Artcow Erik "Taz" Mokracek / MollyHaleIsMyFriend / MGHSHour / CowboyErik and Anti-Classix - How an autistic 40-something attracts the attention of a whole slew of other autists

[White bubblegum]

Honestly? I don't know if he can be called a pedophile ala other r.etards like James Terry Mitchell because of how child-like his mindset is. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure that if he were an honest to goodness pedo, we'd be finding more than just a weird dA gallery with stuff like characters wanting to sit on the floors of cars or waiting at a crosswalk.

Erik just seems to come across as a (rather creepy) mentally stunted man who never outgrew the safety zones of his childhood. As opposed to 124 IQ and his "It's not pedophilia if I was 16 and she was 9" stupidity.

Yep. I wouldn't let my kids hang around him unsupervised, but inviting him to go bowling with your family(assuming hes a family friend or relative) would be akin to asking the girl with downs syndrome to prom.

I don't think he'd double down and rape my hypothetical daughter because he's just that r.etarded,but leaving them unsupervised just teaches her that its okay to hang out with older men.

 

[Yes Man]

Yeah, I've seen development like this before. In which a more severely autistic individual only has what he was taught as a child in early life as the building blocks for his understanding of reality, and it looks almost like somewhere along the timeline his ability to adapt and change to having an understanding of life outside of what he retained from that brief introductory period just halted entirely.

I think stunted development cases such as this are mostly the result of how difficult it is for the parent or guardian figures to help a heavily autistic person learn to adapt and change with the different stages of his life, and the older, and bigger, a person gets, the more difficult it is to muscle past that stubbornness. So they enable him to live stunted and say it can't be any other way.
This guy just happened to also become knowledgeable about extremely basic internet usage and MS Paint image manipulation, I think that's all it takes for someone to go from the quiet family sped to this.
Forcing that brain through the sieve of online self expression always yields extremely wild and incredibly diverse results, always as unique as a fingerprint though I really can't say I've ever seen anyone like him.

I think it's correct to figure that Erik is just blissfully unaware of how creepy he looks, having been brought up to have the self reflective abilities and social awareness of a boulder. I hardly think he's dangerous but, that line can be crossed so easily, and clearly this man is not able to conduct himself socially or care for himself independently. Get him an aid and I think everything will be fine.

He is though, without a doubt, extremely hilarious and absolutely captivating I am craving more of his content, man it really is a shame that most of his Youtube content is gone.

 

[The Great Chandler]

I don't know if this guy is a pedo like the other pedos we know and hate. Like others have said, he probably has a mental impairment and is just extremely attached to those Dragon Tales characters as tokens from his childhood, and the "sitting in the back of the car" trope is him expressing his childhood memories, expect that he still appears to have a childlike mind.
Can he be considered a "true" pedo if he literally has the mind of a child? It's still pedophillia, but there's a difference in a man taking advantage of a child with knowledge of what he's doing and a man being autistically attached to kids because he's r.etarded. On his websites sperging about his kid friends that he "loves" it doesn't look like he loves them in a sexual way, but in the way a kid loves their best friend or pet. Of course, maybe he's too r.etarded to even know he has a sex drive, but who knows.

So like Lenny from Of Mice and Men in way. Let's hope he doesn't have tard strength.

 

[EtherealDragon]

I saw this featured thread and I wonder if he's seen this thread or any previous ones.

Regardless I am throughly confused on his behavior. I have never seen anyone repeat themselves like this so much. And I have seen some folks who are slow or had mental issues.

The car sitting thing is probably an attachment to a fond memory and so I think if he does it or thinks it, it makes memories return. The same can be said for his obsession of certain cartoon characters.

The shit thing is probably a fetish, but not sexual. Maybe he grew up to an age where he was still shitting himself and it felt good to be cleaned up that he never got over it? The shit shapes maybe shit he likes.

Him needing to say he is not a pedo sounds like he is battling his own conscious and his conscious is saying he is doing bad, but repeating the words over and over reaffirms he is not a pedo.

Regardless, I want to see what else happens from him. An interesting cow.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

The shit shapes maybe shit he likes.

I've just noticed that a lot of the shit shapes rhyme with the species they come from.

Chocolate Pears are from Bears
Chocolate Wagons are from Dragons
Chocolate Ketchup is from Ash Ketchum
etc.

So, in essence, I think the shit shapes is essentially his own autistic way of coping with his shit obsession.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

I'm just grateful that he doesn't use multisyllabic words or care about adult media, otherwise we'd have fanfic of Mark Ruffalo shitting a buffalo (or perhaps the Hulk in bulk), and Tom Hiddleston fatally constipated because nothing rhymes with his name.

 

[Yes Man]

Oh I also think it's worth mentioning that the shitting in oddly specific shapes thing has verbal similarities like rhymes and minor alterations to the connected character, Dragons shitting Wagons, Bears shitting Pears etc, and in his mind that's the epitome of cleverness and humor and he's likely just absurdly amused by it.
And not self aware enough to see that it would look weird to other people.

Pants shitting as a focus I don't want to immediately think of it as a fetish, part of me strongly feels it's just another manifestation of the time period in which his sense of reality stopped advancing. Maybe it's made him incontinent now, I don't know. I mean I could be wrong but, I feel like this guy is completely ace and has no idea what a libido or masturbation even is.

Edit: Too slow, Yes Man!

 

[Frogasm]

I agree with sentiments that he has some kind of serious arrested development that has kept him stuck with a childlike mind. he doesn't seem like a threat to children so long as he has adult supervision. He basically IS a child

I wonder if he had some kind of head trauma or something at a young age that just stopped him from mentally growing. Possibilities are endless.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

I wonder if he had some kind of head trauma or something at a young age that just stopped him from mentally growing. Possibilities are endless.

