It's so odd and annoying having a source that's so divergent from canon. Whenever I mention my media source, everyone I've met seems to just assume I'm exactly how I was in the show. Every other version I've met of me feels like someone peeled them out of the show and slapped them into their brain with zero divergent from Canon memories. Every Dib is essentric and socially anxious. Every Zib is a maniacal crazy person who is usually the "weird one" in their system. And I know every experience is different, and perhaps I shouldn't complain, but I think it makes me feel bad for not being what everyone expects. When I used to be in servers and I'd tell people I don't remember anything in the show. Or I don't remember a lot of the comics up until the Zib one? They usually stopped talking to me, they'd stop talking to me because I didn't remember my source exactly or even close to how they read it. Made it really hard to make friends. I wish more people were more accepting of canon divergent sources in a real meaningful way and that me not wanting to be haha funny Dib or maniacal crazy Zib didn't put people off. I want to make friends without an expectation that I should be a certain way, especially within the plural community. Not every Introject you meet is going to be like every other you met. Some went through things you could probably not even think up from their source. This isn't to say people with source-compliant memories are bad or unimportant. They're just as valid and important as anyone else. What I am saying is that people with memories far separated from sources shouldn't be treated differently than them because we notice, and it hurts a lot.
