Yeah we used to take those little sections in older fanfiction where the writer talks to the characters as a funny bit as 'everyone totally just has ''characters'' that live in their head'. Not the first time we totally misinterpreted something and led us to believe an experience was normal. We watched a documentary on philosophy when really young that said something like 'its the nature of being sentient to question one's existence' and took this as 'its totally normal to be depersonalized and doubt 'I' as a concept is a concrete thing, thats just what being sentient is like' for YEARS.
We know a few folks who do find it legit upsetting/dysphoria inducing to exist in realistic 3d graphics and are always pretty glad none of us have that trouble. Seems pretty rough!
Yeah our canon-character fictive is 'divorced' from her source specifically because we realized interacting with the fandom or the canon was actively upsetting her and us to such a heavy degree any benefit of engaging outweighed the consequences. It was hard to quit it but ultimately necessary and heavily improved all of our mental states. We are a huge proponent of dropping canon sources if it starts harming you and trying to find any sort of identity at all outside of consuming the source and being Ultra Canon Compliant for that reason. It was so helpful and freeing and unfortunately there doesnt seem to be resources around to help others also dig themselves out of that hole. Hmmm... Might have to write one. Thats something we sure could have used to have realized it was severely tanking all of our mental health sooner and we think others might find something like that useful.
Yep! Its like people think theres no executive meddling or authors compromising to make a better or more marketable story.
Yeah, nothing is on a binary! Theres consensus reality and there is personal reality and both are important and it would be nice if there were more plural spaces that had attitudes that existed between the two extremes of 'your source memories or identity is all ~substitute beliefs~ and therefore Not Valid' and 'everything is 1:1 with consensus reality, every story is 100% true and not fiction At All in any possible way'. Its like its taboo to take a third option or middle ground.
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We know a few folks who do find it legit upsetting/dysphoria inducing to exist in realistic 3d graphics and are always pretty glad none of us have that trouble. Seems pretty rough!
Yeah our canon-character fictive is 'divorced' from her source specifically because we realized interacting with the fandom or the canon was actively upsetting her and us to such a heavy degree any benefit of engaging outweighed the consequences. It was hard to quit it but ultimately necessary and heavily improved all of our mental states. We are a huge proponent of dropping canon sources if it starts harming you and trying to find any sort of identity at all outside of consuming the source and being Ultra Canon Compliant for that reason. It was so helpful and freeing and unfortunately there doesnt seem to be resources around to help others also dig themselves out of that hole.
Hmmm...
Might have to write one. Thats something we sure could have used to have realized it was severely tanking all of our mental health sooner and we think others might find something like that useful.
Yep! Its like people think theres no executive meddling or authors compromising to make a better or more marketable story.
Yeah, nothing is on a binary! Theres consensus reality and there is personal reality and both are important and it would be nice if there were more plural spaces that had attitudes that existed between the two extremes of 'your source memories or identity is all ~substitute beliefs~ and therefore Not Valid' and 'everything is 1:1 with consensus reality, every story is 100% true and not fiction At All in any possible way'. Its like its taboo to take a third option or middle ground.