What this thread displays most starkly for me is how few of you have any feeling for what mental illness is and how it effects people. . The combination of his mental illness (not getting into it's nature here, that's very debatable) and atrocious parenting have him locked into patterns of behaviour that he's not equipped in any way to break out of. Chris is no more able to act differently than the wheelchair bound are able to compete in the 100m Olympic finals.
He can't, for example, just go and get a job. No-one would employ him, he's not able to want one, he wouldn't be competent enough to do one, couldn't handle fellow employees or bosses, let alone members of the public and would be a volatile and also vulnerable employee. The only way he could enter the jobs market is within a highly structured programme of employment for special needs cases which would inevitably cost more than his input would be worth.
So Chris' only way of getting anything he's ever wanted is to ask for it in a straightforward unsubtle way. He's unequipped to understand that begging from those with a roof and food and some income is seen by society as reprehensible. He has no idea that asking for toys and fast food over the basics is beyond the pale and if you told him he'd be unable to understand it. The biggest surprise to me is that those who you who have followed and read about Christory don't see all this more clearly.
I imagine you'll call me a white-knight for the above. I'm not, I don't want to help Chris or send him anything. I suppose it's just that I find his followers thoughts and reactions just as interesting as his own.
Personally I'm a moral vacuum who likes laughing at the mentally crippled.
