- Joined
- Jan 16, 2017
Cobes' psychology totally and autistically centres on denial that he is a retard. Being put in special ed in school really messed with him and made him feel inferior, so he's spent his entire life trying to prove that he can be independent and that he is not a retard, I think Clint knows this and feels guilty about it, which plays into the weird and sometimes contradictory ways he relates to his son. Combine this motivation with Cobes' particular brand of thought-looping autism, and he has decided that taking advice = being told what to do = admitting he is a retard. So his guiding principle is to do the absolute opposite of what anyone suggests, at all times. He is emotionally stunted, and is permanently stuck in the "Fuck you dad, I'm going to make my room extra untidy just to piss you off!" phase of adolescence, which also plays into this very strongly. Of course, in reality, taking advice and listening to the opinions of others who may be better placed than you to understand something is an important part of being an independent adult and making good decisions, and Cobes' inability to take advice and petulant stubbornness have done him untold harm and will eventually render him homeless and/or kill him.Can you imagine how infuriating he would be to know in person? Where any and all advice is disregarded in the principle that he’s so petty he refuses to do anything anybody suggests because he views it as them having power over him presumably? He could be planning to shave his head but one person says “Hey man, I think you’d look cool with a bald head” and he’d just refuse to shave his head after for fear that person would think they were the ones that got him to shave his head or that it was their idea. It’s an incomprehensible level of unwarranted pride to think that accepting help or taking another persons advice is somehow a “win” for them and a “loss” for you
Josh of course has not figured any of this out.
Because he is a retard.