====== Headmate ======

(Namespace: [[plural glossary:start]])

^ Type of term | Member of a [[system]] |
^ Synonyms or near-synonyms | [[Insider]], [[part]], [[thoughtform]] |
^ Antonyms or near-antonyms | [[Singlet]], [[body]] |

When two or more people are headmates, it means they are different people---for //any// meaning and extent of the words "different" and "people"---who live in the same [[body]] and would appear to outside observers to be the same person.

A headmate may come from a [[source]] and/or perform a [[role]] within the [[system]]. Headmates are sometimes [[coconscious|aware of each other]], and sometimes [[partitionary|not]].

(A headmate is that same sort of entity which, among outsiders to the [[plural]] community, is variously referred to as an alter ego, alternate identity, [[splitting|split]] personality, or imaginary friend. These are generally not preferred terms; all of them are either glorifying, stigmatizing, or minimizing, and some of them apply only to specific types of headmates but are wrongly generalized to all of them. I include them here only to more clearly convey the overall concept to the uninitiated.)