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Multiplicity, also called plurality, is an online subculture of people having or using multiple personalities.

Definition

Some online communities define multiplicity to include both:

Origins

Main article: Tulpa § Tulpamancers

Vice Magazine suggests that the Tibetan practice of tulpamancy is a predecessor of present-day multiplicity communities. Nowadays, a dedicated tulpamancy subculture also exists, where practitioners willfully create and entertain tulpas, a form of imaginary friend. According to a member of the community interviewed by Vice, the multiplicity community and related vocabulary like "system","multiple "and" fronting" originated in mailing lists of the 1980s.

Characteristics

Multiplicity communities exist online through social media blogging sites like LiveJournal They are composed of individuals who identify as "systems" of multiple distinct personalities, often called"alters","systemmembers","headmates","muses","daemons","tulpas","imaginary friends" and "personas" which can have different names, ages, genders, sexualities, personalities from one another. Other common terms within multiplicity communities include:

  • "Fronting".
  • "Headspace" or "inner world", the subjective realm were system members interact when they're not fronting.
  • "Singlet", referring to a person that does not experience plurality.
  • "Endogenic", of plurality that has non-traumagenic roots.

Role as a support community

In their 2017 study on online multiplicity communities, Ribáry et al. found that for participants, "the common identity of 'being multiple' aids in the process of coping with the alterations of the personality" and that for them, "the discovery of the concept of multiplicity and the possibility of communicating with others was helpful and therapeutic".

See also

References

  1. ^ Ribáry, Gergő; Lajtai, László; Demetrovics, Zsolt; Maraz, Aniko (2017-06-13). "Multiplicity: An Explorative Interview Study on Personal Experiences of People with Multiple Selves". Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 938. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00938. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 5468408. PMID 28659840.
  2. Lucas, Jessica. "Inside TikTok's booming dissociative identity disorder community". Input. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  3. ^ Telfer, Tori (2015-05-11). "Are Multiple Personalities Always a Disorder?". Vice. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  4. ^ Schechter, Elizabeth. "What we can learn about respect and identity from 'plurals'". Aeon. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
  5. ^ "Enacted Identities: Multiplicity, Plurality, and Tulpamancy | Psychology Today". www.psychologytoday.com. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  6. Mikles, Natasha L.; Laycock, Joseph P. (2015). "Tracking the Tulpa: Exploring the "Tibetan" Origins of a Contemporary Paranormal Idea" (1): 87-. doi:10.1525/nr.2015.19.1.87. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Riesman, Abraham (2019-03-29). "The Best Cartoonist You've Never Read Is Eight Different People". Vulture. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  8. Parry, Sarah; Eve, Zarah; Myers, Gemma (2022-07-21). "Exploring the Utility and Personal Relevance of Co-Produced Multiplicity Resources with Young People". Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma. 15 (2): 427–439. doi:10.1007/s40653-021-00377-7. ISSN 1936-1521. PMC 9120276. PMID 35600531.

Further reading

  • Ian Hacking (2000). What's Normal?: Narratives of Mental & Emotional Disorders. Kent State University Press. pp. 39–54. ISBN 9780873386531.
  • Jennifer Radden (2011). "Multiple Selves". The Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford Handbooks Online. pp. 547 et seq. ISBN 9780199548019.

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