How would you react if your friends demeaned your tulpa?

[TreachC]

So, what the title says. If one of your friends deemed your tulpa "imaginary friend shithead" or whatever.

[Guest Anonymous]

I'd stop talking to them permanently. If they're my friends they know I don't tolerate trash talk about my tulpa.

[sushi]

Well, none of my friends know about Fenchurch, nor do I think they ever will. So it seems pretty unlikely.

[Tirisilex]

No one knows about me Tulpa as of yet. I would ask possibly demand respect otherwise.

[Guest Anonymous]

I have been called "dangerous make believe" by someone in Davie's family. Davie has been called a faggot, a pedophile, and a man who wants to be a woman. It has come from mostly strangers on the internet and not so much close friends and family, who are a bit more tactful.

 

On this site (in the forum and IRC chat) David has been called a faggot, pedophile, role player, liar, faker, and too old to have a tulpa. I have been called an attention whore, drama whore, rampant idiocy, forum cancer, toxic, pretentious and a joke. Only the term "role player" do we bear as a badge of honor.

 

Words can be like daggers, they can be a poison or a drug. You have to find that inner strength to overcome them. It is hard for us sometimes. Davie is an easy target because he is so old and I am so cutesy and Kawaii and girly. Also, we are openly different and do our own thing and speak our minds.

[FadingSpectrum]

I don't really think anyone would know about my tulpas in the first place. I'm a bit of a private person, and I know the world's full of people happy to verbally stab things they find suitable targets. Telling someone I have head-people would be painting a bullseye on my forehead.

As a general rule, it's good to assume that any given person is verbally armed and potentially ready to fire.

 

That said, if I did reveal my tulpas and if someone did act like that, I would reconsider my friendship with them. If they insulted my tulpa because the concept genuinely worried them, we could stay friends and I would make sure to stop bringing up my tulpas around them. If they did it to hurt us, they would be given the boot. I don't want another poisonous friendship ever again.

[RedKkPuppy]

Well, I would defend my tulpa, obviously. But it depends on what they said, and how they said it.

If it's something like "You know they aren't real, right?" I would try the best that I could to understand their side of things, and then offer my own opinion and evidence. If someone refuses to believe in my tulpa, then I guess there isn't much you can do about it. It's not the most popular concept, after all, and I can understand how it would be hard to grasp.

But, if that friend said something like the example that you gave, I would obviously rethink my friendship with them and tell them to have some respect, before probably never talking to them again. I wouldn't bother to try and get through to them.

[glitchthe3rd]

My girls don't take kindly to people devaluing them, and neither do I. To them, they are no less real than a physical human, and I also believe that a tulpa is as much a person as any human being. So to deny their existence is rude at best and dangerous to their health at worst.

[TreachC]

Thanks for the responses. I am going to tell my friends about Laythe.

[Luminesce]

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/your-waifu-is-shit

 

My friends have done so purposely, multiple times. But I'm a pretty understanding person, so as much as my ego would love for me to be prideful, I know that they just wanted to poke fun at me. However, Reisen is too understanding and accepting for me to retaliate in any way shape or form on her behalf. She would only be disappointed in me if I were to argue with someone about who or what she is to me.

 

That being said, Lucilyn would probably possess and fight them. In a cute sort of way.