okay. let’s start there. this is not an entry i want to write. i am writing it, but i don’t want to be. someone started basically dictating it in our head and i was like fine i’ll write it out cuz maybe then we’ll get somewhere and they’ll shut up.
okay. so this is not an entry i want to write. i am writing it on protest. my protest has beenc carried, motion to dismiss motion denied okay. so we don’t want to talk about this. have we established that yet? i really want to make sure it is established.
okay, so here we are talking about this thing we don’t want to talk about. yep. here we are. just talkin and talkin about it. just being so open with everyone aren’t we wonderful?
i think we probably have been a little superior around m*riad. not because we are, but because we aren’t. isn’t that always how it works. and this isn’t even what we don’t want to talk about. this is what we’d *Rather* talk about than that. so let’s see admitting we are wrong check …. hmmmm what else.
we started our period today. so that is, um, awesome. and then we got totally triggered and fell asleep. it was our period. we started it when we went travelling with grandma. she said she would and she was right.
and none of this is the stuff we don’t want to talk about.
alright. so here it is. i think we have girl sub parts that want very much to be dominated and possibly hurt. and i think we keep them locked up for the most part and i think we also have other parts selecting people to sleep with who they percieve as not being dangerous in this way at all. so even if the parts want to they can try all they want and get nowhere. i think they pick people who don’t want that kind of power dynamic with us like what the guy in labrinth said where the person submits their will to yours. i think i try not to pick people like that.
and then i thought what if i made a mistake? and someone i picked had those parts and they could be brought to the surface and we did and then we just got locked into it and addicted to it until it was woven into the fabric of our lives (who the fuck wrote that?)
anyway, i was thinking that those parts would see the relationship as this special thing that they had created and was like theirs. and like for them it would be this amazing perfect love and i was thinking about how could i ever give that up or see it otherwise?
i guess i was thinking that there was nothing anyone could say to me. and a
and honestly a fair amount of stuff of this was true of my mom and much more with my mom.
but like those parts couldn’t be convinced not to feel that way. that just is. something would have to come that would be bigger than that. for us, that was e*in who brought out parts that were like related to parts or made space for parts that were scared out of their mind of s*ef. it was odd, the other parts never went away. it was just like these other parts came out and they were *Way* louder.
and still s*ef left us. she decided she couldn’t deal with us basically avoiding her completely and being pretty angry with her and crazy and stuff. s*ef didn’t have access to those parts enough to draw them out past the upset and scared ones.
once we got scared of s*ef it never stopped. still hasn’t. those parts are in absolute fear. frozen.
but still s*ef left us. i don’t know if we e*er could have actually left her.
basically we just became so scared of her that we couldn’t be around her at all it drove us insane.
i think in some ways we were scared because we had to be to not just do whatever she wanted to make her happy. because that’s all we had to do and then she loved us unconditionally and then she loved us so much. and we *could* do it and it wasn’t that hard at all. and then it was. wow lots of random shoooting body pains um that is odd.
it was easy and then it was almost impossible now. the scared parts are out in such full force around her. again, i think this is the only defense we have. the thick wall. we can’t talk to her we can’t email her because we will ffeel like we need to save her we will feel her pain.
i mean i guess s*ef almost begged us to get back together. or something. after we broke up she came up to my room and cried and i sat with her and sympathized because i knew i was the bad guy. but i couldn’t take it away. when i lost that ability with her i lost it and there was no turning back. in some ways i think s*ef used everything she could she just didn’t have the right keys. to get past the scared ones. the caretakers and such could not be called out with so much fear around. it was wierd. whatever. anyway.
still none of this is really what i was supposed to write about. though it is tangential.
really what happened was e*in called up or reached or jumpstarted or brought forward or whatever all these parts that couldn’t deal with s*ef i think. and they like just freaked out when they came out and exploded and it was like shock waves of fear emanating from us.
basically they made it intolerable to be around s*ef at all. so that was just that. we can’t stand it and have to avoid. avoid avoid it is nice to have that as really you’re only defense mechanism. it is effective. i’m not talking to s*ef or my mom. i mean how many people can say that? i mean of course there are the downsides of just cutting people out of your life all the time and kind of starting over: loss of support, instability, barrier to intimacy, blah blah blah. but still.
