The word tulpa has been removed from its original cultural context in a way many people aren’t okay with. So the plural community now calls them parogens.
It means intentionally created. In the context of plurality, it makes perfect sense, because it distinguishes parogens from traumagenic, walk-in, and other kinds of system members.
I work in tech, and one of the things that we learn early on is to not use tech jargon around people who are not also in the tech field because it can alienate them and make them feel stupid.
So while you may have a fully fluent and valid mental construct of parogens and all of the assorted lore attached to that, talking about them as if it were common knowledge to people who have not been exposed to the same information is at best off-putting.
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The word tulpa has been removed from its original cultural context in a way many people aren’t okay with. So the plural community now calls them parogens.
I’m friends with someone else’s parogen
further reading in case anyone is curious
https://pluralpedia.org/w/Parogenic
Parogen is just as fucking stupid as the use of tulpa.
It wouldn’t cost much to phrase that in a nicer way
It means intentionally created. In the context of plurality, it makes perfect sense, because it distinguishes parogens from traumagenic, walk-in, and other kinds of system members.
I work in tech, and one of the things that we learn early on is to not use tech jargon around people who are not also in the tech field because it can alienate them and make them feel stupid.
So while you may have a fully fluent and valid mental construct of parogens and all of the assorted lore attached to that, talking about them as if it were common knowledge to people who have not been exposed to the same information is at best off-putting.
tbf half the point of these communities is to be sheltered and insular. being told off by the wider population only drives people deeper within them.
Yeah, this is true. But I feel like tech is esoteric, whereas metal health and psychology aren’t. Plus the stigmas are different.