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- Aug 13, 2018
True. Other than kids at school, family-wise, I don't think there was a cousin or relative his age or a few years older than Chris who would help. The irony was that Bob was present in Chris' life, but let him continue on with liking childish things.The saga with Kim and her boyfriend... when they did “rolling and trolling,” there was somewhat of an attempt and influence to make Chris move in the right direction with his looks. In my TRUE and HONEST experience, you can’t unsperg an autist from the outside in. Gotta start with the attitude you mentioned, inside out.
I’ve mentioned this before but what Chris could have benefitted most was a positive role model that was consistently around and his age. Older brother type influence that could understand and steer him away, the proper way, from the trolling powers that be on the internet. Focusing his autistic obsessiveness away from colorful cartoon characters and the land of make-believe to more positive role models... which he could emulate in looks, personality, etc.
Talking about CWC is all speculative though. I can agree that Chris isn’t “ugly,” per se, and he could of displayed a much better outwards appearance, but there were some things... physical and mental... that were never going to change. Hygiene, for example. Dude shit his pants and likely had fecal incontinence. He also lived in a hoarder hellhole. There’s some shit even the best life coach can’t fix.
I wonder if he didn't live in a hoard, would Chris become less lazy and more conscious with his personal care? I know he accepted that his parents were pack rats and that he admits it was hard to get the hoard out since Barb was in control. Now Chris is very lazy and accepts living in hoarded places because he got used to it. He even followed Barb in buying stuff without much organization, leading him to yell out while searching for a controller in his junk filled room.