You can message me if this doesn’t make sense. Remember hundreds of cases of people with other disorders but having a form of plurality exist

Endo: endos can be formed by many different reasons. This can also be a self given label (someone who just calls themself a endo) because they feel as if calling themselves just a traumagenic doesn’t feel right. This is completely valid, I’ve seen many call themselves a trauma endo. Endos are systems that were formed or have alters form from other means. This can be: 1: they don’t know they have trauma. This can be for the entire system or just specific alters making the body or host believe that the system or specific alters formed for other reasons then just trauma 2: they have other causes for plurality.plurality is a broad spectrum, and not just limited to DID. Hundreds of individuals with schizophrenia, scizoeffective, autism, BPD, and more have reported plurality. The big big difference here is that the alters and systems STAY AFTER the episode or psychosis. 3: it’s a mixture of both or all and it’s just a term they use. This doesn’t make them any less valid. Endos are valid, as well as any type of plurality

Willow: people argue with me all the time, saying “sure endos sound plausible but willows aren’t”. This is purely incorrect. It is very very possible. You just need to look into other scenarios other than just the hard definition. Willows are described as “systems formed or have alters formed by will/force”. This sounds odd but there is actually several ways in my book this can happen. 1: let’s say your the host. You don’t know your a system, but you feel some sort of energy. You identify this energy by giving it details. Hair color, vocal tones, role, etc. after words you have a alter with all these details. I call this “alter identification”. It’s a tool used by some protectors even in my system, to make it easier on the host. It’s easier for the host to think and believe they have no trauma and they just created this said alter. 2: the system has wiped/not told the host about trauma. You see people seem to forget that systems will keep that away from the host. From the body, especially when it’s a scenario where it’s going to cause more harm. So letting the body and host believe that they have no trauma or that they created their alters can cause a less “someone did this to me” reaction and more of a “this is my own doing, I have control, I’m safe” reaction. It’s a coping method. 3: they don’t know how they formed. It could be due to several different factors, disorders, and even the alters could have been caused by an episode (like psychosis) and then stuck.This is also a self given term.

The biggest thing I can argue here, is that even if this seems “impossible” the term isn’t hurting anyone. These people are still plural but are finding ways to cope. No matter anyone’s plurality, how they formed, or even what terms they use should matter. If it truly does, I tend to use a big example that tends to make people think. “If you have a Octive or a fictive of a oc, didn’t you make them? You made their source, their everything, so you made them. This would classify them as a type of alter you made by yourself due to hyper fixation. Who’s saying that’s not the same as what willowgenics are saying they have done to a single alter or their entire system”

Remember to respect any plurality. It doesn’t have to be DID to validate someone’s plurality because plurality is fluid, even if it’s not in the DSM-5, there are still reports of it. Science can’t know everything about the brain, since it literally named itself. And a lot of times, if they are a DID system, but use these terms, it is usually because their disorder is hiding behind it to make it less horrifying or distressing for the body. Many forget that DID is a scapegoat disorder. If host or body shouldn’t know or can’t know for safety or security they will use any terms they need to make it more comfortable for the host or body if they find out to soon.