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LazloChalos said:
I keep getting this nagging feeling that there is a real Chris under all that autism, one that knows how screwed he is but is buried and repressed through distracting endeavors so as not to focus on the depressing truth.

Not that it would be a dramatic improvement over the brittle seaweed mess we currently have.

Less "Split" and more like the final sketch of "That Mitchell and Webb Look"
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Chris has self-awareness buried underneath thick layers of obfuscating autism and lego. I speculate that what he calls "stress" must be the depressing episodes that happen every time he gains some clarity and realizes his life is shit.
 
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BurningPewter said:
Something has just occurred to me - has Chris ever laughed - like a real spontaneous laugh to something he finds amusing? Heck, has he ever even fake laughed? He sits and watched family guy and stuff but he seems to take them seriously.
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Chris is human (albeit a very weird one) he still laughs at things but he's rarely in a situation on camera that warrants laughing or most jokes tend to go over his head anyways.
But here's an example of him genuinely laughing - go to 39:00, he laughs at all his own jokes in this segment:
 
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Marvin said:
I might try to put one together.

Chris is very consciously worried about how screwed he is when Barb dies. He's talked about it on facebook.

But if you're wondering if he's aware of all his fuckups? Probably not.

Like, consider his face blindness. It's not that Chris can't see faces at all. Chris can see the various details of a face: nose, eyes, mouth, ears. But when it comes time to look at the overall picture, and see how they fit together to make a coherent whole, that's where he falls down. When someone's eyes are too close together, or their face is a bit too long, those features are too subtle for Chris to recognize consistently.

Chris' view of his life is like that. Chris is aware that getting arrested for stuff is bad, and he's aware that it's not good to be unemployed for too long. But he hears about other people getting arrested (for little things, like say a college prank) and other people being out of the workforce for awhile (maybe they got sick or had to care for children or family members), and Chris wonders what makes those people different from him. All the differences he sees are superficial.

Any comparison involving scale or scope is probably going to be too subtle for Chris to master. Especially if Chris is one of the things being compared.

A minor theory I've got is that that's why, when talking about sex, Chris focuses on breasts and vaginas, but he completely ignores things like overall body shape and features like butts. The difference between a nice ass and a flat, uninteresting ass, is too subtle for Chris to scope out. Primary sex characteristics are very important to Chris because they're difficult to misidentify.
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The way I think about it is that Chris has difficulty noticing and understanding things that can't be easily described. The face thing is a classic example. You ask me or most other people to describe how someone looks we will say similar things to what Chris would. Height, weight, hair, and a few other things. We have difficulty describing the other subtle differences in faces in a way that is universally understood, but that doesn't mean we confuse them. But Chris doesn't look past these things.

It applies to all kinds of other things. If you asked me why you can't sit in a mall with a sign asking for a date, but it is perfectly acceptable to go on a dating website and do that, it would be hard for me to give a simple answer other than, "that's just not how things work". But that concept still makes perfect sense to me, but it alludes Chris.

If you look at his fuckups, particularly the ones he doesn't seem to understand, they fit into that category. We all grasp immediately that they are fuck-ups, but it often isn't so straight forward to explain why they are.
 
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Laughs_Under_Lucricities said:
Here's a question I don't think anyone's brought up:

Barb dies, whatever then happens to Chris, whether he's still somehow able to keep living at 14 Branchland until he dies or is evicted, whatever; what would then become of that house? A once beautiful abode destroyed by the Chandlers. Demolished after being rebuilt (of course if Chris still lives there for years, this point is moot) or will some brave person buy it on discount and attempt to restore it?

It'll be a real life:
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Not really, Tom Hanks and Shelly Long worked hard to keep their place running and Tom had Shelly as his sweetheart.
 
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Has Chris ever thought about becoming a camwhore?

Sure it's a niche market but theres plenty of perverts sick enough to pay him to show his goochole and mantits.
 
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He is a breath away from being a camwhore, all he needs now is to add a pa-

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Good god... All things considered at least ONE of us would be his number 1 customer in order to keep up-to-date!
 
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