Editing Multiplicity (subculture) (section)

==Origins and related practices==
{{See also|Tulpamancy#Tulpamancers}}

In contrast to [[dissociative identity disorder]], the social movement of people who identify as "multiple" is under-researched.<ref name="Ribáry" />

Resources dedicated to multiplicity started to appear early in the internet's history.<ref name=":5" /> According to a member of the community interviewed by ''Vice Magazine,'' the multiplicity subculture and related vocabulary originated in [[mailing lists]] of the 1980s.<ref name="Vice" /> Playing [[Video game|video games]] has also been cited as a context in which people engage with multiplicity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Multiplicity and Identity Mitigation in Video Games {{!}} Nightmare Mode [Archived] |url=https://nightmaremode.thegamerstrust.com/2010/06/18/multiplicity-and-identity-mitigation-in-video-games/ |access-date=2023-07-02 |language=en-US}}</ref>

''Vice'' suggests that aspects of the online multiplicity community were also found in [[Haitian Vodou]], [[spirit possession]] and the [[Tibetan culture|Tibetan]] practice of [[tulpamancy]].<ref name="Vice" /> Nowadays, an online subculture dedicated to tulpamancy also exists, where practitioners willfully create and engage with ''[[Tulpa|tulpas]]'' which has been described as an online multiplicity space.<ref name=":5" />