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Plural - for those who are never alone
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This is a community for those who are never alone. Whether you have DID, OSDD, tulpas, soulbonds, are part of the plurality umbrella, or know that you are never alone, you are more than welcome here! We also encourage those who are curious about plurality and want to learn more about it, as well as those who are still questioning.
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we haven't experienced much of this, which i'm very thankful for.
i assume it's the same thing that always happens. people have such little exposure to anyone like us, that they assume we're crazy. queer people for example are a bit more accepted now, because we're "more common".
maybe it has sometheing to do with how humans like to be in groups and tribes n' stuff. when you tell someone that you experience something differently which is fundamental to their life (and they can't relate to that), they have that hostile fear response: to protect their "normal" group, and keep others out.
i remember before we became a system, a friend told us about their plural experiences and i didn't even consider for a moment that it could be real, because that would be questioning something which (at the time) was fundamental to how i understood myself and everyone else. being a singlet was like the law of the universe to me, and i imagine homophobes and others feel that way as well. i basically responded with a "yeah sure, ok buddy", and i wish i didn't, because they never spoke about that again.
ok, i kinda rambled a bit too long there lol. maybe that's a useful perspective.
We are glad you haven't experienced much of that.
Yeah, people are like that.
Yeah, humans sure are strange like that. Glad we aren't human and so do not have to live by their current ideas of how to behave.
Oof, that sounds difficult, we think that the problem is there is a lack of curiosity instilled in entities from a young age and thus they behave like you say, very sectarian, defensive and well... incurious.
We understand all this, yet find it heartbreaking that many do not wish to learn and instead spread their hate and uninformed opinions everywhere.
The world would be so much better with more curiosity and taking the time to learn, plus more love and less hate.
i definitely agree. curiosity and a willingness to learn are huge green flags imo.
i often wish that there was a way to just make everyone be nicer to each other, but sadly i think that doesn't exist. the only way i see to improve our situation is to slowly fight back against everything that got us here. if i can make one person/entity's [1] day better, maybe they'll do the same for another :3
[1]: are these equivalent, or is 'person' too much of a human thing?
We find person fine for some of us, but yes they can be equivalent. We have seen many different terms like entity, creature etc and we wanted to be inclusive.