{"id":128,"date":"2011-08-27T18:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/?page_id=128"},"modified":"2024-12-18T19:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:20:15","slug":"polyphobia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/articles\/medicalisation\/polyphobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sniglets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hess Sakal, 2008, some edits in 2011, 2013 and 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSniglet&#8221; is a slang term in the plural community to refer to nonplurals who Just Don&#8217;t Get It, and refuse to. A singlet who is merely ignorant about plurality owing to lack of personal experience doesn&#8217;t qualify as a \u201csniglet&#8221; &#8212; that wouldn&#8217;t be fair on them, would it? I am only talking about the people who are dicks about it, and CONTINUE to be dicks about it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve run into lots of different sorts of sniglets, and I&#8217;ll create a taxonomy of sniglets, BECAUSE I CAN. (Warning: mixture of decent and cod Latin approaching!) You cannot resist the awesomeness of cheesy devices! Perhaps it&#8217;s not a full taxonomy, because they all belong to the same genus <em>Snigletus<\/em>, but there are lots of SPECIES, right?<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_71 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/articles\/medicalisation\/polyphobia\/#1_Sniglet_variant_1_Snigletus_veteris_amici_or_the_%E2%80%9COld_Friend%E2%80%9D_Sniglet\" title=\"1. Sniglet variant 1: Snigletus veteris amici or the &#8220;Old Friend&#8221; Sniglet\">1. Sniglet variant 1: Snigletus veteris amici or the &#8220;Old Friend&#8221; Sniglet<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/articles\/medicalisation\/polyphobia\/#2_Sniglet_variant_2_Snigletus_subterfugiens_or_Evasive_Sniglet\" title=\"2. Sniglet variant 2: Snigletus subterfugiens, or Evasive Sniglet\">2. Sniglet variant 2: Snigletus subterfugiens, or Evasive Sniglet<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/articles\/medicalisation\/polyphobia\/#3_Sniglet_variant_3_Singletus_negans_Sniglet_in_Denial\" title=\"3. Sniglet variant 3: Singletus negans, Sniglet in Denial\">3. Sniglet variant 3: Singletus negans, Sniglet in Denial<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/articles\/medicalisation\/polyphobia\/#3a_Sniglet_variant_3a_Snigletus_negans_interretialis_Sniglet_in_Denial_%E2%80%93_Internets_Version\" title=\"3a. Sniglet variant 3a: Snigletus negans interretialis, Sniglet in Denial &#8211; Internets Version\">3a. Sniglet variant 3a: Snigletus negans interretialis, Sniglet in Denial &#8211; Internets Version<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/articles\/medicalisation\/polyphobia\/#4_Snigletus_variant_4_Snigletus_fugitivus_or_Runaway_Sniglet\" title=\"4. Snigletus variant 4: Snigletus fugitivus, or Runaway Sniglet\">4. Snigletus variant 4: Snigletus fugitivus, or Runaway Sniglet<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/articles\/medicalisation\/polyphobia\/#5_Polyphobia_variant_5_Snigletus_interrogans_or_Sniglet_with_Really_Awful_Questions\" title=\"5. Polyphobia variant 5: Snigletus interrogans, or Sniglet with Really Awful Questions\">5. Polyphobia variant 5: Snigletus interrogans, or Sniglet with Really Awful Questions<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.exunoplures.org\/main\/articles\/medicalisation\/polyphobia\/#6_Sniglet_variant_6_Snigletus_psychologus_or_Psychological_Sniglet\" title=\"6. Sniglet variant 6: Snigletus psychologus, or Psychological Sniglet\">6. Sniglet variant 6: Snigletus psychologus, or Psychological Sniglet<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Sniglet_variant_1_Snigletus_veteris_amici_or_the_%E2%80%9COld_Friend%E2%80%9D_Sniglet\"><\/span>1. Sniglet variant 1: <em>Snigletus veteris amici<\/em> or the &#8220;Old Friend&#8221; Sniglet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Ah, we\u2019ve had quite a few experiences with this sniglet variant &#8212; a lot of people, after they came out, assumed that they knew the person whose name we were going by the best &#8212; or ONLY knew the &#8220;singlet role person\u201d\u2014after we came out as plural, despite the original post saying that everybody had spoken to the people listed, as well as some people who were not listed.