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| [[Image:SchuComic0P44.jpg|thumb|'''egotism''', (noun): believing that your pain (getting kicked out of the mall for being creepy) trumps all others (divorce and loss of beloved children)]] | | {{quote|Firstly, YOU WISH YOU WERE ME...|Chris, [[Mailbag_10#Rejected_Mailbag|Mailbag 10 (Rejected)]]}}[[Image:SchuComic0P44.jpg|thumb|'''egotism''', (noun): the belief that your pain (getting kicked out of the mall for being creepy) trumps all others (divorce and loss of beloved children)]] |
| '''Egotism''', out of all of Chris's flaws, is the most important and self-destructive. It is this egotism that may one day lead to someone playing [[Kick the Autistic]] for real. | | '''Egotism''', out of all of Chris's flaws, is the most important and self-destructive. It is this egotism that may one day lead to someone playing [[Kick the Autistic]] for real. |
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| ==Origins== | | ==Origins== |
| {{quote|He that spareth his rod hateth his son:<br />but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.|Proverbs 13:24}}
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| Why is Chris such an egotist? In his sheltered childhood, his enabling parents taught him to shift blame for all of his troubles to other people. A sense of entitlement, again homegrown, skewed his perception of the proportionality between his problems and those of other people. Chris doesn't completely lack empathy; he isn't a sociopath, but the internal 'scale' by which he weighs the feelings of others is completely twisted. His autism compounded the problem by making it difficult for him to understand social cues and relate normally to his peers. He grew up in a different world. | | Why is Chris such an egotist? In his sheltered childhood, his enabling parents taught him to shift blame for all of his troubles to other people. A sense of entitlement, again homegrown, skewed his perception of the proportionality between his problems and those of other people. Chris doesn't completely lack empathy; he isn't a sociopath, but the internal 'scale' by which he weighs the feelings of others is completely twisted. His autism compounded the problem by making it difficult for him to understand social cues and relate normally to his peers. He grew up in a different world. |
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| ===The Enablers=== | | ===The Enablers=== |
| [[Image:0063-BobAndBarbaraNewLife.jpg|thumb|Exhibit A]] | | [[Image:0063-BobAndBarbaraNewLife.jpg|thumb|Exhibit A]] |
| | {{quote|He that spareth his rod hateth his son:<br />but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.|Proverbs 13:24}} |
| Chris's parents are enablers ''par excellence''. There is no earthly reason why (barring unrelated catastrophes) a 30-year-old with autism should live at home with his parents, especially one as "high functioning" as Chris's activity and his documentation show him to be. Adults with far more crippling mental health problems (from emotional disorders to mental retardation) live more independently than Chris does, whether alone, alone with supervision, or in group homes. | | Chris's parents are enablers ''par excellence''. There is no earthly reason why (barring unrelated catastrophes) a 30-year-old with autism should live at home with his parents, especially one as "high functioning" as Chris's activity and his documentation show him to be. Adults with far more crippling mental health problems (from emotional disorders to mental retardation) live more independently than Chris does, whether alone, alone with supervision, or in group homes. |
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| Regardless of whether Chris is abusing the welfare system, his parents are abusing it through him, or the system itself is flawed, the fact remains that the [[Monthly Tugboat]] is a major factor in making Chris's lifestyle—and thus his worldview—sustainable. | | Regardless of whether Chris is abusing the welfare system, his parents are abusing it through him, or the system itself is flawed, the fact remains that the [[Monthly Tugboat]] is a major factor in making Chris's lifestyle—and thus his worldview—sustainable. |
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| ===Blind Fucking Luck and the Cherry Picking Fallacy<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking</ref>=== | | ===Blind Fucking Luck and the Cherry Picking Fallacy<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking Cherry Picking</ref>=== |
| [[Image:SlamAttack.jpg|thumb|Local Boy Levels Up]] | | [[Image:SlamAttack.jpg|thumb|Local Boy Levels Up]] |
| | [[Image:391-SchuPVCCArticle.jpg|thumb|Article in PVCC's ''Forum'']] |
| | [[Image:Famewhore.jpg|thumb|McIntire Park]] |
| A [[GameStop Be A Star Sweepstakes|contest]] or [[Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes|two]] here; a [[Chris Chan in the PokéNews|two-second local TV blip]] there. The results are that outside events most people never experience have stroked Chris's already monstrous ego. | | A [[GameStop Be A Star Sweepstakes|contest]] or [[Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes|two]] here; a [[Chris Chan in the PokéNews|two-second local TV blip]] there. The results are that outside events most people never experience have stroked Chris's already monstrous ego. |
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| Consider that Chris has produced a ''huge'' volume of fanmail, letters-to-the-editor, internet commentary, and other drivel. Each letter to Nintendo is a message in a bottle: most of them never return, but the one that does—on official letterhead, and addressed to Mr. C. W. Chandler—is confirmation of his celebrity.<ref>An_Official_Sonichu_Update</ref> | | Consider that Chris has produced a ''huge'' volume of fanmail, letters-to-the-editor, internet commentary, and other drivel. Each letter to Nintendo is a message in a bottle: most of them never return, but the one that does—on official letterhead, and addressed to Mr. C. W. Chandler—is confirmation of his celebrity.<ref>[[An Official Sonichu Update]]</ref> |
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| :“Nintendo of America has some of the most devoted, enthusiastic fans of any game developer. Each week, they receive, uh, hundreds of thousands of suggestions about their games and systems. While they would love to, uh, use ideas from f—fa—from fans to develop actual products, due to the volume of the, uh, requests they receive and the resources it would take to process them, they do not accept unsolicited game or product ideas. But they are committed to being at the leading edge of game and hardware development, though, and they can be sure that they are constantly at work developing new and exciting products and game ideas.” | | :“Nintendo of America has some of the most devoted, enthusiastic fans of any game developer. Each week, they receive, uh, hundreds of thousands of suggestions about their games and systems. While they would love to, uh, use ideas from f—fa—from fans to develop actual products, due to the volume of the, uh, requests they receive and the resources it would take to process them, they do not accept unsolicited game or product ideas. But they are committed to being at the leading edge of game and hardware development, though, and they can be sure that they are constantly at work developing new and exciting products and game ideas.” |
