Just a Fan of Budew

Transgender webcomic characters!

From left to right:

Lillie from @prettiestplatypus

Rain from @lynnsenpai

And Cheryl from @azulcrescent

i for one am a real person. this is my physical life. my physical body. i am a real person who exists. im just a different version of that person and capable of being multiple different versions of that person.

if you think alters cant be real people, then you basically think plural people arent real people. gonna talk from the CDD angle cuz thats what i know.

the host is an alter. there is no "real alter" and acting like there is basically functions no differently than treating us like a singlet, but worse, because we're mentally ill.

plural personhood is still personhood. we dont have to be people like singlets are people in order to fucking be real and deserve human rights

like you do realize there are people who have had professionals try to eradicate integral parts of who they are under the pretense that alters arent people and just a symptom of mental illness that need to be gotten rid of entirely, right?

(we have experienced that; now think of how fucking traumatizing it is to have an integral part of your personhood treated like a disease that needs to be cured so you can be a good normal person. ykno, instead of just treating you like a person with a different experience of identity and supporting you emotionally)

alters live life too. we have thoughts, feelings, and emotions too. we have just as real of experiences of life as other people do. it's not like we only exist inside our heads. we can perceive the world around us and act in it. this is not news.

so of fucking course we're people. you can add whatever modifier you want like "parts of" or "versions of" or "alternate identities of" but at the end of the day that's still "a person." and without the "person" there are no "parts."

if a singlet can have a part of them that's bold and courageous around people they feel safe with and yet quiet and meek around everyone else. and still be a person regardless. i think an alter can be a fucking person.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

long bacon pt 1