How are you physically different?
housetiger - 2019-12-29 20:05:22\ one of the things i find super interesting about our plurality as well as others is that when we front, we bring actual physiological differences with us. we have:
- different sensitivities to temperature
- different vision (mord is freakishly farsighted, and also colorblind; mads has poor vision in his left eye)
- different senses of taste (i'm really sensitive to sweet stuff out here, probably because i can barely taste it at all inworld)
- different allergies
- different reactions to medications (mord isn't affected in the slightest by sleep aids but they knock me right out)
- and probably a bunch more stuff that i'm forgetting!
i guess our different mental health issues are also physiological to a degree, especially the stuff that comes with mood disorders, but i think that on its own is a lot more commonly talked about than all this other stuff.
do y'all experience any physical differences? tell me about that!
shield_badger - 2020-01-04 21:22:57\ Over here we have:
- Also different sensitivity to temperature
- Different levels of photosensitivity (light makes my eyes very ouch sometimes)
- Im REALLY vulnerable to migraines and get them really bad, no one else has that problem like I do
- Also different medication reactions (we take so many its hard to list)
- Different tolerances for/reactions to various types of inebriation (some of us can take more than others and it depends on the substance)
- Different neurological stuff? Like this isn't entirely physical, but if Rook is schizoaffective and I'm not at all, then there's chemical changes happening in our brain between switches, which is a physical thing.
- Definitely different senses of taste.
- In the past we've had a blind system member who had issues with focusing the body's vision, and at one point we had actually gone completely temporarily blind?
Yeah we might also be missing more, but Im glad to see this as a topic because not even a lot of plurals know that there can be physical differences between members of a system, and singlets definitely dont know that. But we need people to be aware so we have room to speak about our experiences and get access to healthcare and support spaces as needed for our unique stuff.
Naiadic - 2020-01-16 17:26:33
Everyone else who fronts is really blendy and I haven't fronted in a lot of situations so there might be more, but the only thing we've noticed is I don't seem to share everyone else's sensory sensitivities. I like touch rather than feeling shocked by it, and when kai accidentally slipped into front once they got instantly overwhelmed by light and noise and started distress-flapping
Clovers - 2020-01-26 20:23:01
We have some pretty significant differences between us.
- For one, I have schizoaffective disorder, and my co-host Lex has unipolar depression. They've never had a manic episode in their life, but I'm more often manic than not. I actually get physically sick when switching sometimes because there's a huge shift in the chemicals our brain makes between the two of us.
- I am usually cold, and my Lex tends to run warmer.
- I have nerve sensation in places that they are completely numb.
- I can get totally knocked out by medications that barely affect Lex
- Although he hasn't been front in a while, Crowley is very sensitive to light and has to wear sunglasses whenever he's front or he'll get a headache.
That's all the physical things I'm aware of, but there's countless other differences between us.
-Beyond
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cryptonomica - 2020-03-14 03:34:10
The only physical differences we've ever had is that Dooku, Jones, and the Luteces all have WAY nicer posture than I do, and always end up making my back hurt like hell.\ Dooku is also rather prone to headaches? He mostly fronted when I was angry though.
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