the thing is that while adults got along with s*ef. i think the people who really loved her were kids. so they were the only ones who *could* be around her. but they were also the ones who got really hurt by her (in addition to all the love which by far outwieghed it for them). it seemed a very small price to pay for them. i don’t know. they still think that.
it’s like they went away or soemthing or were kept away from s*ef by the scared parts. because seriously there are parts who were happy to do things to make her happy but they just weren’t around anymore it was just the angry ones who looked like they weren’t. i don’t know who knows i don’t remember?
and still none of this is what i didn’t want to write about. shocker.
i guess in some ways what happened is the walls came down and the people who were angry at s*ef and scared of her came out and they . and really we could only do it because we had this unhealthy obsession and relationship with e*in to take it’s place in a lot of ways. if we hadn’t, i’m sure we’d still be with s*ef.
i don’t know. still off-topic. at least somewhat.
i was really lucky. s*ef had a lot of resources socially and stuff. though emotionally i still think not. and i think the social stuff masks it and that scares because i don’t know if she’ll ever deal with it. i don’t know how anyone grows without crisis. we certainly don’t. all major change in our life has come kicking and screaming because we didn’t have a fucking choice in the fucking matter.
when i am around s*ef i sense an equal or like not clearly unequal amount of pain to a*ron. who i use as a basis for comparison because i don’t know if i have met anyone with the exception of my mother who i sense such psychic pain from. s*ef has a lot of resources, at least she has the ability to *think* she is happy (how condescending is that, you bitch). she has enough to distract is what i am really saying. it is funny. that’s better, right? to have the resources to distract?
because sometimes i am so thankful that we don’t anymore, at least not to the level we did. because we just, we use them. we use whatever we can, less so now but still even now
we’re supposed to want to be happier? to be in the least amount of pain right? we’re supposed to want that for other people? for them to escape their pain as much as possible? for us to help? that is our job yes? i mean isn’t it? right?
it is cruel to want someone to experience their pain, or stop distracting from it. it is cruel and selfish. because i would never want that for myself. so it must be cruel and selfish. who looks at their pain unless they absolutely fucking have to? not me.
i guess that kind of means it’s cruel to expect my other parts to just come out and experience their pain so i can be over it and healed. i guess it’s hard to ask people to go through that. especially if i’m not ready to provide them support.
sometimes when i am with m*riad i think i get very close to myself and sometimes i think i get very far and i wonder why those happen. i don’t know. i don’t want to be awake at 4:53am or whatever the fuck it is who the fuck cares not me.
and still none of this is really directly actually revealingly what i want to talk about.
what i wanted to talk about was that we actually have a lot of rape fantasies. that just is what it is. it’s true and it is how we get off when we are by ourselves for the most part and we write our own internal movies/stories using whatever we’ve picked up that we like.
we are never the victim.
okay, that is not true. but those people are not fucking talking right now becuase the fact that we are even admitting that is a huge liability.
we are actually not the abuser for the most part. but we would rather admit to that than . and really you have to identify with one more than the other right? and so if we have to choose we pick the abuser. tho it’s touch for parts that say this makes us look bad but likewhatever. it’s always a choice. be bad or weak. bad or weak. bad or weak. pick one.
we actually just kind of make up little movies that are kind of they have some like written description sometime. it’s not fully a movie or a story. anyway, that is mostly how we get off.
and i*igo said something cool about how hearing about something can be hotter than actually doing it. like the *idea* can be hotter than the thing itself.
i’m not sure why that made us happy but it did.
it was like we hadn’t considered that there might be a difference between thought an action. or like that thought could actually be more satisfying than action in certain ways
and i wonder a little if like part of being an abuser is that the action is more satisfying than the thought. simulation is much worse than reality. i don’t know. i’ve been thinking alot about what makes an abuser. or like what characteristics there might be to those parts or to people where those parts manifest fully (or close to) outside. which i guess goes along with that action versus thought.
i guess i just always thought that thought was like a prelude or like an incomplete without action. which is CRAZY because i have spent forever lecturing people on how different thought and action are.
