Facebook Update 05/28/14 Looks like Simonla isn't the only zombie

[Silver]

If you're a bad uncle, then my parents are bad parents, and yet despite that I'm still not pregnant and I'm not a druggie and I've sworn off alcohol for life.

also about the South: I live in Charlotte, which was one of only a few places in NC that voted against Amendment 1 - the others being Asheville and the Research Triangle. But my mom and I also go camping deep in Appalachia two or three times a year and I can tell you that just from what I've seen I absolutely would not ever live anywhere mountainous up there except Asheville or Waynesville because much as I love rural areas and even more the mountains, I would not have a fun time making friends because I've seen some... "typically Southern" things, including a shitload of Confederate flags and a dude who had a Confederate flag baseball cap.

 

[Marvin]

Is that down in that corner between the potomac and the chesapeake? If so I kind of got the impression the area is intentionally kept rural and kept back a hundred years or so for tourist reasons. You can find pockets like that just about anywhere, especially when you start seeing "historic" tacked onto the beginnings of names. Maybe the atavistic bumpkinry becomes more genuine away from the college. Even so, there are places in Maryland that I might consider worse, in a "deliverance" way (though not stereotypically "southern"), especially in the northwest of the state. Seriously, it's like the average IQ drops two points for every ten miles you go up i270 from Rockville, though it only starts getting obvious north of Frederick.

Heh, do I know that. I grew up at about the midpoint between Baltimore and Hagerstown. It wasn't so bad, I guess. But still, I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

 

[harvey dirdban]

Either way, I definitely could see that sort of preachy, moralistic crap appealing to Chris. Especially when he was still upholding the pretense that Sonichu was a comic for kids. What a strange, strange thing. He despised beer so much that he had to change its name, and banned homosexuality altogether, but had no problems with random, graphic depictions of electric hedgehog sex, and later torturing and killing people.

A lot of autistic kids are excessively rule-happy and moralizing. It has to do with the need for stable, predictable environments and easy categorization of things and people (drinkers = bad, teetotalers = good). Suffice it to say, some autistic people grow out of that and some don't. I've definitely been in my share of autism support groups where people older than myself were shocked, shocked that I smoke weed.

 

[Mogambo]

A lot of autistic kids are excessively rule-happy and moralizing.

Yep. But Chris still manages to take it to a ridiculous new level.

It has to do with the need for stable, predictable environments

Which, incidentally, Chris has never really had. I wonder if that's part of the reason Chris wound up the way he did. I mean, granted, the hoard wasn't so big during his formative years (at least, we have no reason to believe it was; maybe it was and Bob managed to pare it down or something) but certainly living with Barb had to screw him up.

and easy categorization of things and people (drinkers = bad, teetotalers = good).

And again, Chris manages to do this to the extreme!

Suffice it to say, some autistic people grow out of that and some don't. I've definitely been in my share of autism support groups where people older than myself were shocked, shocked that I smoke weed.

Ha! Unfortunately, Chris doesn't grow out of things. If anything, he seems to regress as he gets older.