i saw this tweet and it reminded me of your billy DID post
‘i need people to stop using disorders like DID and schizophrenia as horror plot devices and painting them as creepy and displaying that people who have those disorders are dangerous / murderous’
because i completely agree w ur post, people who have no knowledge of the disorder shouldn’t be going around and hcing characters w it, ESPECIALLY a character like billy if their only reasoning is ‘oh he’s nice sometimes and then he killed his gf’ like ?? that’s so stigmatizing towards the disorder AND people living w the disorder
like as a borderline i hate when nonbpd hc a character to just be entirely manipulative and ‘oh they get mad really fast’ as if that’s all there is to the disorder
anyways sorry for the rant LOL
i love you for this and fully agree with everything you’ve said. people who don’t have said disorder or disability shouldn’t be going around and throwing them onto characters for stigmatizing and stereotypical reasonings, especially for disorders that are widely known to be stigmatized like BPD and DID.
i’m not saying that people who don’t have these disorders or disabilities shouldn’t be allowed to headcanon characters having them, it can even be a positive for a community if their disorder or disability is brought to the light more, i’m just saying that you need to do soooo much more research before throwing it onto a character because “oh he does this so he has to have this!!”.
