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« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2013, 04:58:29 pm »
For those of us who don't know, could someone please explain what Sonichu is?

There's an entire wiki about Sonichu and, more specifically, its creator. Here's the CWCki article about Sonichu, the comic.

It's too weird to be summarized in just a few words, but basically an autistic man named Christian Weston Chandler created a hybrid between Pikachu and Sonic, the titular Sonichu. It eventually devolved into an outlet for his real-life angsts.

*shudders* He drew porn?!

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« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2013, 05:19:44 pm »
Sonichu is a mix of porn, wish fulfillment, and escapism. He's powerless in the real world (and even if he had power, he'd be too lazy to implement anything more difficult than waving his arms and demanding that things be done; he tries this with his "fans", who obviously don't go out and harass the people he says to), so he often drew scenarios in his comic where he or Sonichu (which is really the closest thing he has to a true friend) can defeat his "villains" for him.

Another major problem is that, having grown up as an autistic raised on cartoons, comics, and video games, he views the world through a lens that makes it all look like cartoonish fiction to him. There's no gray in his world, only white (him) and black (everyone who doesn't support and love him). People who have reasonable reason to deny him privileges or hate him are viewed as evil villains, and he even blamed Megan (the girl that he practically stalked and drew homemade porn of, which finally resulted in her cutting off contact with him) for being the cause of all of the trolling he faces. He can't own up to his own mistakes because of how many years his parents, especially his mother, coddled him. So he makes himself out as the good guy and everyone else as bad guys that must be defeated.

It's also apparently part of the reason why he continues to try and battle the trolls or people he thinks are trolls, like the owner of the gaming store that banned him and whom he recently ran down with his van: he treats it like a fictional battle between good and evil, and views "surrendering" as bad. He doesn't want to admit that he should just stop falling for troll bait and ignore them because to his mind, that's letting the trolls win. Indeed, some people think that he WANTS a battle to fight; he has a persecution complex, no doubt, and the theory is that he wants to continue "fighting the good fight" because it feeds his ego and belief that he can do no wrong. It's a lot like the fascists and partisan activists who can't fathom not "struggling against oppression" and seek out new conflicts so they have a purpose. Christian Weston Chandler is truly a manchild without purpose in this world.

This is an example of how you can more seriously analyze him. He really is an enigma from a psychological perspective.
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« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2013, 06:35:37 pm »
Wait, he tried to run someone over because he was banned from the guy's game store? Is that why I had heard a while back that he was arrested?
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« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2013, 07:10:36 pm »
Wait, he tried to run someone over because he was banned from the guy's game store? Is that why I had heard a while back that he was arrested?

Lemme give you the full story.

There was this gaming and hobby shop called The GAMe PLACe (yeah, it was silly). The first photograph of Chris posted to the internet came from two regulars, who also provided a lot of information about his activities and personality. Chris often went there to play Pokemon and other card battle games (usually losing to small children because he's complete shit at card games), and he was generally very disliked due to his.....abrasive personality.

Chris got more than one temporary ban from the store, and eventually he caused so many arguments that one of the managers, Michael Snyder, permabanned him in 2008. Chris, being autistic, greatly hated this change to his routine and (being raised to have a persecution complex) decided that Snyder was merely evil and mean and hated/feared autistics. He made multiple excursions to the store to try and beg for forgiveness and reprieve from the ban, which just resulted in him being run out by Snyder and occasional police intervention. Nothing but warnings, though, even when he was caught taking photographs of Snyder and nearly ran him over while fleeing the parking lot.

So on October 28, 2011, Chris and his mother passed by the store. It had been renamed Cville's Hobbies, Games, and Toys and was under new ownership. Chris figured that his ban must have been revoked because he's dumb and charged into the store. Keep in mind that this is after he became a "Tomgirl", a sort of strange transvestite that nobody can properly figure out no matter how much they study them, so he's showing up with horrific grown-out hair and probably feminine clothes and makeup.

