The Facebook Thread MK 2.

[Bugaboo]

I love how all of Chris's favorite movies are kiddy movies. That's so Chris.

 

[fridgesrants]

The idea that Chris was excluded from pep rallies in high school, voluntarily or not, paints a picture of him being a lot less functional (if involuntary), or less popular and integrated (if voluntary) than I previously thought.

Also, as an Australian, what is a pep rally exactly?

As a brit I would also like to know what these things are, so I can decide how loud to laugh at chris for being too sensitive for them

A Pep Rally is a high school event to raise moral for the schools sports teams. There is usually loud cheering and music.

 

[NIA-DOA]

"I was exempt from [pep rallies] because they were too loud for me."

lmfao. I don't know why that shit sticks out at me.

Yep. Just more proof that Chris wasn't nearly as "mainstreamed" as he believed he was.

 

[Horse Boots]

Also, as an Australian, what is a pep rally exactly?

The week of a big high school sporting event, the school stops class and gathers everyone in the gym. The band will play loud music and the cheerleaders will get everyone to scream and yell. At the ones I went to they would sometimes pick students out of the stands to come down on the floor and do stupid games (relay races and such). I think the general idea is to get everyone's school spirit all pumped up for the big football game on Friday night, but most probably just see it as an excuse to get out of class.

 

[CatParty]

i somehow can see chris having lester burnham type fantasies at the rallies he was allowed to attend

 

[Very Honest Content]

The week of a big high school sporting event, the school stops class and gathers everyone in the gym. The band will play loud music and the cheerleaders will get everyone to scream and yell. At the ones I went to they would sometimes pick students out of the stands to come down on the floor and do stupid games (relay races and such). I think the general idea is to get everyone's school spirit all pumped up for the big football game on Friday night, but most probably just see it as an excuse to get out of class.

My high school would also have them for our basketball teams (because our men's basketball team was real gooooood and our football team did not finish with winning records sometimes) and Chris was the waterboy/manajerk for his basketball team so there's that angle possibly in play for consideration in this little tidbit.

 

[CatParty]

he probably thought the mascots were anthropomorphic animals come to life.

 

[Horse Boots]

It's not too surprising to me that Chris sat out the pep rallies. This kid I know who has Asperger's hated them. Early on, at least, it was way too much sensory overload and he couldn't really handle it. In his later years of high school he had grown up a little more and had learned to deal with them just fine, though we can't expect the same kind of personal improvement from Chris. I wouldn't be surprised if he exempted himself from the rallies all the way through his "seinor" year.

 

[Varis]

Spoiler

At first I was upset that the fleshlights were just recolors of one design.

Then I looked closer.

And they weren't.

And I was even more upset.

(yes I know they're fake.)

 

[Kosher Dill]

I actually don't hold it against him for the whole pep rally thing. A few of the ones we had at my high school were loud enough to cause physical pain, and that's an acquired taste to say the least.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

Chris is so freaking worried about people knowing about his e-fame. I don't blame him in the least but he really needs to understand that the word for "general public" is the "mainstream."

And surprisingly, Chris hasn't been "mainstreamed" at all. He did appear in the local news, but as a contest winner. The only time he has ever been in the "mainstream" as the infamous Our Pet Lolcow was when he was on that MTV show as a Tomgirl.

I can imagine him always telling every person he miraculously does meet to NOT look up his name on Google, giving them a good reason to do so.

I wonder why when Chris tells people to ignore Google results, he expects them to do so.

Chris thinks if he tells someone to do something, they will because he told them to. And yet, how many times has he been told to change his phone number, by how many people?

 

[Thetan]

I actually don't hold it against him for the whole pep rally thing. A few of the ones we had at my high school were loud enough to cause physical pain, and that's an acquired taste to say the least.

Heh, I kinda don't blame him there either. I HATED pep rallies. Then again, I was one of those weird, Tolkien-reading, geek/freak kids who hung out in the girls room and on the patio, smoking clove cigarettes. Good times.....

 

[Dollars2010]

Soon Chris will get a murrsuit of his ponysona:

 

[DV 259]

The idea that Chris was excluded from pep rallies in high school, voluntarily or not, paints a picture of him being a lot less functional (if involuntary), or less popular and integrated (if voluntary) than I previously thought.

This brings up another interesting possibility - that his high school gal-pals were student volunteers/tutors in his special ed classes, instead of TRUE and HONEST gal-pals. At my school, a few of my friends volunteered to be student tutors during their free periods and helped out in the remedial classes. If Chris' school had a similar program, maybe that's what those girls did and he fixated on them.

 

[Thetan]

The idea that Chris was excluded from pep rallies in high school, voluntarily or not, paints a picture of him being a lot less functional (if involuntary), or less popular and integrated (if voluntary) than I previously thought.

This brings up another interesting possibility - that his high school gal-pals were student volunteers/tutors in his special ed classes, instead of TRUE and HONEST gal-pals. At my school, a few of my friends volunteered to be student tutors during their free periods and helped out in the remedial classes. If Chris' school had a similar program, maybe that's what those girls did and he fixated on them.

Something like Best Buddies maybe? If you Google the organization, you'll see a lot of pictures and videos of cute, even hot high school girls paired up with speshul kids like Chris.

EDIT:
Apparently, Best Buddies isn't just for kids. Adults can have buddies too, and Vanessa Hudgens is a member!

Chris may want to consider joining Best Buddies. China Gal pals, china everywhere......

Buddies group photo.

Spoiler

 

[DangDirtyTrolls]

Something like Best Buddies maybe? If you Google the organization, you'll see a lot of pictures and videos of cute, even hot high school girls paired up with speshul kids like Chris.

That would be an amazing opportunity for Chris until he starts hitting on the women, ignoring their rebuttals and gets kicked out because of 'that dang, dirty Micheal Snyder'

 

[hm yeah]

I'm extremely sensitive to noises (and neurotypical, although I guess I have some aspergian traits - including freaking out after hearing loud, startling noises). During pep rallies, I'd just vanish for a while.

Actually, I vanished frequently during high school.

 

[NIA-DOA]

The idea that Chris was excluded from pep rallies in high school, voluntarily or not, paints a picture of him being a lot less functional (if involuntary), or less popular and integrated (if voluntary) than I previously thought.

This brings up another interesting possibility - that his high school gal-pals were student volunteers/tutors in his special ed classes, instead of TRUE and HONEST gal-pals. At my school, a few of my friends volunteered to be student tutors during their free periods and helped out in the remedial classes. If Chris' school had a similar program, maybe that's what those girls did and he fixated on them.

You know, that is very real possibility. Not only that, but if this was case, that means all of Chris' yearning to back in high school is based on not only rose-colored vision, but an outright lie! Damn CWC is depressing...

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

Cool kids don't go to pep rallies anyway. They skip them and go smoke pot.

I maintain that Chris should start getting high. It could only make him cooler, really.

 

[The Dude]

I never even went to the games and rarely went to dances. I also went truant or "sluffed" as we called it.