BillRiley said:
Ran across this early drawing in Chris-Chan's scrapbook some time ago:
It's labled "CWCsPossibleFuture."
That is a pastel drawing I drew in High School of a likely future for me; me and my future wife (physical appearance to actual future not necessarily applicable) and our child watching television. That's on the right half of the drawing; on the left half I'm working at a job on an assembly line. (courtesy GroundUpSweetheart)
Okay, now, this right here is a perfect example of a piece of evidence that could've been submitted to Child Protective Services that Chris was not getting the proper intellectual exercise he needed. You notice anything familiar about this drawing? Well, if you lived in the (admittedly varying) Chandler household for 17 (more or less) years, you would have.
What are we looking at here? Chris's vision of his future. On one side, he's working at a factory. But not just any factory! He's not making cars or furniture or computers, oh no. Chris is working at a
pokemon factory. Then, on the other side, we have a senior Chandler, sitting with Mrs. Chandler, while little Chris Jr. - a boy dressed exactly like his father - lays in front of the TV that they're all watching.
What's so wrong about this? What about this is so indicative of the severe lack of mental training CWC was desperately in need of? Well, Chris saw himself working at a pokemon factory because he was a pokemon nut at the time. Other students may have drawn themselves working at an office, in front of a computer, working construction, or whatever. Just like with
How the Pokemon Came Into Our Pokeballs, Chris has done absolutely nothing to think outside of his immediate experience and desires. Even his family life is pictured as
the exact same as it was when he was in high school. The guy truly had the brain of a child, even when he desperately needed to gear up for adulthood.
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