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The recent sighting has me convinced Chris is being monitored. I propose that Chris is wearing his sock under the ankle monitor to remove the "icky" feeling, or whatever the hell tards call it. We know his autism makes him feel uncomfortable with certain materials on his skin, as shown by the padding he uses on the sonichu medallion. He's not wearing the sock over the monitor to hide it like a normal convict would, because he has no shame.
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The first sighting in early May. The blue band is on the right leg. Also note that the socks are pulled tight, showing 100% of the pattern.
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Early June, seen pushing a woman in a wheelchair. Again, there is the band on his right leg. Different socks this time as there is no logo on the back.
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Early July (notice a pattern of when the public outings occur?) There's the blue band on the right ankle.
I'm not saying this is a 24/7 state-monitored situation. This could be a group home rule where everyone going out in public gets a bracelet so they can't get "lost". Whoever it may be, Chris is being watched when he's out in public.
ETA: pic from
@D_Tractor.
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I go back and forth on any monitoring, but your post has me leaning to "its not just socks," based especially on the second photo, in which the blue thing looks pretty 3D.
In any case, I think group/managed home and no internet is probably the very best thing in the world for his mental and physical health, and I honestly wish he could stay there forever, living just as he has been.
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, but the brief glimpses of him give a sense of less distress overall than he always seemed to have before, and I think that it has to be at least somewhat accurate, because he's getting more of a structure than he's ever had - and he's someone who needs it:
- He probably lives in the cleanest place he's lived in his entire life*;
- he probably has to do laundry regularly (discipline and cleanliness);
- his impulse spending (which usually indicates or comes with its own stress) is very limited, both in $ amount and in ease of acquisition;
- he has a budget (and/or may be required to learn about staying within one/being accountable - but whether managed or just imposed, there is a hard stop on it. He can't fall prey to temptation to misuse his or others' money**;
- he's certainly on required medication that is taken/administered on an exact schedule and monitored forh effectiveness and tolerance;
- he's probably set up for basic healthcare and doesn't have to coordinate that himself, just go when/where told; and
- he has live social interaction with people who might not be his friends (and may require things of him that laziness doesn't want but that are good for exactly that reason), but who are also not tricking him and making him confused and angry.
All of those things - the simple basics - are much calmer to anyone's mind, but I would think especially so for a Chris Chan, who has very poor self-management skills, both physically and emotionally.
* I have never lived in a hoard like the Chandler home, but I do know that - especially when in a negative mental space already - living in chaos, or disorder, or unclean environments exacerbates depression, anxiety, and probably a bunch more conditions. And works in a bad downward cycle of depression, overwhelm, and inertia.
** I do believe that at some level, even when knowingly doing wrong things, Chris experienced some kind of stress as a result of doing them, even if not conscious of them and even if his conscious feeling was "not sorry/not guilty." I say I think there was stress because his various bad actions came out of bad and worsening situations that he was aware of to some degree - on one hand it's greed/sloth/immediate gratification desires, but it's also frustration and desperation, awareness of worsening finances and declining liveability of the home (which he complained about a lot).
Tl; dr: being wrangled is the best thing to ever happen to him.
