So this is totally random, but I think I discovered something! I think part of the reason we introject fictives (and just in general form headmates) super easily is that we are MASSIVELY polykin and the brain goes “oh dear, too much conflicting info, let’s separate this out into more discrete packages”. I could be wrong, but I was thinking about how I think I am kin with Tinker Bell (multiple versions, but especially her own movies and the Gail Carson Levine books) and how I had wanted? Or do/will want? Linear time is not how we are perceiving time rn, anyway, that we want/ed to introject her and her friends. And I’m thinking… I am Tinker Bell, but I am also myself (🌙). And I have a very weak sense of my own identity for multiple reasons which causes distress, so when a stronger identity coexists within me specifically, the stronger identity gets ejected into its own headmate to preserve mine. (Weirdly, this happens a LOT with faeries. Or perhaps not so weirdly, as our strongest and most universal kintype is faekin.) Anyway, just infodumping at you over ask lol. I just thought you might find this interesting :D
That’s honestly a very interesting experience. Thanks for sharing your perspective! (and its always nice to hear from someone else from Neverland ^^)
(ask received March 20th)
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