User:Thepicklesuitintheman

Chris's utter lack of insight into his autism

I'm working on a theory that Chris believes--totally incorrectly, of course--that autism is just having difficulty speaking, not having any friends, or being anxious about socializing in general. Which he obviously has and which is a legitimate part of autism, but I've noticed he never really says anything anywhere near, "I have a funny voice because I'm autistic," like, for example, I've heard Temple Grandin say. She knows she has one and she knows it affects her interactions with people and I'm assuming she knows she might be able to change it if she put a prohibitive amount of effort into it and just doesn't care. Chris, on the other hand, thinks he sings like Bing Crosby.

I don't know if this is anything. This is a theory I've been developing for a while and to organize my thoughts on it a little and maybe something CWCki-relevant might come from it. I'd appreciate any input.

Examples of when he refers to autism exclusively as having difficulty speaking, not having any friends, or being anxious about socializing in general

• Da mute button
  • Actually a sign of autism, sure, but a lot of people have a lot of speech difficulties. Not all mutism is autism and not all autism is mutism.
• Da autistic shell
  • Some people with autism talk too motherfucking much, which, frankly, Chris does a lot, too. Those few times he "breaks out of his autistic shell," he tends to make people really uncomfortable because of his bizarre, autistic behavior which he defends endlessly. Whether he's talking too much or too little, he's still being autistic as fuck, so the "shell" is neither here nor there as far as being autistic is concerned. I'd argue that his autistic shell is more a shell of anxiety.
• "A-U-T-I-S-M: what does it mean? Silence and friends unseen!"
• "And y'all are becoming autistic-like! Stuck within your computers!"

Examples of when he refers to any of his other obvious, characteristic symptoms of autism which actually have any impact on his life and which displaying any insight into or willingness to change or improve instead of just getting pissy and trying to change the subject when they're brought up would make socializing infinitely easier

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