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- 10 de Ene, 2019
If Chris was born 10-15 years later, his reasons for being in special education would fall under “emotionally disturbed” or “mental instability NOS”. I highly doubt he’d be diagnosed with full-blown autism. His only real debilitating condition is an inability to accept being told “No Chris, you can’t just do whatever you want and expect others to comply”. It’s 75% environment, 25% genetics, and I’m only giving Chris the latter because of Barb’s own psychosis's and how he has an autistic niece from Bob’s side.
Yes, a healthy coping skill taught to children who live in unideal circumstances with some sort of physical/mental shortcoming is being able to reframe your problems in a way that lets you look at them holistically so you can determine the best way to tackle them. For a lot of these kids, what they wanted to do growing up and what they’re actually good at are two separate things. Chris wanted to be an acclaimed comic book artist, but can’t draw any better than Hellen Keller with Tourettes could. I could realistically see Chris working mechanical assembly, doing some mild soldering, and if he was really ambitious, being a low-level cable guy. Chris likes assembling things in a linear pattern; this is why he (and a ton of other exceptional children) love the fuck out of LEGO. Bob clearly had that niche in mind with Chris when he tried to teach him about computers, but for every half-a-step forward Bob would make with his son, Barb would pull him a dozen back by expecting him to do nothing but be quiet while she takes her special little boy to the toy store.
Chris doesn’t understand that happiness and self-esteem come from some measure of hardship, and that you’re not always going to be good at something the first time you set out to do something. Maybe Bob could’ve squished that mentality out of him, but he was 12 years older than his wife, and wasn’t spending nearly as much time with his son as Barb was. She taught Chris that any level of discomfort = bad, so concepts like eating healthy, exercise, study, and tough love were never part of his upbringing.
The coping strategies of seeing the challenges of accomplishing life’s milestones in a more positive angle were instead molded into one where Chris doesn’t just see life from a different angle, he sees it from a completely batshit pseudoreligious quantum metaverse.
Yes, a healthy coping skill taught to children who live in unideal circumstances with some sort of physical/mental shortcoming is being able to reframe your problems in a way that lets you look at them holistically so you can determine the best way to tackle them. For a lot of these kids, what they wanted to do growing up and what they’re actually good at are two separate things. Chris wanted to be an acclaimed comic book artist, but can’t draw any better than Hellen Keller with Tourettes could. I could realistically see Chris working mechanical assembly, doing some mild soldering, and if he was really ambitious, being a low-level cable guy. Chris likes assembling things in a linear pattern; this is why he (and a ton of other exceptional children) love the fuck out of LEGO. Bob clearly had that niche in mind with Chris when he tried to teach him about computers, but for every half-a-step forward Bob would make with his son, Barb would pull him a dozen back by expecting him to do nothing but be quiet while she takes her special little boy to the toy store.
Chris doesn’t understand that happiness and self-esteem come from some measure of hardship, and that you’re not always going to be good at something the first time you set out to do something. Maybe Bob could’ve squished that mentality out of him, but he was 12 years older than his wife, and wasn’t spending nearly as much time with his son as Barb was. She taught Chris that any level of discomfort = bad, so concepts like eating healthy, exercise, study, and tough love were never part of his upbringing.
The coping strategies of seeing the challenges of accomplishing life’s milestones in a more positive angle were instead molded into one where Chris doesn’t just see life from a different angle, he sees it from a completely batshit pseudoreligious quantum metaverse.
