Letās humor, for a moment, the notion that I donāt actually exist, and that my partner is in fact a singlet who is pretending to be multiple for some ridiculously contrived purpose.
In order to take this belief from baseless assertion to a testable theory, we need to explain several things:
1. Why would anyone choose this of all things to fake?
Multiplicity is extremely stigmatized as a Scary Mental Illness, discriminated against, and already ridiculed as ānot a real disorderā, making it one of the most challenging neurodivergences to fake. Why choose it?
Why choose to fake something that if you tell the wrong person about, could get you locked up in prison with no due process? Why risk that?
Why not choose a different neurodivergence thatās easier to fake, less stigmatized, taken more seriously, and not subject to psychiatric detainment?
2. Why are there any more than two of us?
Why would they put in the effort to create twelve (12) fake personas, complete with our own personalities, voices, and mannerisms?
Why would they bother to give us different pronouns, sign names, things we (pretend to) like and dislike, a complex web of in-system relationships, as well as different relationships to people in other bodies, who recognize us and reciprocate those relationships?
Why would they take the time to create not one but *checks notes* fifteen (15) digital avatars PER each persona using various dressup games? Why would they spend hours getting each persona custom-portraited by a digital artist? Why faceclaims?
Granted, itās not infeasible for a writer/actor to create twelve (12) original characters, but the point is why do that much work, when you could be recognized as a system just as well with only two (2) members?
If for some reason youāre still determined to invest the time and energy into an actorās repertoire of twelve (12) characters, why not save yourself at least some of the trouble and make eleven (11) of them characters that are already written for you?
(Having a lot of fictives is, of course, not a valid reason to accuse someone of faking, but for the purpose of this exercise in hypotheticals, it begs the question.)
4. Why arenāt we all human?
Why would they set up their wardrobe of personas to include two angels, a demon, a fairy, an alien, an anime slime girl, a cat, and a wind spirit?
Why would they not just make everyone human, considering that would be MORE likely to be taken seriously, and LESS likely to be called delusional or fake?
5. Why are some of us more disabled?
Why would they cause their own inconvenience by crafting some of their personas to act less mobile, more restricted by their dysphoria, or nonverbal?
In case you havenāt noticed the state of society, being disabled, especially being nonverbal, does not garner sympathy. It garners annoyance, frustration and dismissal.
If they are trying to convince people that they are not faking, why would they take on additional traits that themselves are known for being called fake?
6. How have they not been caught by now?
How is it possible that this one person has managed to juggle twelve (12) fake personas, which again have different personalities, voices, mannerisms, genders, likes, dislikes, and relationships?
How is it possible to keep this up 24/7, amidst a variety of mental states and circumstances, including stressful situations, late night and early morning, even while drunk or high?
How have they maintained the illusion flawlessly and NOT ONCE been caught practicing voices or writing down character motivations or anything of the sort?
I can only think of three (3) explanations that make any sense at all:
(1) This faker has gone to such great lengths with these characters that theyāve taken on lives of their own, which would be tulpamancy and a form of multiplicity.
(2) This faker singlet is THE BEST ACTOR IN THE WORLD (yet hasnāt gone into professional acting for some reason.)
(3) Or maybe, juuuuust maybe, weāre real people and no one is faking anything.
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