I don’t have an alt account. I used for a little bit there and all it did was sandbag stuff. The main reason you use an alt account, to be candid with people close to you, falls apart immediately for me because I do not have that kind of friendship, or indeed an appreciable number of friends. There are ~3 people total that I trust with my vulnerability, and two of them I can just talk to and be accountable to face to face.
I also have trouble reading into (and some trauma with) boundaries, and it takes a lot of effort to not think that I’m not intended to be around unless someone very explicitly tells me to come in (and even then I may not feel okay being in a group in that way, because my brain is broken), so I follow a vanishing amount of ADs and alts and do not generally request.
The stuff people use alts for I do on main. I sadpost on main. I am angry on main. I’m kinky on main. If you want to harm me using my own words, they’re there for you to use; I’ve already done the work to outgroup and isolate myself, and words that aren’t fit for main — vulnerable moments, uncertain moments, moments I can be judged on or pinned for — I will just never write and you will just never see.