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| Now, uh, here's the interesting part… where they quote about how I can actually… go further about ch—about them changing their minds and actually accepting the idea and helping me, uh, makin’ it—makin’ it totally real… with the video games and the TV animations and the action figures, and… officially-released—my personally-approved… medals... | | '''Now, uh, here's the interesting part… where they quote about how I can actually… go further about ch—about them changing their minds and actually accepting the idea and helping me, uh, makin’ it—makin’ it totally real… with the video games and the TV animations and the action figures, and… officially-released—my personally-approved… medals...''' |
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| But anyway, getting back to the letter, they say that, uh, “the best way to let other fans know about my idea or to generate hype about the future game I'd like to see is to post the ideas to the forums on their sites.”}}<br /> | | But anyway, getting back to the letter, they say that, uh, “the best way to let other fans know about my idea or to generate hype about the future game I'd like to see is to post the ideas to the forums on their sites.”}}<br /> |
| [[Image:Famewhore.jpg|thumb|McIntire Park]]
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| On top of that, Chris has a huge amount of free time to inject himself into situations like the [[McIntire Park]] meetings, which allows him to cherry-pick more moments of recognition. A tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the local council seems cute to us, but is serious business to him. And since Chris cherry-picks only the reinforcement that he wants, his legions of trolls just add to the fire. Delusion has led him to believe that he has a legion of fans; a few hundred emails in his Inbox confirm it.
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| | As if Chris didn't think his shit was golden to begin with, he got a second nod from ''Nintendo Power'' for his epic [[Animal Crossing Documentary]], and a page in [[PVCC]]'s ''Forum'' as icing on the cake. Even before his e-fame, Chris had plenty of evidence to convince himself that he ''was'' creative, and not just a high-volume douchenozzle that had pestered his way to acknowledgment. As he graduated from [[PVCC]] in 2006, his writing shows that [[Sonichu]] was, in his mind, already tested: there was just some small threshold of notoriety or connections that needed to be breached, in order to become a true media sensation. |
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| {{quote|Firstly, YOU WISH YOU WERE ME...|Chris, addressing a true and honest fan while being completely deluded, [[Rejected Mailbag]]}}
| | On top of that, Chris has a huge amount of free time to inject himself into situations like the [[McIntire Park]] meetings, which allows him to cherry-pick more moments of recognition. A tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the local council seems cute to us, but is serious business to him. And since Chris cherry-picks only the reinforcement that he wants, his legions of trolls just add to the fire. Delusion has led him to believe that he has a legion of fans; a few hundred emails in his Inbox confirm it. |
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| Chris's mindset in general seems to be that if he has done ''anything at all'', and let the world know, then he's automatically famous, or at very least ''entitled'' to fame. Now, a rational person might consider creating the [[Sonichu]] [[comic]] a minor achievement in itself, if more than a little bit on the lame side; not many people would be capable of creating hundreds of pages of comics, even if the end results were relatively crappy. But the mere fact that the comic was created tells Chris that people should respect him ''for that fact alone'' — not the quality or wide readership of the comic. He thinks that merely making the comic ''available'' makes him famous; he subsequently feels it necessary to say "you all should know me by now." Likewise, he feels everyone should "know him by now" by merely participating in the ''[[LittleBigPlanet]]'' community and creating something,<ref>[[LittleBigPlanet videos#CWC's LittleBiGPlanet Collector's Case|CWC's LittleBiGPlanet Collector's Case]]</ref> oblivious to the fact that quite a few people have been confirmed to have actually purchased the game.
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| Chris's need for fame can be blamed on many things. The first is his initial victory in the [[Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes]], from which he won the $1000 video game shopping spree on sheer dumb luck. This resulted in some mild media coverage in his hometown, and probably nowhere else (do you remember seeing it on TV?) but to him, the simple act of recording is synonymous with fame. But he feels that he is destined to win everything and that, if he loses, the winner cheated in some way. He also got a smattering of local newspaper coverage in the 1993 newspaper article ''[[IT TOOK A TALKING BEAR TO GIVE THE NAME A YOUNG BOY LOVES]]'', but it's likely that he doesn't know about this article. | | Chris's egotism manifests itself in many ways. |
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| It probably doesn't help that his family sheltered him so much that it allows him to even ''be'' that way in the first place. This was first reinforced when, after graduating high school, he raged about how he should have won the better artistic awards for his work, despite [[Chris and art|them not being so great]]. The biggest offender was when [[Adam Stackhouse]] won the [[Chop Chop Master Onion's Rap Showdown]] contest, causing Chris to go off on a major rage spree — including posting a video of Chris shooting a picture of Adam with a toy gun — and even admitting he wanted to win so he could win [[Megan Schroeder]]'s heart.
| | ===Unwarranted Self-Importance=== |
| | [[Image:Apology_to_Mary_Lee.jpg|thumb|Very gracious.]] |
| | :''See Also: [[True and Loyal Fanbase]]'' |
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| Another note is that he believes that anything he uploads to the internet will be instantly seen by the intended recipient, as in that [[Greetings to Kacey's folks|video directed to Kacey's parents]]. [[YouTube]] is a big place, and it's doubtful that they follow his exploits, assuming that they actively use it at all. And if they did, [[Megan|they wouldn't want him anywhere near their daughter]].
