Headmates/Plurality -

[Protoman]

http://livingplural.tumblr.com/

Another SJW subgroup dedicated to blogging about their "headmates." They claim to have multiple people in their head (but make sure to clarify that they aren't ALWAYS signs of mental illness) and make it out to be a gay old time, a life style that should be accepted rather than a mental illness that needs to be treated. They kind of glorify it and make it out to be something super fun and hilarious. (Oh no, two members of my headspace are having an argument again! Crazy shenanigans!)

Here's a full list of "Fictives" that they've "encountered," fictives being fictional characters who have "made contact with them." (The number of quotation marks in this sentence should probably indicate how dumb this bullshit is.)

So yeah, people who seem to be pretending to have symptoms of mental disorders to feel special and are demanding that everyone accept that. I think this is a new low even for tumblr.

Lots of people who don’t really understand plurality properly will claim that we need to find ‘help’, and always through medical/psychiatric means; they’re implying that plurality itself is unhealthy. I don’t think that’s necessarily fair on systems who co-operate and aren’t inherently disordered, or systems which were once disordered but have since sorted themselves out with therapy or internal self-work. Just because something is different doesn’t mean it’s bad - I think that loads of people are convinced that just because something’s different means that it ought to be stamped out. Furthermore, what’s considered ‘mentally healthy’ or ‘mentally unhealthy’ has changed over time. The concept of madness is as political as it is internal as it is neurological.

 

[bradsternum]

I hate people who pretend to be mentally ill like it makes them TOTALLY AWESOME and ARTSY. "Ohh, guys, I'm schitzo/bipolar. I'm cruh-ay-ay-zee." Fuck them, and fuck these people. Real mental illness sucks, and the people who suffer from them aren't having a good time.

 

[waffle]

I don't have much patience for the concept of social justice, but these people and "transracial" people are the lowest of the SJW low.

 

[Arkangel]

I find it extremely amusing that a lot of the fictives (headmates based on fictional characters) come from a long list that includes stuff like Hetalia, BlazBlue, Homestuck, and Marvel Comics, with a couple oddball ones like Inspector Javert (Les Miserable) and Fonzi (Happy Days).

Here's their full list of fictives:http://livingplural.tumblr.com/fictivespublic

On a more serious note, these guys are extremely crazy. even if their trolling, I fear for the person suffering from a mental disease who sees this page and decides not to seek help for himself because it seems "normal" to have cartoon characters talking in your head.

 

[House Of Reeves]

If someone honestly believes they have made contact with a fictional character, they need help.

 

[Pine Tar]

I'm surprised they don't claim to have a headmate that's a filthy hobo living in a trainyard because those are the most likely sort of people to claim to have people inside their heads.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

Hearing voices in your head and having conversations with them? Yeah there's a word for that, it's called being crazy.

This is one aspect of the internet that bothers me. Anybody with a mental problem can get online and make a community for like minded people and instead of figuring out that they're sick and need help they just turn to the group and get asspats to make them feel better.

 

[Trombonista]

These people are more like otherkin than the standard SJW.

 

[Protoman]

Hearing voices in your head and having conversations with them? Yeah there's a word for that, it's called being crazy.

This is one aspect of the internet that bothers me. Anybody with a mental problem can get online and make a community for like minded people and instead of figuring out that they're sick and need help they just turn to the group and get asspats to make them feel better.

See, there's the thing: I get the feeling that the founders of this group are probably not mentally ill. It's very possible that they're trolls, or that they're people who desperately want to feel special and have deluded themselves into believing they actually have voices in their head. Whether or not that constitutes mental illness in and of itself is a different conversation all together, though it seems very Münchausen.

What's so scary about this is that they're encouraging people who may or may not ACTUALLY be mentally ill to delve deeper into their own mental illness. What they're doing is actually really really dangerous. One asker messaged them talking about how they hear Jesus in their heads and their friends tell them they're crazy for it. They then told that person "Yup that's ACTUALLY THE VOICE OF GOD trying to talk to you." They're encouraging circumstances that could be insanely destructive depending on whether or not that person actually has a form of DID, APD, or schizophrenia and how serious their delusions are. If it's a joke it's a really really dangerous one that could have some terrible real life consequences. If it's either an attention grab or some people who are legitimately insane and believe all this stuff, it's also kind of terrifying, but in a different way.

I've been going through this blog and I've found some real gems. It's long, there's a LOT of shit to dig through. I'll be posting some screenshots when i get the time.

 

[homerbeoulve]

I think The InternetAristocrat sums it all up with this:

[youtube]hR8ADuqrGx8[/youtube]

 

[Protoman]

Some gems.

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in which they mix their bullshit with the adult baby thing.

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In which an anonymous asker is super offended because they're putting too much focus on people who actually have DID rather than people who are... Just choosing to have the plural lifestyle...? I guess?

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In which they encourage someone who's potentially schizophrenic to listen to the voices in their head.

I think The InternetAristocrat sums it all up with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8ADuqrGx8

yeah, this video's actually what turned me on to looking this up. I shrugged it off until the jesus thing, then it got sort of awful.

 

[PvtRichardCranium]

I actually have a lot of the mental illnesses these guys claim to have, and they aren't fun to have. You have to take handfuls of medication in the morning and at night and it fucking sucks.

Seriously. I really wish that these people would actually get the illnesses they claim to have, then they'd freak out.

 

[Silver]

I remember discussing this with a friend of mine when vi mentioned otherkin, and we started discussing how fucked up both groups are.

I once thought a specific train of thought in my head was something that wasn't me. Then after a few weeks I realized that was pretty damn stupid.

