It was said that people with multiple personality disorder had many different handwriting styles, one for each personality, as unique as each individual, even though all the writing came from the same body.
Even so, there were ways to tell them apart. The members of "Young England" used the same kind of paper, and the ink colors were more or less alike. Everyone had different habits; they could not all have bought their paper and ink from the same place.
Among so many personalities, some were manic and intellectually impaired, while others, like the later John Freeman, were exceptionally intelligent and quick to learn. But few people now bothered to investigate his story, unless they were like her and the old bat, digging out case files that had gathered dust for years.
In Joker's story, Arthur went to the psychiatric hospital to look for his own records, to confirm one thing: whether he had been adopted.
When he put his mother into the ambulance, the paramedic asked him how long it had been since he last visited her.
It was normal for children not to live with their parents after growing up. What people found harder to accept was an adult still living with his mother, especially a man, who would easily draw judgmental looks.
Arthur was taking care of his mother, but people would not care about such "details."
Under Ray's influence, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire established a new rule in 1869. If a homicide was the product of the defendant's mental illness, then when deciding whether he should be found "not guilty by reason of insanity," the jury should not consider the "right-and-wrong test," whether he suffered from delusions, or whether the murder had been planned and carried out with calculation or cunning. They were only