| | As overwhelming as Chris's ''Unwarranted Self-Importance'' is, it's easy for the novice observer to get lost in the sea of ''Sonichu'' shit and assume that he's just confident in his e-fame. "Of course," you say, "He's got a billion hits on YouTube, and a thousand emails in his mailbox. He's going to think he's hot shit, like every other retard on the [[DeviantArt|internet]]." |
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| When confronted with someone who claims not to know who he is, he seems skeptical and surprised.<ref>Exchange with the [[Man in the Pickle Suit]], [[Emily Date Conversation Transcript#Meet the Pickle .2801:21:44 - 01:25:29.29|Emily Date Conversation Transcript]]</ref>
| | But nothing sums up Chris's deep and abiding USI like this missive to [[Mary Lee Walsh]]<ref>[[Mary Lee Walsh#Emails with Mary|Emails with Mary]]</ref>: |
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| | *I will never hang notes on the wall again. |
| | *I'll consider stopping my Silent Treatment on Susan. |
| | *I'll consider knocking you and Susan up my scale of Respect each by 2 points (0=No Respect...10=Respect). |
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| ==War against the ego==
| | Please reply via E-Mail. |
| One of the main forces opposing Chris's ego are the [[white knights]]. These misguided souls have attempted to get Chris to understand that what he's doing is ridiculous and that he needs to grow up. Instead, he brushed them all aside, assuring himself that he was [[Honest Content|TRUE and HONEST]], and could do no wrong. One of the more popular white knights, [[Vivian Gee]], became a troll when she couldn't get through to Chris.
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| When asked to get real, psychiatric help, Chris has said that his church counselor, [[Rocky Shoemaker]], is enough for him, and that she could do so much more than someone with ''an actual degree in that field.'' He seems to believe that because her title includes the word "counselor," she is every bit as qualified as a real doctor (the fact that most pastoral counselors see people for free probably helps as well, since Chris would never spend part of his precious [[monthly tugboat]] on something useful when there are [[video games]] to buy).
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| ==Effects of Chris's egotism==
| | E-fame just adds a whole new dimension. He was a misunderstood genius before; now he's a misunderstood genius with a [[personal army]]. |
| [[Image:SchuComic8P68.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Jiggliami]] sums it up nicely]]
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| Unsurprisingly, Chris's ego has lead to a number of undesirable personality traits, the most important of which are his simple-mindedness and his incredible gullibility. In terms of simple-mindedness, the man is like the Sith: he only deals in absolutes - either you're with him or you're a [[troll]]. This has been very obvious in his answers to the [[Mailbag]], where he refuses to listen to any talk - even from professionals - about the similarities between [[Asperger Syndrome]] and [[autism]], denies that there are any shortcomings in his [[Sonichu (comic)|work]], and shrugs off any advice about how to improve his health or appearance, labelling anyone who suggests he has any kind of shortcoming a [[troll]].
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| His gullibility is astounding. No matter how many times it's happened before, Chris is easily led around by the nose by trolls promising [[China]] or threatening [[Sonichu]]. The earlier trolling schemes, such as [[Blanca]], [[PandaHalo]] and [[Jimmy Hill]], got Chris to jump through hoops and exposed so much information about Chris and his personality that [[Cwcki| they had to start a wiki to keep track of it all]].
| | {{quote|III'M. WOR-KIN'. ON IT! LET ME DO THAT STUPID VIDEO SO I CAN TELL E'RRYBODY, IN MY COMMAND, TO GET EVERYTHIN'- HELP ME GET EVERYTHIN' OFF THE INTERNET!|Chris, [[THAT IS MY HOUSE]]}} |
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| | It's so bad now that when Chris meets someone new who claims not to know who he is, he seems skeptical and surprised.<ref>Exchange with the [[Man in the Pickle Suit]], [[Emily Date Conversation Transcript#Meet the Pickle .2801:21:44 - 01:25:29.29|Emily Date Conversation Transcript]]</ref> |
| {{quote|I'd say... I'd say I'm all around. You see, the problem is that I have too many skills that I am good at. You might say that I am a jack of all trades and a master of none.|Chris, [[Mumble 3]]}}
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| | {{quote|Y'all should know me by now, but if you don't, I am Christian Weston Chandler, the original creator of Sonichu, the Electric Hedgehog Pokemon, back on March 17th, 2000.|Chris, in his [[CWC's Second Message|second YouTube video]]}} |
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| | The instant-gratification, instant-acknowledgment, and instant-attention—good or bad—that has come with his minor e-fame of the last few years has thoroughly convinced Chris that people ''do'' read everything he writes, and that his YouTube messages ''invariably'' get to his target audience. |
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| | ===Persecution Complex=== |
| | [[Image:Issue4.jpg|thumb|Martyr.]] |
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| | *His [[Nathanael Greene Elementary School|school]] was mean to him. |
| *[[Manchester High School]] - When Chris graduated from high school, he actually cried because he believed that he deserved a number of artistic awards for his very sub-par work. By his own admission, he also made a scene and ran out after getting his diploma, eventually having to be consoled by both his [[mother]] and gal-pal [[Tiffany Gowen]]. | | *He didn't deserve that [[Song of Christian|F in English]]. |
| *[[Harvey Birdman Commercial]] - in an attempt to win a contest involving the animated avian lawyer, Chris went to great lengths to talk about himself, his rivalry with [[Mary Lee Walsh]] and [[Sonichu]], but very, ''very'' little about Birdman himself.
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| *[[Chop Chop Master Onion's Rap Showdown]] - After losing the contest to [[Adam Stackhouse]], Chris would have a major hissy-fit over the loss, proclaiming even the slightest mistake as cheating, despite the fact that Chris himself had broken numerous rules in the process. Even worse, he attempted to fabricate the Playstation webpage to show that he himself had won and not Adam.
