BoM/TWS Message Forum

Random question and this may have come up somewhere in BoM or TWS but do the mental bands also copy things like mental disorders or neurodivergincies? Let's say Will copies someone who is either autistic or schizophrenic and puts their mask on. Does he then run the risk of having to deal with their autism or schizophrenia? I assume the answer is yes given the Maria branch if you subscribe to the idea that Maria has something (some kind of ADD or whatever) that causes her weird thought patterns but I figure it's best to get it clarified.

The same goes with some physical disorders. I know that Shelly Nolan is diabetic and Alexis Lachance has a heart murmur but does the mask copy Shelly's diabetes or Alexis' heart murmur? Or if someone had the flu, would their sick state be what's copied? Obviously if someone was, say, missing a finger then the mask would copy that. But would "internal" things like that be copied as well? I assume the answer is possibly no considering that IIRC someone in a mask can't either get someone pregnant or get pregnant themselves.