Ableism and research and stuff
So, despite calling him crazy, this muse actually resembles any actual diagnosis of mental illness hardly at all. This is not due to ignorance; I just barely escaped a psychology major. Charles doesn't fit any real mental disorder because he doesn't have one.
What he has is a way of experiencing the world that is utterly skewed by his powers and the way they went haywire in response to other people's mental trauma. In true Space Whale Aesop fashion, this is something that never could happen, because it revolves around telepathy, not neurology. He will display borrowed/absorbed symptoms of real mental illnesses on occasion, particularly aphasia (difficulty remembering particular/relevant words) because his telepathic experience is frequently transverbal, but they don't affect him on the same level that those difficulties would affect someone in RL. Beyond extrapolating from my headcanon on broken telepathy, I'm playing this largely by ear and Rule of Fun, because that's why I'm RPing at all.
On a related note, Charles will frequently use derogatory words/language to refer to his own disconnect from reality, because he is from the sixties, and that's what he's heard and picked up from everyone around him. It does not reflect my views on the mentally ill.
With all that said, if my portrayal is offensive or hurtful to you in any way, PLEASE let me know. I can't promise to be perfect, but I do promise not to attack you for bringing things to my attention so I can try to fix them.
What he has is a way of experiencing the world that is utterly skewed by his powers and the way they went haywire in response to other people's mental trauma. In true Space Whale Aesop fashion, this is something that never could happen, because it revolves around telepathy, not neurology. He will display borrowed/absorbed symptoms of real mental illnesses on occasion, particularly aphasia (difficulty remembering particular/relevant words) because his telepathic experience is frequently transverbal, but they don't affect him on the same level that those difficulties would affect someone in RL. Beyond extrapolating from my headcanon on broken telepathy, I'm playing this largely by ear and Rule of Fun, because that's why I'm RPing at all.
On a related note, Charles will frequently use derogatory words/language to refer to his own disconnect from reality, because he is from the sixties, and that's what he's heard and picked up from everyone around him. It does not reflect my views on the mentally ill.
With all that said, if my portrayal is offensive or hurtful to you in any way, PLEASE let me know. I can't promise to be perfect, but I do promise not to attack you for bringing things to my attention so I can try to fix them.