I've been going to the gynecologist for decades and I still have problems with it. I'm reading this book right now; it's helping. https://www.amazon.com/Staying-Room-Managing-Medical-Dental-ebook/dp/B098HJ9T1V
Ok, then here's a recommendation. Really any book on Internal Family Systems acknowledges plurality as normal & healthy.
https://www.amazon.com/No-Bad-Parts-Restoring-Wholeness/dp/1683646681
Yes! (Again.) :) That would be amazing. Like it says (I think?) (yes) up there, the group is at meetup.com, and it's called "Grapevine Multiplicity." Our next meeting is this Saturday (the 9th) at 2pm; at the moment, we're meeting on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month, with an occasional extra group to go do something fun and goofy, like bowling or something... We're meeting this time (and maybe always) at the Tom Thumb grocery on the SW corner of Highway 121 and Hall-Johnson Road -- you can see it from the highway. They can just go on in and turn to the right, toward the bakery; there are lots of tables there, and it should be QUIET. (The first meeting was in a crowded coffee shop -- four autistic multiples/plurals with all those people and all that noise -- yeesh!) So yeah, and if they can't make this group, like I said, 2nd and 4th Saturday each month, 2pm.
It is so wonderful of you to offer to spread the word! We all exist in such a vacuum, IRL, and we probably (often) live practically next door to each other. I wish we could do this in a lot of other places.
Thank you so much again.
--Sessa
[C] Worked for me: Acquire some sort of thick black marker, e.g., sharpie. Draw something simple on the inside of your forearm. I drew something vaguely shaped like this. Hopefully, when one of you looks at it, you'll remember the others.
If anyone asks, say "it's a reminder to do something, but has to work offline" or some such.
you know, I actually have a couple book recommendations if you would be interested in learning about psychology.
the first would be schematherapy: a practitioners guide
the second would be cognative behavioral therapy basics and beyond second edition
half of my psychology knowledge is from those 2 books, they are extremely awesome and I would highly recommend you start with those 2 books if you want to begin learning psychology.
both books are fortunately free on zlibrary. that's where I get most of my books nowadays
Pinging /u/Hyperuranion too. Here's the full text of my interview. Stuff prefixed by ">" are the questions she asked. The others didn't talk, thought it was better to leave it to me since I've had the most experience blabbing about plurality.
Hopefully I didn't miss any important details re: plurality there.
-- Falah
Since it's public, maybe a section on etiquette and ways to address your system and other related things? This questionnaire has a good outline of some questions that might be good to consider.
We don't have any personal experiences with cross-system relationships, only in-system and with singlets. That being said, we do know two systems whose people are in relationships with each other. We can ask what advice they have to give.
In the meantime, maybe this and this will be useful. While they do not cover cross-system relationships, they do cover internal communication and boundaries, which need to be in place in some form for any other relationship to succeed.
Best of luck.
Adding to your options... There's a program, Cryptee, that's like Google Drive but more secure. The most relevant feature to you is the "Ghost Folders" feature, which allows you to hide folders in your account from view. That way, even if parents discover the Cryptee account and force you to log into it to show them what's inside, you can fill the top-level folder with decoy stuff while the actual private stuff stays hidden. Main things to remember are that you have to manually hide the ghost folder every time you're done with it and you also have to remember your encryption key and the name of the ghost folder - if you lose it there's no way to recover it.
This is somewhat tedious and probably overkill for your needs, but in the unfortunate case that it wouldn't be overkill, I hope it helps you.