What does Chris expect from life?

[Alec Benson Leary]

It's the other way around.

Other people don't care about him?

In a roundabout way. He sucks as a human now because Borb didn't care about raising him right.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I think the problem with Chris is he has no idea how life actually works and lives vicariously through cartoons and media aimed at young adults where everything just works out in the end even if the protagonist isn't even trying.

 

[JustSomeGuy]

I think his biggest problem is that he thinks in absolutes and immediates. On top of that, he's lazy. Very lazy. He wants to fill what ever need he has at that exact moment and doesn't care otherwise. Heck, if he managed to get a girl somehow, he'd likely not change his routine beyond occasionally getting (or trying to get) head and that's only so he wouldn't have to put down his DSi. He'd even think she was trolling him if she didn't get pregnant on his first try. Chris wants to have whatever he can get at that exact moment and barely cares beyond that. Anything more is either too much work, he's distracted by something else, or it's just easier to ignore it. I'll even bet that's part of what influenced the Attraction Signs. He was shy, yes, but it also allowed him to do other things while passively still barely trying to find a boyfriend-free girl. Worst thing is, this only seems to have gotten worse over time. If we saw the sign come back, he'd probability just write 'Sex. Girls Only.' on it and stick it in the window of his car so he wouldn't have to put forth the effort of actually walking in somewhere.

 

[GFYS]

Adding to the complication is a point that Alec and others mention every so often... His "logic" and "memory" (if you can even call them that) are completely infirm. They'll change at a whim.

Say Chris wants pity from someone. He tells them Ivy was a troll, and broke his heart. He probably believes that 100%, when he says it. 3 minutes later, Chris needs to prove he's desirable. He tells them Ivy was one of his many lovers. He probably believes that 100%, when he says it. He can contradict himself in the same sentence, and believe both possibilities because... because...

I bet if Chris were assigned some kind of professional therapy, it'd be maddening, because - no matter how much of himself he bares - his drives and reasoning change minute by minute. What's causing his problems right now might not be what causing his problems 30 seconds from now. There may be too many problems to address, or there simply might not be any reasonable therapy for having thousand island dressing for a brain.

 

[Greg Sestero]

Other people don't care about him?

I mean that he doesn't care about people because he has problems with empathy. Saying he has problems with empathy because he doesn't care would be like saying that he's blind because he can't see.

What Alec said is correct, though.

Edit: To answer your actual question, no, other people don't care about him.

 

[Silver]

I bet if Chris were assigned some kind of professional therapy, it'd be maddening, because - no matter how much of himself he bares - his drives and reasoning change minute by minute. What's causing his problems right now might not be what causing his problems 30 seconds from now. There may be too many problems to address, or there simply might not be any reasonable therapy for having thousand island dressing for a brain.

I'm at college to be a music therapist. Therapy of any kind with OPL would be maddening. Not least because therapy expects some modicum of self-change as the therapist suggests, which CWC would never do.

As for music therapy, I think it would be impossible to find lessons that stick without trying to make him improve himself outside of session. :/ I would pay money for the chance to drag him down to my uni and get my professors to try a few sessions with him, but that won't happen, sadly.

 

[CatParty]

I bet if Chris were assigned some kind of professional therapy, it'd be maddening, because - no matter how much of himself he bares - his drives and reasoning change minute by minute. What's causing his problems right now might not be what causing his problems 30 seconds from now. There may be too many problems to address, or there simply might not be any reasonable therapy for having thousand island dressing for a brain.

I'm at college to be a music therapist. Therapy of any kind with OPL would be maddening. Not least because therapy expects some modicum of self-change as the therapist suggests, which CWC would never do.

As for music therapy, I think it would be impossible to find lessons that stick without trying to make him improve himself outside of session. :/ I would pay money for the chance to drag him down to my uni and get my professors to try a few sessions with him, but that won't happen, sadly.

the best therapy would be kind of like house training a dog. he needs to constantly be smacked on his snout with a newspaper in order to get the point across. the best example is when he tried roller skating. he fell down. it hurt. he realized he never wanted to do it again.

 

[Silver]

the best therapy would be kind of like house training a dog. he needs to constantly be smacked on his snout with a newspaper in order to get the point across. the best example is when he tried roller skating. he fell down. it hurt. he realized he never wanted to do it again.

That wouldn't be considered therapy though.

 

[CatParty]

the best therapy would be kind of like house training a dog. he needs to constantly be smacked on his snout with a newspaper in order to get the point across. the best example is when he tried roller skating. he fell down. it hurt. he realized he never wanted to do it again.

That wouldn't be considered therapy though.

shock therapy maybe?

 

[Christ-Chan]

the best therapy would be kind of like house training a dog. he needs to constantly be smacked on his snout with a newspaper in order to get the point across. the best example is when he tried roller skating. he fell down. it hurt. he realized he never wanted to do it again.

He got into the shower once but the water was slightly too hot and it smarted for a little bit.
Chris learned from his mistake, and so he never showered again.

