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I am currently reading The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-city Neighborhood, by David Simon and Edward Burns. Yes, the guys who did The Wire before The Wire. This book is nonfiction. The book is very good, although - there is a lot of detail. Human memory doesn't usually work like that. It makes me wonder if bits were made up - and how the writers handled it when they were presented with contradicting stories.

I'm watching The Boy and the Heron. Not as weird as Ponyo, but still pretty weird.

I'm also continually rewatching the scene between L and Light in the rain in the 25th episode of Death Note.

I'm making my way up to the present day in the You're Wrong About podcast. I don't think it's as good as it was before Michael Hobbes left, but I am still enjoying it. The episode I'm listening to now is on Balloonfest ‘86, an event I had never heard of before.

Date: 2024-10-22 12:03 pm (UTC)
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I can see that with the Multiple Personality Disorder episode, but my read on it was that they didn't use the term DID precisely because they weren't actually discussing DID as it exists, but people's previous understanding of MPD and what they thought it was then. More clarity on that would've helped, but for me that made sense, especially as part of the focus the podcast often has on the 80s-90s, the Satanic Panic, and books that changed the conversation around disorders or traumas. But like I say I do see why it bothered you!

Date: 2024-10-22 12:22 pm (UTC)
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Hey, I appreciate your perspective! Yeah, that's a very good point. You might be right that that's exactly why they didn't use the accurate term, even if more clarity would have helped. They were focused more on what people did call MPD, which really isn't what DID truly is. Especially as you point out, the focus is often on 80s-90s moral panics and conspiracy theories.

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