generic "persecutors can be the best protectors" post, but with an example of an alter that is still a persecutor.
anyway, people need to cut persecutors some slack. the more you persecute THEM, often the worse it'll get, and you'll both get hurt. respect them like how you want to be respected, and with enough patience to see through your differences [YES, WHEN I SAY PATIENCE I MEAN FROM BOTH SIDES!!!!!!!] , you'll make progress.
oh and btw dont slap the persecutor label on an alter either unless they agree they are one. while one of the points of this is that i don't think the role should be frowned upon at all, i get why some don't like it. the stereotype and stigma isn't gonna just... disappear overnight... sadly...
more rambles on read more about digital yellow
digital yellow doesn't see what he's had to handle as the root for his behaviours (though... it's the reason he split in the first place..) and while he doesn't exactly mirror our abusers, it's more... well. where is this coming from man. he doesn't do it angrily and seemingly more for 'fun' unlike them too, but. as provided. ultimately he does care and doesn't want all this to eat away at us too deeply, he handles the fallout, and he's extremely protective when it comes to others hurting us. i know he does have a perception that only he is allowed to hurt me... and considering he's not doing much of that nowadays, that's pretty fine with me. even if it's not good it seems to be a foundational belief
him being a persecutor is integral to his role internally especially to do with being a gatekeeper and enforcing the roles of others, and i mean. this is what we need as a system. and it's also a huge reason why i think the term shouldn't be so frowned upon... it can be a productive role. it can do good. that 'antagonistic' part might not actually even be antagonising you at all when you reframe things and look at the larger picture. i guess it truly is protector in a different font, even if some persecutors don't like that.
blehhh again i'm certain he'd wanna make his own comic he can get into the specifics. ramble ovber. can you tell i lost my train of thought a few times through making this??
I'm thinking about my persecutor parts/alters this morning and how our system struggles to relate to a lot of the conversations here on tumblr about persecutors.
Our persecutors are nearly all child parts/child alters, which is why they aren't writing this post for themselves.
They are just kids who have internalized beliefs from our abusers and are repeating those things they believe to the rest of us.
Most of the posts we see about being a persecutor seem to be about fictional introjects and about being an introject of a "bad" or "evil" fictional character, and we just wanted to remind everyone that the experience of being a persecutor isn't limited to that. A lot of persecutors are children.
