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1	[[WMG: Robert Goren is a Time Lord.]]
2	* It certainly explains many of his quirks.
3	** Alternatively, he's one of Sherlock Holmes's regenerations
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5	[[WMG: Goren has Asperger's Syndrome.]]
6	* He shows quite a few symptoms throughout the show's run. Eames even compares him to the autistic Wally Stevens in 'Probability.' For example:
7	** Eames explicitly says that Goren "doesn't like change."
8	** He's shown to have unusual speech patterns, like starting and stopping in the same sentence. Also, he hesitates when he's talking, like he's having trouble finding words to express himself.
9	** His social skills are quite obviously limited, more so even than would be apparent from his childhood.
10	** His body language and walking style are usually awkward, like he's not quite sure where to put everything.
11	** He also is shown to be able to detect patterns that no other detective seems to pick out. In season 3 he evens says that he notices "things out of pattern."
12	* Would explain quite a lot about him, and his mother doesn't seem like the type to take him to a doctor to get him diagnosed.
13	** alternatively if Goren is meant to be D'Onofrio's age he'd easily pre-date mass awareness of Asperger's; the Namesake doctor Hans Asperger had only started work on it, with 4 patients in 1944 and Citing the disease by his name was not Popularized in the US until 1981
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15	[[WMG: Goren/Eames occurred only because [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Benson/Stabler]] never would.]]

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