Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (noun)
outsourced (adjective): soulbonding term for a person from media that its vessel did not create (like Bugs Bunny or Othello). Coined by soulbonder Amanda Gilkey 2002-05ish? on her website, Shining Half, and spread through soulbonding channels on LJ.
parts (noun, pl.)
passive influence:
persecutor (adjective; noun)
plural (noun, adjective)
protector (noun)
quoigenic (adjective)
ritual abuse (noun)
sadistic ritual abuse: see ritual abuse
Satanic ritual abuse: see ritual abuse
SB (noun, intransitive verb)
single (noun)
single person (SP) (noun)
singlet (noun, adjective): "people with one or fewer personalities." (Hocking, 1992, pg. 10) Coined by Astraea's scumbag singlet ex-husband, "B.C." sometime between 1987 and 1992/10/5, spread via Astraea first on BBS, then through their website and alt.support.dissociation.
singleton (noun)
soulbond or SoulBond (noun, intransitive verb)
soulbonder (noun)
soulbonding or SoulBonding (noun): "to form and/or experience a robust mental or empathic connection with one or more fictional characters" (Eclective, 2004). Coined by Amanda Flowers on the Just For Writers (JFW) mailing list probably in 1996, definitely before 1998/12/29.
SP: see single person
split personality (noun)
SRA: see ritual abuse
system (noun): A. a plural’s roster (of fronters, of all denizens) or B. the whole kit and kaboodle of denizens, forces, and environments acting in concert or cross-purposes. Although the idea of a “system” as a group of interdependent parts has a long precedent, plural use of it originates with Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS, in 1987 with his “Our Multiple Selves: Applying Systems Thinking to the Inner Family,” and it spread through medical groups, alt.sexual.abuse.recovery, the Many Voices newsletter, and alt.support.dissociation. (See also: A Brief History of the Use of 'System' in Non-DID Space)
tai’morende (noun): originally intended to mean 1: “an alternative version of [a] character's entire world inside your head” (Eclective, 2002), but due to misunderstanding apparently became 2: a fictional character who takes on an independent life, but who doesn’t stick around for long (ibid). Coined by 1999/9/17 by Catherine Rain, a soulbonding term that never spread further
UDD (noun): see Unspecified Dissociative Disorder.
Unspecified Dissociative Disorder (noun)
Listed in chronological order, not alphabetical. Anachronic Army’s was yoinked wholesale by Pavilion, which in turn was yoinked by Astraea. The others stand alone.
1996: therapist Ralph B. Allison's “Glossary.” http://www.dissociation.com/index/glossary/ Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/19980224062238/http://www.dissociation.com/index/glossary/
1998/02/05: Sidran Foundation's “PsychTrauma Glossary.” http://www.sidran.org/glossary.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/19980205090623/http://www.sidran.org/glossary.html
2001/02/23: otherkin multiple Crisses's “Otherkin Multiple FAQ.” http://kinhost.org/res/Multiplefaq.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20010223215604/http://kinhost.org/res/Multiplefaq.html
2001/05/19: multiple Anachronic Army's “Terminology.” Internet Archive. http://darkpersonalities.com/terminology.htm Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20010519115202/http://darkpersonalities.com/terminology.htm
2001/08/05: soulbonder Eclective's “dictionary for mundanes.” Internet Archive. http://childofmana.tripod.com:80/glossary.htm Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20010805064112/http://childofmana.tripod.com:80/glossary.htm
2002, probably May: potemkin plural activist group Pavilion Hall's “Pavilion: Terminology” [web page]. http://www.tanuki.cx:80/pavilion/glossary.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20040123062239/http://www.tanuki.cx:80/pavilion/glossary.html
2003/1/11: multiple Astraea's “Astraea’s Web: Terminology” [web page]. http://astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20030111103116/http://astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html
2004/05/03: Eclective's “.s o u l // whispers – v3.0reflective – glossary” [web page]. http://soulbonding.tripod.com:80/soulbonding_glossary.htm Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20040503180101/http://soulbonding.tripod.com:80/soulbonding_glossary.htm
2009/05/03: multiple Hess of Plures's “Sticky Terms.” http://www.exunoplures.info/stickyterms.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20090503123533/http://www.exunoplures.info/stickyterms.html
We are cutting it at 2016 because that gives us a good 200 year window going back to our earliest medical multi records in English, and also because we do not want to dig into the microlabel boom. Pluralpedia is better for things like that. We might later kick the earliest year back, but I doubt we will go any further into the present than 2016.
