plural

A member of the plurality internet subculture in which people claim to be multiple identities living in one body. Many plurals are Gen Z and "discover" their plurality after suggestions by another plural. Plurals usually engage in attention seeking and expect to be interesting to others, seeing their unstable sense of identity as cool and fun. Plurals' identities may include animals, demons, characters from games or TV, or other non-human identities, but these can post on the internet and speak. They may claim hundreds or thousands - no gatekeeping is allowed. Plurals have a strong sense of political identity despite having no support in science or theory for their claims of having multiple identities, as described by Emily Christensen (2021). Plurals dating use the term "system partner" to reflect their partner is plural. A few plurals have DID or OSDD (mental disorders involving multiple personalities caused by prolonged childhood trauma), and align to the psychiatric survivor movement. The plural movement is harmful to people with DID and OSDD, promotes myths about their disorders, involves cultural appropriation of mental illness and uses medical terms for normal experiences. Many plurals are insensitive and hostile to people with DID or OSDD who don't identify as plural, calling them trauscum or sysmed.