He has psychosis or delusions That's canon itās said multiple times by multiple characters. Like the "Grian is crazy/Taurtis" arc is him having an episode. When I say he's disabled coded and not disabled canonically it's because the writers don't say directly that he is disabled, but instead of give him canonical mental episodes and symptoms instead. He's canonically been in a psych ward before and it's implied that he was involuntarily committed. As when this is said to him during Ep#52
"I'm not going to the insane asylum, I'm not going back there.ā
This arc and everything that follows (every little thing matters in this series matters take a part out and it falls apart) is not possible without him having psychosis/ extreme delusions.
Some headcanon/theorize that he has bpd due to him having symptoms and the music video.
He does not have a canon disability but he canonically has delusions. (said multiple times about him.)
It's not him being portrayed as a bad person that I have a problem with, I do that to!
It is him being portrayed as the āsecretā villain of the story/worst person, when there are LITERALLY PEDOPHILES in this series!
It is the fact that the scene where he is literally having a Delusional meltdown is constantly used to be proving that he is the "evil" one, Itās people keep acting like he is aware that grian isn't actually turtles
Using that reason is very odd when he's done a lot worse in other episodes.
The issue is that Sam's mental illness is a lot more unconventional then Grain's, so Sam is portrayed as evil while Grian/Taurtis is portrayed as good/woobyfed. He is treated differently because of his psychosis/ delusions. He as treated as more evil due to it.
When you compare how he is treated to other characters, it become stigmatizing as Sam has a disability (delusions) where Grian and Taurtis do not.(Taurtis is disabled but it's ignored and not treated the same aka evil.) People think that they hates/ fear Sam after yhs when Tokyo soul disputes that.
In this episode alone the adults who are supposed to be taking care of them all fed in to his delusions, shot him and tried to put him in a pit!?!? All instead of actually getting him the mental help that he needs during a delusional episode. It's also implied (He entered during the school day and is home by early morning before the sun rises.) that he stays the night in the prison rocking back and forth. It's unclear if anyone checks on him.
Sam is portrayed as pure evil and "crazy" while Grian and Taurtis get to be mentally ill, despite also doing bad things and being bad people!
Really bad example art ā¤µļø
TLDR: portraying the one character with canon delusions in the main cast as evil to due to them is weird and ableist. Especially when the other bad people in the story get treated as can do no wrong.
Sam and Taurtis are disabled kings and bad people at the same and more people need to acknowledge that. Grian is also a bad person.
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