I think a tantrum is feasible (looking back on things like the rage he threw when he got blocked by pony people on twitter), though it may have taken the form of a shutdown. Maybe both. Two months seems like a long time for him to be learning how to assist in his defense, but I don’t know what the typical length of time is.
My money is on Shutdown followed by small showings of his impotent rage, Rember this is Chris's own personal hell he's feared since he was old enough to understand that such places where a possibility for him, he's even claimed in one of the earlu calls that Bob moved him and Chris to Midlothian just to avoid that sort of situation.
He panicked, shut down for a while then came back and when he was feeling marginally more brave than a jelly custard he mutterd a curse yehamea and imagined drawing the staff with backwards names.
I think there he didn't mention the Merge or Dimensions stuff because of conditioning Bob and Barb gave him that when he's with a Doctor or Teacher to shut the fuck up, and when the staff did a little prying they only got dribs and drabs out of him.
Says you. I can finally read his handwriting.
That has improved, I'm left handed and dyslexic and write with a fountain pen so my writing is awful but legable Chris normally looks like a confused autopen and now his handwriting is better than mine.
When Chris paid Mia Hamm $150 for sex, Barb was 70 years old. I have noticed older generations have a problem understanding inflation. Old people often think you can buy a nice house for $15,000 and pay for things like college and rent and a car with a part time job. During the last recession my own stepdad once asked me why I don't go out partying all the time and why I worked five days a week for only $31,000 a year. A lot of people were doing far worse than I was. He thought I should just get a job where I worked two days a week for $200,000 a year. He is and was unemployed and depends on my mom.
I can see what you mean and how Chris might have worded it and Barb said "For $150 Dollars I'd have fucked you Son" and she said it more out of astonishment Chris had spent that kind of money on a hooker, I can't recall the slang now but in the 40's and 50's America there was something about $2 hooker being cheap on a Saturday night. That was the era she grew up so was likely exposed to it and that's the sort of thing that sticks in the mind an you dredge up years later.
And yea that sort of mindset is sadly common all over the western world, just getting a job these days is a job inof it's self and the pay let alone benefits (even out side America) have not kept up with inflation, and that's just for entry level jobs let alone anything requiring skills or experience.
A good example of Cost's and the older miss understanding is to look at how easy it is for Old people to attempt DIY jobs they should not be doing, in my area to fell a grown tree 30 years old, 45ft in height and about 1ft - 2ft base girth is about £120 in a Garden assuming it's a simple felling job with clear access and drop area - he called around got quotes found them all just to much for a simple £20 job (his wife quoted that in the paper) looked around car-boot sales and got a Chainsaw far to small for the job, filled it up and tried to drop the tree - Killed himself when a 1.5ton of larch fell on his head, and crushed the fence and his neighbours caravan.
Year before that a guy blew himself up trying to fix his own gas boiler, because the quotes where too high for his liking - dude was getting a 100K a year pension and thought the gas fitters where ripping him off, looked up a few YT videos and googled it thought he could do it himself and ended up redecorating his utility room a nice shade of blood red with hints of organ.
Some people pointed this out, but the one thing that might have happened behind the scenes is him getting more and more desperate knowing this is real, that he fucked his own life over. That would explain the gloomy look, his sudden shift to blaming Barb and him leaning hard on his coping mechanism, harder than before to the point of blaming Sockness for the coof despite never mentioning this before in any other related contexts. Just see how much of a jumbled fucking mess his reasoning for blaming Barb is, no woman is impressed with the knowledge that you fucked a hooker, Barb was absurdly casual with this, which goes against her manipulative nature, she would slowly groom Chris into doing that if it was truly her idea. Chris is fucked, and he knows it!
I don't think it's that, I think he's just been exposed to other ideas and not Barb for the longest period of time in his life so he's less likely to view Barb as infallible, remember Chris takes what he views as Authority as a verbatim fact, I'll dig deeper into this a bit further down.
(What is it with Chris and bananas for Barb anyway?)
Back after WW2 in the UK and other countries Bannana's where a new fruit and they where almost marketed as a super food, and when the Gross Michel (the flavour profile used for Artificial Banana flavour today) cropps stated to fail and they had to use other varieties they recycled the same marketing but basically slapped a new and improved tag on it - during the early 90's there was a push to add in another variety when it looked like there was another cropping problem that used Linford Christy in the UK and Bananas and a specific kind of bananas later on.
Before that it was Carrots in the WW2 and Inter War period, and before that it was Tomato and Potatoes (those tubas are a really interesting topic).
