#WHO ARE BOTH MURDERERS... WITH GLARING UNLOVELY TRAUMA ISSUES...

[gloriousmonsters]

when technically you and other fans agree on a character's mental health in general premise but they only ever get written with the more sympathetic traits of whatever diagnosis... not hate and hell but like. mild dislike and faintly irritating purgatory on the planet earth

#vic talks #there's also the thing of 'I decided this character has x mental illness so i'm going to write them like they're undertaking a personal #challenge to carefully check off the symptoms in the dsm' #which isn't the same but is also irritating as hell wait no purgatory #BONUS ROUND when a character actually gets diagnosed in fic and the author clearly read a psychology today article and took it as gospel #there's a fic where a character gets diagnosed w/ASPD #(which was so stupid i looked up the dsm to confirm that yeah even if you go off the dsm He Does Not Fucking Have That PD) #and they're like. going 'it's so hard to live with a sociopath you two should get counseling too :(' to his besties #WHO ARE BOTH MURDERERS... WITH GLARING UNLOVELY TRAUMA ISSUES... #and assigned-aspd-bc-he-likes-to-fight boy is literally like. the Cute/Annoying Little Brother of the group #this is possibly the silliest time to apply your 'surviving a cluster b loved one oh god it's so horrible' bullshit #that you found by reading an article entitled 'can a sociopath improve through therapy?' or smth #anyway. this has been bitchin' and complainin' hour with vic i'll see you next week