especially because a part of the thought is wishing it COULD be action. so obviously action would be better right?
and it occured to me what if it *seemed* like action would be better but that was part of the thought, and part of what made it satisfying was wanting *more* of something without actually having it because having it would actually make you feel awful. but a component of this is *feeling* like you want it to actually happen. isn’t that wierd? i think it’s wird. i think you’re wierd. well i think YOU’RE wierd.
i guess like we know with those unspeakables we know that thought is better than action. that is less true in other areas though. and we just really don’t let them out unless it is perfectly safe or whatever. wouldn’t it be wierd if you thought it was safe and then you built this whole world and then you realized too late you were trapped in it? how could you know while it was happening?
i just thought it was a cool idea that the thought of something could be hotter than the thing itself. even though i know i know that. and have applied that. somehow i hadn’t applied it here or something. like i wasn’t taught it applied here. like i thought the only way a thought would be hot is if it were based on basically the same action. if it were kind of an echo, whose worth comes only from it’s reminder of the event. isn’t that wierd? i think it’s wierd. i don’t know. i don’t fucking know anything.
aren’t you always supposed to want your desires to be fulfilled? isn’t that what happiness is? it’s odd to me to imagine it actually being pleasurable *not* to do that. even though i think that is very much how i set up my life. i tend to pick people who are at least somewhat out of the question i always want things i can’t have. why didn’t i see it here? why can’t i see it here?
it just seems like the happiest thing in the world is giving someone exactly what they want. right? though i guess that very often doesn’t go well for us. but still isn’t that what you’re supposed to try to do if you’re good? how can wanting be good? how can it not be worse and horrible.
i guess there is the idea that what people want can actually hurt them. and while that doesn’t give you the right to get in their way, it also means that denying them isn’t necessarily a bad thing. it might be a neutral thing. which doesn’t make sense cuz that’s not how they see it and what they see it matters.
the idea of denying people what they want as a neutral thing is CRAZY to me. but like, i guess that’s what that would mean. if what people want isn’t necessarily and often is not better for them, than isn’t it not necessarily and often not a positive thing to do it? not that it’s a negative. but what if it isn’t either? isn’t that crazy? that is crazy. that’s definitely crazy.
it is always wrong to deny people what they want and need. it is always bad and selfish and it is youor responsability to give it.
but what if it isn’t? what if it isn’t bad. or good. or anything. it just is. it’s neutral and you could argue it 7 ways til sunday (who keeps writing that?) and prove it’s anything but really it’s nothing it just is.
and if that were true than really it would just matter what was best for me or okay for me or like i could consider it.
if it really were neutral. which it isn’t. because that is crazy. because they don’t see it as neutral. and people are in SO MUCH PAIN when you deny them what they need. you can’t do that. that is cruel.
bitch bitch bitch you make up these lies to let yourself tell lies to yourself about how you are not selfish and wrong and bitchy and horrible but you are you are and you know it and you know who you owe and what you owe them and you will never escape you will never escape
labrinth is one of the best movies about healing i’ve seen. i love the faces that are just like “beware!” “go back!” “you are in grave danger!” and the guy is just like, don’t mind them, they have to say that. and hten they aren’t so scary. they just have to say that. i don’t know. somehting about what the goblin king says. submit and i’ll give you everything. and everything is so glittery and cool and sexy and she isn’t. how could she give that up?
unhappiness is such a small price. such a small price. such a small price. to get away from the loneliness.
but it is all distraction. even the unhappiness is part of it. it is all a distraction it is all a crystal ball and smoke and mirrors that look so much better than the real thing.
but it is such a small price, isn’t it? it seems small to me.
December 26, 2008
Categories: stream-of-consciousness . Tags: (dys)functionality, alters, associating, being clingy/needy, being good, being hard on ourselves, being in control, being manic, being multiple, body, circling birds, dark things, feeling crazy, inter-system communication, mom, needing people, nobody loves me, pleasers, protective/possessive, scareded, self-hating, sex-being a bottom, taking care of people, talking about things we don't want to talk about, the borderlines, wanting/needing love . Author: the edges . Comments: Leave a comment