Quick Alphabetical Index:
A ~ B ~ C ~ D ~ E ~ F ~ G ~ H ~ I ~ J ~ K ~ L ~ M ~ N ~ O ~ P ~ Q ~ R ~ S ~ T ~ U ~ V ~ W ~ X ~ Y ~ Z
Previous Glossaries Used in the Making of This Document
A
AHPI : see alterhuman
Alter-human: see alterhuman
alterhuman (adjective): "A category of personal identity which encompasses identification that is alternative to the common societal idea of humanity," including nonhumans (otherkin, therians, etc.), many-selved/spirited, etc. Coined 2014/9/24 by Lio of the Crossroads System on tumblr.
alternating personalities (noun)
Alternative Humanity Personal Identity: see alterhuman
B
blend (intransitive verb): see blending.
blending (noun)
C
caretaker:
closeted (adjective)
core (noun)
D
dar’morende (noun): 1: original meaning: see soulbond. Due to misunderstanding it became 2: a fictional character who takes on an independent life to their creator or audience, but who doesn’t stick around for long. Coined by Catherine Rain by 1999/9/17, used by soulbonders but never spread further.
DDNOS: see Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.
disintegrated personality (noun)
dissociated personality (noun)
Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (noun)
Dissociative Identity Disorder (noun)
double consciousness (noun)
double personality (noun)
duplex personality (noun)
E
ego state (noun)
empowered multiple (noun)
endo: see endogenic.
endogenic (adjective): 1. A multiple who doesn't see themselves as created by trauma. 2. The "bad" multiples. Coined by the Lunastus Collective 2014/08/08 on tumblr, spread through there.
F
False Memory Syndrome (noun)
False Memory Syndrome Foundation (noun)
front (noun, intransitive verb)
frontrunner (noun)
G
H
headmate (noun): The relationship between any tenants of the same body. Coined by 2005/4/18 on the DesperateFans Livejournal roleplaying comm, spread through Livejournal via RPers, muses and muns (2006-01), soulbonders (2006-05), before finally getting picked up by multiples (2007-02). With the fall of LJ, the term spread to tumblr, where it became so widespread that even Urban Dictionary heard about it.
headspace (noun)
helper (noun)
host (noun, verb)
household (noun)
I
inner self-helper (noun)
insourced (adj.)
integration (noun)
ISH: see inner self-helper
J
K
L
losing time:
M
manifold personality (noun)
many-selved (adjective)
median (noun, adjective): Coined by 2002/7/31 by Blackbirds, who founded plural pseudo-activist group Pavilion Hall, as far as I can tell, purely to spite Vicki(s), the creator of midcontinuum (and also the ex of Astraea, another Pavilion Hall member).
medicalized multiplicity (noun)
midcont (noun)
midContinuum or midcontinuum (adjective)
MP (noun): see multiple person or multiple personality
MPD (noun, adjective): see Multiple Personality Disorder
MPD/DID (noun, adjective)
multi (noun, adjective)
multiple (noun, adjective): "Two or more people who use the same body; The experience of sharing the body with others." (Dark Personalities, 2001). Coined by Shirley Mason (AKA Sybil) by 1973.
multiple person (noun)
multiple personality (noun)
Multiple Personality Disorder (noun)
multiplex personality (noun)
N
natural multiple (noun)
O
original (noun): see original personality
original [personality, state, self] (adjective)
original [soulbond] (adjective)
OSDD (noun): see Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder
OSDD-1b (noun):
Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (noun)
outsourced (adjective): soulbonding term for a person from media that its vessel did not create (like Bugs Bunny or Othello). Coined by soulbonder Amanda Gilkey 2002-05ish? on her website, Shining Half, and spread through soulbonding channels on LJ.
