Exemplification is a theory that explains people understand issues by how people are effected by such issues, and that people have the tendency to treat examples given by the media as typical cases if they have no first-hand experience or prior exposure to the issue. This tendency can be problematic depending on what the issue is, such as how mental illness is often depicted in the media. In the movie Split, the story follows Kevin who is an individual with dissociative identity disorder, otherwise known as D.I.D. Kevin has 23 identities, and eventually a select few lead him to kidnap three young women in preparation for the awakening of one of his dormant identities. The movie depicts Kevin as highly unstable and dangerous and as a result the sequel of the film, Glass, shows Kevin in a mental health high-security facility. While the movie clearly exaggerates certain aspects of D.I.D which most people would understand isn’t typical, it still depicts an individual with the disorder in a negative way which only further stigmatizes the disorder, and may lead people to believe that people with the same disorder, in general, are mentally unstable. As media portrayals like this dominate the narrative of what it is like to have D.I.D, this has other negative implications as “…negative portrayals can have harmful effects, perpetuating the stigma associated with mental illness and reducing the likelihood that those with mental illness will seek help”. In portrayals such as M. Night Shyamalan’s, the ay this disorder is depicted can be particularly memorable as most people do not have first-hand experience with the disorder and there are multiple scenes that are emotionally provocative (Media and Stereotypes: Race and Ethnicity Video Lecture, 13:49). This remains problematic as the exaggerated and often inaccurate depictions are what many people are able to easily recall.