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- Dec 13, 2016
Of the two, Bob was certainly the better parent, but he also had his own failings. Perhaps the biggest one was paying Chris' gal-pals in high school so they would hang out with him. This probably prevented Chris from learning how to naturally make friends and socialize, as well as make him feel socially entitled. It's also worth keeping in mind that Bob and Chris lived separate from Barb while Chris was in middle school, so there was a period of time where it was just Bob parenting. At the same time, Bob was also old as dirt and didn't understand autism, so he likely wouldn't have succeeded in raising Chris either way.I personally agree with this sentiment. Bob seemed cool in the videos he made an appearance in as well as actually putting his foot down at one point by disconnecting the modem during an incident Chris embarrassed himself. However, that doesn't excuse the fact that both he & Barb failed to put Chris through rigorous counselling during the years that it would've made the most impact. Barb definitely coddled the hell out of Chris and didn't let him experience the same types and amounts of pain that would normally be experienced by regular children. If Chris was as high-functioning as he claimed, he should've been able to handle it.
However, Bob was also the glue that held Chris' fragile life together. As you pointed out:
It really is incredible just how much everything fell apart soon after. There's a reason people have grown attached to Bob. For all of his failings as a parent, he was still the man of the house and tried to keep everything under control even in his old age.Chris:
and GOD knows what else. Like as soon as Bob died shit just started hitting the fan.
- hit Mike with his car, which she was present for, and then the 2 tried to flee from the cops
- set the house on fire because both he and Barb refused to address their hording problems
- maced the Store Manager at a Gamestop that he was banned from (which Barb was technically aware of as she was in the Fashion Mall at the time getting lunch)
- got himself banned from several OTHER stores for defacing property during the Sonic Boom release because he was pissed of about Sonic having blue arms
- went back to being perpetually online
- started " meeting " women again (where at least Bob was present to make sure nothing funny went on)
- started more or less scamming people over eBay by not fulfilling orders, then getting pissed off when people reported him