User blog comment:Shadowshroom/Character:Mike/@comment-5221692-20151228012534/@comment-5221692-20151228071131

 "LGBT people only make up a miniscule part of the population"

... Do you live under a rock? Again, we deserve our visibility and representation.

"If Fresh TV knew in advance that Mike (and Laurie) would be hated by the older fandom, they wouldn't have made him, but they didn't."

Yeah, and that's what sucks. Boo on Fresh. That is an accurate statement.

"I agree with Fresh TV, Mike is a fictional character and his portrayal as a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder is also fictional"

Then they shouldn't have labeled it as the legitimate name for the dissorder. Mike was litteraly labeled "The Multiple Personality Dissorder". It was his entire label. Fresh was wrong. And if you agree with them, then you're wrong too.

"You're really gonna hate me for this but you guys remind me of a certain well known fanfic author who nagged Fresh TV to show his favourite character/self-insert more."

Glad you're thinking about me. Don't care.

Listen, Truteal. "Just because you want something doesn't mean you'll get it". Ok this isn't something we want it's something we deserve. Mentally ill people to not deserve to be treated like a joke or means to be dehumanized. LGBT people deserve representation. This isn't a petty want like someone wanting to insert their OC into a series. Your comparison is completely irrelevant to this kind of topic.

'''Fiction impacts reality. '''If fiction doesn't mean sh**, as you claim, then why do YOU want to defend Mike so badly?

As someone who experiences a mental dissorder, I see what's wrong with Mike. His time on the show hurt the visibility of DID, but he did a disservice to mental illnesses in general.

The series outright has his disorder be able to be TURNED OFF if he tries hard enough. How do you not see the horrible implications of this? IF you're neurotypical, then it's because you don't live the life of those who are truly affected by what Mike's making fun of, so it's astoundingly easy for you to look the other way and just not care. But if you think you have ANY right to tell others that they shouldn't care either, then do us all a favor and crawl back under your rock and don't come out.

Curing mental illness is not just illogical, it's a narrative that writes it off as something inherently bad, like Mike could not live happily without being neurotypical.

Mike is an awful character.