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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby SystemFlo » Sat Sep 14, 2019 12:18 am

TheGangsAllHere wrote:
Is this Sami? Whoever it is, I just want to say that I don't need you to tell me where and when I should be angry. I am certainly NOT "wasting" my own life by showing my littles that I stick up for other littles when I think it's important.

Who are you to tell me to "stop it"?? Sometimes seeing how angry a situation makes other people can make someone realize that there's something wrong with it and maybe change their actions. And if not, at least I know that I stood up for what I thought was the right thing to do.

If Chloe is reading any of this, then she knows that a lot of people support her and feel that her needs are important, even if Zor can't right now. I think that's worth something.

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How about just not taking advice you don't agree with?
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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby Zor » Sat Sep 14, 2019 3:21 am

Floralie wrote:How about just not taking advice you don't agree with?


Not bad advice there. :)
Let’s all be civil and nice, hmm?
We all mean well and want the best for each other, right?

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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby TheGangsAllHere » Sat Sep 14, 2019 4:43 am

Floralie wrote:How about just not taking advice you don't agree with?


One can also say, "how about just not giving advice you're not asked for?"

I think both are good principles to live by.
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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby SystemFlo » Sat Sep 14, 2019 5:38 am

TheGangsAllHere wrote:
Floralie wrote:How about just not taking advice you don't agree with?


One can also say, "how about just not giving advice you're not asked for?"

I think both are good principles to live by.


Go ahead if that's what you want from a forum. It's gonna be pretty quiet place, if all agree.

You are not above of us. You don't have any rights to make us rules of your own. You can make them for yourself, not for us. No invisible walls where littles are allowed to write, nothing such, not into any thread.
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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby TheGangsAllHere » Sat Sep 14, 2019 6:06 am

I'm not saying I'm above anyone, and I'm not making any rules for anyone.

I didn't appreciate being told to "stop it," and that I was wasting my life by posting on this thread that IS asking for advice. I was stating my disagreement with what you said, which I'm entitled to do.

In general, most people don't like getting advice that they didn't ask for. Especially when it's stated so harshly. Telling people that they shouldn't feel angry about something that they DO feel angry about, and that it's useless and a waste of time--you can do that, but then don't expect that it won't be responded to.

You can't control how or whether people are going to respond to your posts.

Anyway, I hope this thread can get back on track, because the purpose was to support Chloe, and to support Zor and Pixie in supporting her.

Zor and Pixie, I hope things are going ok so far on your trip.
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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby MeMyselfMaureen » Sat Sep 14, 2019 7:39 am

Hi Zor, Pixie

being in the same situation zor is in (only one identity wanted ) I can understand the pressure he is under (we are under constant pressure to be grace.) so here are a few suggestions.

It's football season so throw a few balls with the nephews/neices/brother in law pretend you have pulled a neck muscle and insist on buying a microwavable bean bag. They feel like a toy, they tend to smell like barley and lavender and having it draped on your neck wont arouse suspicions. When they are warm you can make believe you actually have a kitten up there which chloe might enjoy.

It's football season. I don't know what team you support but the Pittsburgh Steelers do a pink version of the terrible towel for breast cancer - I'm sure other teems do something similar. If any relatives question the pink say "blokes get breast cancer too."

If you do either of these things stress to your wife that they are emergency measures only. That you are doing them for your wife's sake and you hope they will work because you can feel things unraveling inside. Then if Zor is feeling strong enough (or pixie gets a chance to hijack the body at disney) you can still buy that giant tigger. If you don't buy the tigger (for what ever reason) at least chloe will have some comfort from the substitutes.

If there is a fair in town you could win a cuddly toy on the hook-a-duck/rifle range/hammer of strength. Zor will appear manly for having won said item, the relatives will think it is a present for wife and there is a legitamate (in their eyes) reason for a stuffy in the bedroom.
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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby ArbreMonde » Sat Sep 14, 2019 7:46 am

Zor, you need to understand, even if you are kinda emotionally dependent to your wife, even if it is difficult for you to stand up for yourself... YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS. You do not need to take it all. You have others inside of you, who want to help to. Allow them! Please, do not make the mistake I did. Allowing yourself to suffer alone in order to prove a point, is not glorious at all. The glory lays in standing up for yourself.

Please, allow the others to help you. To help you standing up for yourself. You are not alone. You do not have to be.

Please, do not let Chloe suffer to prove a point. People always find a way to turn it to their advantage: if they make you upset you're hurting them, if you survive a hardship it was not that bad, etc. I fear it is what is going to happen to you and Chloe, that the wife is going to pretend it's "not that bad" or that you are "being capricious" or "doing it on purpose to hurt her (the wife, not Chloe)" and overall be a "bad person". People who think like that do not magically stop thinking like that if we submit enough. So, please act like an experienced witch: instead of making a full moon ritual in the hope it gets better, just tell the nasty person to go fudge themself.

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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby Zor » Sat Sep 14, 2019 2:06 pm

MeMyselfMaureen wrote:
If you do either of these things stress to your wife that they are emergency measures only. That you are doing them for your wife's sake and you hope they will work because you can feel things unraveling inside. Then if Zor is feeling strong enough (or pixie gets a chance to hijack the body at disney) you can still buy that giant tigger. If you don't buy the tigger (for what ever reason) at least chloe will have some comfort from the substitutes.

If there is a fair in town you could win a cuddly toy on the hook-a-duck/rifle range/hammer of strength. Zor will appear manly for having won said item, the relatives will think it is a present for wife and there is a legitamate (in their eyes) reason for a stuffy in the bedroom.


