My point remains that it does happen that one is introduced with the concept of alters and then they suddenly have alters, not because they have DID, but again, because they have high suggestibility, prone to fantasy, etc.
Fun story of our syscovery and how tulpamancy helped the shit out of us in those early days:
Anon would almost certainly say our syscovery was exactly this "auddenly having alters". We were reading about genders on a fandom wiki and stumbled into terms for systems. Then suddenly someone in the back of our head questioned if we were a system and in short order there were like, 4-5 folks in here.
We started to struggle with the idea that we saw something cool and made it all up. But Moxie pointed at the tulpamancy community and said "if we weren't a system before, then you just speedran a tulpa so what's the problem?" And holy moly was that a doubt killer. Enough of one that we were confident enough to go back to therapy, which eventually led to our DID diagnosis.
I don't know really how to tie this all together, or how to articulate my point, but like, it's so unproductive to try and prove something isn't "really" going on. It doesn't matter if we suddenly gained headmates or they were there from the start (at least not when just getting to what's happening in the moment).
Oh and tulpamancers are fucking dope!
-Faye
This is a great post and I don't really know how to add on to it... So I'm just going to say thanks so much for sharing your story and perspective, Faye! 😁
Have an awesome day!