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody else seemed to be ignored, with the sole exception of Richard, because he made himself pretty clear from the get-go. It was as though people just didn&#8217;t want to bother to get to know any of the other people behind the role, and it made us want to bash our heads in, because it felt as though we were being rejected by our old friends. I think they were under the impression that they&#8217;d only met the person who was associated with our nonplural role, but it really came off as kind of offensive, especially since we&#8217;d said otherwise. But sometimes people need to be reminded, so it was probably that.<\/p>\n<p>There are also the sorts who just play favourites amongst the system members &#8212; a lot of them made someone here their \u201cfavourite&#8221; because he had the name of the singlet role, which made him the automatic &#8220;designated good one.\u201d Richard got that too, because he strikes people as being so rational and calm. Fuck the rest of us, though\u2014I was pegged as someone who was just not a nice guy (or the <a href=\"https:\/\/exunoplures.org\/evildemon.html\">Evil Demon Alter<\/a>) by a few people for no good reason, and everybody else? They may as well not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention, people who play favourites tend to appeal to the \u201cfavourite&#8221; when somebody else is saying something they don\u2019t particularly want to hear. Sorry; this isn\u2019t the Good-Cop, Bad-Cop system. Sometimes we may actually agree.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Sniglet_variant_2_Snigletus_subterfugiens_or_Evasive_Sniglet\"><\/span>2. Sniglet variant 2: <em>Snigletus subterfugiens<\/em>, or Evasive Sniglet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>These people have a tendency of, um, evading all topics related to multiplicity. They may ostensibly accept a group\u2019s plurality, but their actions belie their words. For example, when the &#8220;designated old friend&#8221; (or a group of system members still writing under the &#8220;singlet name&#8221; to be able to talk to an old friend) speaks to a sniglet about a system-member by name, they may clam up or wave away the subject, as though it is utterly taboo to mention plurality, even though they themselves said that it was all right initially.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, some people may take a while to get used to the idea, but after a point, the evasion looks suspicious. Sometimes it\u2019s not avoiding the entire topic of multiplicity; sometimes it\u2019s evading certain members of a system.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a lot of people did not seem to be as interested in people who weren&#8217;t mentioned in the original coming-out post (e.g., Jack, Lilly, et al.) for some bizarre reason, even though they introduced themselves within a month of the original coming-out post. That didn\u2019t even change after other people started becoming vocal in places where our old friends could see &#8212; they kept clinging to the old \u2018singlet friend\u2019, who was really a composite.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Sniglet_variant_3_Singletus_negans_Sniglet_in_Denial\"><\/span>3. Sniglet variant 3: <em>Singletus negans<\/em>, Sniglet in Denial<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This sort of sniglet is a bit like <em>Snigletus subterfugiens<\/em>, but worse. Instead of just evading topics, people who fit this category of sniglet flat out deny them. They\u2019re the sorts of people who&#8230;say that plurality IS NOT POSSIBLE because their own minds can\u2019t fathom it, or that we absolutely cannot be plural because we aren\u2019t a DID stereotype. (They\u2019re also the sorts of people who persist in using singular pronouns for plural groups.)<\/p>\n<p>For those who seem to superficially recognise plurality, there is still a tacit form of denial &#8212; we had to deal with someone who insisted on calling us the nonplural name we were going by for a while, compared it to their roleplaying buddies, and took offence when we and our friends told them to stop it, rather politely.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3a_Sniglet_variant_3a_Snigletus_negans_interretialis_Sniglet_in_Denial_%E2%80%93_Internets_Version\"><\/span>3a. Sniglet variant 3a: <em>Snigletus negans interretialis<\/em>, Sniglet in Denial &#8211; Internets Version<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I suppose this is a bit of a misleading subspecies name, but <em>Snigletus negans stupidfreeicus<\/em> just doesn\u2019t work in Latin. This refers specifically to the sorts of sniglet that one sees hanging about snark communities and websites like Tumblr, 4Chan, Something Awful, Portal of Evil and Livejournal communities like stupid_free.