Spencer Reid (alpha)

Data: Full name: Spencer Reid Date of birth: 28/10/1981 Place of birth: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Occupation: FBI Special Agent Father: William Reid Mother: Diana Reid

History and personality: Dr. Spencer Reid is a Supervisory Special Agent and Profiler who is part of Quantico's Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU). He is an acclaimed genius with 3 PhDs in Mathematics, Chemistry and Engineering and 4 undergraduate degrees in Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Criminology.

He is socially awkward and often feels uncomfortable with almost anyone. He tends to speak without a filter, i.e. without thinking. In general, he does not enjoy physical contact with strangers.

"Reid is an eccentric genius, with signs of schizophrenia and minor autism, Asperger's syndrome [...] basically Reid is the opposite of Garcia." -Matthew Gray Gubler

He and his mother were abandoned by his father, as he could not handle the stress of what his mother would have witnessed. Reid grew up learning almost everything from books, yet he knew that the way his mother lived was not healthy. At 12 he finished high school and at 13 he began studying at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where he earned 3 doctorates and 4 bachelor's degrees by the time he was 21.

At 18 he committed Diana to a mental hospital (Bennington Sanatorium), where she remains to this day. Reid has stated that he feels guilty for not visiting her often, so he sends her letters every day.

Physique: He is a very slender young man. His hair is dark brown, but he wears it in a variety of cuts, either long or short. He has hazel eyes. He usually dresses in a formal manner, but is occasionally seen wearing more casual clothes, most of the time he wears dark coloured suits.

Facts: ↣He has an IQ of 187. ↣Has an eidetic memory. ↣Can read 20,000 words per minute. ↣He is skilled in card games and magic. ↣Can make small objects appear and disappear. ↣Hates hospitals because of bright light. ↣Understands and speaks Korean. ↣Understands German but finds it difficult to speak. ↣Scared of the dark because of the absence of light. ↣Searches for a way to thank Tobias Hankel for wanting to try to save him. ↣Fears that his mother's illness is genetic. ↣Sufers from Technophobia (fear of electronic objects). ↣Speculation that he has obsessive-compulsive disorder. ↣He is a very good map reader. ↣Best friends are JJ, Morgan and Prentiss, being godfather to JJ's son.