P
parts (noun, pl.)
passive influence:
persecutor (adjective; noun)
plural (noun, adjective)
protector (noun)
Q
quoigenic (adjective)
R
ritual abuse (noun)
S
sadistic ritual abuse: see ritual abuse
Satanic ritual abuse: see ritual abuse
SB (noun, intransitive verb)
single (noun)
single person (SP) (noun)
singlet (noun, adjective): "people with one or fewer personalities." (Hocking, 1992, pg. 10) Coined by Astraea's scumbag singlet ex-husband, "B.C." sometime between 1987 and 1992/10/5, spread via Astraea first on BBS, then through their website and alt.support.dissociation.
singleton (noun)
soulbond or SoulBond (noun, intransitive verb)
soulbonder (noun)
soulbonding or SoulBonding (noun): "to form and/or experience a robust mental or empathic connection with one or more fictional characters" (Eclective, 2004). Coined by Amanda Flowers on the Just For Writers (JFW) mailing list probably in 1996, definitely before 1998/12/29.
SP: see single person
split personality (noun)
SRA: see ritual abuse
system (noun): A. a plural’s roster (of fronters, of all denizens) or B. the whole kit and kaboodle of denizens, forces, and environments acting in concert or cross-purposes. Although the idea of a “system” as a group of interdependent parts has a long precedent, plural use of it originates with Richard Schwartz, the founder of IFS, in 1987 with his “Our Multiple Selves: Applying Systems Thinking to the Inner Family,” and it spread through medical groups, alt.sexual.abuse.recovery, the Many Voices newsletter, and alt.support.dissociation. (See also: A Brief History of the Use of 'System' in Non-DID Space)
T
tai’morende (noun): originally intended to mean 1: “an alternative version of [a] character's entire world inside your head” (Eclective, 2002), but due to misunderstanding apparently became 2: a fictional character who takes on an independent life, but who doesn’t stick around for long (ibid). Coined by 1999/9/17 by Catherine Rain, a soulbonding term that never spread further
U
UDD (noun): see Unspecified Dissociative Disorder.
Unspecified Dissociative Disorder (noun)
V
X
Y
Z
Previous Glossaries Used in the Making of This Document
Listed in chronological order, not alphabetical. Anachronic Army’s was yoinked wholesale by Pavilion, which in turn was yoinked by Astraea. The others stand alone.
1996: therapist Ralph B. Allison's “Glossary.” http://www.dissociation.com/index/glossary/ Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/19980224062238/http://www.dissociation.com/index/glossary/
1998/02/05: Sidran Foundation's “PsychTrauma Glossary.” http://www.sidran.org/glossary.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/19980205090623/http://www.sidran.org/glossary.html
2001/02/23: otherkin multiple Crisses's “Otherkin Multiple FAQ.” http://kinhost.org/res/Multiplefaq.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20010223215604/http://kinhost.org/res/Multiplefaq.html
2001/05/19: multiple Anachronic Army's “Terminology.” Internet Archive. http://darkpersonalities.com/terminology.htm Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20010519115202/http://darkpersonalities.com/terminology.htm
2001/08/05: soulbonder Eclective's “dictionary for mundanes.” Internet Archive. http://childofmana.tripod.com:80/glossary.htm Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20010805064112/http://childofmana.tripod.com:80/glossary.htm
2002, probably May: potemkin plural activist group Pavilion Hall's “Pavilion: Terminology” [web page]. http://www.tanuki.cx:80/pavilion/glossary.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20040123062239/http://www.tanuki.cx:80/pavilion/glossary.html
2003/1/11: multiple Astraea's “Astraea’s Web: Terminology” [web page]. http://astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20030111103116/http://astraeasweb.net/plural/glossary.html
2004/05/03: Eclective's “.s o u l // whispers – v3.0reflective – glossary” [web page]. http://soulbonding.tripod.com:80/soulbonding_glossary.htm Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20040503180101/http://soulbonding.tripod.com:80/soulbonding_glossary.htm
2009/05/03: multiple Hess of Plures's “Sticky Terms.” http://www.exunoplures.info/stickyterms.html Internet Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20090503123533/http://www.exunoplures.info/stickyterms.html
