He is very shy, and does not usually take form in situations where he might be expected to talk. He is also very fast - since he has been growing bolder, he will sometimes 'flicker' in and out of corporeality when he is interested in what is going on but does not want to be noticed. Our sister finds this very exasperating, as one might well imagine.
He has apparently been seen a number of times when he did not know it, though. Also many of our sister's friends have unusual talents and little or no loyalty to 'consensus reality'. Her child claims to be able to tell us apart by aura, though I am not entirely convinced of that. At the Renaissance Faire, starlisa surprised me by noticing the change in the dark, when we were wrapped in a hooded cloak and neither moving nor speaking. Apparently there are other ways to tell than by "behavior" or "self-report", though she could not say how she knew.
People do ask, and in their youth my Kin were suspected for a time (by other children) of being identical twins pretending to be one person. Since her teen years, our sister has practiced a method of answering prying questions as if the questioner were not serious in asking them, which is more effective than direct lying.
You are correct; psychology is a religion, and psychiatrists fill the role once held by Inquisitors. Surely it is exactly as foolhardy to admit being multiple to a 'mental-health worker', as it would have been to tell a 14th-century priest that one had a familiar spirit, for exactly the same reasons.
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Date: 2004-09-29 09:53 pm (UTC)He has apparently been seen a number of times when he did not know it, though. Also many of our sister's friends have unusual talents and little or no loyalty to 'consensus reality'. Her child claims to be able to tell us apart by aura, though I am not entirely convinced of that. At the Renaissance Faire,
People do ask, and in their youth my Kin were suspected for a time (by other children) of being identical twins pretending to be one person. Since her teen years, our sister has practiced a method of answering prying questions as if the questioner were not serious in asking them, which is more effective than direct lying.
You are correct; psychology is a religion, and psychiatrists fill the role once held by Inquisitors. Surely it is exactly as foolhardy to admit being multiple to a 'mental-health worker', as it would have been to tell a 14th-century priest that one had a familiar spirit, for exactly the same reasons.