Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-142.51.108.254-20150922190330/@comment-25186410-20151108202046

24.138.135.165 wrote: As far as Fragile X goes, it does fit some of the criteria but not all, if he had the disorder and didn't receive years of physiotherapy his muscles can and will atrophe.

However, the brain damage sustained through his time as a simulation trooper could counter-act this, as a safety measure, your brain only allows your muscles to use 67% of its muscle strength (self preservation and all that jazz) but, if certain parts of the brain are damaged/killed, that function stops working and you now use 100% of your muscle, this means Caboose would have been in incredible pain after using his muscles the first time, but once healed, he would only get stronger

What supports your theory however is the face encoding troubles, a person with Fragile X can wind up with a perculiar symptom in which they are incabable of recognizing themselves or those around them by face, using voices to identify, over time they can learn what their face looks like. Imagine if you were in the military most of your life, didnt know what your face looked like, but learned what your helmet looked like, as seen in the Chrorus series, Caboose believes his helmet to be his face.

Fragile X is a maybe

Unfortunately, Attachment Disorder is pseudoscience based off Sigmund Freud's work, it is a disorder scientists in the field are trying to identify but have no real baseline to mark it off to. However, Borderline Personality Disorder shares plenty of the symptoms but with a few side effects that don't quite fit his criteria (think 'I hate you! Please don't leave...' ). If the theory does prove true however, disinhibited attachment disorder is what he would have, meaning he had to have one or two abusive parents or several step parents, clinging to whatever father figure he could see (might actually explain Simmons...)

Bi-polar disorder requires manic and depressive stages, so lets go through the evidence, does he have stages where he is insanely productive, positive and too happy go lucky? (insert answer here) does he have stages in the story where he just seems to be coming undone at the seams and feels hopeless? (insert answer here) does both stages happen frequently and repetitively? If so, he might be, there are other symptoms, but I can't be bothered to go through my textbooks or google them at the moment. Darn, guess I didn't research enough. I'm not really good with this, sorry.

Good stuff though! At least we're getting to the bottom of this?

With the Borderline Personality Disorder, I believe he might actually have that - your example ('I hate you! Please don't leave...') He usually gets mad at Church (he did this in Season 9, but this is NOT a definitive source as this was only Epsilon's memories) but quickly comes back anyway. He also did this is Season 10 (when Church yells at them), but I don't think it was a quick

As for Bi Polar, I agree. I don't actually know if he has it. It was the only disorder I could find that could explain his quick mood swings when going into his angry stage then calm again. Maybe one of you could find a disorder like that?

I still think he has Fragile X, unless there is another disorder which strictly rules out any different symptons other than a lower-than-average IQ?

This is a lot harder than I thought.