CWC Pics

[Konstantinos]

I realize this has probably been discussed to death before many times but I will never not be confounded by the fact that Borb let Chris walk around looking like that. I get that they think their son is doomed to failure and everything but you think they would try to mask that fact at the very least. The greasy hair, the perpetual dirt stache, the Dahmer glasses, the Goodwill clown shirt and that goddamn all just scream "I have brain problems." I just find it difficult to believe that Bob and Barb were so lazy and negligent that they couldn't even be bothered to make Chris look like a normal person.

 

[mst3kluv]

"Eh, he's speaking and walking so fuck it." ~Borb on parenting

 

[Silver]

I have great empathy for all people involved in these situations, but don't have much patience for people immersed in the 'community' that expect the world to stop for them, or to accept behavior that would be unacceptable in a person without whichever disability. Most people are willing to accommodate them as much as they can, but at some point the parents or caretakers need to realize they are unfairly impacting the people around them and shouldn't expect people to put up with it just because their child has special needs.

The way I see it, if a mentally challenged person is capable of understanding that their acts aren't normal, then they shouldn't be given as much sympathy. But lots of times, autistic people aren't aware of the differences between the way they act and the way others act (case in point: it took me until I was fourteen to realize that when someone else asks "How are you", they typically expect some sort of abstract word and then the other person to say "How are you" right back).

 

[sparklemilhouse]

He's STILL living the dream. The LEGO dream.

He always looks like he's been blubbering in these teen photos.
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I will never understand why Chris chose those glasses. I think Bob chose them, he was so out of touch with modern things it would make sense to choose something that was popular in the late 80s. I also noticed that Borb stopped dressing Chris up like a kid by the time he got to high school. It was all polos, rugby, and kahkis after that.

 

[MysticMisty]

Maybe they chose them because they're the cheapest frames available. It'd be like Barb 'n Bob to teach Chris to choose literally the cheapest thing available instead of paying even just a little more for something more stylish (not to mention higher quality and all that).

Also why do mens glasses have that weird thing along the top? It doesn't seem comfortable at all and womens glasses lack them.

 

[theobservdr]

I am unsure if its the style but of course they look like old peoples glasses.

 

[___]

I am unsure if its the style but of course they look like old peoples glasses.

They were a popular style of glasses in the early 90s. Lots of people had them, but after Jeffery Dahmer was busted people started calling them "Dahmer Glasses" or "Serial Killer Glasses"

 

[TOOTBLAN]

This reminds me of another anecdote. I recently had an article about me getting the job I wanted out of Uni published in a disability magazine. When I went to visit my mother who lives over in Victoria she told me about another autistic kid who I vaguely remember. She told me that his mother brought him over to my place and she saw me looking at books (not reading them, just looking at the covers). Then his mother said that I shouldn't be looking at books, I should be trying to socialise with other kids my age because apparently that's what she has been told by other people regarding how to raise a kid like him. But my mother let me carry on doing what I was doing at that age. I shudder to think what would have happened if my mother had followed that woman's advice.

 

[Konstantinos]

I honestly thought that was a picture of Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys for a second.

Upon examining this picture more, I noticed that there's an uncanny resemblance between Dahmer and Chris. They've both got fairly serious mental health problems, they both have those terrible glasses, they both had terrible child hoods, they're both creepy perverts and they both have weird-looking blond hair.

 

[___]

I honestly thought that was a picture of Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys for a second.

Upon examining this picture more, I noticed that there's an uncanny resemblance between Dahmer and Chris. They've both got fairly serious mental health problems, they both have those terrible glasses, they both had terrible child hoods, they're both creepy perverts and they both have weird-looking blond hair.

Neither one of them have blond hair. That's light brown hair. Random google image pic of actual blond hair:

lulz, but anyway Chris and Dahmer are so different

 

[The Knife]

I have great empathy for all people involved in these situations, but don't have much patience for people immersed in the 'community' that expect the world to stop for them, or to accept behavior that would be unacceptable in a person without whichever disability. Most people are willing to accommodate them as much as they can, but at some point the parents or caretakers need to realize they are unfairly impacting the people around them and shouldn't expect people to put up with it just because their child has special needs.

Regarding CWC, I have little sympathy for his plight. He has been deemed capable of driving a car, was able to earn an Associate's degree (they won't mainstream you through that like they would in high school), and is able to figure out relatively intricate computer programs for video games and the internet. He is definitely aware of his behavior and what is right and wrong. As far as his hardships, a lot more people have gone through a lot worse experiences in their lives and are fully functioning adults.

I had an uncle who was severely mentally challenged and probably autistic, although this was back in the day when autism wasn't as easy to diagnose. I'd guess he had a mental age of about six. Like Chris, he lived in his little room full of toys. He collected Dukes of Hazzard and A-Team action figures (which kind of dates this story) and was meticulous about arranging them in perfect little scenes from that week's episode and leaving them there until the next episode aired. He lived at home all his life, and my very elderly nan took care of him. I don't think social services was ever even an option; my nan was just a very old, very determined lady who was brought up with the mindset that whatever came out of your uterus was your responsibility and you did the best you could. Bringing in outside help or sending him away would have been like admitting failure, I think.

But yeah: my uncle was basically this 250-pound, six-foot six-year-old that cowered and burst into tears if my five-foot-nothing birdboned nan scolded him. I think she got through it by treating him like nothing more or less than a six-year-old: you don't expect much of a six-year-old, but you do expect some things. She figured out what he was capable of, made him do those things, and didn't ask much more of him.

