It's funny how everything else about Chris is an open book to the extreme, but not his childhood behavior or punishments. He talks ad nauseum about everything else about himself.
I guess he just has such a bad memory (despite Bob and he claiming he had a photographic memory) that he doesn't remember.
Maybe he wasn't punished much because he didn't talk, and his parents know there was something wrong with him? Mostly all 2 year-olds can talk and that's around the age you would start holding kids partially responsible for some things and maybe giving them a pat on the butt. But because of his 'tism symptoms they didn't.
By the way, growing up my mother would beat us kids unmerciful with a belt if I so much as looked at her cross ways (and she used to smack my teenage sister across the mouth) and I don't have a spanking fetish and have never been violet in the my life. I was however an extremely well behaved child. My mother's best friend used to marvel at the fact that when we were over her house, my siblings and I would sit quietly and then ask her permission before petting her dogs at 3 years old!
Then I knew these kids with ADHD, and I couldn't believe how the got away with doing cartwheels in the doctors office waiting room at like 8!
One of the episodes I saw of the TV show Scared Straight had a kid who was 12 but looked 7 or 8 and the prisoners were going ape-shit, screaming at him that they wanting to "rape the baby"!
With Chris's current Tomgirl skirts and hair, he would probably get a similar reaction! lol It would do him a world of good and be hilarious to watch. It scared the kid straight by the way. He stopped worried his poor mother with all this thieving and tomfoolery.
What if Chris's parents had been the type to ban TV and video games in the house and didn't indulge him and spoil him with that stuff?
I assume he would have gotten as equally obsessed with whatever children's books he would be allowed to read. (Arthur, Dr. Seuss, Mother Goose)
Since he takes everything so literally, it would have been best for him to stick to non-fiction books really.
Personally, I think he would have been better off. TV was definitely not a positive influence.
Maybe without wasting all his time on games he could have played outdoors or some kind of sport. At least he would be physically healthier and bonded with other kids.