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How do they not mix?
An object is just an implementation of a data structure that can self modify through methods and make some of its data unreachable to programmers through encapsulation. You can point to it just like you would a struct or an array and modify it just the same.
If pointers and objects don't mix well in your mind, then you either do not understand pointers, or you do not understand how objects are represented in memory.