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Split isn't meant to be a representation of mental illness. It in its bare sense is a comic book movie. I don't even know what your blog is, and I don't intend to look through it. Just wanted to throw that out there. Fiction does not represent fact.

Yeah, hi, I’m one of the mods of the blog onto whose DNI post you excreted such an absolutely heinous comment. Let’s unpack this paragraph of absolute horseshit, shall we?

Split isn't meant to be a representation of mental illness.

It isn’t meant to be, huh? That’s what we’re going with? Okay. Cool. But you see, the main character has a mental illness (DID), and is in the movie, so the movie does by definition represent DID. Here, I’ll give you a better example. Your URL is “Count Ringworm.” I’m sure you don’t intend to represent a highly contagious fungal skin infection, but here you are, being exactly that.

It in its bare sense is a comic book movie.

Oh, I see, you’re one of those people who thinks that as long as a movie is derived from some other source material, it’s automatically okay. Or at least, that’s what you’re saying here. But a cursory scroll of your blog tells me that you’re a garden-variety wannabe edgy counterculture Tumblr nerd, so I’m guessing you were one of those people who shat on Twilight back in the day. If you’re going to go with the “it’s just based off of a pre-existing source material, let people enjoy things” argument, at least be honest with yourself and admit that as soon as the source material isn’t something you personally like, you stop defending its adaptations.

Or, as a counter-proposal, you could examine media more critically and consider whether or not it actually has merit, whether it’s an adaptation of something you personally like or not. See, what you fail to grasp here is that some source material is actually garbage at its core and maybe, just maybe, shouldn’t have been adapted into a movie in the first place. 

I don't even know what your blog is, and I don't intend to look through it.

So, to recap: you don’t know what our blog is, you don’t intend to look through it, and yet you decided to argue with our DNI post? Like, why even bother? Why put yourself through the effort of saying anything on a DNI post of all things when you have no intention of interacting with the blog? Sounds like you’re upset that a movie you like is getting called out for being ableist but okay.

Just wanted to throw that out there.

Cool. Thanks.

Fiction does not represent fact.

Ah, yes, the good ol’ fiction doesn’t impact reality argument. Gotta love that shit. Except, it does. For example, the movie Jaws grossly exaggerated the danger of shark attacks, which has led to a collapse of the shark population. [x]  And psychology backs this up, too. When test subjects in one study were presented with a historically accurate essay and a historically inaccurate movie, they believed the inaccuracies to be true. [x]

For the record, fiction impacting reality can also be a good thing! See the positive effects of representation. [x]

Sure, fiction doesn’t represent fact, but it still impacts our understanding of the world. And that can be for better or for worse.

Listen. Fiction or not, adaptation or not, whatever, the fact remains that movies like Split have a negative effect on people with DID. I can assure you with the utmost confidence that no human being ever has seen themself portrayed as a monster for something they can’t control and stopped feeling shitty about it just because someone who in all likelihood has no fucking clue what it’s like to have that thing, decided to point out that it was just a movie, or just an adaptation, or whatever. Because that’s literally not how anything fucking works.

So, in conclusion, kindly step on a lego and go fuck yourself.

-Mod Lia