User blog comment:ZeoSpark/Dave or Mike?/@comment-21325751-20140716205350/@comment-1376932-20140716213151

"I'm sorry TDIFan13, I stopped reading when you said Total Drama was trying to make Mike's mental disorder accurately and to portray it as a serious thing."

But it was trying to portray it accurately? And it was supposed to be a serious thing (that is, before TDRI)? Have you not been watching this show?

The writers clearly weren't intending to offend people, that wasn't their intention. They were trying to give us a story about a boy with DID but then completely forgot to do any research on the disorder and just gave us what they thought DID was, what mainstream media has made it out to be.

It was supposed to be taken seriously in the sense that we were supposed to feel for Mike. We were supposed to root this character on through all his hardships, we were supposed to feel bad that he had this disorder, and we were supposed to want him to overcome it. It wasn't portrayed seriously in the sense that Mike had realistic alters or realistic dissociation, that's not what I'm saying.

But you could tell that the writers were actually trying to not turn it into a complete joke before TDAS (TDRI was still bad, just not as bad; the worst part of TDRI was the fact that all of Mike's alters were intended to be "quirky" and "fun", then the "power of love" eventually helped him control them). The second Mike pressed the reset button, that's when everyone flipped out. That is perhaps the single most offensive thing about Mike's disorder and I'm so disgusted that people are trying to defend it.