 

[Night Terror]

See, there's the thing: I get the feeling that the founders of this group are probably not mentally ill. It's very possible that they're trolls, or that they're people who desperately want to feel special and have deluded themselves into believing they actually have voices in their head. Whether or not that constitutes mental illness in and of itself is a different conversation all together, though it seems very Münchausen.

It's generally the latter. There's a few trolls, but most are like otherkin and are completely delusional. Some might be genuinely mentally ill, which as you said doesn't bode well for them by getting involved with groups like this.
People on Tumblr usually go like this. First they know nothing about this weird shit. Then they find out and joke about it, get 'educated' by someone, think it's fine, get more and more involved with defending it, then it starts happening to them. Most of the time it only lasts a week or two before they forget or stop bothering - I know someone who decided they were otherkin for about three days - but sometimes they become so fucking weird and bogged down with labels that they're unrecognisable. Suffice to say, quite a few of them pick up Sailor Moon or Sherlock or something as a headmate.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

Hearing voices in your head and having conversations with them? Yeah there's a word for that, it's called being crazy.

This is one aspect of the internet that bothers me. Anybody with a mental problem can get online and make a community for like minded people and instead of figuring out that they're sick and need help they just turn to the group and get asspats to make them feel better.

See, there's the thing: I get the feeling that the founders of this group are probably not mentally ill. It's very possible that they're trolls, or that they're people who desperately want to feel special and have deluded themselves into believing they actually have voices in their head. Whether or not that constitutes mental illness in and of itself is a different conversation all together, though it seems very Münchausen.

What's so scary about this is that they're encouraging people who may or may not ACTUALLY be mentally ill to delve deeper into their own mental illness. What they're doing is actually really really dangerous. One asker messaged them talking about how they hear Jesus in their heads and their friends tell them they're crazy for it. They then told that person "Yup that's ACTUALLY THE VOICE OF GOD trying to talk to you." They're encouraging circumstances that could be insanely destructive depending on whether or not that person actually has a form of DID, APD, or schizophrenia and how serious their delusions are. If it's a joke it's a really really dangerous one that could have some terrible real life consequences. If it's either an attention grab or some people who are legitimately insane and believe all this stuff, it's also kind of terrifying, but in a different way.

Oh definitely and this is what I was trying to say. Regardless of the reason for creating the group the fact that people with legitimate problems could stumble upon it and take this as being proof that they're not crazy is incredibly dangerous.

 

[Henry Bemis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR8ADuqrGx8

7:25 "Why don't you write a novel instead of pretending there are people in your head?

This, right here.

When writers say their characters live in their heads, it's charming. Hell, Edward Albee is fond of saying he takes his characters for a walk-and-talk on the beach and when he gets home, his head is full of their conversation, and that's still charming and has a certain logic to it.

This is not that, and it never will be that, if only because Tumblr political correctness forbids actually Doing Something with your life.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

I don't really see the relation of this to social justice per se -- surely this is more of a subculture than a really organized political movement? It was tremendous on LiveJournal back when that was a thing, and much attention was paid to things like the problems of having "littles" in your system (kids, like the guy who wanted the Hot Wheels set), but nobody was protesting to be allowed to enroll their child personalities in elementary school.

 

[Protoman]

I don't really see the relation of this to social justice per se -- surely this is more of a subculture than a really organized political movement? It was tremendous on LiveJournal back when that was a thing, and much attention was paid to things like the problems of having "littles" in your system (kids, like the guy who wanted the Hot Wheels set), but nobody was protesting to be allowed to enroll their child personalities in elementary school.

Social justice in the way that the internet (primarily tumblr) has perverted it is less a political movement focusing on the rights of the disenfranchised and more about making sure everyone uses the absolute proper labels for everyone else while checking your privilege and all that. When people say social justice on the internet (in my experience) they're generally referring specifically to social justice warriors, who do what was described above.

 

[teheviltwin]

It just goes to show how incredibly damaging these people can be. Encouraging people with mental health issues to believe their delusions is obscene.

 

[littlebiscuits]

Oh man, these people. I knew eventually a thread about these guys would pop up. Let me tell you about headmaters.

Just as a background, one of my sisters (my biological sister) is mentally ill. Her current diagnosis is psychosis NOS (not otherwise specified) and borderline personality disorder with schizo tendencies. Basically the doctors don't know what's the matter with her. We've known since she was a tiny infant that something was wrong with her but it was always hard to say what.

When she was about twelve she became involved with one of those RP websites, you know, play-by-posts, that kind of thing. At first it was fine, no big deal, but pretty soon she was posting hourly, staying up till the wee hours of the morning pretending to be a horse-wolf-fairy thing.Apparently, a 25 year old woman, the moderator of one of those Plural Activist/Headmate sites had personally convinced my already incredibly unstable sister that her RP characters were real people living inside her head and she should begin to "section' off parts of her personality to them. The woman claimed to be a "plural" herself and decided that her other headmates were in romantic relationships with my sister's so called headmates. She decided the best thing was to have my little twelve year old sister come down and meet her so that their headmates could finally be together. Now, my sister was already slipping into some other schizophrenic behaviors at the time, violent outbursts, strange disordered thinking patterns ("I can talk to cats therefore I am God.") and the absolute last thing she needed was some crazy pedophile telling her to listen to the voices in her head. Now, that 25 year old woman was not actually schizo or D.I.D. She was crazy alright, and creepy as hell, but it became apparent to us that she did not suffer from any of the ailments that she claimed to have.

It was horrible. I hate those people.