Containment What If?

He'd make a facebook post about. Nothing to really discuss here.
 
He'd be disappointed because no boobies. But other than that, absolutely nothing.
 
The same thing if he saw the Jackie Robinson movie.

He'd be bored within the first 30 minutes and not understand the movie. He'd then zone out and think about vidya, sex and what he'd like to do with the trolls if he ever caught them.

Like CatParty said, if the movie doesn't have boobies, random access humor or flashy cartoon characters, he wouldn't like it.
 
I think Blockland would be more up his alley.
It's like Minecraft, but it's literally about building with Legos.
 
I don't think Chris would be interested in seeing a movie about the making of his favorite movie. He doesn't strike me as someone who would be into that.
 
What if, as mentioned in this thread http://www.cwckiforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3078, he were abandoned as a toddler by Borb and raised by another family with a different income and/or set of ideals i.e. wealthy liberal professionals from Manhattan?

What if he were raised by strict Asian "tiger parents"? (Though it would be unlikely that an Asian couple would adopt a child of another race let alone a mentally disabled child)

What if Chris were raised by uptight fundamentalist Christians along with their own "hoard" of at least a dozen other adopted slow-in-da-minds?

What if Chris was raised by poor hippies?

What if Chris was adopted by homos? (highly unlikely if not illegal in conservative rural Virginia in the 1980s)
 
Well, I am of the mind that both "nature" and "nurture" are involved. You're going to be predisposed towards some things, while others you pick up from your environment.

That being said... being the kind of person I am (edit: the kind who needs the millions of details before deciding), I don't think we can say what kind of person he'd be exactly without knowing the parenting style, the values taught, etc.

I don't think being adopted by a gay couple would guarantee that he'd be open-minded about "da homos," though. If he had parents that didn't tolerate laziness (not just strict Asian parents), he could certainly be more productive. However, all of them would have to have gotten CWC the care and help he needed at a young age or we could wind up with a similar result or something worse.
 
I'm pretty sure we've had a thread on this before, but whatever, we haven't discussed this in awhile.

As long as his parents were educated about autism and tried to get the help he needs, he most likely wouldn't end up as OPL. That doesn't mean he wouldn't be on the tugboat, but he'd at least be functional in society, and may have a part-time job to supplement his tugboat. He may also be seen as an eccentric but harmless person by others and as long as he could control his emotions, he'd likely still be at the Game Place and have a social outlet.

tl;dr - as long as his parents did the opposite of what Borb did, he'd be like the average person with HFA. However, his parents may be even nuttier than Borb and he still ends up as OPL.
 
He probably wouldn't watch it, but would still make a facebook post about it to try to show off as a sensitive person to his friend list.

"It is a touching and good movie to watch today."
 
I don't know about Chris, but somewhere in the world, a boy named Sammy will find the time and the means to make another YouTube rant filled with frick.
 
At the very worst we would have a male DrMusic2, from the info ED gleaned, she has had some form of disability services and as far as is known, hasn't been a nuisance anywhere but the internet. At best we would have a typical asspie.
 
What if one of you all had a boy or girl like Chris?

One who was HFA who loved video games, who wanted to go on a SweetHeart Quest or whatever..

How would you raise it? would you let the child play video games and run over people in cars lol? Seriously though... how would you manage?
 
Feed him to the gators! just kidding

To be serious, I'd keep the computer under lock and key and monitor him whenever he's using it, that way his embarrassing behavior can be kept away from the world, protecting him from becoming a lolcow. And I would ensure he doesn't develop a special snowflake complex the way Borb did with Chris. In other words, I would take an active role in the kid's life.
 
I've worked with a lot of autistic kids that could easily become Chris. The basis usually boil down to strictly limiting TV, vidya, computer, etc., trying to channel their obsessions into legitimate professions and hobbies (like getting him to take drawing classes, encouraging him to actually learn to code), and teaching them to socialize as close to a normal person as possible.

I actually worked with a girl who shared a lot of Chris's traits but is now in school to be an engineer because she had a supportive family and a decent education supplemented by sped classes as needed. She's still not normal and she's got some super weird traits, but she'll likely be a successful adult.
 
I might sell him to the zoo or a travelling circus lol!

Seriously though.. I would take an active role in his life and try and encourage interests aside from video games...

I have worked and volunteered with autistics before... plenty have chris like traits... I assume that the ones who just sit around playing video games all day do so because their parents sort of let them do whatever they felt like without strongly encouraging them to do constructive things?
 
Well, I wouldn't have made the mistakes that were made raising Chris. No mainstreaming or any of that.
And, if he became Chris-like in spite of all this, I'd kick him out.
 
That depends. Would a kingslapper be a part of the court?

I'd do my best to do the opposite of what Borb did.

Now, I play a good bit of vidya myself, but I think it'd be in the best interests of the child to teach them the difference between fantasy and reality (however I can) before letting them play any vidya. I don't think I'd ban it outright, considering said child would most likely have siblings (and my SO and I play vidya). (I mean that as in "s/he'd feel left out and could feel like we don't love her/him enough or that we favor the others" and "parents can play vidya, but s/he can't?")

Of course, there are other things to get the child involved in. But teaching the difference between fantasy and reality would be a crucial thing I'd do. There's already Chris who has a VERY warped sense of reality and one of my sisters seems to live in a fantasy world.
 
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