Intro and discussion

[alphabet26.livejournal.com]

Name: alphabet26
Age: late 20s
Location: Iowa
Favorite TV Show: I'm fickle. Right now, I'm totally in love with CM--it's all new and shiny and wonderful. But look below, and all those shows were considered favorites, too. ;)
Other Shows Watched: Brothers and Sisters, Heroes, SPN, Merlin, Project Runway, Law and Order.
Favorite Quote: "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one." C.S. Lewis
Favorite Color: Purple
If I was a criminal, I'd be... not the kind they catch on "Criminal Minds." I'd be caught by the Law and Order cops, I'm sure.

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And now onto my discussion point. Disclaimer: I've only recently started watching the show and I pretty much marathoned my way through all the episodes thus far, so I definitely could have missed something. I'll feel kind of foolish, but you know. You'll have that.

Anyway, I've been reading a lot of fanfic lately and it seems like a lot of authors make Reid kind of...helpless. Like, can't cook, can't take care of himself, that kind of thing. Which isn't bad, but when I was watching the show and learning his backstory, I immediately thought that he'd have to be fairly decent at that kind of thing. "My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic who'd forget to eat if she wasn't properly medicated and supervised." So he had to take care of her and himself until he went off to college. It's obvious she got worse as time went on, but he said his mother didn't notice he didn't get home until midnight when he'd been tied to the goalpost because she'd had an episode.

And once he got to college...well. I guess I don't know about prodigies, but do they let 12-year-olds live in the dorms? He went to Caltech, and it seems like Diana stayed in Las Vegas. Hmm. Maybe he stayed with a host family like a foreign exchange student might?

Plus, he has Ph.D in chemistry--surely he can follow the directions in a simple recipe to make something? ;)

Anyway, your thoughts? If this was discussed previously (it doesn't look like it was discussed recently, at any rate), sorry, and if you wouldn't mind linking, I'd appreciate it!

Comments

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

As a gifted kid myself, (though nowhere NEAR that level), I often bonded with older people far easily than kids my age, and had wildly inappropriate aged crushes. I considered my 25 year old private tutor my peer when I was 12 and truly believed that we were mentally the same age, and therefore, he would find me attractive and desirable. Happily, my tutor was a good guy and let me down gently. So I can imagine Reid had a similar experience with a worse end.

I can't get it either, I would have thought they would have treated him like a weird pet or used him for homework. Again, that's a level of sadism that freaks me out.

Good on your brother!