While Chris claims that they were friends, there were examples of Sarah bullying Chris when they were children. Ĭhris and her childhood friend Sarah Hammer reuniting in October 2003, shortly after Sarah's birthday.ĭuring the 1980s, Chris met and befriended her playmate and childhood friend, Sarah Hammer. However, in time, Chris was able to meet these cognitive milestones, and when she was 7, Chris was finally able to talk by slowly reading out a GoBots package, thus ending her 7 years of silence. During that time, Chris was diagnosed with high-functioning autism, with doctors predicting that she would never make it to high school, much less be able to write her own name. Ĭhris didn’t speak at all until she was 7 years old, and visited James Madison University for speech therapy. Chris claims that this event was the source of her autism, which later turned out to be false, as autism is a genetic condition that cannot be caused by traumatic events. Chris has said that Roach would lock her in her room, that was filled with toys, whenever Roach was angry. When Chris was 18 months old, she had an abusive babysitter named Roach whenever Barbara and Bob left their house. According to her anger management survey, she was delayed in her language ability. Bob worked as an electrical engineer for Western Electric and later General Electric while Barbara worked as a secretary for Virginia Power (now called Dominion Energy). and Barbara Ann Weston, aged 54 and 40 respectively. Chris at age one with her father Bob during Christmas.Ĭhristopher Weston Chandler was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on February 24, 1982, to parents Robert Franklin "Bob" Chandler Jr.