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As long as this is the Research board, I'm going to propose a hypothesis: allergies will not be affected by tulpas/possession/switching. My reasoning for this is that an allergic reaction is a wholly physiological response and there is no psychosomatic component to it. Unlike the situation where a lady with DID and brain damage could see or not see while certain identities were in control (which was because the damage was to the brain), allergies function entirely on normal cell-to-cell interactions. Hell, your body would react the same if you're asleep and awake to being stung by a bee or sniffing pollen or whatever.

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Then I would counter your argument with a study wherein placebo allergens still caused allergies in some cases, even with objective symptoms like vomiting. This would seem to imply that at least some allergies are affected by the brain.

 

It's actually why I proposed the question in the first place, should've linked it in the op. It is now.

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For any systems that can switch or possess, do your allergies differ by who is controlling?

 

No, none of my host's allergies are affected when we're in control, and we don't seem to have any that are separate from the host's. Like Lacquer said, when you're affected by allergies, it's a set of physiological / immunological steps -- it might be possible, though, that a placebo would lead us to believe we had allergies when we didn't, sure, but that hasn't happened in our case.

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We don't have any allergies but if you mean allergies in the sense of sneezing when the air has sneezy stuff in it or whatever, we seem to be the same with that.

 

Once when Dash was switched in though, he sneezed and actually got knocked out mentally by it, leaving the body without someone in control for a few minutes or so and I had to focus really hard for those few minutes to get Dash out of control and regain control myself.

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Yeah, I would've automatically said "No you're stupid it's a physical thing why did you even ask this"

 

... BUT, I've actually heard of cases where people with Dissociative Identity Disorder (back when it was called Multiple Personality Disorder) reacted differently to some substances, and could actually break out into hives while one personality was in control and not with another. It really blurred the line between physical and mental, placebo and.. placebo. I'm still not entirely sure what to think about it. And no, I have no idea what the source is, look it up.

 

But then, tulpas aren't a disorder, and are hardly as coarse. My tulpas are capable of resisting (practically ignoring) my depression/motivation issues, but I doubt they could change allergies. But I definitely won't say it's impossible.

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"WHEN Timmy drinks orange juice he has no problem. But Timmy is just one of close to a dozen personalities who alternate control over a patient with multiple personality disorder. And if those other personalities drink orange juice, the result is a case of hives.

 

The hives will occur even if Timmy drinks orange juice and another personality appears while the juice is still being digested. What's more, if Timmy comes back while the allergic reaction is present, the itching of the hives will cease immediately, and the water-filled blisters will begin to subside.

 

Such remarkable differences in the same body are leading scientists to study the physiology of patients with multiple personalities to assess how much psychological states can affect the body's biology, for better or worse. The researchers are discovering that such patients offer a unique window on how the mind and body can interact."

 

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/28/science/probing-the-enigma-of-multiple-personality.html

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So... one example of allergies being "ignored." Are there any other systems who can say the same out there?

I'd love to know.

 

I WOULD test this, but my only allergy is penicillin, and I don't think it's sane to answer a small question with the use of drugs.

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Do you gentle people understand how allergies actually take place?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitivity

 

It is something that goes way beyond what you are actively and inactively aware of, as far as I know. Immunology, as a matter of fact, has little to do with different 'personalities' (as referred to by the Timmy Orange Juice thing, NOT tulpas). That study gave very, very little information that each and every single HS student is aware of regarding allergens, IgE and the likes.

 

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