Obviously, Snyder wasn't happy to see him and called the police. Chris shouted "For the internet!" and began taking photos of Snyder with his DS as he and his mother fled to their van. Snyder stood outside the van to watch them as the police came, and Chris panicked (or was encouraged by his mother; details are sketchy here due to the lack of a publicly available police report) and hit Snyder with the van. He and his mother switched seats, then his mom hit Snyder even harder and they fled. They were pulled over by police about a quarter mile from the store and arrested, with Barb being taken away in an ambulance along with Snyder (either due to stress or faking stress-related illness) and Chris being jailed for about a day until his pastor bailed him out. Both of them were charged with felony hit and run, with Chris getting misdemeanor assault and trespassing and his mother getting felony assault (possibly from attacking the arresting officer).

It took a while for things to get sorted out. While going through the months-long process of the trial and plea bargaining, Chris was permabanned from the local mall (not his first banning, of course) for loitering, passing out anti-Snyder fliers, rearranging furniture to suit his desires, and fleeing from security guards.

A CWCki forum member and her friend attended the public trial, and it was found that a plea bargain had been made; Snyder, ever the nice guy, didn't want them slapped with felonies. Chris had an outburst in court, calling Snyder a "thieving/bribing liar" when agreeing to pay Snyder's medical bills, but avoided any contempt of court charges. He was apparently barely avoiding another outburst when his lawyer called him an "adult autistic child", since Chris tends to get quite upset whenever anyone criticizes his mindset or competency (unless it suits him to claim that he's "retarded" to get out of trouble). Both he and his mother got probation (Chris got a year, Barb got two), with Chris also receiving community service and a mandatory psychological evaluation.
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« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2013, 07:12:16 pm »
Wait, he tried to run someone over because he was banned from the guy's game store? Is that why I had heard a while back that he was arrested?

Apparently.


This whole thing is reminding me that while I may be mildly autistic, on the dole and living with my parents, I am still a sane and productive member of society compared to this guy. The whole thing is just uttery, utterly mad.

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« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2013, 07:24:25 pm »
I should also point out here that a common theory is that Chris is a sociopath, or at least shows sociopathic tendencies. There's certainly quite a bit of evidence: he tends to treat other people in a way comparable to NPCs in video games, showing little to no concern for their well-being or even if they live or die unless he can get something out of it. He's 100% selfish and highly manipulative, though he's not very good at it because he has pretty much zero clue when it comes to social cues and is frankly pretty dumb otherwise; he WOULD be a good manipulator if he had an idea of what he was doing. He never feels true guilt, merely getting upset that he failed or was punished. He has very little tolerance for failure and tends to be highly aggressive, though he's also cowardly and will back down quickly if he's actually at risk of getting hurt; there was a case where he started shouting and threatening a much larger player in a card game, only to back down as soon as said player started looking like he was going to throat punch him.

And, most markedly, he likes to blame others for his problems and behavior. I mentioned a rather infamous incident before, where he drew porn of himself and the girl he was pining for. Well, he posted said picture on his Encyclopedia Dramatica article in a bizarre attempt to prove that he wasn't gay (he gets a lot of accusations of being heavily closeted, not without reason, and trolls know that his severe homophobia will make him flip out), and then told everyone who it was when they thought it was the female persona/sister he created for his comics. Megan, understandably, was quite horrified and embarrassed. Chris tried to blame her reaction on her own lack of knowledge of sex, implying that she'd be okay with it if she understood her vagina and his fingers better.