On the one hand, I don't blame any family for recognizing their limitations and saying yo, I can't do this anymore, I'm not capable, we need help. On the other hand, I think of cases like Chris and families like people have been describing here who essentially want the world to accommodate itself to their kid and don't even attempt to help their mentally challenged children accommodate their behavior to the world, and compare them to my nan who did so much with someone who had so very little. I think it's sad, and a gross underestimation of your child's potential as a human being, to just let them run roughshod through life without the basic training you'd give a cocker spaniel simply because you think they can't handle anything better. Dude, it's your kid. Maybe this isn't what you hoped parenthood would be, maybe they'll never become the little rocket sciencist you wanted, but with a very little effort on your part you could help them become, if nothing else, a decent companion.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

Hahahaha that picture is from "CoolMensHair.com"

 

[Konstantinos]

I don't know why I thought that Dahmer had blonde hair for a second there. I guess I'm just .

Also, the hair color in that picture does not look like a natural blond. Methinks that guy got his hair dyed. Then again, that might just be the the fact that its a blurry photo.

Ok, so I've got content:

Spoiler: Every time I think I've seen the most retarded picture of Chris...

Spoiler: I can only speculate what Chris had in mind when he was building this.

That dirt stache is so irritating and omnipresent in all of these old pictures. I would almost say that it's more distracting than his clown shirts and maybe on the same level of hideosity as the .

 

[milkshark]

I don't know why I thought that Dahmer had blonde hair for a second there. I guess I'm just .

Also, the hair color in that picture does not look like a natural blond. Methinks that guy got his hair dyed. Then again, that might just be the the fact that its a blurry photo.

Ok, so I've got content:

Spoiler: Every time I think I've seen the most retarded picture of Chris...

Spoiler: I can only speculate what Chris had in mind when he was building this.

That dirt stache is so irritating and omnipresent in all of these old pictures. I would almost say that it's more distracting than his clown shirts and maybe on the same level of hideosity as the .

He's lazy as fuck. That nasty 'stache look on young teen boys is the worst. They can't grow a proper one yet or they're just too lazy to shave it off. I felt badass at 14 when I started shaving my thin moustache off. Strangely he seems to shave obsessively as an adult. I rarely have seen any documented photos of adult Chris with any sort of moustache.

 

[butt in trouble]

I realize this has probably been discussed to death before many times but I will never not be confounded by the fact that Borb let Chris walk around looking like that. I get that they think their son is doomed to failure and everything but you think they would try to mask that fact at the very least. The greasy hair, the perpetual dirt stache, the Dahmer glasses, the Goodwill clown shirt and that goddamn all just scream "I have brain problems." I just find it difficult to believe that Bob and Barb were so lazy and negligent that they couldn't even be bothered to make Chris look like a normal person.

My theory has been that Barb let Chris dress that way so people would specifically recognize that he is mentally disabled and maybe show him a bit more patience when he acts like an idiot in public. There's little doubt that sporting the tard look probably saved Chris from getting his ass kicked on many occasions though he probably doesn't even realize it.

 

[milkshark]

My theory has been that Barb let Chris dress that way so people would specifically recognize that he is mentally disabled and maybe show him a bit more patience when he acts like an idiot in public. There's little doubt that sporting the tard look probably saved Chris from getting his ass kicked on many occasions though he probably doesn't even realize it.

Yeah they specifically dress special people in identifying clothes. Things like large graphic Mickey Mouse shirts. It's a lot like a warning signal for public interactions. I get it, but Chris wanted to be capable of more than that. His cloistered development made his Love Quest a hell of a lot harder, and ultimately futile.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

My theory has been that Barb let Chris dress that way so people would specifically recognize that he is mentally disabled and maybe show him a bit more patience when he acts like an idiot in public. There's little doubt that sporting the tard look probably saved Chris from getting his ass kicked on many occasions though he probably doesn't even realize it.

I think Barb just didn't care one way or the other. She's lazy and imagine how easy it'd be to shop for someone who has no fashion sense. Normally kids develop an interest in wanting to look good in order to fit in better. Chris is oblivious on how to do this and both of his parents were from different generations. Barb also babies the hell out of Chris so if she did consider Chris while shopping I'd imagine it'd be what she thought would look "cute" on Chris. I'm sure Barb thought he looked adorable in Goodwill shirts that looked like they were from generic sitcoms in the late 80's.

 

[mst3kluv]

My God...DAMN IT, BARB!

 

[Artard]

My theory has been that Barb let Chris dress that way so people would specifically recognize that he is mentally disabled and maybe show him a bit more patience when he acts like an idiot in public. There's little doubt that sporting the tard look probably saved Chris from getting his ass kicked on many occasions though he probably doesn't even realize it.

I think that's why he merely gets "banned" from many establishments. Clearly his lawyer saw the wisdom in allowing the judge to believe that Chris was an "adult autistic child". Chris may have hated that, but oddly that may have just "sold" the judge on the notion even more. I'd probably say the same thing.

My God...DAMN IT, BARB!

I never actually saw the cover of Yep I'm On TV before.

Spoiler: twentyfive fucking years old

 

[sparklemilhouse]

My God...DAMN IT, BARB!

Aw you sullied the image of my Urkel