May 28, 2019
I saw a long post about characters with mental illness and stuff especially villains but I don’t have the attention span for that so here’s my tl;dr
If you don’t have the disorder you probably shouldn’t make a main character have the disorder because you don’t understand their perspective and you’ll probably portray it wrongly or ableistically
Don’t give villains vague mental illnesses; a lot of people with my disorder (borderline personality disorder) are treated awfully because of stigma as a result of this
Don’t use Hollywood versions of mental illness as your research. We call that pop psychology and psych teachers and students hate it because it’s garbage and incorrect