Neuter your pets.

 

[Silver]

You'd never get him to go to therapy voluntarily. He would undermine any therapy a doctor tried to give him. No, the best way to get him treatment would be to have him committed to an institution, at which point he probably need to be under heavy medication. It would take absolutely years of work to get OPL to function like a semi-normal human being, doctors would not only need to compensate for thirty years worth of virtually untreated autism, but whatever other psychiatric disorders he has.

Trust me, I know all that. I just want to see how my professors would approach a few sessions with CWC. (I could learn a thing or two :p)

 

[Burning Love]

I would say at this point he doesn't really expect anything anymore. Maybe there's some faint hope that he will acquire a perfect supermodel 10/10 girlfriend and have a daughter named Crystal, all that jive, but realistically he probably knows by now that isn't going to happen. Look at how clearly hopeless and bitter he is. You don't get like that without at least a rudimentary understanding of how objectively bad your situation is. He very likely realizes to one extent or another that his life is supposed to consist of Pokemon and Facebook whining.

At the same time it's what he doesn't expect from life, or what he doesn't believe can happen to him in life, that is going to completely blindside him. He has no idea how bad it's going to be for him when Barb dies. He probably thinks, even though he would obviously be really sad (I mean fucking duh it's his mom), that he will finally be "free" to do even more nothing. He doesn't realize how Barb is his only connection to survival at this point. He has no idea what life is going to be like for him once that tie is severed and she's six feet under.

So the real question should be, what does Chris expect from life after Barb? Surely he doesn't expect her to live forever.

 

[CatParty]

let's not go down future speculation road.

 

[Burning Love]

let's not go down future speculation road.

Aren't we already on that?

Maybe there's some faint hope that he will acquire a perfect supermodel 10/10 girlfriend and have a daughter named Crystal, all that jive

There's no hope. Faint or otherwise.

There's no realistic hope but that doesn't mean that he doesn't have it. If there's one repeating pattern in dude's life, it's that he can believe things that are absofuckinglutely impossible.

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

the best therapy would be kind of like house training a dog. he needs to constantly be smacked on his snout with a newspaper in order to get the point across. the best example is when he tried roller skating. he fell down. it hurt. he realized he never wanted to do it again.

He got into the shower once but the water was slightly too hot and it smarted for a little bit.
Chris learned from his mistake, and so he never showered again.

Oh really?

Joshua (12:03:39 AM): do you put things in ur ass? if you do its kinda turn's me on
ChrisChanSonichu (12:04:06 AM): I did for a short time, but I found it uncomfortable for me, so I don't do that anymore.
Joshua (12:04:23 AM): comeon baby you still do it plzz tell me honey
ChrisChanSonichu (12:05:04 AM): sometimes with a narrow jet of water from my adjustable shower-head on a hose.

BTW, I know you were joking. I just couldn't help meself.

 

[CatParty]

Joshua (12:03:39 AM): do you put things in ur ass? if you do its kinda turn's me on
ChrisChanSonichu (12:04:06 AM): I did for a short time, but I found it uncomfortable for me, so I don't do that anymore.
Joshua (12:04:23 AM): comeon baby you still do it plzz tell me honey
ChrisChanSonichu (12:05:04 AM): sometimes with a narrow jet of water from my adjustable shower-head on a hose.

this needs to be a random txt

 

[Christ-Chan]

Oh really?

Joshua (12:03:39 AM): do you put things in ur ass? if you do its kinda turn's me on
ChrisChanSonichu (12:04:06 AM): I did for a short time, but I found it uncomfortable for me, so I don't do that anymore.
Joshua (12:04:23 AM): comeon baby you still do it plzz tell me honey
ChrisChanSonichu (12:05:04 AM): sometimes with a narrow jet of water from my adjustable shower-head on a hose.

BTW, I know you were joking. I just couldn't help meself.

A butt-shower isn't a shower, it's a bidet. A bidet used for sexual purposes is a perv-det, or perv-iére.

 

[CatParty]

chris expects hot lesbian scissorings

 

[YI 457]

A world without pickles, and jerks.

 

[Thetan]

Above all else, Chris expects people to cater to his autism.

He can't get a girl because of his damned shyness. He can't get a job because of his reputation online. He can't go to trading card games because the damn manajerks discriminate against autistic people.

The single worst thing Borb did for him was convince him that the world owes mentally disabled people an infinite amount of patience.

So the only reason he has a shit life isn't because of any personal failings on his part. It's because we as a society didn't cater enough to his autism. It's always someone else's fault. Just look at how he blamed Keurig for the house fire, and the firemen who saved his life for stealing Barb's possessions.

Sadly, some of the more militant disability rights activists espouse quite a few of these very same attitudes. ( I saw one over-the-top comment where someone actually tried to link a cure for autism to some sort of genocide / eugenics / ethnic cleansing thing. ) I'm really surprised that Chris hasn't involved himself with this bunch.