Roo: "When he is in full control it feels like... lying down on the backseat of a speeding car, wearing a poorly tied seatbelt. You should probably be worried about the intense jolts, but you are too busy noticing how pretty the trees look upside down."
Roo: "He can be of help even when he isn't fronting though. When he shows up, we get the same joy as seeing an animal in real life." End of comic.
(2/2)
A comic. Friend: "Has Texugo fronted before and if so, what does it feel like?" Roo: "He has. It... does not look pretty."
Roo: "If we enter a state of extreme distress, our body and mind will shut down and the alter who is better fit to handle the situation will take over. Texugo is good for not dwelling on overwhelming information."
A screenshot of "DID and Animal Alters" with highlighted parts to show how Texugo came to be.
A screenshot of "DID and Animal Alters" regarding the differences between animal and human alters.
(1/2) Texugo the badger can and has fronted before, although usually during stressful contexts.
TW: trauma and abuse.
DID and Animal Alters: Understanding Their Impact on Mental Health theaarterychronicles.com/did-and-anim...
DID Research: Non-human Alters www.did-research.org/did/alters/n...
A comic. Anton, whose voice is represented as morse code: (yelling) "I am not joining you!" Maíra covers her ears. Maíra: (yelling) "Why do you sound like Webdriver Torso on a sugar rush!?" Anton: "Fuckass." Maíra: "Why can I kind of understand you?"
A comic. Vanessa crouches towards Texugo. Vanessa: "Hey little guy!" Texugo imagines a realistic image of a badger. Vanessa looks taken aback. A caption points at her, reading: "Has never seen a mental image before."
Finding out alters think/speak in different ways.
Two sketchbook pages. The page on the left is a hand print drawn from negative space. The page on the right has text. "You will forget" "That's okay" The next four lines of text are smudged and hard to read. "We leave you" "Traces" "To remind you" "You will remember" The text is clear again. "You will remember" "Again" "And" "Again"
Flipping through a page you don't recognize
Glam: "I don't like being a copyright liability. This random child cared about me more than Disney ever could." Orion: "A lot of Glam's attributes came from our headcanons for a character who only has 3 official images." Source: Unnamed Penguin (Club Penguin)
Nyann holds Mak close. Nyann: "they downloaded me!" Mak: "haha yurp!" Orion: "Mak looked a lot more like Nyann, but being a factive (introject of a real person) can cause a lot of guilt. She overcame that shame and grew to be her own person." Source: our partner
Orion: "We have a lot of alters who barely pass the definition of introject. They share traits with recognizable things but are too 'diluted' to be considered similar to any of them." This panel looks different from the others, it was influenced by Huntball as he writes about himself. He circles a few images and draws arrows to himself. Huntball: "Hi (smile emoticon) ...me! Source: Gumball, Golden Guard, Sand Dollar, Car." Orion: "A sense of self comes from memories and experiences, it makes sense our brain mixes and matches the things we have seen." End of comic.
(2/2) We feel like introject is both a very useful term and an arbitrary line. We all come from the same brain after all.
Pumpkin, thinking: "what does this mean for our relationship?" Nyann, thinking: "more of you... uau!" Pumpkin looks nervous while Nyann is in awe.
When we told our partner about our diagnosis.
Friend 2: "Are you all autistic?" Luar, OP's alter: "Yeah! We may display different symptoms depending on our role though!" Friend 2: "Lucky. My subconscious is neurotypical." Luar talks to his headmates, Vinny and Chewy, in the headspace: "chat are we hearing this?" The headmates pog, suspecting that their friend could be plural. End of comic.
(2/2) Bonus from a different conversation:
Start of a comic. Friend 1: "You have both DID and aphantasia, how does that work?" Friend 2: "Second that. Are you all Aphant?"
Orion, OP's alter, looks like a satyr. Orion: "We're pretty sure our brain signals used for mental imagery are still functional, we just don't get the visual input. It's kind of like a game map with no texture." An example of a textureless map. Orion: "All the information is received, but not fully processed for some reason. We used to visualize things vividly as a child, but at some point we couldn't anymore. No clue when or how."
Orion: "We all have varying levels of aphantasia. Anton has the best visual manifestation out of all of us but does not think in words the way we are accustomed to." Anton: "hmph" written in morse code, representing the different train of thought.
Orion: "We can all imagine 'touch' and 'space' though. We feel each other's presence. That's how we figured out what we looked like! Sometimes I forget I don't need to make way for my horns."
(1/2) Aphantasia doesn't really affect our DID. It just takes longer to understand how our inner world ans us look like.
Start of a comic. Friend: "What happens if you switch when you are... doing the thing? Is it awkward?"
Orion, an alter who is usually knowledgeable on DID, looks confused. Orion: "what are you talking about?" Chewy puts a hand on his shoulder. Chewy: "Hey bucko let me answer this one, okay?"
Chewy leans in towards the friend, smiling. Chewy: "We have a tag team for that." The friend giggles. End of comic.
Tag Team
Start of a comic. Friend: "Do your introjects know they are alters? Do they know their sources?" Asterisk: "Introject: an alter who shares significant similarities to a source, like a person, fictional character, pet or toy."
Orion: "Kinger acts and looks the same as his source but he does not have memories from being in the circus." Kinger watches the show. Kinger: "Hey, look! This actor looks like me!" Source: Kinger (TADC)
Orion: "Douglas is a fourth-wall breaking interdimensional being. It's hard to tell if he sees himself as his source or not. Douglas: "All Dougs are part of a bigger, equally handsome Doug." Orion: "He knows he is an alter but he feels like he knows everyone from the show he is from." Source: Comfortable Doug (Centaurworld)
Terry looks displeased. Terry: "I want to go home." Orion: "Terry believes there is a way back. We've tried to tell him otherwise but he refuses to give up. We are responsible for his world, though we don't know what to do to accommodate." Source: Terrore (Captain Shelleye)
(1/2) Introjects and their sources
Nyann, a singlet: "what if Texugo becomes sapient and it thinks I'm making fun of it?"
Pumpkin is holding Texugo, an animal alter. Pumpkin: "what?"
Singlets are fighting the strangest moral dilemmas
Start of a comic. Daniel talks to Jade sometime after he and Gregory announced they will be integrating. Daniel: "I never apologized for hurting you years ago. So, uh, I'm doing it now. I'm sorry." Jade mimics Jasper from Steven Universe: "I bow to your strength, my Diamond." Daniel: "Nerd." Jade: "Nerds."
The panel art style is Jade's. Jade: "Woah, Garnet Steven Universe in real?" Gregniel: "I thought I was Pink Diamond." Jade: "You are two rubies."
The panel art style is Gregniel's. Jade: "If I had a gemsona what gem would I be?" Gregniel holds his palms together and stares at Jade. Gregniel: "Jade." Jade: "You know me so well!" End of comic.
What being a Steven Universe fan does to a system.
Those who came before
A Law For Kids comic about drunk driving edited to be about system ethics. Passenger: "But I wasn't fronting!" Cop: "Even the headmates get in trouble!"
We discuss system ethics more on Tumblr but to summarize:
(SA TW)
That's not normal.
Beliefs
(note: also not an alter) (2/2)
Bad role model (note: not an alter) (1/2)
