His biggest problem?

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The root problem?

  • Stupidity (i.e. lack of learning and information processing capability)

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • Lack of education/knowledge (ignorance of the processes that are at work in the world)

    Votes: 5 4.7%

  • Laziness (unwillingness to learn or work)

    Votes: 15 14.0%

  • Entitlement issues (like a child who throws a temper tantrum when Mom won't buy him that candy bar)

    Votes: 20 18.7%

  • Narcissism/arrogance (thinks he's perfect, doesn't have to change anything about himself)

    Votes: 40 37.4%

  • Infantilism (won't mature)

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • Autism

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • Something else...

    Votes: 8 7.5%
  • Total voters
    107
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I wouldn't even say shitty. Just old and more than likely not planning to have another child. They both had previous families and weren't expecting Chris chan. Especially at their advanced ages. Unless you wanna go the conspiracy root and think barb was just trying to tie down bob by having a child.
 
Some of his problems correlate with one another. His ego feeds his laziness, which bolsters his infantilism, which feeds his stupidity, which fuels his entitlement, which bolsters his ego. It's a vicious cycle. If you were to interrupt one link in the cycle, that could help the other issues be resolved. Not that breaking one link would automatically cure everything else, but it would be a step in the right direction. Like, if you took away his tugboat and made him work some blue-collar job and made him understand (him understanding anything is slim, but I'm just throwing in as an example) how hard the average working joe has to earn their check, it could then put his other negative traits in check, like he could realize how lucky he is to have a roof over his head, which then could reduce his entitlement, and so on and so forth.
 
All of the listed problems seem to be a subset of his stupidity.

Like, even if he still had all his other bad qualities, he could still be functional. So, for example, his narcissism: People of normal intelligences who are very far up their own asses, they can still eventually get desperate and sometimes they have to accept reality. No matter how arrogant you are, you still know that you have to pay rent or you need to get a job, things like that. If your narcissism is so strong that you can't even accept reality, you either have an extremely serious mental disorder or you are Chris-level stupid.*

The stupidity is basically what gives all these bad qualities the power they have over his life.

Edit: *To explain the relation between stupidity and Chris denying reality, Chris frequently makes up bullshit theories and because of his stupidity, he's willing to believe them. So, the grim reaper promising him another 10 years with Bob, or whatever it was. It was Chris' stupidity that enabled him to take a dumb dream seriously.
 
Marvin said:
The stupidity is basically what gives all these bad qualities the power they have over his life.
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I see it another way. Like, yes, he's suffered a lot from raw stupidity, but he's not incapable of learning. He did eventually learn to stay off the internet and avoid obvious trolls, etc. It's just that usually he doesn't care enough. I mean, he's known for years how to stop crapping his God Damn Briefs, and it's not complicated, but he's just too lazy. I think that says it all.

Plus, a lot of Chris's stupidity comes from the fact that he's too lazy and apathetic to remember anything that happens to him. Even a normal mind can't reason without any data.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Marvin said:
The stupidity is basically what gives all these bad qualities the power they have over his life.
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I see it another way. Like, yes, he's suffered a lot from raw stupidity, but he's not incapable of learning. He did eventually learn to stay off the internet and avoid obvious trolls, etc. It's just that usually he doesn't care enough. I mean, he's known for years how to stop crapping his God Damn Briefs, and it's not complicated, but he's just too lazy. I think that says it all.

Plus, a lot of Chris's stupidity comes from the fact that he's too lazy and apathetic to remember anything that happens to him. Even a normal mind can't reason without any data.
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I don't think he is too lazy not to shit himself. I think he has some sort of problem with it.

And he does learn and remember what happens to him. Sometimes people don't believe me when I claim he's learned lessons about things. The problem is that he has trouble noticing all the subtleties that link his past fuckups together. All the troll girlfriends didn't teach him any lessons for a long time because the things linking them together were too subtle for him to notice. Chris definitely tried, we just were smarter than him.
 
Marvin said:
And he does learn and remember what happens to him. Sometimes people don't believe me when I claim he's learned lessons about things. The problem is that he has trouble noticing all the subtleties that link his past fuckups together. All the troll girlfriends didn't teach him any lessons for a long time because the things linking them together were too subtle for him to notice. Chris definitely tried, we just were smarter than him.
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Reading the last Facebook dump ( :briefs: ), it becomes clear that he has learned to be more cautious. Someone says they want to merchandise Sonichu, and instead of jumping up and down like an excited little boy, Chris is hopeful but skeptical, and asks his friends what they make of it, because he is unsure. While it shows that at 31 freaking years old he is still able to be enticed by the idea of making money off of yellow Sonic the Hedgehog, it also shows that he has learned the lesson that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Trolls are about the only thing that have made him world wary - a trait he is going to need in the years to come.
 
His biggest problem is his existence :alog:

The problems that made him what he is are his autism, and his parents that did not give him the proper care he needed. Those things are the ones that made him who he is today.
 
I voted narcissism from the way the options are phrased in the poll.

(His sublimated homosexual desires are really the worst, not necessarily his biggest, problem he has, so repressed, it's so :( .)
 
I don't think any of those problems exist in isolation.

Frankly, Chris' biggest problem is the fact that he's Chris.
 
I voted for entitlement issues at first, but I think it's narcissism. If he realized what a shit life he lives, he might be assed to put the effort in to change it. Might.
 
To be perfectly honest, I don't think I can single out a problem with Chris. What I can say however, is that his Autism is the least of them.

I mean don't get me wrong, it is a defining part of him. But it's not the biggest issue here. If anything, I'd chalk it up to a combination of bad parenting, ego, immaturity and lack of self control (traits that I, admittedly, have had in the past).

In other words, there's more than one problem with him. And there's no way to pinpoint the real issue for his lifestyle.

Then again, that's just my opinion.
 
I think his laziness has hurt his life so much. Since he has graduated from High School he has not been able to hold a job for more then a month. If he was less lazy he would be able to work a full time job like a normal adult and keep the house relatively clean. He would also put Barb in an assisted living too.
 
fridgesrants said:
I think his laziness has hurt his life so much. Since he has graduated from High School he has not been able to hold a job for more then a month. If he was less lazy he would be able to work a full time job like a normal adult and keep the house relatively clean. He would also put Barb in an assisted living too.
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Eh, well, he doesn't have a good reason to have a job. And he can't keep the house clean or put Barb in a home because Barb won't let him. Laziness is unrelated to these problems.
 
Marvin said:
fridgesrants said:
I think his laziness has hurt his life so much. Since he has graduated from High School he has not been able to hold a job for more then a month. If he was less lazy he would be able to work a full time job like a normal adult and keep the house relatively clean. He would also put Barb in an assisted living too.
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Eh, well, he doesn't have a good reason to have a job. And he can't keep the house clean or put Barb in a home because Barb won't let him. Laziness is unrelated to these problems.
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Why does he not have a good reason to get a job? With disabilities he gets just enough money to stay a float but not enough to live a decent life. Even with the little money he gets he waste it on bullish!t. Also he is a digging himself into a deeper hole with his credit card debt. At this point even a minimum wage job could help him finically and put him on the path towards independence from Barb and the US government. Chris needs to grow up and put Barb in her place. He is an adult and needs to act like one. I know it is harsh to say this :alog: but Chris's life is spiraling out of control and maybe some routine like a job could help him function better.
 
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