Turtle System
About
Hello, we are the Turtle System! Bodily, we are an 18 year old Korean-American boy (he/him collectively) enrolled in university. We are very new to web design and intend to use this page as a way to practice coding. We are also a diagnosed system that occasionally documents their experiences on a small corner of the internet. It's proven to be a nice outlet and a way to make connections without masking.
This site is (definitely) a work in progress. We will be adding more to it as our web design skills grow stronger!
Disorders
Our disorders significantly shape the experiences we document in this specific, somewhat private, and anonymous online area. Symptoms of each disorder are unevenly distributed among system members, meaning that everyone experiences them differently (whether in presentation or severity).
Diagnosed
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Medically Recognized
- Selective Mutism (Childhood)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Complex Post-Traumatic Disorder
Undiagnosed & Suspecting
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
Members
Regarding our headcount, different system members will provide different answers because:
- Some members are unaware or in denial that others exist.
- Some members do not count inactive alters, sidesystem alters, and fragments when tallying a headcount.
- Some members refuse to reveal themselves to the majority of the system or prefer not to be listed in any documentation, no matter how private.
- Some parts come and go very quickly, temporary depending on the situation.
- It is almost impossible for us to predict when a system member will form, split, or become dormant. However, it happens so often that it is better not to attach a specific "size" quantifier to our system.
That was a long way of saying that we prefer to provide loose estimates. In summary, we currently range between 20 to 50 active members, averaging around 35.
Alters
Primary Alters
- Argyle
- Arlo
- Cindy
- Clark
- Elio
- June
- Logan
- Palindrome
- Spencer
- Stephà n
- Vera
- William
- YJ
Subsystem Alters
Sidesystem Alters
Fragments
Independent Fragments
Subsystem Fragments
Sidesystem Fragments
NPCs
Ex-Alters & Fragments
Inner World Fill-Ins