bettong their own lives as much as anyone elses. makes sense.

great summary of to train up a child by michael and debi Pearl

sissies deserve to be more oppressed

how I've felt personally lately is that the sense of identity is a social construct and an associated neural map. most people have one, but it's just as constructed as three or thirty overlapping ones. you think therefore you are.

like some alters go out of their way to be unnoticed, undefined working covertly toward their own ends

it can be tricky at times, but I usually reference my feelings, values, and relationship with my own body. as for knowing I have alters, the first one made it obvious instantly, the shift between traumatic freeze response and her coming in to fix things was night and day. but others were subtler

wish there was more of an irl scene in my area.

do go on

thank you for the reassurance, Botたん

braver than I.

if possible I am going off into the woods. make up an excuse, tell anyone that I have to. so I can say my brief goodbyes. and then I'm gonna see if someting like cauterisation is enough. if I make it a lunar cycle without new bites or sign of infection I'm coming back.