User blog comment:Wattamack4/Something I really just want to get off my chest/@comment-4618045-20140104233044

I understand that Mike's Dissociative Identity Disorder is offensive, but I think it's made far worse considering the fact that it's on a kids show. I can understand Ezekiel's stereotype as a Canadian because he was created at a time where Total Drama was meant for teenagers and even that wasn't that bad. But then the writers decided to pander to younger audiences. And yet they're introducing this very serious mental illness to kids ten and under.

I truly am a person who is mostly against censorhip and likes to promote free speech and press, but this MINDLESS representation of a serious issue is how you're going to teach it to KIDS?!

Kids will probably see Mike and think "I wish I had Multiple Personality Disorder too!" and they'll start to imitate without being aware of what causes this and what the people who have it have to go through because of it. Sure their parents could talk to them about it, but it'd be a pretty awkward discussion to be giving an eight year old.

And it would probably be worse for a kid who knows somebody who has DID or even has it themself. This especially becomes key in the All Stars finale when Mike and the others destroy Malejandro (yes, that's what I like to call him). Kids in the group I just mentioned will think that either themselves or the loved one who has DID can just wash away their disorder just at the push of a button and that it's no more than just a minor inconveinence in one's life.

That's the problem with Mike (in addition to him being incredibly bland and annoying). It's not the portrayal itself, but it's the fact that they're showing it to kids of all people.