#alters got talking after this about how plurality/multiplicity was likely confused with possession in older medicine which lead to the ...

[talisidekick]

*most people*: "Oh my god, that doll is so cursed! Don't touch it! It could possess you!"

*my spouse passing the lost and found at university and seeing a 100% cursed wooden mexican doll*: "Awwwwe, baby! Someone left you behind? Lets get you a new home, hm? Got a name? No? Ralph it is! We got friends at home you're going to love."

*me sitting at home alone with cursed objects everywhere*: "Wait? Am I cursed?"

*Violet*: "Of fucking course not."

*Lillian*: "Statistically unlikely."

*Gabby*: "You're fine dear."

*me, going back to studying*: "Right, good. Just had a thought I might have been an unknowing part of the collection."

*Cinder*: "Yeah, you're fine! You're just possessed!"

#possessed #possession #talisidekick #talisidekick things #plural moment #neurodivergent #alters got talking after this about how plurality/multiplicity was likely confused with possession in older medicine which lead to the ... #realization that a person who was was likely just someone who had trauma and developed plurality/multiplicity as a coping ... #mechanism. is thus in large part a villianization of neurodivergent people by ablists of previous centuries who refused to ... #learn about neurodivergent people and instead chose to subject traumatized folk to more trauma as a because that was easier. #needless to say the headspace got busy and I did NOT get past the chapter on micro-ATX form factor history