Intraject
This term was requested by a person in a discord server I’m in!
ID: A 13 stripe flag with a black stripe in the middle. It’s in shades of purple, yellow and a light blue. /END ID
Similar to introject, an intraject is an alter whose sense of self and identity is a “clone” or different version of another alter in the same system.
This name is a bit of a misnomer and so more nuanced differences between introjects and intrajects below.
Examples of how this could present are:
-An alter being split into two or more new alters with more than alters identifying with the pre-split alter. (This of course includes splits that are more 90-10% rather than 50-50% in how elaborated they are, and so one alter might seem like less of a new alter than the other.)
-An alter that is often co-conscious/fronting with another alter and picks up their traits and a similar sense of self. They might lack awareness that some of their emotions/thoughts/behaviors are being highly influenced by other alter/alters.
-Multiple current or past hosts/frequent fronters who all identify with the body and shared name the people in their outside life call them and so develop to be similar in basic self concept.
-Alters that appear to be different ages of a shared general identity.
-Systems with less differentiated alters, often relate to less extreme forms of amnesia (like black outs) and greater amounts of memory sharing but not always. These systems that have many alters that seem like different versions of one identity are more likely to present in OSDD-1 systems but can be seen in other CDD systems.
-An alter forms as a clone of another alter that has since split, fused, or gone dormant. This concept is more similar to the traditional introject and since I have never seen this yet, is a hypothetical for me right now.
Intrajects may be more common in variant subsystems. More below.
