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access_fandom2010-07-11 09:57 pm
softestbullet) wrote in access_fandom2010-07-11 09:57 pm
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Dissociative Identity Disorder & ableist tropes in fiction
staticnonsense @ I Am Not: Your Plot Device
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen a decent portrayal of DID/MPD/multiplicity. :/
(I don't remember how I got this link, sorry!)
I [1] have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
Before you start thinking about all that you know about the disorder or its American historical counterpart Multiple Personality Disorder, probably influenced by media portrayals such as that train wreak of a movie Sybil – stop. Now. These portrayals are so wrong and full of tropes it’s not even funny.
[…] For now, let’s just go through a list of these tropes and just why exactly they piss me off.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen a decent portrayal of DID/MPD/multiplicity. :/
(I don't remember how I got this link, sorry!)