This also ties in to his persecution complex and tendency to accuse almost anyone of trolling him. He's been trolled so long (generally through his own incompetence and desire to combat or bait trolls instead of ignoring them) that he now honestly believes that there's a massive troll conspiracy that dates back to the days when the Greene County school board tried to pay off everyone to keep them from moving out of a fear and hatred of autistics. He thinks that there's been a conspiracy since his birth to harass and bully him, and has regularly accused unsuspecting people of being trolls even if they just do something vaguely unusual. Like when he posted surreptitiously taken photos of a Burger King employee in McDonalds, uploading them to his Facebook with captions indicating that he feared that he was a troll agent sent to spy on him.
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« Reply #21 on: June 15, 2013, 09:33:23 pm »
Stuff like that is why I read his wiki. This guy is like nothing I've seen before, and trying to understand him psychologically is extremely entertaining.
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« Reply #22 on: June 15, 2013, 10:14:09 pm »
Stuff like that is why I read his wiki. This guy is like nothing I've seen before, and trying to understand him psychologically is extremely entertaining.

It really is something you can get lost in. There's humor to be found in some of it, but it can be a serious psychological analysis. He's like a living thought exercise.

One thing that I repeatedly reminded people of back when I was on the CWCki forum was that we should remember that while we laugh now, it's highly likely that he won't have a good end. His autism isn't crippling, but the way he was raised is. He refuses to admit fault and seemingly can't feel true guilt, so any time something bad happens because of his own fuckups he just blames it on anyone and anything possible. His mind is a mess of contradictions, fractured too badly for even a professional psychologist to pick up the pieces. And he doesn't want help, so he can't get any even if he was salvageable.

He's unemployed and has no qualifications, physical or mental, for anything beyond a menial job like collecting shopping carts; he could, but his severe laziness prevents him from working whenever he's given a job and led to him narrowly making it through a nearly useless community college CAD certification (and I've seen his blueprints; they're abysmal, high school level stuff). He lives on government money, outright refusing to work because it's simply easier to sit around and get cash because his father pulled some strings to get him put on disability for his autism. He even abuses this to use the handicap tag for his parents' car (meant to be used for parents with autistic children who may run into traffic or something) so he can park closer to stores. He has no desire to put forth effort for anything, to the point where he's surrendered on negotiations or arguments despite apparently having the upper hand because it's easier to give up and forget about it than to try and accomplish something. And his social security can be taken away if he ends up fucking up with the law too much.

Speaking of which, the guy has no respect for the law or those who enforce it, or other people. He believes that he's entitled to what he wants, when he wants it and simply applies the "villain" label to anyone who stands in his way. He not only doesn't try to comprehend why people may do the things that they do, but he CAN'T comprehend it as long as he still views them as cartoon villains to be vanquished. All he's learned from his arrest was "The trolls are in the government and police too!" and that's all he CAN learn because of how fucked up he is in the head. He doesn't act out only because he's afraid of punishment and pain, rather than actually understanding right and wrong on the same terms as the rest of humanity. He does have a concept of right and wrong, don't think otherwise. He just has a very warped view where everything HE does is right.

What does this mean? He's fucked. His father died almost 2 years ago, and his mother is in very poor health. His house is a hoarder's nightmare, physically in shambles and stuffed with enough trash that a single spark could cause it to go up like a block of thermite. He likely has no clue how to pay bills or taxes, and is so lazy that he'd likely ignore them as long as he could and beg for help from his pastor or the very few "friends" he still has before actually learning to handle adulthood himself. His disability checks would be enough to sustain him if he was careful, but he wastes his money on video games, Apple products, and McDonalds; he's even stolen cash and credit cards from his parents to help fund his nearly compulsive PSN shopping and regularly maxed out various cards. It's doubtful that he'd ever learn to properly control himself.

When Barb dies, Chris will be alone. Rocky, the pastor who mindlessly cares for him and treats him like a severely autistic child rather than a mildly autistic and badly raised man, won't take him in. Nobody can send him to a group home against his consent (this is a common suggestion among CWC followers), and it wouldn't be free if they did. No job, very little work experience, and no desire to work or qualifications that could get him past minimum wage. No idea how to live like an adult, and nobody in his life who can properly control him; his mother is mainly the one who keeps him from roaming around outside and causing problems.

It's highly likely that Chris will die cold and alone, with nobody left to care about him except for all of the people who follow his bizarre antics. The ones that he's decried as trolls and bullies, even the ones who never did anything but gape at his insanity.

