Singularity Personality Disorder (SPD) does not apply to all Singletons; although some people may identify with various traits, that does not mean the individual meets the criteria for the Disorder. There is a spectrum, similar to how there is a spectrum in the other disorders listed in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM), the Bible for the Psychological, Medical, and Capitalist White Privileged Culture. Their culture, a symptom of the problems in which those with SPD tend to thrive, has a significant number of symptoms that overlap with overt and covert narcissism. This is just a reminder that many symptoms within the DSM tend to overlap. It is important to note that those with this DISORDER may easily become defensively activated due to the depth of their denial of having this disorder, as it has provided them with their esteem, power, and control. This is where narcissistic traits can be seen.
It is common that those with SPD have high followings and hide behind the protections they have created within their professions. They often hold multiple high degrees in academia and demand conformity and loyalty to their views through financial exploitation and gatekeeping. An individual with SPD will often use overt and covert coercive threats and manipulation. It is not uncommon for those not conforming or differing from the SPD individual to experience professional exile if presenting with differences and less privilege. An individual with SPD is unlikely to seek treatment or attempt to reflect on other perspectives and realities outside their wheelhouse. This personality disorder manifests as resorting to othering, belittling, and oppressing those who are different from their understandings of themselves.
Another aspect of SPD is the tendency to intellectualize and deflect, frequently invoking academic language and research to defend their perceptions and positions. They are unaware of their cognitive limitations and defensively tend to use their intellectualizing to explain how those with different or challenging perspectives are “broken,” “mentally ill,” “defective,” “less than,” “sick,” “incompetent,” “dysfunctional,” “disordered,” “emotionally dysregulated,” “reactive/triggered” and require their expertise to be “fixed,” “cured,” and “made well” to their specifications. This can also be seen as they resort to the black-and-white thinking of their medical model and are wrapped in the guise of their professional guidelines and ethics. They will hide behind the organizations as this provides the added layer of protection. Through their biased research, they will also claim to know who is fixable and to what degree.
They are well-skilled in circular conversations and can induce their power and control when there is the slightest hint that the trajectory of their wants and needs professionally and personally are not going in their favor and threaten the pedestal they place themselves on. They tend to hold themselves in “expert status” over those who are different. This is highly evident when referencing Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), multiplicity, and plurality. They tend to hold multiple certifications and gatekeep who is and isn’t included in their professional circles through these rigid spoken and unspoken rules, guidelines, expectations, and financial exploitation. There is rigidity in regulating and justifying rules and guidelines based on conformity to be more like them. Suppose an individual does not hold similar perspectives or challenges the authority. In that case, one will be dismissed, reprimanded, cast out, and possibly blackballed within the professions where those with SPD tend to have the most power and control, embedded with the white male patriarchal systems of oppression (See POWER AND CONTROL WHEEL).
Singularity Personality Disorder
Criteria A:
- Inability to grasp that a human can have multiple minds or consciousness or beings. Maintain a concrete construct of 1 Brain and 1 Body. The cognitive construct of One Brain and One body equates to 1 “person.”
- Believes that Singleton equates to “Normal” or “Non-disordered.”
- Cognitive limitations
- rigid perspectives (See Borderline Traits)
- activated defenses (especially Intellectualization)
- Reductionistic harmful perspectives that maintain power and control (See Narcissistic Traits)
- Claim “Expert” status without having lived experience or consulting those with Lived Experience (See Discrimination; Priviledge and Oppression)
- Strive for “superior” status over less privileged and will dehumanize, oppress, and pathologize to maintain this status (see Narcissistic Traits & Abuse and Oppression Dynamics)
SPD may be specified as Mild, Moderate, or Severe based on the degree of fucked up assholeness as rated by those with Lived Experience with Multiplicity. Ideally, the individual with Lived Experience should perform the rating on a case-by-case basis.
-By Remi Patricia E., PhD in FUCK YOU! Advanced Certification in Aggressions by the Culture of Privileged Asshole Singletons. All citations throughout the article have been removed for the author’s protection—references not listed.