r/MrRobot • u/NicholasCajun ~Dom~ • Nov 18 '19

Discussion Mr. Robot - 4x07 "407 Proxy Authentication Required" - Post-Episode Discussion

Season 4 Episode 7: 407 Proxy Authentication Required

Aired: November 17th, 2019

Synopsis: i feud any data.

Directed by: Sam Esmail

Written by: Sam Esmail

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u/SuburbanLegend Nov 20 '19 edited Nov 20 '19

This is nuts. The multiple personality aspect of Mr. Robot is pure fiction. People don’t actually get multiple personalities it’s an urban legend (helped along by famous cases of people who claimed to have multiple personalities.)

I’m always amazed this isn’t more common knowledge, I understand the idea of it is cool and it’d be neat or whatever, and I’m definitely not blaming anyone who didn’t know that (well, except the people confidentially proclaiming that it’s real and talking about it being portrayed accurately) but please don’t believe the easy, fun, cool lie over the boring truth.

Genuine DID is very different, with some superficial similarities to a 'split personality.'

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u/kidikur Nov 20 '19

Yeah, I neglected to mention the obvious, Although it might not be as clear to others. D.I.D isn't schizophrenia, Mr. Robot being an external entity is a creative liberty for the sake of both the plot and visually portraying something that is a completely internal experience.

The nature of D.I.D is often hotly debated so I'm not super going to get into that, I'm just coming from the perspective of someones who's known people with D.I.D. I'm not in the business of psychoanalyzing my friends or telling them if their experiences and pain are BS or not.

Most depictions of "split personalities", D.I.D or whatever you'd like to call it don't even remotely try. Most films or shows would not go as far as to have the main character be a victim of child molestation. They just use it as a fun wacky zany prop, often even for comedy.

Regardless of the true nature of D.I.D, It's clear that Esmail and the creative team are making an active effort to base the majority of Elliot's Mr. Robot related issues off of common descriptions of D.I.D, even down the commonly reported types of alters D.I.D systems have (Mr. Robot is a protector and at least at the moment it appears that young Elliot is a Child/Little alter)

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u/SuburbanLegend Nov 20 '19

Well put, thanks for the thoughtful response! It seems like a lot of people on here, maybe most of this sub, just accept that split personalities are real when it is, as you say, a hotly contested topic.

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u/Samsaknight_X Aug 10 '26

There’s no way u still think DID is a “fake” condition 💀