Containment What will happen when Barb dies?

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Falcon Lord said:
We really have no reason to believe Chris can't continue his present lifestyle indefinitely. The only thing that's going to stop him is the inevitable diabetes.
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It depends on how well Chris can control himself once he's alone. If he can settle into that high-functioning groove of banal repetition, he should be pretty OK. Moreso if he can somehow find a decent advocate (not Rocky). The trouble is that 1% of his life where he goes totally off the rails and pepper sprays someone because BLUE or runs over a fat man during a moment of fight or flight. He's wasted a lot of the court's leniency on completely stupid screw ups. The adjustment time is going to be brutal on him, and he may lash out in new and even more stupid ways. Hopefully he doesn't permanently ruin his or anyone else's life in the process.
 
Well I'd hope she's at the very least put a contingency plan in effect for when she passes on; It's extremely doubtful that Cole will take him in so he'll be left in the (ahem) 'welcoming' hands of the state where some poor bastards are going to have to undo thirty years of poor parenting so he can be semi-productive. There's just no way he can live off selling medallions and amiibos and a house, even if it's paid off, is just too much for him to handle alone.
 
MasterDisaster said:
There's just no way he can live off selling medallions and amiibos and a house, even if it's paid off, is just too much for him to handle alone.
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There are a lot of people a lot more low functioning than he is living on SSID without the benefit of actually owning a house, too.
 
MasterDisaster said:
It's extremely doubtful that Cole will take him in so he'll be left in the (ahem) 'welcoming' hands of the state where some poor bastards are going to have to undo thirty years of poor parenting so he can be semi-productive.
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I don't get why people still assume Chris will be taken into the system. The courts have repeatedly shown they consider him to be a legally competent adult.
 
alterid said:
Except when he's being referred to as an 'adult autistic child'.
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That doesn't have legal force. They might as well have said "look, he's a big dumb dumb", and that also wouldn't mean he's not legally competent.
 
alterid said:
Except when he's being referred to as an 'adult autistic child'.
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That was his own lawyer. The court didn't find that assessment to be true, and even if it did, it wouldn't mean "so incompetent as to be committable."

That's just not going to happen. He doesn't qualify as legally incompetent. He can sign contracts, pay bills, be charged with crimes, and is otherwise legally an adult responsible for his own actions.

If he really screws up, he's more likely to end up homeless than end up a ward of the state. He shows no signs of doing that, though.
 
flossman said:
So that's how the Hoard all fits. 14BLC is bigger on the inside.
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AnOminous said:
That was his own lawyer. The court didn't find that assessment to be true, and even if it did, it wouldn't mean "so incompetent as to be committable."

That's just not going to happen. He doesn't qualify as legally incompetent. He can sign contracts, pay bills, be charged with crimes, and is otherwise legally an adult responsible for his own actions.

If he really screws up, he's more likely to end up homeless than end up a ward of the state. He shows no signs of doing that, though.
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And hopefully he never will.
 
AnOminous said:
If he really screws up, he's more likely to end up homeless than end up a ward of the state. He shows no signs of doing that, though.
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Once he settles into the routine of running the house, I think he'll basically be fine. There will probably be problems that don't get fixed for a long time, and the place won't get much by way of cleaning, but I agree that homelessness is unlikely.

I do worry about the dogs, though. Re-reading the Catie transcripts, it sounds like Chris has no idea how to take care of them. What rang particular alarm bells was his idea of going on the date with Catie and leaving the dogs in the car. Assuming he doesn't roast them to death or their legs don't break under their own weight, I could really see him failing to spot potentially serious medical conditions.

ZehnBoat said:
i would pay to see chris as the doctor, but still act as chris
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"Doctor, the Daleks are threatening the entire universe!"
"(sigh) Hmm... yeah. Dat's, uh... a very..." (waddles back into TARDIS, attempts to fly back to the 1990s, crash-lands on his own conception, gets eaten by Reapers)
 
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Marvin said:
That doesn't have legal force. They might as well have said "look, he's a big dumb dumb", and that also wouldn't mean he's not legally competent.
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AnOminous said:
That was his own lawyer. The court didn't find that assessment to be true, and even if it did, it wouldn't mean "so incompetent as to be committable."

That's just not going to happen. He doesn't qualify as legally incompetent. He can sign contracts, pay bills, be charged with crimes, and is otherwise legally an adult responsible for his own actions.

If he really screws up, he's more likely to end up homeless than end up a ward of the state. He shows no signs of doing that, though.
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These things I know. It's just another example of how he can both be considered a competent adult and yet still receive special consideration because of his autism. Even Snyder was compassionate where he might not have been because as distasteful and excruciating to be around as Chris is, Snyder still didn't want to ruin his life because he knows the guy isn't firing on all cylinders at any given moment.
 
While I agree that Chris has the ability to be independent based on what we witnessed-he does have a cartoon, he can feed himself, etc., the main problem he has is monetary in nature.

Most autistic individuals do have some form of this problem. In fact, my sister has this problem though, opposite of Chris, in the sense that she would hand out money instead of greedily spend it on useless gadgets. However, unlike Chris, she isn't allowed to even touch her money, meaning that someone keeps tabs on it. (She has a tugboat too)

Barbara should really monitor his spending like Bob has, but she won't because she herself is a spender. Chris needs someone to watch him after she dies, if only for his spending habits. When she dies, he`s practically screwed due to his periodic spending habits.

I say he will be broke after she dies. People will give him the money needed at first for funeral cost, but then his debt will rise. He can't afford living in that home, if that's the case.

Maybe someone will actually watch his spending habits if he's lucky...

On a side note: How did no one contact the authorities? Their home, pre fire was uninhabitable. I thought after a certain point the authorities step in if you have too much clutter. (Sometimes even cutting off firemen services)
 
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