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- Oct 11, 2017
Yeah, based on his demeanor as he's reacted to these "revelations" about Rosechu having a dick, I believe he believes in this nonsense. Someone's probably feeding him information about Rosechu and this information is distressing him.
However, normally when someone tries to tell him shit he doesn't like, he'll just overrule them. "Chris, I'm rosechu and I have a penis!" "hmm, yeh, no, I have a psychic connection* with Rosechu and she says no" - how he'd normally react.
* Autism for "childish imagination"
That Chris is accepting this information and announcing it to the public, and as he's doing so, he's very cranky, that leads me to believe he actually believes this to some degree.
We're in fascinating (and franky, scary) new territory.
It's not about how shocking or ridiculous the claims are.
Like, Chris naturally doesn't have very good powers of discernment. But he does have some. He does get suspicious when things get a little too wild. But for years, trolls have slapped Chris' hand every time he even tried to exercise that discernment. We taught him that trying to distinguish things based on a spectrum of ridiculousness, and responding with an appropriate level of critique, was a losing game. It really made Chris worse. We trained Chris to not trust his (admittedly, poorer than average) instincts, because "fuck you for trying to evade our trolling, Chris".
So Chris switched tactics. Chris then decided that he'd put up a really strong defense, but once you penetrate that defense, he'll trust you 100%. Additionally, he farmed off vetting of suspicious content to friends he trusted. We also fucked with that system.
So yeah, if you penetrate his initial defenses, at this point, Chris will believe literally anything, including that he's talking to an alternate reality version of himself.
I find it amazing how we've seen Chris evolve from this seemingly naive individual with autism who had a strange out look on the world to someone whose mind is so broken he honestly believes that he can turn himself into a woman with music and thinks he rules over this fictional land which he perceives as truth. The saddest part of all this is the fact that I can't tell where this is going anymore. There are so many "what ifs" that its almost like Occam razor in reverse where in the simplest and dumbest answer is probably wrong. And then we throw in the MAYBE even that Barb is dead and BAM took on a whole other level of fuckness.
Whatever does happen I sincerely hope Chris gets the help he needs especially if Barb is sick or dying as we speak because I don't see him being able to make it on hiw own for very long before the reality of his situation comes crumbling down on him like a house. Hell that might be his best case scenario at this point who knows? For all I know in the next year or so he could end up under a bridge with a guy named Bobby Joe and his dogs. But I have some hope he wont...some.