They'd probably put on a better funeral than the people who knew him personally.
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« Reply #23 on: June 15, 2013, 10:25:13 pm »
^This.

I look at Chris as a way not to end up.
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« Reply #24 on: June 15, 2013, 10:34:47 pm »
I think the scariest thing about Christian is that his father was a Klansman, let alone a racist Southerner (born in Texas, raised in Alabama, where there is far less beacon of hope there) who wound up in one of the "Threshold" states. That man had teach his son very bad lessons and to be morally dim as he was.

And everybody remembers him as the "Internet Lumberjack," as a reference to him trying to deprive his son access to the internet because he was caught masturbating in front of a webcam.

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« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2013, 10:36:41 pm »
...I genuinely and deeply feel sorry for him and actually kinda feel like crying now.
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« Reply #26 on: June 15, 2013, 10:43:53 pm »
I think the scariest thing about Christian is that his father was a Klansman, let alone a racist Southerner (born in Texas, raised in Alabama, where there is far less beacon of hope there) who wound up in one of the "Threshold" states. That man had teach his son very bad lessons and to be morally dim as he was.

And everybody remembers him as the "Internet Lumberjack," as a reference to him trying to deprive his son access to the internet because he was caught masturbating in front of a webcam.

Actually, the idea that Bob was in the KKK is pretty hotly contested. He made one threat toward some prank callers that said "I've seen crosses burnin' boy. You don't want to see that." That's not really enough information to go on. There's also not a whole lot of evidence for racism other than making one of the usual "Obama will paint the White House black" jokes back in 2008.

On the contrary, he served in Korea, heavily supported the United Nations, and seems to have had a great interest in international culture. He was still an angry old man, but who could blame him? His wife is literally insane, a compulsive hoarder and probably a severe attention whore who's believed to have been the driving force behind her and Chris getting arrested in 2011. He tried to recruit Chris to clean up, but she flipped out and threatened suicide. He had other kids, but his backwards views of mental health (his parents basically viewed mental health care as being on the same level as when they were children, and these people were senior citizens before Chris was an adult) encouraged him to try and keep his autistic son mainstreamed until it was too late.

I think at some point, he just completely gave up. His health was failing him, his wife was nuts and had little to no love on display for him (and indeed for Chris, who some have suggested she views as just another piece of junk or a pet to be hoarded), and his son was a lazy idiot who regularly got into fights online and in real life. Neither of them would bother cleaning up anything, and so he became slowly surrounded by junk and the garden he cared for died.

I wouldn't blame him for just giving up in his last few years and trying to just forget everything before dying.
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« Reply #27 on: June 15, 2013, 10:47:10 pm »
Is there any truth to the whole Reagan gutted mental health in the US thing? If so I'm suddenly in favor of a little night digging.

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« Reply #28 on: June 15, 2013, 11:03:03 pm »
Is there any truth to the whole Reagan gutted mental health in the US thing? If so I'm suddenly in favor of a little night digging.

Not sure, but the problem with Chris isn't that Regan fucked around with the mental health system. He could have turned out fine, like a great many autistics born back in 1982 and later. But his parents had a view on mental health that would have been appropriate in the 1950s (as they never updated their opinions and fears with the times), and were afraid that their son would just be locked away in a padded cell and tortured.

So when Chris had a severe outburst in elementary school that resulted in the school board attempting to have him placed in a special school, his parents temporarily fled to another district and homeschooled him until they could put him in mainstream classes.

He did suffer from being put with all the "special" kids in high school, with teachers who treated him more like a legitimately mentally retarded teenager than someone who was just mildly autistic, but any improvements were hampered by his parents' efforts to deny their son's problems whenever it suited them and keep him from getting the help he needed, thanks to their hopelessly primitive ideas.
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« Reply #29 on: June 15, 2013, 11:17:27 pm »
Yeah, Chris is a living example of how not to raise a high-functioning autistic. As much as I loathe my mother, at least she did her best to make me able to function in the real world.
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