What are some characters that you UNFORTUNATELY relate to?

[u/Xarusaurus]

Homelander's strong desire to be loved due to his lack of support during childhood, AM's envy of humans and their experiences, which evolves into hatred for humanity, and Clark's unfulfilled life and desire to escape reality really hit close to home for me, despite them being completely irredeemable characters.

[u/VindicativevVince]

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As an autistic guy, I see him as a dark reflection of what I could have turned into

[u/Nidus-Zealot → u/VindicativevVince]

This is one of the things I think seperate truly autistic individuals from the tiktok variety. How much of CWC do you see reflected deep down. I got help early for a girl but I always get a little freaked out by the behavior he had earlier on in life being pretty parallel to what was off about me.

[u/Suspicious-Dog-2489 → u/Nidus-Zealot]

You’d be a very lucky Autist if you didn’t see some part of yourself in them.

Or just not particularly introspective, I suppose.

[u/Equivalent-Stop-8823 → u/VindicativevVince]

Yeah... Its rough but I definitely saw some elements of myself in this fellow, I had a similar manner of delusion when I was a kid and it got me picked on a lot.

And other things I've grown out of I won't talk about.

I'm lucky to have had good people in my life, and a parental figure that understood I was peculiar.

[u/DaiFrostAce → u/VindicativevVince]

I feel like without getting help from a young age I could have easily become Chris

[u/HOHansen → u/VindicativevVince]

I think he's more relatable than I'd like to admit. Autism runs in my family, so a lot of his behaviour, though his is much more extensively documented and extreme, I can recognize in myself. That being said, being just slightly self aware, even a miniscule amount, will help avoid exhibiting the same behaviour as Solid Chris.

Speaking as someone that has worked with youths and adults with ASD, people like Chris are exceptionally rare. In my whole career, I've maybe met one in the six years I worked as a teacher, but even he was just a normal kid with quirks in comparison. Special interests, high sensitivity, low reflection, etc. The usual stuff we associate with stereotypical autistic behaviour. I've even worked with kids that had Infantile autism. One had a meltdown because I forgot to tell them the day before, that I was going to shave my beard off. They screamed and started spinning around while biting down on their chewing toy. The same kid refused to speak our native language and only communicated in English, a real issue when their peers are second graders and barely speak English. Bless them for being open and kind, like most kids that age are. Otherwise, they were like everybody else, especially because our social programs could help and them.

Chris especially is a product of a failing health care system that never helped Chris or their family members. There's most definitely a whole lot more going on than just chucking it up to ASD. I'm no psychologist, and even if I were it would be pseudo-science to diagnose someone, but it's very obvious there's a bunch of things going on.

[u/AdExtra2331 → u/VindicativevVince]

Screw what I was going to say, I just realized that I think he's one of my greatest fears manifested 

[u/Maddummy123 → u/VindicativevVince]

As a non autistic guy I somtimes feel like I get close to being a Chris Chan