I really cannot stand the way Chris writes. His sentence structure, his phrasing, the run-on sentences, the punctuation, the bizarre metaphors, and the way he strings words and concepts together that just don't make sense in any rational context, all of it is just so jarring and unpleasant to read. It's like nails on a chalkboard for the eyes and brain. And the melodramatic

-ing constantly. It's bad enough he does that when he's talking, but pulling that bullshit while writing emails or letters is just irritating and an obvious form of manipulation.
I find the whole concept of a grown-ass adult being told by Memaw and Pop Pop that he can't go to a need convention both hilarious and pathetic. I mean, I know that Chris is mentally eight years old, but the fact that he wants to be taken seriously as an adult and do "grown-up things" like having sex, but then gets shut down by his mommy and daddy when he wants to go have fun in a different state...that's just a trip and I find the whole scenario hilarious. Yeah the way Barb manipulates Chris with suicide threats like a teenage girl when her parents tell her she can't date a guy is a really shitty thing to happen, but the overall context of the situation (a then twenty-nine year old adult being told what to do like a small child) is very humorous.
I also find it irritatingly tedious (or tediously irritaring) how Chris has to quantify unimportant details that have nothing to do with anything. For example, the whole "quilt on head" thing. He couldn't simply said "I was so upset that I curled up and cried", he had to go into detail about this quilt being on his head and even went into the status of the quilt either being on or off his head when he did certain things. It wasn't germaine to the story, was unnecessary in conveying his feelings, and unnecessary in helping the person reading the email understand what had happened. On the contrary, it made the whole thing more confusing. Yet Chris has always been compelled to say or write things like that, as if he's trying to add grandiosity or inflate the story somehow. It's incredibly odd, and it's often rather confusing because of his word choices and hackneyed metaphors.