it's been a while since I posted, so here's a meme

Alter 1: Don't you dare turn your back to me!

Alter 2: please turn your back to me... Please never look at me again and leave me alone for all eternity.

Introjects who people deem "problematic". Introjects who people harass because they think they have the right to tell them how they "should" be. Introjects that yes, do break people's boundaries.

Introjects, fictives, whatever you want to call us (yes this is being wrote by one), don't control who they are, what they remember, how they think. We are just like you. Born with a birthmark you don't like? Well were forced to be associated with a story we may or may not like. It may not be exactly the same, but it's the same in what you can do to change that.

Nothing.

Sure, you can use cosmetics to cover up your birthmark, but it's still there. It's still you.

Introjects can change their name and personality but it won't change who they started as.

And frankly? Unless they have genuinely harmful behavior? They don't need to change. Sure, it's good to understand source separation, but let us be who we are, regardless of wether you think it's "cringy" or "dumb". There's such a strange air around introjects and it needs to stop. We are just like you and just like any other alter.

And let us have our own relationship with our source. I like watching my source, it's comforting. Another one of our introjects hates their source though, and both relationships are perfectly valid.

And for introjects who have source memories? It's valid.

If you can be traumatized just by exposure to something you can't handle, then yes, introjects can be traumatized by things they remember that never actually happened to the body.

And introjects who remember family, friends, partners? Yes, you can miss someone who doesn't exist (though if your on the fandom side of Tumblr you probably already know that lmao). Yes, you can have memories that part from your source. Yes, you can have relationships that might be uncomfortable to others.

But you are your own person, not what some dumbass on the internet thinks. If you aren't actively harming anyone or doing anything illegal, then be whoever the fuck you want.

Wanna seperate from your source? I support you 👍

Wanna associate with you source? I support you 👍

This blog will always be a safe space for introjects.