Anyway, Sam mentioned that they have hired a psychologist expert in DID as a consultant (pretty sure this is new for Season 3 as I have never seen reference to a consultant until recently). Here is what Sam said:

"We also have a psychologist as a consultant who deals with people with Elliot’s specific disorder. We involve her in the writing process a lot in terms of just breaking a story to begin with, to kind of get into his whole point of view. What it ultimately comes down to is that we want the experience of watching the show to feel like what a person suffering from this disorder feels, how that person would experience the events that happen in Elliot’s life. So it’s a combination of bringing a consultant on, as well as just doing a deep dive into the disorder, and the friends and the people that we know with the disorder, and getting those details right. Ultimately it really comes down to showing the details, and showing the anguish of the day-to-day struggle of it."

Many of my responses to several interpretations of what was being depicted on the show were drawn directly from my reading on Dissociative Identity Disorder, so I will be really interested to see if and how the writing of Elliot changes now that an expert psychologist in on the Mr. Robot team.

In particular, I wonder if commentary that I or others made about Elliot's behaviors (from the perspective of the DID research) was wrong because the Mr. Robot writing team were writing somewhere in between Multiple Identity Disorder (psychologists used to believe people with MID had multiple personalities fighting for control of a single body) and Dissociative Identity Disorder (a single consciousness with multiple fractured personality fragments).

I hope there will be a way to figure all of this out. In addition, if I was wrong about any of my statements last season, it certainly wasn't for lack of trying to be accurate. I spent hours and hours reading very dry articles about the legal and medical truth of DID.

I very much appreciate what Sam has done here because so many people throw evidence and expertise out the window because they think Multiple Personality Disorder is more entertaining to depict (M. Night Shyamalan's movie "Split" for instance).

In my opinion, purposefully using diseases real people experience carelessly can contribute to social stereotypes that directly affect people living with these diseases. Sam Esmail is taking this responsibility seriously and I respect that.

3. "That's The Way That I Think We Tell Our Story"

Some really interesting quotes from Sam here:

"That’s the way that I think we tell our story. There is a linear story, but as we fill in the details of the past, the present starts to get reframed. So we have this circular logic to our storytelling. For example in the first season, you are following this relationship between Elliot and Darlene, and then once we reveal the past content of that relationship, everything before it gets reframed. So yes, that’s definitely going to be a device that we use moving forward."

and:

"You’re right to see that contradiction <between Darlene and Elliot's understanding of the abuse they suffered in childhood>, where her <Darlene's> interpretation of the past is very different than Elliot’s. That’s where we play a lot with memory. Elliot obviously has those issues where he is repressing both people and whole swaths of time. Again, this circular storytelling that we’ve embraced, is the reflection of how Elliot starts to remember things. As those pieces come in, you’ll start to see that the present storyline will continually be reframed because of the information we learn."