i mean that can kinda happen but probably not in the way they were suggesting

that’s a trope that comes up in dumb horror movies featuring villain with DID a lot. which is cool, i love when dumb movies change the cultural perception of a mental illness :yes-honey-left:

The only thing that I was skeptical of was one personality having color blindness but not others, because I thought that was a physical deficiency.

oh fuck

well the good news is im such a cool communist the cia thought i was enough of a threat to implant fake, very specific memories into me :comfy-cool:

Brace [1:27:07]: If they’re mind controlling Paul [Bonacci], what are they mind controlling him to do? Because it seems like they just mind controlled him to be like a guy who lives like a fucked up shitty life.

Nick: Well the thing about it is—my understanding of mind control is [that] there has to be like—when you get the latest operating system there has to be updates, and if there isn’t that then the mind control starts disintegrating—you have to kind of be up on it. Add ultimately you’ve done a lot of horrific stuff to this individual, and ultimately when their alters disintegrate they’re ultimately going to be someone that’s very very damaged.

He’s not saying that people were literally programmed like computers. He was explaining how a person who was presumably once a useful intelligence asset could become psychologically damaged and dysfunctional after being discarded by the agency, and he made an analogy to a Windows computer that badly needs updates (because he probably has a boomer-brain understanding of computers). I think a better analogy would be “Paul had a very fragile psyche and he required constant conditioning by his handlers. When they abandoned him, he broke down.”

another book

Was it Programmed to Kill?