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** Many characters with this disorder are portrayed as only have one other personality, but in fact more than half of the people of suffer from it have more than 10 and can have as many as 100 distinct personalities.
** Many characters with this disorder are portrayed as only have one other personality, but in fact more than half of the people of suffer from it have more than 10 and can have as many as 100 distinct personalities.
* Porphyria: A metabolic disorder that turns your skin light-sensitive and your urine deep red. Tends to turn up in the Halloween episodes of medical shows, as the former effect has led to its association with [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampirism]].
* Porphyria: A metabolic disorder that turns your skin light-sensitive and your urine deep red. Tends to turn up in the Halloween episodes of medical shows, as the former effect has led to its association with [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampirism]].
* [[Tourettes Shitcock Syndrome|Tourette's Syndrome]]: Because people swearing randomly is funny, even though less than 10% of people with Tourette's ''actually'' swear uncontrollably.
* [[Tourette's Shitcock Syndrome|Tourette's syndrome]]: Because people swearing randomly is funny, even though less than 10% of people with Tourette's ''actually'' swear uncontrollably.
* [[Asperger's Syndrome]]: The frequency of this disorder is uncertain (estimates from various studies range from 1 in 250 to 1 in 5,000), and diagnoses have increased in recent years, but it's likely not as common as it may appear to be on the internet. Tends to get dredged up by writers who do not realize that genius does not equate Asperger's or vice versa.
* [[Asperger's Syndrome]]: The frequency of this disorder is uncertain (estimates from various studies range from 1 in 250 to 1 in 5,000), and diagnoses have increased in recent years, but it's likely not as common as it may appear to be on the internet. Tends to get dredged up by writers who do not realize that genius does not equate Asperger's or vice versa.
* Amnesia: ''Very'' dramatic, and lets the character start out as ignorant as the audience about what's going on. In comedies, almost any blow to the head causes, and cures, amnesia. Doesn't work ''at all'' the way it's portrayed in fiction.
* Amnesia: ''Very'' dramatic, and lets the character start out as ignorant as the audience about what's going on. In comedies, almost any blow to the head causes, and cures, amnesia. Doesn't work ''at all'' the way it's portrayed in fiction.
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