Delusion and Denial

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Dain Bramage said:
Do you know how much booze it's going to take to hunt down and dissolve the brain cells in my head that carry a mental image of Chris making greasy sweaty explosive farts??
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I'm sharing the absinthe if anyone wants to kill memory itself.
 
Medley said:
I've always wondered why chris loves bringing up his supposed cherokee ancestry. He must think cherokee is just another white ethnic group which isnt surprising considering his father and most other people claiming native american ancestry are otherwise white people with zero or very little native dna. Just look at how he drew the cherokee in sonichu. Has anyone ever asked him if he knows that real native americans arent white?
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Why is the whiteness important?
Mashed Potato Grenade said:
imo that's the moment where he crossed the line between denial and delusion. Thinking that he was an attractive young man capable of lure any pretty girl was denial. Thinking that he's an attractive young transwoman its outrageous delusion.
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Chris has legit perception issues. I don't think people take this into account frequently enough.
 
Marvin said:
Why is the whiteness important?
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I just tend to think finding out he has non white ancestry wouldn't sit well with chris. Doea fatty even understand genetics? He obviously got the abridged version of Cherokee history and culture and just likes the sort of mythical aspects of it.
 
Medley said:
I just tend to think finding out he has non white ancestry wouldn't sit well with chris. Doea fatty even understand genetics? He obviously got the abridged version of Cherokee history and culture and just likes the sort of mythical aspects of it.
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I wish he knew.
 
NobleGreyHorse said:
A petard is an explosive (that would, yes, hoist a person into the air if they were standing on it when it went off). How you are imagining it being sweaty and greasy, I don't know, but it's from the French for "fart," so that works for Chris, I guess. /lazy pedant
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Perhaps he confused it with poignard/poniard? I always just assumed petard was a variant of the word.

3rd Continuance said:
The joys of one's problem-solving skills having not developed since childhood. Borb really fucked him on that one - the pampering, explaining away of failings, and insulating from consequences that they subjected Chris to as ostensibly "good parenting" is inexcusable. For a neurotypical child, that kind of treatment can produce real difficulties interacting with the world around them. For an autistic kid like Chris, it's devastating.

As much as Chris is the author of his own suffering, I can't help but think that a large portion of his inadequacy in facing adult life is rooted in how his parents raised him.

Their parenting seems to have been more ot less improvisational: each day brought a new challenge, and the only goal was to get through that day. There was no medium or long-term plan. This is how you end up with things like Barb bribing Chris with toys for speech.
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This is the best summary of Chris's upbringing I've seen.

I'd also guess that Borb's age might factor into it. From what I've seen of their relationship with Chris, they really gave me the impression that they were simply too old and weary to be bothered to deal with Chris's shenanigans.

I'd imagine they'd have struggled even more when he was young; they don't strike me as the sort of people who'd really have known a lot about autism before Chris was diagnosed with it. They were probably completely unprepared for the challenge of raising an autistic child from the get-go — as you say, they don't really seem to have had a plan.
 
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Lysistrata said:
I'd also guess that Borb's age might factor into it. From what I've seen of their relationship with Chris, they really gave me the impression that they were simply too old and weary to be bothered to deal with Chris's shenanigans.
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Bob certainly was way too old to have another kid, but barb having Chris at like 41 isn't THAT crazy (my mom had me at 36 and my sister at 40 and both of us turned out fine), I think a lot of it had to do with them giving up when Chris got his autism diagnosis. The both of them grew up in the south at a time where if one of your kids had mental health problems you just locked them away, and also they were shitty redneck parents before, it was the perfect storm in creating a lolcow of epic proportions.
 
Although it's probably on the borderline between non-delusional and delusional, Chris's use of Denial is probably one of the things that gets him through each day. By denying the truth, Chris can push it to one side and pretend it doesn't happen. This works for kids, but not for a thirty-something who should really be doing more than complaining to a company who probably wants to forget about him, scribbling down comics, and severing the ears and tails from Pikachu Amiibos.
 
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