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WiseOldBadger said:What if Borb were 20 years younger when they had Chris i.e Bob born in 1947 and Barb in 1961. Would they have been able to do a better job at raising Chris?
I know they were poor parents. I just wonder how much of it was there shitty personalities (Barb) and how much of it was old school aversion to mental health, and sort of a distant stern idea toward parenting? Like maybe if they were younger they would have been more in tune with how to properly raise a child autistic or not?
My parents have told me before how easy I had it compared to them, and how stern and tough and distant my grandparents could sometimes be compared to them.
So if Borb were younger would their parenting have been exactly the same? Significantly different? Slightly different but not consequential enough to matter?
This would fundamentally rewrite Borb as people. Barb would meet Bob at age 19; she'd have Cole before she was born! Bob would also still be alive today.
Would Bob want to screw around with a Teenage Slut if he's a respectable age of 33? If Barb is like she was at that age, she doesn't know who CWC's father is and eventually marries the wrong man while Bob continues to visit her, ala Ran Colemann Yeats. Chris suffers a lot in common with Cole, indeed, the main difference is that Cole was pre-internet.
There are a lot of variables in here, but what we have is a superimposition of Dr. Chandler and Cole at the same time as Chris--and probably winding up a lot like Cole Smithey. Cole's not a success, even if he's a relative success compared to OPL.