I like all my BAU folks to be competent. Seriously, nothing irks me more than when I see one character written as helpless or completely dependent on another. None of these folks are idiots.
As for the college thing. My personal canon is that Reid went to UN-LV for three years, then Cal-Tech at 15 for his doctorates. Given that his dad walked out on his mom when he was 10(?), I don't think he'd be comfortable abandoning his mother only a few years later. And given Diana's reasons for not being institutionalized ("all my things are here") I doubt that she could have moved from LV to supervise Spencer at Cal-Tech in undergrad. And I'm not sure what options Spencer would have in on-campus housing at 12 (most college are wary of that kind of thing).
However, Cal-Tech for graduate degrees (and being 15), makes finding housing for him slightly easier from the administrative point of view. And he could still come home for holidays to check in on his mother.
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Date: Jan. 1st, 2010 10:13 pm (UTC)As for the college thing. My personal canon is that Reid went to UN-LV for three years, then Cal-Tech at 15 for his doctorates. Given that his dad walked out on his mom when he was 10(?), I don't think he'd be comfortable abandoning his mother only a few years later. And given Diana's reasons for not being institutionalized ("all my things are here") I doubt that she could have moved from LV to supervise Spencer at Cal-Tech in undergrad. And I'm not sure what options Spencer would have in on-campus housing at 12 (most college are wary of that kind of thing).
However, Cal-Tech for graduate degrees (and being 15), makes finding housing for him slightly easier from the administrative point of view. And he could still come home for holidays to check in on his mother.
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