I may be an old man but what the fuck are alters? What? Why? Just because a movie came out? (I'm sorry, TWO movies, and while good movies...I don't understand...is this like the matrix when I was a kid and we all wore trenchcoats? what is this?)

@Jazzy_Butts hmmm? you mean plural systems?

@tarperfume yes

@Jazzy_Butts s just like. several people. been around for a long time.

@tarperfume @Jazzy_Butts wait, actual multiple people? with multiple bodies? i coulda sworn is was a multiple personality disorder adjacent thing

@bitterblossom @Jazzy_Butts no, not with multiple bodies. just multiple ppl

idk what's the overlap between DID and plural systems, if most systems would say its the same, different, the first but they dislike it, the latter but the don't mind, really dunno what the consensus is. i use plural cause until someone tells me, it sounds nicer

@tarperfume @bitterblossom But what I am confused about is this, do they think other people believe that each identity is like...real, like with a mind of its own, or do they think people believe they're like... explaining different parts of their personality or exploring different parts using these characters?

@Jazzy_Butts @bitterblossom other people do believe it. i believe it, because its as unobservable and impossible to deny/verify phenomena as me telling you "im thinking of the colour red". you can tell me "you're not", but, uh

it's really just like, yeah, several people in one head

@tarperfume @bitterblossom I am skeptical, I can't lie, I just am. When someone tells me they have multiple people in their head I feel like they're fucking with me and would be made a fool if I believed them. But I know it's possible, anything is possible.

@Jazzy_Butts @bitterblossom sounds like you're more skeptical of the intentions of someone telling you that—they're trying to deceive me, ill be falling for a trick—than whether it, the question of it, is possible

@Jazzy_Butts @bitterblossom i understand a gut reaction of being skeptical, but i do think it helps to compare this to just how much of an opaque black box other people's brain are, even to the smallest things. do they see colours the same way you do, do sounds have a fundamentally different texture, does "A is not Not A" mean anything to them, etc