Chris was diagnosed before the great watering-down of autism. "High functioning" meant that he could speak, drive, wipe his own arse* etc. Nobody who didn't need some kind of special education would have been diagnosed as "autistic" back then.
Actually back then they would have generally just been diagnosed as retarded. And "high functioning" meant that maybe he actually had decent scores on IQ tests but was still obviously dumb as fuck and completely socially incapable.
His boomer parents were probably afraid he'd be institutionalized or put in a group home (which probably would have been the best result) and Bob literally moved out of county to avoid Chris getting the treatment that might have made him semi-normal (but probably would not have).
So I agree with you that Chris is definitely autistic, and "high-functioning" was definitely the term of the time for literally not just being a head-banging drooling retard, but the funny thing is he would have been more accurately termed, even at the time, as having Asperger's, something that has since been abolished for political and not medical or scientific reasons.
"Muh spectrum." Muh fuck you quack shrinks.
Chris was diagnosed before the great watering-down of autism. "High functioning" meant that he could speak, drive, wipe his own arse* etc. Nobody who didn't need some kind of special education would have been diagnosed as "autistic" back then.
Actually back then they would have generally just been diagnosed as retarded. And "high functioning" meant that maybe he actually had decent scores on IQ tests but was still obviously dumb as fuck and completely socially incapable.
His boomer parents were probably afraid he'd be institutionalized or put in a group home (which probably would have been the best result) and Bob literally moved out of county to avoid Chris getting the treatment that might have made him semi-normal (but probably would not have).
So I agree with you that Chris is definitely autistic, and "high-functioning" was definitely the term of the time for literally not just being a head-banging drooling retard, but the funny thing is he would have been more accurately termed, even at the time, as having Asperger's, something that has since been abolished for political and not medical or scientific reasons.
"Muh spectrum." Muh fuck you quack shrinks.