But isn't he still a troon? He signs the letters with his female name and calls himself a goddess, and hasn't said anything about identifying as male again, so it's safe to assume the trans identity has just taken a backseat to make way for his newest delusion. And knowing Chris' poor track record when it comes to learning from his mistakes, detransition seems unlikely.
He is a Woman when he wants to be and all man when he wants to be, Chris views being a woman as a convenience nothing more he derives his whole understanding of womanhood from TV, Cartoons and Porn i.e. women have life on Easy mode and he wants easy more than anything else, he also has a obsession with names and wrote facts.
If you where trolling Chris and where fluent enough in his mental workings and love of wordy things you could get him to change his name you Joshua Christopher Christian Christina Wesson Chandler (add-ons dropped) you'd just need to make it sound official enough and logical in a way he can understand while peppering in big important words.
feel like the sudden revelation of Barb's "proposition" may have come from some time with a Psychiatrist, and Chris giving them the "Barb started it!" recounting that he's offered up numerous times in the past year. He told the Psych that "Barb made da first moves" and was asked "OK, Do you remember anything before that where Barb made similar suggestions? What was that like?" as a way to get more information out of him, and Chris, notorious for oversharing, told the story of the prostitute and Barb (likely angrily) saying that, which ran through the Autism Filter and came out to Chris as Barb actually meaning it. It probably has bounced around in his head ever since. It was only four years later that he admitted to having dreams of fucking Barb.
He's now been separated from Barb long enough and been exposed to Authorities new that he has learned some new ideas, and is fully on the way to misinterpreting them in his own special way.
How this has likey happened is Chris admitted to shagging Mia Ham for $150 to the councillor, and they said something like nobody should feel the pressure to have sex / lose there virginity it will happen when it happens, he's then gotten onto what Barb said like I mentioned above said in exasperation ""For $150 I'd have sex with you" and he's put 2+2 together and came up with 6 and a bit. Chris is very literal he dosent or didn't know that the a Wet dream means blerting in your sleep not pissing yourself and came up with "Sticky dream" for that common turn of phrase.
Barb said something like that out of exasperation as he either over shared or she pressed him on why he had a smug dopy smile for a few days running and said that in exasperation or astonishment.
Maybe I'm remembering wrong but I thought his current galpal had asked him multiple times if he brought up his invisible friend and merge nonsense with his counselor and he said no. Instead he talked about the trolls and his comics and shit, but not the delusional stuff. I don't know there's so much crazy bullshit with chris for a decade plus so I could be wrong.
Again as I said above, I think that he's not brought it up much or at all with the Mental health professionals at least not without them doing enough digging, this is likely some conditioning Bob and Barb managed to instil in him early enough that it has deep roots that are hard for him to change, especially when he was in a situation that he has feared most of his life. It's also some what immaterial as he wasn't there for him to be "Fixed" he was there to see if he can stand trial, that he knows right from wrong and can understand and assist with his current situation and the requirement for that is low.
(like wanting to show off how smart he thinks he is)
Compensatory Parroting, Chris copys words and phrases he thinks are applicable to the person he is conversing with. Like with the Spatchcock calls he felt he needed to be prim and proper English from the old BBC commidies he watched, when he thinks he's been clever he trys to sound wordy and educated, and when he's out of his depth with a person or subculture he uses what he thinks is the vernacular of that person like he did in the Lars call.
Example - If Chris saw a picture of me right now and was told to go into a Chip shop and order dinner he would walk into said shop and try and talk like someone from the chimney sweeps from Mary Poppins, I've got a flat cap, waistcoat, baggy armed shirt and moleskin trousers and hobnail boots on, and he would copy that but add in mannerisms from other British media to fill in the gaps he doesn't know and he'd say something like -
"Alright me ald mucker gime a hapeth of chips and a fried cod, my love and dont skimp on da mush" the server would look at him like a idiot and say "So chips and Fried Fish with mushy peas, do you want salt an vinigar on the chips?" he'd mumble "Yes quite", because that is how he thinks that conversation would go down it's how he's thought about it and how it must work given the evidence of Film and TV.
How that conversation should go down is "Alright love, Can I av a Large Chips an a Big Saussage and Ow much are yer can's o pop?" "90p" says the girl already dishing up my chips "Sound gime a can of vimpto as well love", I'd slide along the counter get my fried spuds and suspicious tube of meat and can of pop and move on, no filler no pippip cheery'o etc just simple human interaction with a local flavor, he can't understand without a lot of media filling it in for him.