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| *[[Pixelated PS3|Robot Chicken's ''What Would You Do For A PS3'' Contest]] - Chris, when talking about how far he would go to get a PS3, admitted he would ''throw away the cure for autism'' for it.
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| *[[Wal-Mart]] - When asked to cease his solicitation, Chris refused to budge, rambled on in some stupid speech, and actually ''ran''. He would do this again in a [[Target]] soon after, only to be arrested in the process.
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| *[[The GAMe PLACe]] - Chris acted in this store as if he owned the place. He was rude with the patrons, abused the access to a flat-screen TV and was an all-around pain for the owner, [[Michael Snyder]]. After many antics, he was banned from the place. Chris filmed a half assed [[Apology to Game & Hobby Place|apology]] nine months later, not because he was sorry for his actions, but because the store was the only place that had [[Eye of Judgement]] cards.
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| *[[Megan Schroeder]] - For the longest time, Chris actually believed that he and Megan were going out as boyfriend and girlfriend. He even attacked someone for getting near Megan. When the infamous [[ShecameforCWC.JPG]] picture was discovered, Chris actually thought that the reason she was upset was because she wasn't used to sexual things. He, then, tried to make Megan believe that the bullying from those amongst [[ED]] was MUCH worse than the fact that he did the picture because he was afraid of trying to rape her. He was also convinced that the main reason she was offended was that she hadn't been exposed to as much pornography as he had. Chris would later blame ED for the fact that he lost her friendship, not caring it was his fault in the first place.
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| *[[Piedmont Virginia Community College|PVCC]] - After being expelled for his [[Chris and anger|appalling behavior]] by the [[Mary Lee Walsh|Student's Dean]], Chris felt the need to write to the Then-Standing President of the United-States, [[George W. Bush]]. The idea that a standing President would be willing to use his clout to reverse a local third-rate college's administrative decision is ludicrous at best.
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| *[[CWC's Second Message]] - In what would be his opening attack on trying to get the trolls to remove his page following losing Megan, Chris's opening words, amazingly, were:
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| {{quote|Y'all should know me by now, but if you don't, I am Christian Weston Chandler, the original creator of Sonichu, the Electric Hedgehog Pokemon, back on March 17th, 2000.}}
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| *[[LittleBigPlanet]] - When Chris had shown up on LBP community and posted videos addressed to them, he once again said people "should know him by now". He immediately assumed people would praise him for his levels, especially the "Collector's Case", which he thought was the most original LBP level idea ''ever.''
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| *[[For G4's Web Soup|Web Soup]] - When Chris learned that one of his videos was featured on an episode, he took it as a good thing, not realizing that the show made fun of people on the Internet.
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| *[[10 September 2009]] - Chris, in his ever growing paranoia, automatically assumes that a possible interview from Veronica Belmont of ''Playstation Magazine Europe'' is a troll due to the fact that the person didn't leave a return number, demanding that if she truly wanted to interview him, she should come ''personally'' to his house… then starts trying to suck up to her just in case it wasn't a troll.
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| *[[Rejected Mailbag]] - Chris hates being proven wrong, especially about Asperger's and Autism being part of the same spectrum. He also takes issue with letters that point out the flaws in his comic pages, which is interesting considering he has no problem telling fans about the flaws he finds in their fan art, calling it "constructive criticism". He's gone from simply ignoring people correcting his mistake to placing these "offending" letters in his rejected mailbag. Even more, when letters start talking about the fact that Autism and Asperger's are similiar, he's begun tossing them into his "Autism Mailbag" and whenever someone tries to mention anything else connected to his past, he automatically goes into a "mental block" and refuses to go any further. On December 5, 2009, Chris wrote a long essay that made little sense, which mainly consisted of him bawwing that he was a unique and special snowflake, and that Aspies are faking fakers that take away the specialness of his autism. Despite autism and Asperger's existing in the populace long before he was born, Chris also states that he [[Aspergers (CWCipedia article)|"...Helped cultivate the First Generation of Autistic People".]]
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| *[[CWC Personal Sonichu Presentation|The Sonichu promotional video]] - In the Part 2 of his video, Chris shows to the camera an elegant drawing of the two main heroes of the comic book made by a fan called Allie. Not only does he proceed to comment "Rosey's tail was wrong, but I'll forgive her," he present an actual, sub-par copy of the drawing made by himself as a better version.
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| *[[Chris and copyright|Copyright claim against Vivian Gee]] - Chris issued [[Death threats]] against [[Vivian Gee]] due to the [[Audiobooks]] she made out of his comic. He excused himself a month later and ask for a quote of 25% out of the donations she received for her hard work. It is worth mentioning that the excuse AND the demand for a share of the profits were in the same e-mail, both separated by a single dot.
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| *[[Mumble 3]] - While talking to Max, Chris tells him that the reason why he doesn't have a job is because he has so many awesome skills, he just can't choose one.
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| *[[Jimmy Hill]] and [[Liquid Chris]] - While Chris is more than willing to declare Sonichu as a parody so he can make his multimedia franchise, he blows his stack whenever someone ''actually'' parodies Sonichu and himself. He threatened "legal action" during the Jimmy Hill saga and went all out to prove himself the TRUE and HONEST Chris when Liquid showed up. During the [[Kacey and Liquid Call]], when Liquid threatened to go to the police over the Gun Comic, Chris was certain that the police would be more concerned over the fact that someone was impersonating him than the fact that he threatened to murder him. | |
| *[[Father Call]] - When talking to [[Kacey]]'s father, his ego clashed horribly against Matt's attempts to get through to his head, comparing losing a loved one to Chris losing his [[Patti|dog]], declaring that mowing the lawn (a menial task at that) was tough work and utterly missing various cues to people's hardships, such as when Matt told him that his mother pulled weeds while inflicted with arthritis, Chris could only apologize for her having arthritis, not be impressed by the feat.
