Yea I have nothing bad to say about Bob. If he had what 15k to blow on some songs to make a retarded kids dream come true and maybe bring some financial solidarity to him that's a good deal and out of all the options Daniel had its possible he could suck at life and be good at music, happens a lot. I mean he wasn't but it could have happened. And if Bob believed any of his Oh I'm Famous bullshit maybe it seemed like a great idea.
I've never thought of this but Daniel is definitely lacking any sense of shame, any normal person would be to ashamed to post half the shit he does, could you imagine recording yourself beating the shit out of your face and saying yeah that's a good look let's post that for the world to see. I really feel lack of parenting has a lot to do with Daniel. Maybe its cuz I grew up at the end of the time parents beat there kids instead of gave them time outs and stupid liberal shit that don't work.
It does make me wonder how much money Bob has spent on Daniel since I guess his grandmother died. Wasn't Bob also supporting him with hotels, money to live on and all that shit to. I wonder if grandma maybe left some money to Bob to dish out to Daniel since she knew he would blow it. I never see Daniel flying a flag, or trying to sing for donations on the street. Most people who have any musical talent when homeless go sit on the street and try to collect tips for singing. playing guitar and stuff.
I work with the disabled a lot. One of the most endearing and infuriating aspects of it is the lack of social-shame or social-awareness.
It really depends on the individual, and their upbringing.
For the ones that had a relatively stable upbringing with no psychotic/schizophrenia aspects they are pure joy to witness as they engage in all the activities that we lost the love for as children with zero hesitation and zero shame.
The infuriating part is when families or others have enabled them to do whatever they want with zero consequence and zero aspect of wider impacting of others. It isn't widely said enough, however many people with lower-age IQs/mental ages have a lack of empathy/very transactional empathy. Daniel definitely has this.
Empathy as a concept is universal to most people, however to expand that empathy one has to mature. Same for shame. Daniel has never done so.
I can't comment on clinical stuff when it comes to psychology of Larson without having actually assessing him myself, however what I will say is this...
One of the saddest aspect of this, beyond anything else, is that Daniel Larson was made worse by his constant stream of buddy trolls and weens. I imagine the death of his grandmother was a desperately confusing time and losing the one true solid attachment in life to then be completely uplifted and have every foundationary aspect of your life gone. It likely wasn't treated especially well considering how poorly America treats mental health conditions, especially those that occur suddenly.
That's realistically the headline for this entire lolcow arc - a disabled boy that never should have been allowed to grow up with his own choice of treatment or non-treatment; institutional housing or not.
I truly still believe that Daniel has very little understanding of why and what he does being wrong. Sex and attraction is just another compulsion. To him it is likely no different than the dopamine boost of playing sports or his autistic obsessions being appeased. It's chemical stimulation.
Add in years of people intentionally feeding in to every fantasy; creating a falsified world of his importance -- which likely was made worse by the fact that Daniel has never had to work or do anything for himself for the majority of his life. Children are, of course, the centres of our world, and we treat the disabled like children when they fall below a certain level - and you have a person very easily convinced of things that legitimately only crazy people could with zero construct of the world around them and the weight of their actions.
Daniel is a cow I am the most morally conflicted with. Truly. Seeing the videos of him as a boy before this was truly heart-breaking. He has done some absolutely awful things. The real-life part of me that deals with people like Daniel all the time can't but just think - just like a lot of cows - that proper treatment and a system designed to give a shit could avoid these things, or at least stop them from being put in situations of being a danger or perversion of society.
I used to sperg hard over how Larson needs the rope, however after seeing quite how awful the weens were, I can't help but at least feel a little sorry for him.
