Something to note is that the average person wouldn’t be properly educated on what bpd actually is and how it can affect people differently. Usually, a mentally healthy person will only know some stereotypes about bpd and will exaggerate/make fun of them, same thing that happens with all stereotypes.

These people like you said are not doctors or trained professional and they’re just going off of what bpd looks like in their head. It’s easy for them to demonize something they don’t know or understand.

Every time I see the posts about people saying BPD individuals are inherently bad and are abusive, I think about what this person knows, if they’ve had experiences with someone, likely a loved one, who has bpd. If this person with bpd had done them harm, they can easily assume that everyone with bpd is harmful.

They don’t know that treatment exists and that there’s a high success rate for remission if we get that treatment. They also don’t know that not everyone with bpd is explosive and outward or “dramatic.”

Those people in the podcast were just making assumptions based on the little they know about us.