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| *[[Sonichu's Edge|Chris]] [[CWCFighter|and]] [[51 50|exercise]] - Many times, Chris has shown his attempts at exercising or performing some sort of strenuous feat. He considered [[Power|lifting up a chair]] to be a great feat of strength, thought that lifting two 12-pack boxes was akin to lifting two 50-pound weights and even showed his "amazing" Parkay skills.
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| *[[Chris and Wikipedia|Chris and famous people]] - Chris has compared himself to [[Hotel Ricky Ricardo|Leonardo DaVinci and Michaelangelo]] in artistic ability. He has also compared himself in ability or personality to President [[Barack Obama]], [[SingStar Challenge|Frank Sinatra]], [[Christian and the Hedgehog Boys|Bing Crosby]], [[Red Skelton]], Dick van Dyke, [[I Love Lucy|Ricky Ricardo]], and Jaleel White (who voiced Sonic the Hedgehog). He has also compared himself to many fictional characters such as [[Transformers|Optimus Prime]], [[Sonic the Hedgehog]], [[CWC Fighter|Chun-Li]], Homer Simpson and [[Family Guy|Peter Griffin]]. Since [[Chandler Family Tree|free-riding on someone else's talents]] is nothing new for Chris, he saw no issue into incorporating known people in [[Chandler Family Tree|his family tree]]. This is how [[Anne Boleyn]], [[Daniel Weston]] and an unknown [[Cherokian Clan| Cherokee fellow]] appeared in his ancestry for no logical reason whatsoever. He pushed the audacity to edit many [[Wikipedia]] pages to validate his hubris. All entries have been redacted and he was banned from the site.
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| *[[Chris E-Mails]] - Chris's massive ego manifests itself eagerly through his correspondence with other people. For example, he e-mailed the O'Reilly Factor, Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News at least twice, telling them about his Encyclopedia Dramatica page. Not only did he outright expect them to report on it and give it extensive television coverage, but he expected the FBI (which he also believed was apparently part of the crew for the news shows) to go after Jason Kendrick Howell. Other examples include that while he apologized to Megan for drawing [[shecameforcwc.jpg]], he told her that she owed him money and that he tried to coax [[Anna McLerran]] and Megan into vandalizing his ED page for him. He also believed that people thought their ranking on his [[Scale of Respect]] was of the utmost importance, as illustrated by his correspondence with Mary Lee Walsh.
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| *[[Chris-Chan (CWCipedia)|Chris and his ED Page]] - Since Chris is a known narcissistic loon, he never liked mirrors of any kind. When the [[Jason Kendrick Howell|nice folks]] of [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] found him, they couldn't resist the urge to satirize his own existense. The said article turned into a circus in which [[List of Christian's edits to Encyclopedia Dramatica|he tried to retract, modify, erase]] and even supply the page with [[shecameforcwc.jpg|new]] [[You know what, I HATE ME TOO!!!|material]]. In 17 [[December 2009]], he went as far as copying the main article page out of [[ED]] and edited out at his convenience<ref>[http://cogsdev.110mb.com/cwcipedia/index.php/Chris_chan]</ref>.
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| *[[CWCipedia|Chris and his own webpage]] - When Chris was given his own webpage, he found himself bombarded with gay ads, all paid for by [[Jack Thaddeus]]. After dealing with this for months on end, Chris has finally had enough and proclaimed that he wrote to currently-standing President Barack Obama in an attempt to make gay ads illegal, despite the fact that this kind of ad is still protected under free speech and even if he got the letter, there's a slim (read: zero) chance that Obama will actually listen to his whiny, fat ass. While addressing the matter, Chris proclaims himself ''the captain of this boat'' and says that without him, CWCipedia would not exist, implying that he does all the hard work on the website, ignoring all Sysop's effort. In fact, CWCipedia is a privilege given to Chris and not at all something that he came up with. Chris has taken this to an absolute extreme, going as far as to suggest that he is the "Captain" of CWCipedia.
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| *[[Chris and Health]] - Chris hates to be called fat. Deep in his mind, he honestly thinks he's the same somewhat skinny child he was ten years ago, despite the fact that he has a gut and his hairline's retreating at an alarming rate. While he refuses to accept his baldness, he actually is claiming to be working on his gut. Beyond that, he refuses <i>professional</i> psychological help and honestly believes stuff such as autism and homosexuality are easily caught diseases.
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| *[[Homos|Homosexuality]] - As mentioned above, Chris actually believes that homosexuality is a disease like AIDS or even the common cold. In his comics, he takes a page out of [[Family Guy]] and helps create the cure for homosexuality. Since it questions his own sexuality, he seeks to punish those who are in same-sex relations within CWCVille as well.
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| *[[CWC Blog#7 January 2010|His Birthday]] - Chris feels that his birthdate (24 February) should be a national holiday; a "Second Day of Love" for [[Chris and his Ego#Christian Love Day|no valid reason whatsoever]].
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| ===Instances of Chris's ego in the comics===
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| *'''[[Sonichu 1]]:''' While this is the smallest amount of screen time he's ever had in the comics, he generally steals the scene to himself, Sonichu tries to make a point about how "[[lie|creative]]" the comics are if that, and generally trying to make it seem like he deserves a girlfriend for drawing this retarded piece of [[fail]].
