Have you told your parents?

[Maverickthecat]

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[Terminal]

I told my mother ABOUT the process and the idea of a tulpa, but didn't tell her "Yes I'm making one, her name is Mia, and I'm this far into the process."

She's a very open minded person. She even related this to when she practiced meditation and how she had an out-of-body experience once as a teenager.

Haven't told my dad. He'd probably just scoff at the idea, as nice as he is.

[Spice]

Told my mum about phantom limbs too.

 

well she freaked out

 

yup no tulpa speak anymore.

[Jack]

I wouldn't tell my mom, she would worry far too much, I'd end up in a psych ward.

 

My dad, on the other hand, would be glad to hear about it. Most likely, that is.

Sometimes I talk with him about metaphysics, paranormal and weird things overall, he is pretty interested in the topic.

I'm afraid to go overboard though, which almost happened once. Too much of a pointless risk.

[omegaAnubis]

I likely wouldn't tell my parents, despite them being the most open minded people i know, i have a feeling the line is drawn at inducing voices in my head

[Joshua+1]

Tell my mother who is a hardcore Christian, or my father who is an over controlling cop? I'll avoid it like lepers.

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[Heaventhief]

I have no plans to tell them what-so-ever. If they do find out by some fluke I will resist like hell and I have formulated some plans which I will not express here less they are found out if I am discovered.

[Darthtoa]

I accidentally left a tulpa.info tab open on my mom's iPad, and she made me tell her what they were. So, I was basically forced (no pun intended) to tell my hardcore fundamentalist Christian mother about tulpae. This was before, or right at the start of, me making Lyrra, so I didn't tell her I had one; however, I did say, in my rush for an description that she wouldn't think was demons, I basically told her, "It's these people that are voluntarily giving themselves Multiple Personality Disorder." She flipped out, and I went into 'right answer' mode, just wanting to get the conversation over with.

 

So yeah, she presumably knows about tulpae, but she doesn't know I have one. And I'm not about to change that.

[susurrus]

The only people I could possibly tell would be my mom or a friend I know. Never my dad. But honestly, this is so much farther out there than what they're used to me discussing. And I like talking about the fringes of science and psychology. Somehow, I think simulating symptoms of mental illness might be crossing a line for my parents.

 

With my mom, there's already a history of schizophrenia and other mental illness in the family. She suffers from some mental hell herself. I think she'd have me committed if she found out. If that's not possible because I'm an adult, she'd harp on me until I saw a psychiatrist and started downing pills on a regular basis. Not gonna happen. I would never tell my dad because we don't really talk. Even when we do it's never about deep subjects, just what I've been doing since I moved away from him. There's no reason to tell him about tulpae and I think he'd feel the same way as mom, if he even cared.

 

Maybe I'll tell my mom someday...when I've moved far away...like to a different country. But only then.