And maybe I'm overlooking a very reasonable explanation for it all...but I can't come up with it, my head is spinning and I can't think straight

Maybe I'm overthinking it and it's all a lot less confusing than I'm making it out to be lol

+ protectors wouldn't serve any specific purpose, there's no need for any of it in a person without history of repetitive and severe childhood trauma

+ when fronting so reallyyyyyyy - when you put it in the context of a system that didn't sustain any trauma to prevent their personality from fusing, thus creating the different states of self, what roles would they fulfil? There'd be no traumaholders because there's no trauma, persecutors and +

Like what's the benefit of it occurring naturally seeing as having different states of self usually provide a purpose so what purpose would it have if it occurred naturally? Alters fulfil a purpose within a system, they have roles and shit and each have their own fortes they use to their advantage +

Wrecking my brain bad with it too because on one hand...they had a point with saying that, with how much a human can vary, it's not impossible to believe that multiplicity is a spectrum that ranges from being a singlet to being a full on system, but also...why would it occur naturally?

I'll miss you forever, little Eos

Yes, 8 of them :D

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Thank you for your reply, we appreciate the reassurance greatly :) - Ly

2012 and the world is ending /j

Wholeheartedly agreed

I unfriended her at least, closed the dm before I remembered to block her, all I know is that I'm NOT taking her back if she comes back with a pathetic apology this time

Like, literally, this was the start of that conversation

+ of overexplaining everything, plus it's not always necessary to list reasons unless they're asked for but nothing I said implied that it was for racial reasons, just stated that I was uncomfortable and gave space for her to explain in case there was info I was missing or wrongly extrapolated

She knew of the substance abuse tendencies and shit and that it triggered self-destructive alters bc we've talked abt it to her before, I initially told her that I was wildly uncomfortable talking to her while she was under the influence of drugs, didn't really elaborate bc trying to fix an issue +