Quite. That was the first time OPL ever contemplated suicide after he heard that news. So, I think it hit him quite hard, how his rose-spectrum past was nothing more than an illusion. Still though, he will always have CWCville. he spends about 2-3 hours a day inside CWCville, just paling around with tranny gendered hedgehogs.
Chris has probably thought about offing himself at various points for years, both before and after that. He's obviously not happy and I don't think he ever was. Thing is he's also an eternal optimist in the sense that he holds out hope it might get better, or at the very least not worse, so he pushes those thoughts out of his head.
I think in a recent facebook post about the gamestop incident he mentioned that he didn't see the point in killing himself. I don't know what prompted that comment, but it's obviously the thought is on his mind.
I have autism and I'm 100% capable of holding a job and even though I might face some challenges, I can get through them. So Autism isn't the reason why Chris wouldn't be able to get a job without significant coaching.
The reason is that Chris has no life experience and his mother has made no effort to instill a work ethic in him. It's obvious that Chris is at least fairly intelligent and he does have potential to do well at a job if someone takes the time to train him, but he has basically been set up to fail.
Chris is most certainly not "fairly intelligent". I hesitate to call him stupid because he has the ABILITY to learn, but he generally speaking can't be fucked. Like, if Chris sat down and hit the books and actually tried, maybe he could turn into a more or less well rounded individual who knows how the world works. In practice though? He has about as much knowledge about life and everything in it as your typical 5 year old.
Chris is, I think, too mentally stunted to ever hold down a serious job. There's a lot of reasons for that. He came out of what is obviously a very dysfunctional and toxic environment, he never had the formative experiences most people have when they are kids. This guy didn't even talk until he was 6. His parents didn't know how to deal with him so they just sort of let him wither away by himself. On top of all that he has autism, which while not meaningful in and of itself probably exacerbates all his other issues.
I think Chris knows, on some level, that there are things he needs to do to improve his life, that he needs to grow up, that Barb isn't gonna be around forever and that if he doesn't get his shit together then he'll end up on the street, dead, or in jail. Thing is, his life has been so universally bleak (due in no small part to his tendency to overreact and give the internet what it wants) that he basically just takes refuge in childish crapola. Pokemon never made fun of him in school. Sonic never yelled at him when he worked at Wendy's. That's his happy place. And he's terrified to leave it. And now he's so far gone he never will.
Is welfare necessary? To some degree, yes. Does Chris deserve it? In my opinion, no.
Some people will simply not be able to hold down a job, let's say certain kinds of disabled people. Autism specifically is tricky, because it's a very broad spectrum and people with the same diagnosis may have incredibly different quirks and problems. Some will be able to be a contributing member of society, while others might not have any chance at all to ever get a job because of their condition, no matter how hard they try.
Chris would be capable to hold down an easy job if he was actually motivated to do so and better himself. The problem with him is that he's content with leeching of the government and doesn't give a shit about even trying, and I believe that those who don't even make the effort to the best of their ability are not deserving of welfare money.
Chris is never going to be able to hold down a steady job. The dude is obviously mentally ill on top of all his other flaws, at least in my own armchair-psychologist meaningless opinion. It's not even just autism at any rate, that much is obvious. I'm pretty sure the courts made him see a psychiatrist, which is a good thing personally. I don't know what the good doc's opinion was, but I doubt it's just "autism" like it was when he was in college. Keep in mind this is a guy who seems to think that Sonichu is an actual flesh and blood creature that exists in a parallel universe to our own.
Also anybody who googles his name is gonna get...well....come on. Everything. Every single thing about him.
Add that to his rapidly expanding criminal record, the way he presents himself, his general creepiness...
Chris ain't getting a job. Not one he can live off anyway. And he'd quickly get fired from any menial labor shit he could get.
As much as Chris abuses government assistance, he's gonna need it when Barb dies. I don't think Chris living on the street would be good for anybody. He'd last a week before ending up dead or in jail.