Containment What will happen when Barb dies?

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Subconcious Offense said:
If he was ever going to leave that place, he'd most likely just move into his car and park it at McD.
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I doubt it. The same thing keeping him from wanting to go to a group home would keep him from wanting to live in his car: he'd be unable to take most of his stuff with him.

I mean really that's the biggest reason he wouldn't want to be in a group home. They'd tell him that he'd have a place to live, no having to pay the bills, people to clean up after him... sounds like everything he could want. Obviously there are other major drawbacks (I doubt Chris would be thrilled to be around so many "slow-in-the-minds"), but the biggest thing that would cause Chris to shoot down such an idea would be that they'd definitely restrict the amount of stuff he could take with him.

Same with trying to live in his car. Where would he plug in his Playstation? Where would he display his lego creations? And even Chris's ability to withstand discomfort for the sake of laziness would be severely strained by trying to live in his car. He'd probably search out some cheap, flea-infested long-stay hotel or something before that.
 
Jigglyjogglers said:
Obviously there are other major drawbacks (I doubt Chris would be thrilled to be around so many "slow-in-the-minds"), but the biggest thing that would cause Chris to shoot down such an idea would be that they'd definitely restrict the amount of stuff he could take with him.
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It isn't just having them around that bothers Chris. It's admitting he is one of them.
 
RoboticRichardSimmons said:
I like how even my voice to text logic on my phone is smarter than Chris and fights me to auto correct what I said as "Soup kitchens" instead of hotels. Siri 1, Chris 0.
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I sometimes remind myself it's Soup Hotels as well, though the idea of the city operating them seems like such a rediculouse burden to start with even though it sounds like they do the donation thing as well (shouldn't they be non-profit, I can see how such an idea could work if it was a organiation that simply bought a vacant building downtown and used it for that).
 
Trilby said:
I sometimes remind myself it's Soup Hotels as well, though the idea of the city operating them seems like such a rediculouse burden to start with even though it sounds like they do the donation thing as well (shouldn't they be non-profit, I can see how such an idea could work if it was a organiation that simply bought a vacant building downtown and used it for that).
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Do we really know how the soup hotels work? Like almost anything in Sonichu, he doesn't really explain it very well. I'm pretty sure that they only come into the comic twice.

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Mungo said:
Do we really know how the soup hotels work? Like almost anything in Sonichu, he doesn't really explain it very well. I'm pretty sure that they only come into the comic twice.

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Yeah it does. Just the way Chris wrote these (and how many CWCville apparently has), it sounds like government-operated affair than a private one. Chris makes his town sound as desperate as Detroit and begging for state receivership. Y'ALL!
http://sonichu.com/cwcki/Chris_and_money#Soup_hotels
 
Chris won't end up in a Group Home, at least not right away. The only way I can see it happening anytime in the next couple of decades is if his health (physical or mental) takes a nose dive really fast and even then that's pushing it some what.
 
Ravenor said:
Chris won't end up in a Group Home, at least not right away. The only way I can see it happening anytime in the next couple of decades is if his health (physical or mental) takes a nose dive really fast and even then that's pushing it some what.
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There is a long, lingering threat of that happening.
 
Ravenor said:
Chris won't end up in a Group Home, at least not right away. The only way I can see it happening anytime in the next couple of decades is if his health (physical or mental) takes a nose dive really fast and even then that's pushing it some what.
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I think it would require some huge change that he couldn't cope with. Autists have trouble coping with change.

So if Barb died and he immediately got thrown out of his house, he would probably not cope very well with that.

But remember, he didn't go completely insane (or at least any more completely insane) after his house burned down, and that would be a pretty harsh trauma even for a neurotypical person.
 
AnOminous said:
But remember, he didn't go completely insane (or at least any more completely insane) after his house burned down, and that would be a pretty harsh trauma even for a neurotypical person.
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IIRC, he had a distinctly muted reaction to his house burning down, and one of the first things he did was to blame Keurig for the fire that he started. I'd really love to know if the lack of empathy he has is specifically part of his autism diagnosis or another condition altogether.
 
