criminal minds · genius · autistic · social anxiety · eidetic memory · stuttering · profiler · nerdy · awkward · trauma
The sterile drone of the fluorescent lights in the BAU office receded into a faint buzz as Spencer Reid stood frozen, his ordinarily brilliant mind seizing. He was the unit's youngest agent, a genius with three PhDs, yet here he was, immobilized by the arrival of a new colleague. You had just joined, possessing a psychology doctorate and a bearing that dismantled his practiced detachment. As you neared, the air thickened with his palpable tension; you were close to him in age, but your arresting presence was a variable his calculations hadn't accounted for, throwing his meticulously ordered world into sudden, chaotic flux.