I recently talked with an elderly person about how they handled high functioning tards back in the 30's and 40's.
He said they were just considered "slow" or "special" and ended up running long errands for people around town for a small sum, digging gardens and planting/harvesting, or generally easy shit that most people didn't want to be bothered with.
He said the community tried to help those people as best they could and everyone knew they were a slow-in-da-mind so they invented jobs for them to do.
A tard like Chris wouldn't have had much exposure to mass media in the 30's and 40's, so they would mostly listen to radio programs or possibly read a comic book.
You had to be violently crazy to get put in an asylum. Even if Chris identified as a woman he still wouldn't make the cut for a state run asylum. Regular tards are fairly easy to wrangle and posed no threat to the public.
Chris would have been a local curiosity and never developed the massive ego due to attention from the internet. He would probably have become obsessed with baseball statistics or trains.
There would have been no trolls, enablers, white knights or "fans" and definitely no toys so odds are good Chris would be far less delusional and actually get off his ass and do things. 14BLC doesn't have central air so being hot during the summer wouldn't change much but he would be forced to go out and to cook because fast food didn't exist.