teaberryblue:

Anon, you have to be trolling, right?  Right?  I have no idea how this question exists, and furthermore how it became a Marvel vs. DC thing.  Just because Marvel’s offering diagnoses for their characters psychological profiles doesn’t mean DC doesn’t have the same variety of character types and mental/emotional differences.  Batman’s entire persona is a reflection of PTSD.  Whether a publisher wants to put a name on it or not doesn’t mean that it’s not there– but any publisher looking seriously at the personality types they’ve ascribed to characters and thinking about how their brains work and how that might be different from other people’s brains, and then acknowledging that it’s a divergence or disability is a step toward better representation of something that always gets overlooked in media.  So, thanks, Tom et al for thinking about these things and recognizing that they’re part of your characters, even in cases where it wasn’t originally intended. 

Secondly, In a given year:

18.4 % of adult Americans exhibit clinical anxiety
6.7 % exhibit depression

In their lifetimes:

Roughly 10% of Americans suffer from an addiction
7.8% of Americans experience PTSD
4% of adult Americans have ADHD and somewhere between 5-11% of children do.
1 in 68 children is born with an autism spectrum disorder
1.1% of adult Americans are schizophrenic
Between 1 and 3% of young adults in psychiatric treatment exhibit symptoms of DID

(sorry for the US-centric statistics, folks, but those were the ones that came up when I googled around)

Three, I’ve suffered from anxiety, depression, and PTSD. People love these characters because they reflect real things that we experience, too.  We know our own personal strength and that that is part of what makes a person strong enough to be a hero in the first place.  So, kindly fuck off.