How Do You Tell Other People You Have a Tulpa?

[Spice]

How should I tell my mum I have a tulpa?

 

She's very good with anything related to Buddhism for a start, so it'll be easier to work off that, but I'm a little afraid of what she'll think, or if she will (try to, she won't succeed) make me get rid of spice.

Which I don't want to do, because while I love my mum, I love spice too.

Also if your opinion is 'don't tell her.' Tell me why you think it's a bad idea.

It might also be useful to get advice from an older tulpa.

Thanks guys, gals and variations. :3

[Kiahdaj]

Well why do you want to tell her in the first place?

It surely won't be worth the trouble, unless you have a really good reason, and not just "hey mum, look at this!".

[Guest Anonymous]

http://tulpa.info/forums/Thread-How-would-I-tell-my-parents-about-my-tulpa

 

Holy fucking shit, you are retarded beyond belief. Its like in the womb you decided to steal another chromozone.

 

Its a bad idea because she might think you are weird. Don't think that "Okay, I'm her son/daughter/retarded child, I can deal with her thinking of me as being weird" because that is stupid. What happens if she thinks of you as crazy because of it? You might have to see a shrink or something of that sort, and that's just the possible beginning. Have fun being disowned for having an imaginary friend that you can't prove exists.

 

K: Vriska and I are young, but we know from our predecessors and personal experience that you would not benefit from telling people about Spice. You might like your mother a lot, but sacrifices have to be made if she is not accepting of things like tulpas, even if she is interested in Buddhism.

 

V: You can't always get what you want. You might get hurt somehow by telling her about Spice. Also, why do you want to tell her?

 

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[Spice]

Okay so I should have explained why. Also sorry about double threading I couldn't find the old one on mobile..

 

I suppose it just that I want to be able to speak/mention Spice around my home without mum thinking I'm just talking to myself. To kinda make her understand.

 

It seems stupid yeah.

 

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[glitchthe3rd]

Take it to the main thread on the subject.

 

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[Thunderfrost]

This might be a dumb question...

I have had my tulpa, Callista, for several months now, and only one person really knows and respects her besides me. Both of us want my friends to be aware of her, if not friends with her, but other people find the whole concept unnatural and disturbing when I try to explain it to them. How should I go about explaining Callista and tulpae with general to other people, or is it something I should give up doing? I don't want the people to tell, who would be close friends and family, to think there's something wrong with me, but they are deserving to know about her.

[TulpaCouple]

In general, we don't. For a lot of pretty obvious reasons. This is the sort of thing that isn't quite widely accepted.

 

If you do feel the need to tell someone you could first gauge their reaction by telling them about the phenomenon in general, not linking yourself to it yet. Depending on their reaction you would decide if it is worth it or not.

 

But personally in the year or so we have been forcing we've only told 2 or 3 people, and those people were already very into this sort of stuff. Not a single family member knows.

[Kiahdaj]

For me, only family members know. No, not because family is generally more accepting (I wouldn't tell family if I were you--could seriously put a strain on your relationship if you don't know them well enough), but because my family happens to be more "open" to such ideas. My brother is a metaphysicist, and my mother pretends to be one.

At any rate, like TulpaCouple said, we tend not to tell people, around here.

And when it comes to how to tell friends, if you can't find a good way, then the answer is don't.

Unless you're willing to risk losing the friend over telling them, which, might I add, will likely have almost no benefits, then it's just better to not tell them.

The only way I'd say it's not a little dumb is if they have shown in the past that they buy into such ideas, and are open-minded enough.

 

Again, as TulpaCouple said, one good way to gauge their reaction is to tell them of the phenomenon first. Although be careful--some people, believe it or not, are smart enough to put two and two together.

[cartowheel]

I actually just told my roommate, and figured she'd be cool with it since she knows I'm a multiple system and she's deeply interested in psychology. She's actually thinking about making one too now. ^_^

[Shui]

Like everyone else says, be careful. And I always suggest people read this PR before they tell anyone, just so they know the worst that can happen.