The dude just has Autism.

 

[Yes Man]

Personally, he just seems exceptionally high on the autism scale and couldn't handle shifting responsibilities and social changes that come with aging. That and poor parenting choices can render even someone who could have been independent permanently six.
Kinda like what made Chris Chan into what he is currently. If it were trauma I'm sure he'd have horrifically alluded to it somehow and nothing seems conclusive to that at all.

 

[White bubblegum]

You guys are all putting my scattered thoughts on this guy into words. Thank you, smarter than me Kiwis.

The dude just has Autism.

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He must not be high functioning at all then.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

I have to say, though, I can see what @Frogasm means, because he seriously reminds me of a cousin of my mother's who had some awful fever when he was a kid that caused brain damage. "Billy Bob" was essentially a grown man with the literal mind and interests of a child. I remember being over at his house -- he lived with his elderly mother until she was so old and infirm that she herself needed care -- and while my mother chatted with her aunt, "Billy Bob" very nicely asked my sister if he could look at her comic book, with the assurance that he wouldn't tear it. She let him, he didn't, everything was fine, but I noticed my mother and her aunt glancing at us the whole time just to make sure he behaved (he was an altar server as a kid and discovered he really liked the gross Communion wine, so it's not like he was a perfect angel). I don't remember being warned against being alone with this guy or anything, though.

I'm just saying, if our friend who is not a pedo and will keep his information safe, etc. acquired brain damage on top of autism via a high fever, he might not know that had been a major event for him.... or his autism could have masked the damage from the illness to the extent that his parents never twigged, either.

 

[Jack Awful]

Personally, he just seems exceptionally high on the autism scale and couldn't handle shifting responsibilities and social changes that come with aging. That and poor parenting choices can render even someone who could have been independent permanently six.
Kinda like what made Chris Chan into what he is currently. If it were trauma I'm sure he'd have horrifically alluded to it somehow and nothing seems conclusive to that at all.

I also see some child abuse in there too.
Having to retreat back to the things that make him feel happy.
Thinking about the guy this deeply just depresses me to be honest, I just wanna laugh at the weird pictures he makes.

 

[Doctor Stan]

I'd honestly be shocked if he even knows what sex is or consists of

It's when a mommy and daddy love each other very much, and lie down on the floor of a back seat of a midsize sedan together

View attachment 501280 I still want to know what Erik means by "Every Little Girl is a Kind of Cheese", why it's on a VHS tape, and why the running time is 1 hour and 40 minutes.

The possible answer scares me more than anything I've encountered before.

I too love bringing my electronics to the wet, sandy beach.

Nah man, sand is the best thing for your controller ports

And "Dragon Tales"? Haven't heard of this cartoon in over a decade, what makes him so obsessed with it?

Autistics tend to latch onto from their childhoods, IE Sanic

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Favorite Movies: All 3 Pokemon Movies
Who's going to break it to him?

Spoiler: I hope to God he's not allowed near matches

 

[White bubblegum]

I also see some child abuse in there too.
Having to retreat back to the things that make him feel happy.
Thinking about the guy this deeply just depresses me to be honest, I just wanna laugh at the weird pictures he makes.

Agreed. Not the child abuse thing, but that something happened in his life that makes his art so nostalgic-like. I don't know how to put this in words, but I can't really tell if he's making his art to express some.. trauma?
or because he's just autistically attached to Dragon Tales and his childhood.
Yeah, thinking about him really is depressing. I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but thinking about the mentally disabled is kind of sad. They're still people, yes, and that's what makes it kind of tragic. You see these creative, fun, sweet people(sometimes they're assholes, but variety is the spice of life) and it's sad seeing their existence limited by their mental disability. They can live happy lives, but they'll never be what they could've been. Of course they deserve respect and compassion, but if we can prevent mental disabilities, we should.

This just gives me the feeling of enigma that really, really obscure lost media gives off. We know the general concept, but the actual content is unknown and unseen. Not only unknown and unseen, it only exists in the dimension where lost media goes, except that this never existed but in the mind of this guy. We'll never know what this is, we can only speculate.

 

[NobleGreyHorse]

Who knows? Maybe with more talent, or at least ability to crop figures out of backgrounds, this guy would be current year's Henry Darger. But even he felt robbed of a lot of human experience, notwithstanding his fucking massive body of work that brought him posthumous fame. I totally feel you -- I wish "Billy Bob" could have had an adult mind sufficient to drive a car (although he did hold down jobs), fall in love, all that stuff, and he was deprived of it basically because his parents were too poor in the mid-1940s to take him to a doctor for antibiotics until he was nearly dead.

 

[Clicky]

autism and deviantart go together like peanut butter and jelly

 

[Okkervils]

This man needs to learn how to take criticism because how on Earth does he function in society in say, a 9-5 or a part time job?

Um. I don't think the inability to take criticism is his problem. I think his issue is he's legitimately retarded.

 

[Yes Man]

Something I noticed is, he's mentioned Freedom as a concept a few times, and the way he describes it I think just further shows his decided rejection of even attempting to fit into a regular adult life with responsibilities and jobs and the like. He wants to be Free! To play on the playground and eat junk food and watch TV all day long!

Almost like zero attempts have been made to explain to him why rules and regulations exist, and personal limitations being necessary. Casual neglect of what exactly being in the position of responsibility for an autistic person's development entails is at least partly why this man is like this in his late 30's.

I get why you fellas feel it's depressing to think about, but at least Erik here seems happy with his tiny slice of existence and personal expression right? As fucked up and weird as it is. At the very least it's really funny.