Thanks for the sub ideas. :)
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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby Zor » Sat Sep 14, 2019 2:24 pm

ArbreMonde wrote:Zor, you need to understand, even if you are kinda emotionally dependent to your wife, even if it is difficult for you to stand up for yourself... YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS. You do not need to take it all. You have others inside of you, who want to help to. Allow them! Please, do not make the mistake I did. Allowing yourself to suffer alone in order to prove a point, is not glorious at all. The glory lays in standing up for yourself.

Please, allow the others to help you. To help you standing up for yourself. You are not alone. You do not have to be.

Please, do not let Chloe suffer to prove a point. People always find a way to turn it to their advantage: if they make you upset you're hurting them, if you survive a hardship it was not that bad, etc. I fear it is what is going to happen to you and Chloe, that the wife is going to pretend it's "not that bad" or that you are "being capricious" or "doing it on purpose to hurt her (the wife, not Chloe)" and overall be a "bad person". People who think like that do not magically stop thinking like that if we submit enough. So, please act like an experienced witch: instead of making a full moon ritual in the hope it gets better, just tell the nasty person to go fudge themself.

--Zami--


One thing I’ve been learning in this process is that I’m probably a bit more emotionally dependent than I had previously thought (and I hadn’t thought a lot about before I found out I was DID). I am still trying to learn how to assert myself and for the others and not particularly well :/

So last night Chloe woke up a time or two looking for the toy, feeling alone (actually was once), and wrote about it today, first entry in a while for her. We should have a venture into town tomorrow, so if the same happens tonight again- I’m going to have to get something for her so we can sleep…

And it was never my intention to have anyone suffer to prove a point - not consciously anyway.

Thanks for the encouragement and thoughts.
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Re: Vacation and Packing Advice

Postby SystemFlo » Sat Sep 14, 2019 2:50 pm

TheGangsAllHere wrote:Anyway, I hope this thread can get back on track, because the purpose was to support Chloe, and to support Zor and Pixie in supporting her.

Zor and Pixie, I hope things are going ok so far on your trip.


When you end your message to a statement like this, you are trying to manipulate our chance to answer back, so you will have the last word. You make it look like we were the one who started talking about things between you and I, and are stopping the thread from continuing, when we weren't, and that's untrue. That's not fine with us. We know all subtle and not so subtle ways to make things look like something they are not.

We didn't wrote our message to you, but to comment on what's going on in here in general. We did not try to control the way you respond to us, we said you don't have to agree or do anything because of our message, which we think is something obvious, Sami did not think needs to be said aloud so everyone understands. When he says things short and simple, it's about the content. When his sentences start to be delicate, he's most likely pissed off, because words are his weapon. You don't need to remember or understand that, I didn't tell it for that. I told it so you know it's not an attack, when it's all about the content. You will notice the difference if he actually fights you, but he has never fought you, and is not likely to do that in future either. You are reading emotions that were never there.

He writes to people who understand what he says, and does not explain. He does not like me to explain, but this time I do, because I do think it was too important to go not understood.

This is not a thread about packing advice, and it never was. We weren't the one who changed it to something else, it was something else from the original post.

There are many people in here trying to give wake up calls. The best way to predict what's gonna happen is look at the past. Has advice asked and given before actually changed anything? No, it has not. But it has made you feel you are part of the story you in reality are not.

It's the exact same question and answer month after month. Person who doesn't understand what boundaries are, is asking advice on how to cope with something. The answer always is: by having boundaries. Sometimes it's detailed advice, sometimes more vague. Every time person or few tries to give the wake up call. We were the first one to try.

It doesn't matter how angry you get. Do you believe their marriage started to be abusive only after they were diagnosed? I don't. You can continue running around in circles all you want, but it will not teach someone, who doesn't have a concept about what boundaries are, to magically learn to have and keep them against someone who has used them for years. It doesn't mean there's no hope for them. It just means you can not control it. All that there is for other people to do or say, has been done and said already.

As long as you are emotionally involved in someone else's life, you are gonna believe the same thing millions before you did too. This time what they have to say is gonna change the game. I can see you don't have experience of taking care of people with addictions or people in abusive relationships. I do. 40 years of it. And now, I'm not emotionally involved anymore. I get angry all by myself but I do not repeat myself anymore. You are in a phase where you are gonna repeat yourself many many times again. If that's where you are, I'm not gonna be emotionally involved in it either. It is not healthy to be emotionally involved for long periods of time in someone else's life, that you do not have any control over. But there's nothing I can do to make you see it if you don't want to.

If it does not start to wear you out, all is good and our message was not meant for someone like you. It was meat to someone like us, who has been used before and is easily usable in ways that are not healthy for anyone.

There's a little somewhere, who may get upset because she doesn't have her toy at the moment for few days. It's not that big deal you people are making it to be, pages after pages angry people thinking they can, and need to safe Chloe. At the same time we are being suicidal, but does anyone care? No. Does anyone care if I tell it's all littles, and I don't have much reasons left to resist it anymore? No. Because Chloe needs a toy, and that's what important in here. You all know it's not about her or the toy, those are symbols to something that gets under your skin. At least I hope so. I don't wanna believe littles in here are actually having that big difference in their value. They do get treated very differently tho.

And what's most important, we don't think you are helpful for them at all. Because you are so emotionally involved, and it is still their life. We have payed our dues to learn this, and we say it to help all involved. When peer support gets under your skin, it's not supportive. There are traps to be aware of, when people who all have severe emotional problems start doing things together.

I did not say they are not allowed to have threads like this, now or in future. I did not say people are not allowed to answer them. I did not say anything is done out of anyone's bad intention. I say this to make sure you do not put words to my mouth I never said or meant.

I try to resist need to come see what has been said to us because of this, because there's more problems for us we can handle without any attacks, and we already know that is what's gonna happen. So I guess you are gonna have your last word now.

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