We at the Unpuzzled Project do not, cannot, and will not support any film that takes neurodivergence (in this case Dissociative Identity Disorder and other forms of multiplicity) and uses it as a trope to demonize characters, thereby exploiting the public’s fear of neurodivergence and promote stigma and stereotypes about neurodivergent people. We invite you to also pledge to not support the film “Split” in any way. Send a message to the film industry that discrimination doesn’t pay and we refuse to continue spreading the harmful messages such discrimination promotes.
As someone with a dissociative disorder and someone who is friends with members of multiple systems, this is really important to me. The media persists in demonising people who are often the victims of horrenous abuse. Sometimes this is the cause of their multiplicity, sometimes they are abused BECAUSE they are multiple. Often it’s both. But every time something like this gets made, the world is made more dangerous for those who live with dissociation and/or are multiple. People die. This is not an exaggeration. Like members of any marginalised group, hatespeech and false media makes the general population see them as other, as lesser, as a dangerous element. Don’t buy into the lie. Don’t become an aggressor. Don’t watch Split.
knitting in the dark 