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| *'''[[Sonichu 2]]:''' His portrayal of [[Wes-Li Sonichu|Wes-Li]] counts, despite not really knowing Chris in [[Chris and Reality|real life]] he still gets portrayed as a villain. He also openly admitted he didn't want Sarah to see anyone else in a text-walling portion of the comic, yet still calls Wes-Li greedy for not wanting to be a part in CWC's retarded conversations. He also draws [[Sarah]] pinning Wes-Li to a tree & breaking up with him, [[Fail|just because she thought Chris <s>being jealous of her</s> was sweet]]. He is also drawn whining about how he lost Sarah, and essential tells Wes to "buck up", even though he's the first one to make a scream [[Hannah|when he lost a one-time date]]. [[Mary Lee Walsh]] also appears as a villain.
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| *'''[[Sonichu 3]]:''' This issue has a semi-fictionalized account of an incident Chris had with the managers of McDonald's. He was loitering and soliciting, and they threw him out. In his comic book, however, Chris exclaims that the Jerkops are conspiring against him, preventing him from finding true love. He turns into <s>a furfag</s> [[Chris-Chan Sonichu]] and defeats them with the help of [[Darkbind Sonichu]], who admits he only helped because Chris was his creator.
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| *'''[[Sonichu 4]]:''' It's all about Chris here. Sonichu and Rosechu are nowhere to be seen, except for one cameo each in separate sub-episodes. This issue was all about Chris's semi-fictionalized misadventures at Wal-Mart, Target and McDonald's, and pitted him constantly against the Jerkops and Mary Lee Walsh, for they dare to interfere with his [[Love Quest]]. Unlike IRL, Chris can (and does) pwn them in the fantasy world of his comics. This issue also includes the account of Chris's encounter with IRL troll [[Hannah]], who raised his [[heart level]] to 100% just to smash it down to 15%.
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| *'''[[Sonichu 5]]:''' This issue has Chris write Sarah Hammer out of the comic so he could focus exclusively on [[Megan Schroeder]], the new object of his desire. While Sarah did marry a man named [[William Spicer]], Chris was not present at her wedding, and had never met Spicer, as he was represented in the comic by a generic [[Yu-Gi-Oh]] character. The next episode has Chris fawning over Megan, and she over him. However, in reality, Megan saw Chris only as a friend, and was constantly rebuffing his advances. The episode features two different endings because Megan either did not like the original ending or objected to being featured in the comic at all.
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| *'''[[Sonichu 6]]:''' The [[Patti Chandler]] Memorial Issue, where his dead dog becomes a member of CWCville. In the only other episode in this issue, Chris has [[Bionic]] ask him to create a sweetheart for him, but Chris, being a lazy fuck, hooks him up with Megan's character, [[Megagi]]. Chris would later claim Megan's character as his own.
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| *'''[[Sonichu 7]]:''' Chris is envious of Bionic's ability to screw Megagi until Megan holds his hand, again implying romance where none exists. This issue contains the stupid time-travel plot where they go back in time to the the moment Chris created Bionic, and the scene randomly segues into a [[Family Guy]] style scene he gives Seth McFarlane full permission to use (Coincidentally, or not, the first few minutes of the ''Road to Germany'' episode of Family Guy bears a close resemblance to this "skitch"). After Chris gets trapped in the time void, he mixes both fake memories from the comic with real ones, like Megan "dumping" him and his denial of having drawn [[Shecameforcwc.jpg]] (he blames it on [[ED]], even though he was the one that drew it and uploaded it onto that site), Mary Lee Walsh's invasion of CWCville and her defeat at the hands of the Sonichus and Rosechus, and [[Joshua Martinez]] hooking him up with [[Vanessa Hudgens]]. In the other episode, he introduces his Sweetheart-of-the-moment Blanca and her creation [[Jiggliami]] (who Chris would later claim as his own), as well as featuring an interview with anti-troll [[Robert Simmons V]] about how awesome Chris is.
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| '''Christian Love Day''' is a proposed holiday mused upon by Chris in the CWC blog entry of 7 January, 2010. It made an appearance in [[Sonichu 10]] on the same day. As described in the events of the comics, on 24 February, 2009 [[Magi-Chan]] completed his mission of distributing Chris's Gay Vaccine to the world. "Thanks to the blood of Christian Weston Chandler," all Homosexuality and (in a startling display of overkill) Asexuality are eradicated. Chris uses this as an excuse for a second Valentines day late in the month. Presumably, the day will be celebrated with unabashed, BUT STRAIGHT, monkey sex.
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| | Chris's mindset in general seems to be that if he has done ''anything at all'', and let the world know, then he's automatically famous, or at very least ''entitled'' to fame. Now, a rational person might consider creating the [[Sonichu]] [[comic]] a minor achievement in itself, if more than a little bit on the lame side; not many people would be capable of creating hundreds of pages of comics, even if the end results were relatively crappy. But the mere fact that the comic was created tells Chris that people should respect him ''for that fact alone'' — not the quality or wide readership of the comic. He thinks that merely making the comic ''available'' makes him famous; he subsequently feels it necessary to say "you all should know me by now." Likewise, he feels everyone should "know him by now" by merely participating in the ''[[LittleBigPlanet]]'' community and creating something,<ref>[[LittleBigPlanet videos#CWC's LittleBiGPlanet Collector's Case|CWC's LittleBiGPlanet Collector's Case]]</ref> oblivious to the fact that quite a few people have been confirmed to have actually purchased the game. |
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| | One of the main forces opposing Chris's ego are the [[white knights]]. These misguided souls have attempted to get Chris to understand that what he's doing is ridiculous and that he needs to grow up. Instead, he brushed them all aside, assuring himself that he was [[Honest Content|TRUE and HONEST]], and could do no wrong. One of the more popular white knights, [[Vivian Gee]], became a troll when she couldn't get through to Chris. |
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egotism, (noun): the belief that your pain (getting kicked out of the mall for being creepy) trumps all others (divorce and loss of beloved children)
Egotism, out of all of Chris's flaws, is the most important and self-destructive. It is this egotism that may one day lead to someone playing Kick the Autistic for real.
