What's your relationship to your body like?
Chrissy: I'm curious how different systems understand their physical form. Is it something everyone owns, or does one headmate own the body more than another? Is it something you see like a shared home or car? Do you see yourselves as being inside the body, or does only one headmate inhabit the body at one time? What goals do you have for your body and do they conflict with other headmates?
For us, we treat our body as belonging to everyone. Some have more say than others because they use it more, but everyone is allowed a say in what we do with it. No new piercing or tattoo or scar is gained without everyone being okay with it. Sometimes Luka gets upset about how feminine HRT has made our body, but he has a binder for high dysphoria days. I did kind of make Angel upset one time by cutting our hair too short, but she's forgiven me. We act as though we all live in the body inside its brain, but also sort of in a parallel world. We interface with our body and the real world through sort of command station that looks halfway between overkill computer settup and airplane cockpit.