#everyone's a hashtag freak and loves the crazy maniac guy until he doesn't play into their watered down idea of mental illness

[misterxsamsa]

I'll see people delivering so-called unpopular opinions, so let me give you a truly controversial one to chew upon.

I'm kinda tired of people portraying Johnny's mental health and personality in an extremely subdued and sanitized way. This is coming from someone with genuine stigmatized mental illness. He's very blatantly got ASPD and a psychotic mood disorder, yet people will constantly leave that out of fanon, and never portray him acting out of that in an unpalatable way.

I'll see people romanticizing every other aspect of his dysfunction, yet that always gets conveniently left out. It's almost as if people will see the severely mentally ill as an object of fascination in fiction, but completely ignore their experiences outside of that. I know he's the villain of his story, but his disorders aren't inherently a part of that. If you're all giddy about Johnny, I want you to keep that same energy for people with personality disorders, and psychosis, and violent thoughts in real life.