I think one of the funniest things about "social justice" Twitter is how often people ignore that people openly claim plural status on their profiles and we're supposed to act like they are totally rational and honest people.
What is a plural? Never heard of this before and have no idea what it means
Effectively multiple personalities. They have their own terminology like "headmates" (which can apparently die including the "dominant" personality of the body itself). There is at least one ex-Era staff that claims to be a plural system (their headmates have their own twitter accounts).
Frankly, progressives are not ready for plurality if it becomes a civil rights battle Assuming it actually turns into one of course and doesn't just go the way of otherkin that was pretty agreed on to be mental illness. If we take an objective stance and assume it's real, it will genuinely be a nightmare that will split people's opinions down the middle and probably lead to some new terminology similar to TERF that separates the pro-plural progressives from the anti-plural ones. There are so many fucked up scenarios (many of which have been tackled in fiction) that makes a rights battle for plurals extremely difficult.
That is, for want of a better word, mental.
oh it gets much worse than that
some of your headmates might be "fictives:" existing fictional characters who nonetheless have decided to inhabit your particular body, like twilight sparkle or velma
they will have arguments over whether someone else is faking because the way their fictive acts isn't consistent with how they act on the show, and that the fictive actually inhabits your body instead of theirs
some of your headmates might be "littles:" underage children who suddenly pop up like "goo goo ga ga im 6 and what is this"
(if this were real you'd be regularly subjecting them to child abuse/molestation, but nobody ever wants to talk about that)
remember they don't characterize this as roleplaying, they all claim to actually believe this is real, but get into fights with each over over whose is more real and who is a secret infiltrator from another group
like the tulpas, which don't manifest from trauma but because you intentionally create them with mental magic
What is a tulpa?
A tulpa is a mental companion created by focused thought and recurrent interaction, similar to an imaginary friend. However, unlike them, tulpas possess their own will, thoughts and emotions, allowing them to act independently.
So is this like schizophrenia/multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder?
Not at all! Schizophrenia and DID (formerly called MPD, and still called MPD in some areas outside the US) are disorders characterized by clinically significant distress, dysfunction, or danger. Schizophrenia is a breakdown in perception of physical reality and consistency that has strong genetic influences, and does not always involve hearing voices. DID is a dissociative disorder typically caused by childhood trauma.
Neither disorder is "self-inflicted", and we recognize them as very different experiences from tulpa creation. The experience of having tulpas is much more accurately likened to the experiences of fiction writers whose characters come alive and begin talking to them; in fact, a great number of tulpa creators have formed tulpas that way!
read this subreddit for 30 seconds and get brain cancer:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/
