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I_Am_Honor_Roll said:
What if Chris suffered from crippling alcoholism?
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He's made a few videos where he's noticeably drunk and he admitted that he was drinking at a bar prior to one of his infamous confrontations with Snyder. I don't think Chris has fell down the rabbit hole into total alcoholism, but I don't think he's exactly "sober" either. I get the impression that Chris lacks the self control and concern for his health to avoid overdoing it on alcohol. His family history doesn't exactly point him in a good direction on that one either.

In recent years he's been spending a fairly good amount of time in bars when he's not holed up in his room. For all we know Chris actually does have a bit of a problem. Generally speaking drinking by yourself, even in public, ain't exactly a good sign.

Ya know...like me.
Not projecting at all here.
Totally.
All about Chris.
I can stop whenever I want.
 
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What if Chris dropped LSD?

I read recently that during the 1960's, acid was used as a treatment for kids with autism. I believe the thinking behind this was that it could temporarily re-network parts of the brain which may not naturally communicate well, and kick start the synapses into firing off a little more efficiently.

A few slow-in-the-mind's who have written online about their experiences with LSD say that it helped to alleviate some of their autistic symptoms (sensory overloads, social ineptitude, concentration, empathy), though these claims are inconsistent and tripping balls is hardly an exact science.

Were Chris to drop acid, could the impact of the drug have a positive effect on his mind? Could it give his brain the hard-reset it so desperately needs and provide him with a greater sense of self-awareness? Or would he just freak out and shit himself?

Additionally, could Chris be convinced to take the drug under the pretense that it would cure his autism?
Is autism such a large part of his identity that he wouldn't want to?
Would it be immoral to trick him into taking LSD if you really truly honestly believed it would benefit him in the long run?

And most importantly, could we get him to film it?
 
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MudMux said:
What if Chris dropped LSD?

I read recently that during the 1960's, acid was used as a treatment for kids with autism. I believe the thinking behind this was that it could temporarily re-network parts of the brain which may not naturally communicate well, and kick start the synapses into firing off a little more efficiently.

A few slow-in-the-mind's who have written online about their experiences with LSD say that it helped to alleviate some of their autistic symptoms (sensory overloads, social ineptitude, concentration, empathy), though these claims are inconsistent and tripping balls is hardly an exact science.

Were Chris to drop acid, could the impact of the drug have a positive effect on his mind? Could it give his brain the hard-reset it so desperately needs and provide him with a greater sense of self-awareness? Or would he just freak out and shit himself?

Additionally, could Chris be convinced to take the drug under the pretense that it would cure his autism?
Is autism such a large part of his identity that he wouldn't want to?
Would it be immoral to trick him into taking LSD if you really truly honestly believed it would benefit him in the long run?

And most importantly, could we get him to film it?
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I've done acid. I can't imagine Chris being able to handle that kind of mindfuck with any semblance of grace. Granted most of the popular depictions of LSD ("dancing elephants") are bullshit. That being said, it can take your thought process into some weird ass, dark, places if you let it. A good example, most people when they look in a mirror tend to find some sort of flaw about themselves that bothers them. That's normal human insecurity right there, but on an average day people just sort of brush that off. Now add LSD to the equation and that one flaw feels like it's magnified a thousand times and your image in the mirror seems less like you and more like some sort of hideous mutant. I remember once I ended up producing this long word document while under the influence while dealing with various personal problems. I open it up the next day, not remembering it, and it's filled with descriptions of my organs being eaten by insects and me wondering if peeling off my skin will make it easier to get them out.

If you cannot keep your cool while tripping you are going to have one hell of a terrible few hours until it wears off.

Chris can't even keep his cool when he's sober.
 
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MudMux said:
Additionally, could Chris be convinced to take the drug under the pretense that it would cure his autism?
Is autism such a large part of his identity that he wouldn't want to?
Would it be immoral to trick him into taking LSD if you really truly honestly believed it would benefit him in the long run?
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It would be really fucked up to dose anyone with LSD without giving them some idea what to expect of the experience. It's a recipe for a bad trip.

I also think Chris would just flip out because he's a spastic already.

It seems like the sort of thing that should be done early when someone is actually still developing because otherwise it isn't going to be a formative experience or rewire anything, but just freak the person out.

Vault Boy said:
What if Chris joined an experimental super-soldier program?
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It would end up like Jacob's Ladder but with Sonichu shit.
 
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What if Chris joined an experimental super-soldier program?
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While Chris arguably does have some recessive mutant genes that could be coaxed out of him, the actual abilities that would manifest would more than likely be rather "meh". In all likelihood Chris would become one of those side characters in X-men comics that nobody really spends much time thinking about and that usually end up dead or just sort of sitting quietly in the background at the Xavier school, such as Negasonic Teenage Warhead or that boring flying kid that Joss Whedon had kill himself.

For its part the Canadian government would be highly dissapointed with the results of the weapon x program (alternative name: project sonichu) and would remove all funding rather quickly, realizing that their greatest success in the "super soldier" department is an autistic guy with the ability to photosynthesize or some lame, useless, shit.
 
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feedtheoctopus said:
He's made a few videos where he's noticeably drunk and he admitted that he was drinking at a bar prior to one of his infamous confrontations with Snyder.
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Was it that many? I can't be bothered to count, but it feels like more like two? Maybe more, I don't know. And there was Chris' big night out.
feedtheoctopus said:
I don't think Chris has fell down the rabbit hole into total alcoholism, but I don't think he's exactly "sober" either.
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I'm pretty sure he's almost entirely sober. Like, maybe a few beers in a given month, tops. And that's a more likely to be the case when he's going to Impulse. (I don't know how often he goes nowadays.)
feedtheoctopus said:
I get the impression that Chris lacks the self control and concern for his health to avoid overdoing it on alcohol.
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He does lack self control, but alcohol hasn't really appealed to him that much. He'll have a beer once in awhile, but he doesn't really enter into that feedback loop where you drink, and you're enjoying yourself, so you drink more, and then you drink more ...
feedtheoctopus said:
His family history doesn't exactly point him in a good direction on that one either.
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Well, we don't really know much about that. The "Bob and Barb were drunks" story came from Cole. It might be true, but Cole is a very unreliable narrator.
feedtheoctopus said:
In recent years he's been spending a fairly good amount of time in bars when he's not holed up in his room.
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It's more that he spends time in gay clubs that happen to have bars.
feedtheoctopus said:
For all we know Chris actually does have a bit of a problem.
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He doesn't. I'd describe it as... he really doesn't know how to party.

Legos, fast food and video games (and spending in general) are much more straightforward pleasures to Chris. He understands those a lot more intuitively. They come with instructions on how to enjoy them. To Chris, alcohol tastes bad and slightly makes him feel better, but it's expensive, relative to the amount of enjoyment gets out of it.

I bet if it wasn't for television cliches, Chris couldn't articulate why people even drink alcohol in the first place.
 
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Vault Boy said:
What if Chris joined a cult?
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They would worship him as Chris-Chan, the First of his Name, King of the Pickles and Seven Chinas, The One Who Brought Dirty, Crapped Briefs, Harbinger of Autism and Protector of the Realm of Cwcville.
 
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