Talk:A Week With Christian Chandler

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Transcribe this and add humorous commentary and stuff we've learned from it. --Champthom 23:32, 25 March 2009 (CET)

Definitely looks like he was a lot less fail back then. - Fatmike 14:10, 4 April 2009 (CEST)

I disagree. He was in special ed (not surprising), and he read R. L. Stine books (called "novels". Having read R. L. Stine books in my youth, I would say they hardly qaulify as novels, just cheesy "horor-esque" books for the kiddies.) And why the hell does he call study hall "coping class?" Sounds like he had emotional break-downs every day and had to cope during study hall while reading kiddy books. Maybe something on that should be added. - Tregnier2795 17:20, 4 April 2009 (CEST)

• No idea why you think it's study hall. Two possible theories:

1. "Coping class" is some sort of coping skills class. This is an actual behavioral training thing, probably part of Special Ed, designed to deal with being able to cope with strong emotions.

2. He meant to say "Copying class" (his copy shop/printing class? Like, where he made his CD cover and the such) but misspelled it.

I'm leaning mostly towards one. --Champthom 01:30, 6 April 2009 (CEST)

• Maybe. However, he said he made the CD cover and the like in computer class, so it seems unlikely to be "Copying class." Also, on the Pg.8 picture, it is refered to as "Coping/Study Hall." I thought it might be one of Chrissy's quaint phrases, though possible behavioral training does sound likely. He hasn't put it to very good use, though. -- Tregnier2795Tregnier2795 02:10, 6 April 2009 (CEST)

I'd like to go over this when I've got time. The main thing I noticed was that Chris freely admits that he sleeps in class, not just once, but several times throughout the week. Hell, he practically brags about it, in a school project. Reading between the lines, I get the impression that his teachers simply never bothered to wake him up when he did this, which says a lot about how Chris turned out today. Chris's community would put in the effort to get him to school, provide him with special classes, but this was only to get him through high school in one piece. No one was seriously worrying about preparing him for life after graduation, and here we are.
Something else that may be of interest: Chris mentions "immature teenage boys" on his 5 May 2000 entry. As he was talking about a pre-graduation photoshoot with the other seniors, I don't think he's talking about the other special ed students, which he contemptuously calls "slow-in-the-minds" earlier on. It suggests to me that Chris's high school years weren't the Golden Age he makes them out to be. I've always found it suspicious that he always waxes nostalgic about his "gal-pals" from Manchester, but never has anything to say about the boys there, good or bad. Let's face it, I don't care how sympathetic he might have looked then, there's no way in hell he made it through high school without getting picked on by somebody. He was basically surrounded by several dozen Bluespikes five days a week. If contact is ever re-established with Chris, I think this is a topic that should be explored. Dethchemist77 01:37, 6 April 2009 (CEST)

• I thought the slow-in-the-minds comment was interesting too. He probably was refering to those who, undoubtably, made fun of him as immature teenage boys. Ironically, he acts the same way to other autists (though not a baldfaced.) I suppose that's where his refusing to date any autistic people comes from. Also, I think the overview should be ammended; Chris was obviously as much of a shut-in closet case in high school as he is now. Just my two cents. --Tregnier2795
• Nevermind, I edited it. Feel free to improve at your leisure, gentlemen. -- Tregnier2795 02:10, 6 April 2009 (CEST)
• Edited again to bring all the facts into alignment. That better? --Tregnier2795 02:47, 7 April 2009 (CEST)

• Deth is on target. SOMETHING traumatizing had to happen to Chris at the hands of teenage stoners.Although he does appear to take the more feminine classes, ie, Comtemporary Living. --Jump 02:34, 4 May 2009 (CEST)

That's an interesting thought, Chris must have had a different reason to hate other guys back then other than "they take all the girls" or "they tempt me", I'd like to know the real reason Chris doesn't like any other male other than his father.(Drlugae 23:12, 27 May 2009 (CEST))