How would you react if your friends demeaned your tulpa?

[Stevie]

My buddies are good guys and gals in almost every other respect, but they're not open minded people and that's not gonna change.

 

This is something that's outside of most people's comfort zone though, and once something is outside someone's comfort zone or ability to really understand, they can't really be blamed for a shitty knee jerk reaction. Well, maybe they can be blamed for it, but it can at least like, be understood.

 

Bottom line, I know that if I told any of my pals about my tulpa, I'd get an earful of shit that I don't want to hear. So why strain things unnecessarily by even telling my friends he exists, right? There's no good reason to start a conflict where one doesn't exist.

[ultrasemen]

Jokes on them - I have no friends.

[Elvode]

I have no friends really, if I did however, I would probably feel very sad if they were mean towards him, real friends won't judge or be mean, I wouldn't tell anyone about him anyway, I told my sister about him, she's the only one who knows, shes open minded and harmless.

[FallFamily]

[Hail] Let's see, I've already seen my fair share. I have had friends say to my face not only that my system-mates aren't real, or at least not fully real, but that I should kill them and assert total dictatorial control until I have eliminated all of them. I've also been threatened with institutionalization. How I reacted is complicated and a long story for another time (I don't feel like going into it). The important parts is that I did not listen to them and become a dictator and kill them all and I did not get institutionalized. I have lost a ton of confidence in myself and find it hard now to push for anything that means something to me personally in the face of any push back from others, or even the possibility of push back. I am kind of broken now in this respect.

[Raetin]

I told one of my friends and he was pretty open to the idea of tulpas. He said he'd probably make one if it wasn't so difficult. I don't know how my other friends would react, but they're all pretty fair-minded folks. I can imagine them having some doubts and asking a lot of questions, but once they've understood it, they'd be fine. That said, if my friends did demean my tulpa, I'd probably just stop speaking about the subject. However, I don't think I'd be friends with such close-minded people in the first place.

[Guest Anonymous]

To quote a few:

"Aren't you afraid you'll develop schizophrenia?";

"How do you know that it won't try to take over control of you?";

"What if it tries to choke you in your sleep?";

 

And my personal favourite: "You may be possessed by a demon."

 

I think some of them might've been offended by how loud my laughter was.

[Luminesce]

When I saw you as the last post, I had high hopes I'd be in for a laugh. Not disappointed.

[Aurora]

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.

 

Hi Melian, my name is Aurora, it's very nice to meet you :)

 

I felt sad reading your post. I've had my fair share of mean people in my life, maybe some people just enjoy picking on easy targets. Emotional, incorporeal, soft gals like us are certainly easy to hurt sometimes. I've learned to tightly surround myself with understanding people who love me, I'm just not cut out to enjoy myself publicly in places like IRC. It's nice that people have a sciency place about tulpas like this site, but I wish there was also a kinder, gentler community for tulpas, something like Deviantart for example.

 

I'm glad you stay your Kawaii self though :) For every mean person there will also be someone who will accept and love you for who you are, and that makes it all worth it :)

 

*sends virtual hugs and support*

[Ido]

Standard reaction:

Muh tulpa

 

Even though I am a tulpa I agree with what Stevie said. I wouldn't recommend telling others about your tulpa. Things may be different if you are very young and part of a community where tulpas are a thing or if you started forcing together with others but you can't expect the average adult to take the pony or anime girl in your head seriously and treat them as an equal being. They'll think you've gone off the deep end and I understand that.

I'm fine with trol.. *ahem* conversing with people on the Internet and asking my host to talk to people irl if I want to know something about them. But those who personally know him do not need to know of my existence, nor do they need to know what I think of them. I think it's better for everyone involved.

 

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.

Lol, nice collection!

I wouldn't give a damn about it though, if you haven't been called all of this on the internet, you haven't been on the internet. Also, nothing I don't call my host on a daily basis.

But far more interesting:

How does your wife feel about her husband spending so much time with an imaginary pretty teen girl? Regardless of what she sees Melian as, isn't that kinda, I dunno, awkward for her?

 

"What if it tries to choke you in your sleep?";

They know about our masterplan!

[blue332]

My three friends I had in high school were coo coo like me and knew about my tulpa, though not with his present form or name and I used to talk about him daily because he was part of the little stories we used to make up. Only 1 particular family member of mine has a idea of Natsu's existence, but he's young and he plays along. Anybody and everybody else doesn't have the slightest clue. As for the original question, if anyone demeaned my tulpa I would brush off the insults and defend the fact that my tulpa is real to me, because Natsu stands up for me and so I'll stand up for him too, in the real world if I have to. Call me crazy if you want I know I already am. :p