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thegooddoctor said:
I am honestly shocked Chris looks fondly back on high school days with such fondness considering how badly even today autistic people can get treated, not to power level too much but I’m just on the cusp end of being millennial age and autistic people still get often the short end of the stick even in modern schools.

Chris is obviously a unreliable narrator to say the least, but how was he not more bullied considering back in the 90s and understanding of autism was much lower than now. Did he just get ridiculously lucky and Manchester High was actually really chill and staunchly liberal with dealing with kids with disabilities? Was it because his parents paid teens to be nice to him? How did he get so lucky?
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Chris's contemporary journal mentions "immature high school boys" perhaps hinting at being picked on, but he has since edited his memories so that high school was the best time of his life
 
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thegooddoctor said:
I am honestly shocked Chris looks fondly back on high school days with such fondness considering how badly even today autistic people can get treated, not to power level too much but I’m just on the cusp end of being millennial age and autistic people still get often the short end of the stick even in modern schools.

Chris is obviously a unreliable narrator to say the least, but how was he not more bullied considering back in the 90s and understanding of autism was much lower than now. Did he just get ridiculously lucky and Manchester High was actually really chill and staunchly liberal with dealing with kids with disabilities? Was it because his parents paid teens to be nice to him? How did he get so lucky?
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Maybe high school was the best period of his miserable life, because it was the only time gals didn't run away from him in disgust.
 
Groon said:
Maybe high school was the best period of his miserable life, because it was the only time gals didn't run away from him in disgust.
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It was the only time people were forced to tolerate his BO and weird noises. I don't know why he makes such a big deal out of it. He couldn't make any meaningful connections or really understand people.
 
thegooddoctor said:
Chris is obviously a unreliable narrator to say the least, but how was he not more bullied considering back in the 90s and understanding of autism was much lower than now. Did he just get ridiculously lucky and Manchester High was actually really chill and staunchly liberal with dealing with kids with disabilities? Was it because his parents paid teens to be nice to him? How did he get so lucky?
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High schoolers have not reached full maturity but they are mature enough not to fuck with a developmentally challenged kid in Ash Ketchum cosplay. Even if there were a few who wanted to they would know he is being closely monitored by school staff and if they tried they would get in serious trouble for fucking with the retarded kid.

Debbie Macomber said:
Chris's contemporary journal mentions "immature high school boys" perhaps hinting at being picked on, but he has since edited his memories so that high school was the best time of his life
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It doesn't necessarily mean he was picked on. Chris was a teacher's pet so he took pride in behaving and following school rules. Really though, it was just Chris coping because he was jealous that all of the "immature" low intelligence boys that would do evil things like throw paper balls across the room and make elbow farts had girlfriends unlike himself, a well behaved mature honor roll student and artistic genius.

Mariposa2.0 LTE said:
Here's a random thought. Chris is like an e.coli spore right now. Fucking boring.
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He is most definitely drugged up to keep him from losing his sanity. Unfortunately though as long as he continues to dye his hair blue and wear skirts any treatment he receives will be the equivalent of cutting a weed with scissors rather than plucking it out from the root.
 
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D is for Stupid said:
I wonder with all the professional help he's getting if he'll drop the Jesus complex.
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I think he already sorta has just because he's isn't cooped up with nothing but the Bible and Jane Austen anymore.

It will always be one of his titles, but it will fade into the background like CPU Goddess Blueheart, Mayor of CWCville, and Cherokian Chief all did
 
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I am utterly convinced that Bob was autistic and gave Chris his autism gene. I'm going to share my thought process:
- Autism does not materialize in a child out of thin air. Most autism is caused by genetics, either from their mother and/or their father
- Bob has some autistic traits, although it is not as bad as Chris, such as special interests (No Sonic in the 1950s, so he collected a fuck ton of records and made machinery)
- According to Bob on Chris's first date with Emily, he is "logically-inclined," most autistic people are described this way.
- Cole Smithey is not autistic. Why? Bob is not his biological father, but Barb is. Cole actually has Barb's sociopath gene. That also explains why Chris is the way he is, an autistic sociopath.
 
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furniture0 said:
- Bob has some autistic traits, although it is not as bad as Chris, such as special interests (No Sonic in the 1950s, so he collected a fuck ton of records and made machinery)
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Did you note that one of the patents he had was on a machine for counting train cars?
 
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furniture0 said:
According to Bob on Chris's first date with Emily, he is "logically-inclined," most autistic people are described this way.
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"Logically inclined"
 
furniture0 said:
- Autism does not materialize in a child out of thin air. Most autism is caused by genetics, either from their mother and/or their father
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It's been memory-holed now, but the incident that caused the end of the psychoanalytic "refrigerator mother" theory of autism was an epidemic of German measles that showed a correlation between German measles during pregnancy and autism in the child. I think the memory-holing was induced by the "vaccines cause autism" people (I don't agree with this point of view, but I don't think we should throw away information because people will make a nuisance out of it).
Your point of view here is more in keeping with the "autism spectrum" thing that is being pushed now. To me it just seems to be an abdication of responsibility by the medical establishment to find underlying causes combined with a failing attempt at pro-autism propaganda. They say "Your son is autistic, but that means he's special like Einstein and Isaac Newton" and this is supposed to take the edge off when he deliberately shits himself each morning and then slaps his mother around and headbutts through a door.
AnOminous said:
Did you note that one of the patents he had was on a machine for counting train cars?
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I suspect that an autist would find a machine that counts train cars to spoil the fun, like a machine that builds your Lego or paints your Warhammer figurines for you.
 
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furniture0 said:
I am utterly convinced that Bob was autistic and gave Chris his autism gene. I'm going to share my thought process:
- Autism does not materialize in a child out of thin air. Most autism is caused by genetics, either from their mother and/or their father
- Bob has some autistic traits, although it is not as bad as Chris, such as special interests (No Sonic in the 1950s, so he collected a fuck ton of records and made machinery)
- According to Bob on Chris's first date with Emily, he is "logically-inclined," most autistic people are described this way.
- Cole Smithey is not autistic. Why? Bob is not his biological father, but Barb is. Cole actually has Barb's sociopath gene. That also explains why Chris is the way he is, an autistic sociopath.
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Honestly it’s far more likely that Chris is autistic simply on account of the age of his parents when they gave birth to him. There is a strong link between the age of the mother or father and having their child be born with autism, considering Barb was around 40 and Bob was already in his late 50´s by the time Chris was conceived that’s probably why. His shitty hick genes fucked him up.
 
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