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yeah, if Chris had CDD he would've never made it through community college. Obviously we don't know the extent of the amount of hand holding chris got at PVCC, but people forget there was a window from 2007 - 2012 where Chris could've still had a normal life if he'd just stayed away from his computer and thrown Sonichu in the trash
Chris' definition maybe, but you may actually know people who are high functioning autistic, but they've been able to adapt and overcome it so well they never figured it out. Tim Burton wasn't suspected off having autism/aspergers until much later in his life when people gave him a description that matched his childhood behavior.
I doubt Chris would have ever had a life that many might consider "close to normal", not after his parents took him and ran to Richmond because they thought the school board wanted to institutionalize Chris due to not understanding the difference of a mental asylum from a school specialized in educating children with severe mental and behavioral issues. Had the Chandlers stayed in Ruckersville and allowed Chris to attend a school specifically equipped to instruct kids like Chris, THEN he might have had a shot at a relatively normal life. But if Chris had just stayed away from the internet and prevented himself getting rooked by trolls, his life likely wouldn't have become the utter shit show it is now. He likely still would have had the same boundary issues with girls, likely still would have had many of the same legal problems, likely still would have had many of the same financial issues, likely still would have had some of the same behavioral outbursts (like hitting Snyder with the van and the Blarms pepper spray incident)...but he probably wouldn't have trooned out, probably wouldn't have thrown himself headlong down the delusion path of Toon Town dimensions/Mutant Hedgehog and Pokémon polyamory/My Little Pony-Jap Cartoon-Video Game-Obsolete Personal Computer goddess like he did. His life likely would have been much happier...at least, until Barb died and he found himself evicted from a foreclosed 14BC and homeless on the streets. Really, after Barb and Bob fled like fugitives with Chris to Richmond to avoid getting him actual help for his condition, Chris never really had any hope of a happy ending for his life. Since that day he was pretty much destined to either jail, homelessness, or an endless cycle of both (like he's facing now).