"Possibly, we've just heard, and seen too many friends who heard, people expressing the opinion that it's overly weird for 'alters' to want to be treated as separate people, or explaining matter-of-factly that they were going to go on viewing you as one person with a lot of aspects because it was too confusing to think of you as many people."
Ohhh yes. My young friend-with-benefits said that very thing when I first told him about my 'brothers' - big mistake, because he thereby placed himself in Kír's category of "people who are not to be trusted with personal information". Kír's attitude was that he doesn't wish to associate with those who don't acknowledge him as a person; however, this is his house and he wasn't going to hide from my little boyfriend.
This means that when said "little boyfriend" would come to visit, there's times he'd encounter Teh Warrior... who would greet him courteously enough, him being a guest, but wouldn't converse with him, and wouldn't identify himself. LOL, Kír doesn't have to identify himself; he doesn't even have to move or speak for people who know him to know he's there, and people who don't know him to get uneasy because they sense the difference. (My kid says his aura's different, which Kír finds a little unnerving because he doesn't really *believe* in auras.)
Anyway, the "aspect hypothesis" broke down under the weight of evidence - my friend finally acknowledged that it was ridiculous to keep trying to pretend that we're all one person. He and Kír even have sort of a friendship now, or at least cordial acquaintanceship, formal and intellectual though it is.
LOL, and Crist-Erui? He loves it when our young friend comes to visit; snuggles him, plays with him... there again, 'weight-of-evidence'; Crist-Erui's quite a bit stronger than me, and also not ticklish. Hard to explain how one 'aspect' of a 48-year-old woman's mind wrestles like a 20-year-old guy, and keeps winning....
Re: Part One
Ohhh yes. My young friend-with-benefits said that very thing when I first told him about my 'brothers' - big mistake, because he thereby placed himself in Kír's category of "people who are not to be trusted with personal information". Kír's attitude was that he doesn't wish to associate with those who don't acknowledge him as a person; however, this is his house and he wasn't going to hide from my little boyfriend.
This means that when said "little boyfriend" would come to visit, there's times he'd encounter Teh Warrior... who would greet him courteously enough, him being a guest, but wouldn't converse with him, and wouldn't identify himself. LOL, Kír doesn't have to identify himself; he doesn't even have to move or speak for people who know him to know he's there, and people who don't know him to get uneasy because they sense the difference. (My kid says his aura's different, which Kír finds a little unnerving because he doesn't really *believe* in auras.)
Anyway, the "aspect hypothesis" broke down under the weight of evidence - my friend finally acknowledged that it was ridiculous to keep trying to pretend that we're all one person. He and Kír even have sort of a friendship now, or at least cordial acquaintanceship, formal and intellectual though it is.
LOL, and Crist-Erui? He loves it when our young friend comes to visit; snuggles him, plays with him... there again, 'weight-of-evidence'; Crist-Erui's quite a bit stronger than me, and also not ticklish. Hard to explain how one 'aspect' of a 48-year-old woman's mind wrestles like a 20-year-old guy, and keeps winning....