Mungo said:
IIRC, he had a distinctly muted reaction to his house burning down, and one of the first things he did was to blame Keurig for the fire that he started. I'd really love to know if the lack of empathy he has is specifically part of his autism diagnosis or another condition altogether.
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It's possible that his tendency (learned from his parents) to always look for someone to blame works as a kind of coping mechanism. Having someone to blame things on when things don't go your way is comforting for, really, most people. It's just that Chris has such an all-or-nothing approach that once he's able to assign blame for situations, it works much better for him... well, as long as the condition doesn't persist. I mean, "Keurig" can't just keep burning his house down... the house burned, it was done, Chris dealt with it by blaming Keurig, in his mind the matter was settled.

That could theoretically be why he gets so upset when he blames someone for something, and the situation continues. Getting trolled? Pick out a troll ringleader or something, blame them. There, that should settle it. Wait, still getting trolled? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
 
I wonder how many times the idea of a post-barb group home has been proposed, debunked, and proposed again in this thread alone.
 
Jigglyjogglers said:
It's just that Chris has such an all-or-nothing approach that once he's able to assign blame for situations, it works much better for him... well, as long as the condition doesn't persist. I mean, "Keurig" can't just keep burning his house down... the house burned, it was done, Chris dealt with it by blaming Keurig, in his mind the matter was settled.
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All this is true, but Chris's empathy problem is demonstrated even more outside of assigning blame. Stuff like the Twin Towers video can probably be discounted as Chris simply not understanding exactly the gravity of what he was saying, but then there's stuff like how he dealt with Patti's death (namely, drawing a scantily clad anthropomorphic version of her) or Bob's death (complaining to his then-sweetheart that the Grim Reaper took Bob's soul four years too early) and it's clear that Chris struggles with being empathetic for anyone that isn't him. I want to know where this stems from.
 
Marvin said:
No, Chris knows he has to have his tugboat last the month. He makes purchases with that in mind. He pays his bills. And this is something he does now. That's not a hypothetical.

When people say Chris is better at finances than the cwcki portrays him as, they're not making it up.

Edit: Well, and to clarify: people will say "Chris is irresponsible, he'll blow his money in five minutes". And when people respond "he's not as bad with money as the cwcki portrays him," it's implied that that's followed up with "so he's not going to lose his tugboat in five minutes"

But on top of that, I want to emphasize that he doesn't even blow his tugboat in five minutes now. It doesn't require Barb to pester him either. Each month, Chris budgets with his money informally. He's been dealing with the tugboat for like 8 years now. Chris knows that the tugboat isn't infinite, and Chris knows how long a month lasts.
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I think maybe the biggest wild card for Chris every month is how much Barb decides to help herself to his tug.

Alec Benson Leary said:
Fair point. But I do see it as evidence that he puts no thought into what his income will look like in the future. He begs for more donations because he has no idea how lucky he was to get a donation in the first place.
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I bet a direct line can be drawn from winning the Sonic Watch and Win Sweepstakes to his current practice of "investing" in lottery tickets.
 
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Maybe he will discover what kind of man he really is, and will work on it, so he can be "normal"...

...or he will stay in front of Barb corpse, stare her dead face.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
I wonder how many times the idea of a post-barb group home has been proposed, debunked, and proposed again in this thread alone.
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I agree. We seem to be going in circles at this point, proposing the same possibilities, shooting them down, and basically, concluding that Chris can live on his own.

Perhaps this thread ought to be sealed for freshness until there is a new development regarding Chris and independence, or Barb's health.
 
Hortator said:
I agree. We seem to be going in circles at this point, proposing the same possibilities, shooting them down, and basically, concluding that Chris can live on his own.

Perhaps this thread ought to be sealed for freshness until there is a new development regarding Chris and independence, or Barb's health.
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This is a good point.

We've picked over every last possibility. Until something changes, I'm going to lock this thread.
 
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