<\/p>\n<p>These people have a tendency of snarking anyone who doesn\u2019t conform to their norm, and natural plurals definitely fit that category. &#8220;You can\u2019t be multiple; DID is a very rare disease!&#8221; &#8220;You\u2019re crazy!&#8221; &#8220;It\u2019s not healthy; multiplicity is a <del>roadology<\/del> pathology and needs to be CURRRRRREEED&#8221; &#8220;LOLOL, I took a first-year psychology course and it says that multiples are all like Sybil!\u201d &#8220;If you\u2019re not DID, you\u2019re faking!&#8221; &#8220;My friend\u2019s cousin\u2019s neighbour\u2019s half-brother\u2019s girlfriend\u2019s aunt knows someone who\u2019s multiple, and you\u2019re not like them, so you\u2019re faking!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, these people are like the Daleks for social differences: one sight of them and their instinct is EXTERMINATE.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Snigletus_variant_4_Snigletus_fugitivus_or_Runaway_Sniglet\"><\/span>4. Snigletus variant 4: <em>Snigletus fugitivus<\/em>, or Runaway Sniglet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, we\u2019ve had a few experiences with <em>Snigletus fugitivus<\/em> as well\u2014there are too many people who seem to have dropped us, either immediately or gradually, after we came out as plural. It seems that so many of our singlet friends (mostly from a particular social group) were concerned about us during some traumatic experiences that we had before we came out to them.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of them don\u2019t seem to care about us any more now that we\u2019ve come out\u2014it seems that any regard they had for our situation, or for us as people, vanished into THIN AIR. People seemed less interested, even when we wrote about the same things that we used to, or mentioned potential crises that were similar to the old ones. It feels like a slap in the face, because we thought that we could trust these people, especially since they stood by us during other traumatic periods. I suppose that caring is conditional\u2014we have to be a singlet to be bothered with.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Polyphobia_variant_5_Snigletus_interrogans_or_Sniglet_with_Really_Awful_Questions\"><\/span>5. Polyphobia variant 5: <em>Snigletus interrogans<\/em>, or Sniglet with Really Awful Questions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I don\u2019t mean normal singlet questions; I mean really intrusive and ridiculous questions. Stuff like people asking us about stuff like sex as soon as we come out. We don&#8217;t exist for people&#8217;s prurient interests.<\/p>\n<p>Would you immediately ask sex-related questions of nonplurals? Of course you fucking wouldn\u2019t, dude.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Sniglet_variant_6_Snigletus_psychologus_or_Psychological_Sniglet\"><\/span>6. Sniglet variant 6: <em>Snigletus psychologus<\/em>, or Psychological Sniglet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>How could I have a rant about sniglets without THESE people? These are the <em>professional<\/em> sniglets; the rest of them are just amateurs. They\u2019re the ones that either see plurality as ALWAYS BEING TRAUMA-SPLITS of superintelligent, super-creative survivor sorts, or a &#8220;clever delusion&#8221; by superintelligent survivor sorts. (Notice a trend here?)<\/p>\n<p>They also have lots of criteria that not all real plurals fit\u2014there must be a \u201chost,&#8221; people must &#8220;lose time,\u201d there must be actual dissociation, and everyone must be \u201csplits.&#8221; Never do these people take the obvious route of&#8230;MORE THAN ONE CONSCIOUS ENTITY SHARING A BRAIN. (I\u2019m using a \u2018hard scientific definition here, because I\u2019m talking about psychologists and psychiatrists&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>No, it has to be lots of complicated explanations that assume that there is a **superintelligent host with toaster powers** either inducing splitting or making the whole thing up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Das Ende.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hess Sakal, 2008, some edits in 2011, 2013 and 2017 \u201cSniglet&#8221; is a slang term in the plural community to refer to nonplurals who Just Don&#8217;t Get It, and refuse to. 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