Origins
Why is Chris such an egotist? In his sheltered childhood, his enabling parents taught him to shift blame for all of his troubles to other people. A sense of entitlement, again homegrown, skewed his perception of the proportionality between his problems and those of other people. Chris doesn't completely lack empathy; he isn't a sociopath, but the internal 'scale' by which he weighs the feelings of others is completely twisted. His autism compounded the problem by making it difficult for him to understand social cues and relate normally to his peers. He grew up in a different world.
But that explains why Chris was an egotist, struggled with egotism, or has tendencies towards egotism. While Chris's childhood was less than ideal, it shouldn't have been crippling. Time and experience should have helped temper his ego, but Chris's development appears to have completely stopped. Chris is still an egotist because he lives in a social time-capsule that has allowed him to carry on for the better part of a decade without a single life lesson. And he still lives in that time-capsule because it is easy, it is comfortable, people let him, and he is extremely lazy.
The Enablers
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Chris's parents are enablers par excellence. There is no earthly reason why (barring unrelated catastrophes) a 30-year-old with autism should live at home with his parents, especially one as "high functioning" as Chris's activity and his documentation show him to be. Adults with far more crippling mental health problems (from emotional disorders to mental retardation) live more independently than Chris does, whether alone, alone with supervision, or in group homes.
For a child like Chris, public school special education is generally geared toward helping the child understand how their disorder affects their life, and what strategies they can use to minimize its impact. This is a well-documented and well-supported strategy, but it relies on "buy-in." Chris's parents clearly never bought into the strategies, because they never fostered any interest in independence in Chris. This undermined the entire regimen of special education, and gave them a man-child with entitlement issues.
Monthly Tugboat
- Main article: Chris and Money
Regardless of whether Chris is abusing the welfare system, his parents are abusing it through him, or the system itself is flawed, the fact remains that the Monthly Tugboat is a major factor in making Chris's lifestyle—and thus his worldview—sustainable.
Blind Fucking Luck and the Cherry Picking Fallacy[1]
A contest or two here; a two-second local TV blip there. The results are that outside events most people never experience have stroked Chris's already monstrous ego.
Consider that Chris has produced a huge volume of fanmail, letters-to-the-editor, internet commentary, and other drivel. Each letter to Nintendo is a message in a bottle: most of them never return, but the one that does—on official letterhead, and addressed to Mr. C. W. Chandler—is confirmation of his celebrity.[2]
Yeah… it says here that, uh, yeah… they—th—it goes on to say that:
- “Nintendo of America has some of the most devoted, enthusiastic fans of any game developer. Each week, they receive, uh, hundreds of thousands of suggestions about their games and systems. While they would love to, uh, use ideas from f—fa—from fans to develop actual products, due to the volume of the, uh, requests they receive and the resources it would take to process them, they do not accept unsolicited game or product ideas. But they are committed to being at the leading edge of game and hardware development, though, and they can be sure that they are constantly at work developing new and exciting products and game ideas.”
Now, uh, here's the interesting part… where they quote about how I can actually… go further about ch—about them changing their minds and actually accepting the idea and helping me, uh, makin’ it—makin’ it totally real… with the video games and the TV animations and the action figures, and… officially-released—my personally-approved… medals...
But anyway, getting back to the letter, they say that, uh, “the best way to let other fans know about my idea or to generate hype about the future game I'd like to see is to post the ideas to the forums on their sites.”
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As if Chris didn't think his shit was golden to begin with, he got a second nod from Nintendo Power for his epic Animal Crossing Documentary, and a page in PVCC's Forum as icing on the cake. Even before his e-fame, Chris had plenty of evidence to convince himself that he was creative, and not just a high-volume douchenozzle that had pestered his way to acknowledgment. As he graduated from PVCC in 2006, his writing shows that Sonichu was, in his mind, already tested: there was just some small threshold of notoriety or connections that needed to be breached, in order to become a true media sensation.
On top of that, Chris has a huge amount of free time to inject himself into situations like the McIntire Park meetings, which allows him to cherry-pick more moments of recognition. A tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the local council seems cute to us, but is serious business to him. And since Chris cherry-picks only the reinforcement that he wants, his legions of trolls just add to the fire. Delusion has led him to believe that he has a legion of fans; a few hundred emails in his Inbox confirm it.
Manifestations
Chris's egotism manifests itself in many ways.
Unwarranted Self-Importance
- See Also: True and Loyal Fanbase
As overwhelming as Chris's Unwarranted Self-Importance is, it's easy for the novice observer to get lost in the sea of Sonichu shit and assume that he's just confident in his e-fame. "Of course," you say, "He's got a billion hits on YouTube, and a thousand emails in his mailbox. He's going to think he's hot shit, like every other retard on the internet."
But nothing sums up Chris's deep and abiding USI like this missive to Mary Lee Walsh[3]:
Mary, I've slept on it, and I have realized that note-hanging is not the way to get attention. And I don't really want to meet with either you nor Susan, no offense. I'll tell you what, let's forget the meeting, and if you will allow my newsletter to stay in distribution, I will do all of the following:
- I will never hang notes on the wall again.
- I'll consider stopping my Silent Treatment on Susan.
- I'll consider knocking you and Susan up my scale of Respect each by 2 points (0=No Respect...10=Respect).
Please reply via E-Mail.
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E-fame just adds a whole new dimension. He was a misunderstood genius before; now he's a misunderstood genius with a personal army.
