#frankly i would argue if it would even be accurate to describe whatever the demigods have to adhd and dyslexia

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Agreed. Though I am a bit happy that they didn't drag adhd and dyslexia explicitly into the show?

(woops, this got... long. none of this was said against you, op, i agree with your post that making the show deal with ableism against schizophrenia but doing that by making mist-hidden monsters stand-ins for hallucinations or delusions is not the move the writers thought it was, and, in my opinion, that crude and forced comparison between those things is really similar to how RR tried to represent ADHD and dyslexia in the books whilst also claiming that they were basically superpowers to demigods with the only apparent downsides being forgetting things occasionally, not being able to sit still, and having trouble spelling things. there's a lot more to these disabilities that the people trying to write them don't know and it shows.)

For 2005, PJO was good, in the intent to show that ADHD and dyslexia weren't just made up to excuse laziness or something someone chose to have and rather than simply being born that way. But that's where the good kinda ends. RR basically just took his son's symptoms and slapped them onto every single demigod (except for Frank for some reason) and called it a day.

Any level of research into ADHD or dyslexia will tell you that that's not how that works, and then you still have to deal with the fact that it's not really affecting the characters at all. (I am NOT talking about the stupid demigod power thing. Mental disabilities do not give people superpowers). We occasionally get a reminder of "oh, I have adhd so I can't sit still and I lose pencils a lot" or "I can't read that sign" or whatever but it's always done in passing. It doesn't have a lasting effect at all on these characters.

And going back to the whole superpower thing, I rarely see anyone talk about how weird it is that this fandom talks about ADHD and dyslexia like they are actual powers. Read how they're described in the damn wiki:

If I removed the context of PJO from this, would you think that these descriptions were a dead-ringer for ADHD and dyslexia? (Also, large aside, the fuck do you mean "divine ancient greek" and "mortal languages"? What the fuck do you think the Ancient Greeks spoke? Are they not mortals anymore or something?)

I truly think that it would have been better to remove the characters being ADHD and dyslexic from them being demigods. If something were written now that had to excuse including mental disability by intrinsically linking it to that character being supernatural or divine in nature, I would not be surprised to see people calling it out. I don't see why we shouldn't with something that is still in the media zeitgeist, even if it was written nearly 19 years ago.

And that isn't nearly everything. I could write freaking essays about this. Why is it that every demigod (except Frank for whatever the fuck reason) knows that they have ADHD and dyslexia? How did they get diagnosed? Percy knew before he knew he was a demigod yes, but that's not going to be the same for every demigod, especially AFAB demigods during the 2000s and 2010s. Why the hell did RR think it was okay to say "oh medicine is bad and monsters are the ones who try to force them on you to get rid of your superpowers" in the first few chapters of the freaking first book? And why the hell does Frank, despite everyone claiming before that every demigod has fucking ADHD and dyslexia not have fucking ADHD and dyslexia??? And why the hell did RR think that it was okay to follow up with him saying "wow, adhd and dyslexia is so cool, i wish i had them!"

I would slam my head against a wall if I didn't have a headache already from this.

Things i hate about the PJO show

I bet you thought this was gonna be a joke about how i love this show and actually don't hate it.

But i want to murder whoever did lightning. Why is the only thing i can see of Annabeth her jacket and not her face? And Grover just isn't there Like it's not even racism cause half of the time you can't see Percy.

Also is it schizo rep instead of dyslexic adhd rep now? because if so, it's a very interesting stance. I.e. like it shows the problems with ableism that people with schizophrenia face. But at the same time, you know making the demigods see things that are "really" there but people don't believe them, is ... iffy