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ChurchOfGodBear said:
Hiyoo!!

...But seriously. Chris and Barb sharing a room is upsetting enough. Personally, I wonder if it resulted in Chris no longer watching porn (evidenced by the craigslist ad) or simply resigned to watching it with his mom. The implication there being Barb would rather watch porn with her autistic son than be alone.
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Honestly I don't think the wanting to spoon joke is that off the mark. I think we have enough evidence to show that she is fairly possessive about Chris (rarely letting him go out on his own, disliking things like the Emily date, etc). Even Chris, who is fairly whipped, has said things like "She doesn't want me to have a girlfriend and leave her." Hyperbole or not this is fairly damning. This doesn't include what little we know of her pre-Chris past because that's pretty sketch. But if it is true she seems to have had issues with relationships since forever and didn't have the most stable family life.

Since Bob died it, along with the hoarding, has gotten worse. Hoarding Chris is her terribly unhealthy way saying she doesn't want to die alone.

Also she's crazy.
 
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I always thought there was a "final straw moment" like Chris shit the bed again, or got in trouble with jerkops and barb forbade him from his room. Apparently that wasn't the case though. ;(
 
sparklemilhouse said:
Ugh surprised Chris isin't tarding out on fb today about world autism day. EVERYBODY PAY ATTENTION TO ME TODAY IS MY SPEXIAL DAY.
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Christian Love Day is Chris's special day. World Autism Day is something he'd have to share with other autistics, and Chris does not share the spotlight well.
 
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I believe someone did bring up that there was a possibility that in the back of his mind, Chris was on the love quest partly so that he could get away from Barb. I can see where people are coming from with the "Barb is hoarding Chris" theory. Barb's only other son has left her, her husband(s) are either dead or off the radar, most of her family is probably dead too. Barb had seven other siblings she had to share with, and probably didn't have much. The hoard was probably her way of compensating for that, and now that's gone so Chris is pretty much all she has left.
 
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A while back, I posted an "edited" version of A Week With Christian Chandler. So... I've been working on that. In the meantime, I've noticed this. I'm kind of curious... why does Chris list his future address as 46 Branchland Court? Honest mistake? Did they make an offer on a nearby house that fell through?
 
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sparklemilhouse said:
I always thought there was a "final straw moment" like Chris shit the bed again, or got in trouble with jerkops and barb forbade him from his room. Apparently that wasn't the case though. ;(
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Nah, the final straw moment was some situation where Chris didn't want to stay in the room with her. No, seriously, Barb might've even gotten physical over this shit.

Barb is nuts.
 
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Marvin said:
Nah, the final straw moment was some situation where Chris didn't want to stay in the room with her.
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So Barb was asking him to stay in the same room as her because she's nuts, Chris refused, and she flipped her shit?
 
Marvin said:
Nah, the final straw moment was some situation where Chris didn't want to stay in the room with her. No, seriously, Barb might've even gotten physical over this shit.

Barb is nuts.
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Wait what?!?!?! I have no memory of this ever being mentioned. Is there any chance we can have a bit more light shed on the subject? This sounds like some "NO MORE WIRE HANGERS" level shit.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
So Barb was asking him to stay in the same room as her because she's nuts, Chris refused, and she flipped her shit?
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Yeah.

DrChristianTroy said:
Wait what?!?!?! I have no memory of this ever being mentioned. Is there any chance we can have a bit more light shed on the subject? This sounds like some "NO MORE WIRE HANGERS" level shit.
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Don't think there's public info on the subject.

I mean, ultimately she's nuts, but she'll make up bullshit to justify what she does. But her excuses are completely retarded by normal people's standards. Fatty's gonna do what she says, when she says it, or he's out on his ass. It doesn't always accelerate that fast, mostly because she's got Chris tamed by this point. But it has happened.
 
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Marvin said:
Fatty's gonna do what she says, when she says it, or he's out on his ass. It doesn't always accelerate that fast, mostly because she's got Chris tamed by this point. But it has happened.
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I thought Barb was always bluffing when she threatened to throw Chris out, because of the whole "hoarding him" thing.

DrChristianTroy said:
From the film Mommie Dearest and this is the most famous quote. Hope the Wikipedia link clears it up a bit more.
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Thanks for the info. I thought for a moment that there was some new story in the Chris saga I hadn't heard of with that. I'm not very well rounded when it comes to cinema.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I thought Barb was always bluffing when she threatened to throw Chris out, because of the whole "hoarding him" thing.
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It's kind of a moot point, because Chris would never grow a pair and assert himself against a living Barb. If Chris did have balls, he just simply wouldn't be Chris. He'd be Cole. And Barb would definitely throw Cole out if he asserted himself against her.

Barb only attempts to hoard Chris because she knows she can. I've been thinking about this for awhile, it's deep stuff. *yawn* (Seriously, I wish I wasn't out of weed...)
 
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Barb reminds me a little bit of my paternal grandmother. My father was raised with his brother and sister in a strict Orthodox Jewish household, and my grandmother came from an affluent family in the area that they lived in. She had been tightening both the purse and apron stings around her children since before they were born and wouldn't let them leave the house. If any of them got married, she was adamant about having them move in to live with the rest of the family. My father was the only one of the three who stood up to her and has been estranged from her for years. Unfortunately the other two were submissive and still live with my grandmother to this day, still unmarried and childless. They have both gone on date after date, but to no avail and they are both in their 50s. I look back at Barb and Chris and know that something very similar is going to happen to Chris.

I like to think that while Chris is in his early 30s, he could still have a chance of getting out of there. That is, until I remember that Chris has massive debt, timid, has almost no practical skills to help him when Snorlax finally faints for good. Barb has the apron strings tied tight, and unfortunately there isn't much that we can do to help. Not trying to sound like a white knight or anything, but I have a pretty good idea of where he's coming from.
 
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Anonimo said:
I like to think that while Chris is in his early 30s, he could still have a chance of getting out of there. That is, until I remember that Chris has massive debt, timid, has almost no practical skills to help him when Snorlax finally faints for good.
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I have known a lot of people at my campus have gone back to school after being out of education for 4+ years. They have no kids and what seems like all the time in the world. But we see our autistic wonder playing vidya and playing the damned fool. A fancy new degree is not a guarantee of money or a job or anything else. But for a lot of people that is the difference between working retail for $8 an hour vs. a job you can have a retirement plan. Yes, you are probably going to move around not only for your education, but for jobs as well. Barb sucks and would stop all of that since Chris might end up better than she could. But even if she passed away tonight, she has done so much damage to her son. Chris doesn't have the ability and understanding how to be separate from his mother.
 
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