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III'M. WOR-KIN'. ON IT! LET ME DO THAT STUPID VIDEO SO I CAN TELL E'RRYBODY, IN MY COMMAND, TO GET EVERYTHIN'- HELP ME GET EVERYTHIN' OFF THE INTERNET!
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It's so bad now that when Chris meets someone new who claims not to know who he is, he seems skeptical and surprised.[4]
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Y'all should know me by now, but if you don't, I am Christian Weston Chandler, the original creator of Sonichu, the Electric Hedgehog Pokemon, back on March 17th, 2000.
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| Chris, in his second YouTube video
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The instant-gratification, instant-acknowledgment, and instant-attention—good or bad—that has come with his minor e-fame of the last few years has thoroughly convinced Chris that people do read everything he writes, and that his YouTube messages invariably get to his target audience.
Persecution Complex
Chris has a lot of problems, and even the ones he 'takes responsibility for' are still out of his hands.
And if that wasn't enough, every authority figure in the land is conspiring against his Love Quest:
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Then in Mid-October, the Quote/Unquote "Dean of Student Services," Mary Lee Walsh, approached me and pulled my sign away from me and told me, "You're NOT ALLOWED TO FIND TRUE LOVE HERE." MY HEART WAS SHATTERED that very moment.
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| Chris, on his Wikipedia Page
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It doesn't help that he's engaged in a quagmire of a war against the homo rumors that those DAMNED TROLLS keep spreading about him, with a second front versus the copyright violating thieves.
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It's out of my control! I don't know where to go! I DUNNO KNOW WHERE TA GO!
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It has never—and likely will never—occur to him that he needs to go outside, get a job, and get off the damned internet.
Naivete
Chris's simple-mindedness and gullibility are legendary. The man is like the Sith: he only deals in absolutes. Either you're with him or you're a troll. This has been very obvious in his answers to the Mailbag, where he refuses to listen to any talk - even from professionals - about the similarities between Asperger Syndrome and autism, denies that there are any shortcomings in his work, and shrugs off any advice about how to improve his health or appearance, labelling anyone who suggests he has any kind of shortcoming a troll.
His gullibility is astounding. No matter how many times it's happened before, Chris is easily led around by the nose by trolls promising China or threatening Sonichu. The earlier trolling schemes, such as Blanca, PandaHalo and Jimmy Hill, got Chris to jump through hoops and exposed so much information about Chris and his personality that they had to start a wiki to keep track of it all.
Hubris: The Pride Before the Fall
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I should have been Highly Recognized for my ARTISTIC TALENTS I showed in my Many Art Classes for the Award Ceremonies before Graduation Day. I felt crestfallen greatly from not getting recognized for any of my Talents. I EXCELLED IN MATH TOO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
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| Chris, on his Wikipedia page
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I'd say... I'd say I'm all around. You see, the problem is that I have too many skills that I am good at. You might say that I am a jack of all trades and a master of none.
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Chris's mindset in general seems to be that if he has done anything at all, and let the world know, then he's automatically famous, or at very least entitled to fame. Now, a rational person might consider creating the Sonichu comic a minor achievement in itself, if more than a little bit on the lame side; not many people would be capable of creating hundreds of pages of comics, even if the end results were relatively crappy. But the mere fact that the comic was created tells Chris that people should respect him for that fact alone — not the quality or wide readership of the comic. He thinks that merely making the comic available makes him famous; he subsequently feels it necessary to say "you all should know me by now." Likewise, he feels everyone should "know him by now" by merely participating in the LittleBigPlanet community and creating something,[5] oblivious to the fact that quite a few people have been confirmed to have actually purchased the game.
But he feels that he is destined to win everything and that, if he loses, the winner cheated in some way.
Ego and the Real World
Chris's ego is one of amazement and wonder for the trolls. From one incident to the next, nothing seems to faze him. Even more amazing is that whenever he attempts to do something, he puts more focus on himself than the task at hand.
An interesting point Chris likes to make is that he thinks that he is a major celebrity, going so far as to add himself into the Wikipedia articles for Anne Boleyn, because of some (pretend) ancestry, and Vanessa Hudgens, because of a "hook up" between the two (troll). This was due to Chris somehow believing that he actually had a big fan base for his Sonichu comics, not realizing that, in actuality, they were all trolls. This was made worse when a horrible troll scheme backfired, causing Chris to win the GameStop Be A Star Sweepstakes without realizing what the actual prize was. Chris now believes he has an army of loyal fans at his beck and call, ready to get rid of annoying trolls or to get rid of videos.
Another thing that Chris enjoys doing is divulging every last detail about his life. Nothing is too candid for Chris - getting haircuts, drinking his own navy, even giving away his phone number! The only thing he hasn't done with wild abandon is give away his Social Security number and when that happens, look out!
Numerous times, Chris has shown that he believes he has powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal autistics. This line of thinking was caused by Chris's assumption that he had killed Ryan Cash just by withholding the comic and would worsen when he believed that his Curse-ye-ha-me-ha actually caused Liquid Chris to have some sort of horror befall him.
War against the ego
One of the main forces opposing Chris's ego are the white knights. These misguided souls have attempted to get Chris to understand that what he's doing is ridiculous and that he needs to grow up. Instead, he brushed them all aside, assuring himself that he was TRUE and HONEST, and could do no wrong. One of the more popular white knights, Vivian Gee, became a troll when she couldn't get through to Chris.
When asked to get real, psychiatric help, Chris has said that his church counselor, Rocky Shoemaker, is enough for him, and that she could do so much more than someone with an actual degree in that field. He seems to believe that because her title includes the word "counselor," she is every bit as qualified as a real doctor (the fact that most pastoral counselors see people for free probably helps as well, since Chris would never spend part of his precious monthly tugboat on something useful when there are video games to buy).
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