Olivia's mental disease?

[FR1C4RD0_95]

I played all I wani hug that gator and I start to thinking about Olivia's mental problem.
Mostly about her difficult personality. Did somebody could easily name her mental state?

During all relationship with Inco she have few repeating actions in her behaviour, like: changing mood from good to bad very quickly.

Also this chapter when Ben is explaining her problem with mess she leaving in rooms. Her mind is often... out there far away remaining in silence. In begining I was thinking about autism cause she loves to paint, but art its not quite her passion after all (during some mood she quit it for some time), its more like her way to express feelings and emotions. You can see this when she see and describe Iadakan expressionist art.

And do you think her mental state was from the begining of her life or maybe it was product of her disability and way how she thinks others see her?

[Adventure skaut]

yes, its called high functioning autism

[McJiggy]

Her mental state was clearly because of what happened to her during her freshman year in high school.

[Rаndo]

Kind of reminds me of Fang but in a way less...loud(?) fashion, in that they have no clue what they REALLY want or what they want to be (basically being unable to reach their "self-actualization" stage without the help of others), and are caught on the "esteem" phase of trying to find their place in the world.

I don't think she genuinely has any mental disorders or anything, she seems to be able to banter really well and have good social skills after opening up.

[Metal The Dragon]

her autism is pretty cool

[Just]

I'd say it's just really low self esteem. She doesn't value her work because she thinks 'how could someone like me produce work that is worth anything. It must be because they feel sorry for me'

[KaeWhy]

It's mostly just depression and imposter syndrome - if she were on the spectrum, it would likely show in other ways too.

[Jumthro]

She definitely shows a lot of characteristics of someone being on the ASD spectrum, but her mental conditions can only be theorized since there isn't any other disability mentioned aside from being a paraplegic.

[Jazzratoon]

Autism is not a disease.

[McJiggy]

E4 Olivia doesn't show any signs of any mental impairment.

[Mike Oxlong]

Can we de-romanticize self-diagnosing mental diseases in society please

[KaeWhy]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Toasty:

Can we de-romanticize self-diagnosing mental diseases in society please

Yes, please and thank you. I'M on the spectrum, and I'm not seeing anything like that in Olivia.

[Sash13]

She is definetly NOT on the spectrum lol, she just think people like her art becouse she is disabled, instead of the artistic value. Its really that simple...

[Doom]

It's called Trauma.

I'll add to this. Olivia was incurred a traumatic experience. Picture it as an injury, an emotional injury. Much like a physical injury, it must be treated and mended to heal properly. It isn't a "disease" but rather a now festering injury that she never managed to mend. This obviously caused her a ton of problems much like a physical injury would. The mental "problems" or disease you refer it as, is more so a very tangible injury that Inco manages to treat.

I don't like this long running fad of applying mental problems and diseases to the standard human experience as if it's a badge or label to recall to. It's reductive of human emotion.

[Daraz]

Oprindeligt skrevet af riki_1995:

I played all I wani hug that gator and I start to thinking about Olivia's mental problem.
Mostly about her difficult personality. Did somebody could easily name her mental state?

During all relationship with Inco she have few repeating actions in her behaviour, like: changing mood from good to bad very quickly.

Also this chapter when Ben is explaining her problem with mess she leaving in rooms. Her mind is often... out there far away remaining in silence. In begining I was thinking about autism cause she loves to paint, but art its not quite her passion after all (during some mood she quit it for some time), its more like her way to express feelings and emotions. You can see this when she see and describe Iadakan expressionist art.

And do you think her mental state was from the begining of her life or maybe it was product of her disability and way how she thinks others see her?

I think its more the fact that she has low self esteem issues, making her depressed I guess? and she thinks shes a burden due to her condition, if you actually go through with the best ending and spoilers alert
during the scene where you find Olivia on the ground crawling as it rains and you ask her whats been happening, she kinda attributes her problems during freshman year where Ben tries to get Olivia to take advantage of her condition to rise through the social ladder in the school, by saying hes olivia's friend (Which she was) and than she gets all these nice comments about her art, even writing something in a magazine showing off others art like hers that is meant to get pity out of people, Ben's intentions were to try get Olivia to take advantage of her condition, as someone who also faced hardship due to having psychosis but instead he made her self-aware that most people who praised her in school apart from her family we doing it due to her being wheelchair bound, rather than as a person, making her think she was a burden, even to her own family, she thought that she was taken in out of feeling bad for her, isolating herself and rarely ever talking , its really depressing, there are people like myself (Which I wont name for privacy concerns)who don't want to take advantage of our condition, whether it be a physical, neurological or mental, we do want to be treated like people not differently because of our condition and I understand that in some cases you gonna have to take what you got, but not all of us like to, we're caring beings after all not sociopaths.