Does Chris still see himself as a kid?

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The brain of a child and the health of an older person.

Not good.
 
bungholio said:
The brain of a child and the health of an older person.

Not good.
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A freak of nature, he is. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

ps: basedgod im sorry for using #rare in a negative way
 
He wants to be an adult, but being childish is too easy.
 
It depends on what Chris wants at the time. His default state is "I'm still young!", but he'll try to throw his adulthood around if he thinks that he can benefit from it.
 
Of course. That's how Borb raised him: they never taught him how to be responsible, and they used his autism to justify his childish, inappropriate behavior.
 
doesn't he refer to himself as "young at heart"?
(and from the beating his heart takes from his copious amounts of mcdonalds, i'd say it isn't that young anymore)
 
CatParty said:
doesn't he refer to himself as "young at heart"?
(and from the beating his heart takes from his copious amounts of mcdonalds, i'd say it isn't that young anymore)
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He should start referring himself as being young-in-the-mind :lol:
 
Tubular Monkey said:
He's an 8 year old who pretends he's a 17 year old. He's been alive for 30 years, but he isn't 30.
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My God, he's a Time Lord, and he flies a reTARDIS!
 
I don't know. I'm not nearly as bad as him and I don't feel like I've truly grown up yet. Maybe I'm just expecting some sort of rite of passage or something and maybe that's what Chris is hoping for. Don't get me wrong, I know that I am a very responsible young adult but having said that, I still don't feel like that's happened for me. Maybe Chris feels the same way?
 
GFYS said:
If he attempted something like Hulkamania, I think Christian Weston Chandler potential for exponential failure could result in the end of all existence as we know it.
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Sooooo...he'd become Bobby "The Brain" Heenan....except made of Anti-Matter AIDS?
 
Golly said:
It's most likely that he thinks things will be different "when he grows up" and that his life hasn't really started yet.
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I think a big part of his depression is that he is starting to inkle that a big chunk of his time on this mortal coil is already gone and getting goner, and that he's no closer to "growing up" than he ever was.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
Golly said:
It's most likely that he thinks things will be different "when he grows up" and that his life hasn't really started yet.
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I think a big part of his depression is that he is starting to inkle that a big chunk of his time on this mortal coil is already gone and getting goner, and that he's no closer to "growing up" than he ever was.
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I have to agree with Alec. What has Chris accomplished in life other than being so fucked up, that he has a following of people who dissect anything and everything he ever posts? He took many, many years to earn his CADD degree from PVCC, he's successfully creeped out every woman that has ever ventured into his life (with the exception of his mother, though the jury's not out on that possibility yet)...
 
I think he sees himself as a kid only when it suits him. When one of the Sonichu fans asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he got all indignant and said "I already am grown up". But I'm sure if someone asked him to fill out a tax form he'd say "Who, me? I'm just a kid."
 
One of the things that it took me a long time to understand about Chris is that he can be several things at once. Most people are cannot live the hypocritical lifestyle Chris does. They can't be a child when it suits them and want the privileges of adulthood when it suits them. The conscience gets in the way. Guilt and shame get in the way. Chris's mind is much different from yours or mine. He isn't bound by either outside expectations of him or internal expectations. He seems to live in a constant "now".

I think the reason he is so keen to label himself with titles and achievements is because without those words, his identity doesn't exist. Our identities are the sum total of millions of thoughts and feelings bound together into a coherent package that we call ourselves. Chris's identity is a much more general thing, defined by a few strange things he has done, which when put together do not form anything particularly coherent. In fact, they end up forming something very contradictory. His lack of self-analysis, something that most of us do without thinking about it throughout our lives, has left his identity as nothing more than a few childish accomplishments, with almost no depth beyond that. You and I can perform critical analysis of things that happen to us, informed by past experiences: whether we agree or disagree with something, like it or dislike it, all the while allowing these new experiences to add to our always-growing understanding of ourselves. Chris wakes up knowing that he is 31 years old, lives in Ruckersville, VirGINia, that he is the creator of Sonichu and Rosechu, the electric hedgehog Pokemon, and the fictional city of CWCVille. He knows that he has autism and that nobody understands him. He knows that trolls hate him and want to keep him down. This is all that he knows. That's it. There is nothing else except that scant bit of not even fully correct information, and primal desire that inform his behavior.

Ironically, it is hard to empathize with someone who is incapable of empathy. It's hard to get into their head space, because we relate to people by putting ourselves in their place. But Chris is not like us at all. He wants what he wants when it suits him, without anything inside him saying it's wrong. There is no concern for hypocrisy because there isn't a little bell going off saying that he is either contradicting himself or doing something that he expects other not to do. On the flip side, it must be just as difficult for someone without empathy or depth to understand us. Probably more so, because he doesn't even have the imagination to step outside of himself. He sees the world as being filled with people whose brains work like his. How can he even conceive of what normal really is?
 
I think after all that Chris has been through, he has finally become a man..

.. A paranoid, depressed man who sees the world in shitty black and white film.. That happens to be riddled with holes and cursed with bad sound quality.
 
he's still a child. he's just going through his emo phase now. scary to think he might actually reach adulthood on his deathbed
 
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