This has me wondering how these plural/schizo types would react if someone walked into one of their communities claiming to be a starseed from Arcturus, an indigo child, or some other new-age spiritual thing. Really, what's the difference? Why isn't that heckin' valid but this is?
From what I've seen, these people deep down know it's all bullshit, and you can even get them to admit it if they aren't feeling threatened. Just the other day, I saw one user in a similar community comment to another user (who was a real female, not a troon) with the phrasing, "I keep forgetting you’re like an actual girl bro". Not using the term "a
cis girl", but "an
actual girl", and neither user remarked on the usage of the term. Basically a tacit admission on the part of both users that there
are actual females, and then there are pretenders.
I don't think they realized just how much that had given up the game: when they think they're only around allied company and let their guards down, they get lax with the doctrine. All those incessant "corrections" and preaching strict adherence to all their made-up lingo, that's their warning shot to suspected outsiders. A signal that these are protected members of "The In-Group", and challenging the stranger ideologically: either conform, or face the antibodies. But catch them without their guards up, and all the newspeak and thought-policing falls away and they talk like actual fucking people again.
What does that mean? I don't know. My hypothesis is that they're desperate to cling onto their delusions because it's a coping mechanism that--for one reason or another--they think is the only thing that's getting them through the modern world, when in reality it'd probably be easier for them in the long run if they just ripped the band-aid off and endured that initial period of pain as they re-acclimatize to being functional human beings. The problem is their "support system" (read: indoctrination), as every cult member is taught to be hypersensitive to any outside attempts to unplug one of their fellows from the mind-hive. Each one will just as quickly dive in and run interference to prevent deprogramming those fellows as said fellows will for them. It's very hard to break that trance unless a member is exiled for some reason, and then it usually shatters instantly for said outcast.