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Im currently watching criminal minds fully through for the first time after years if sporadically watching it with my mom and grandmother. I've recently gotten to the point of where they kill of Maeve.

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This has really upset me. I feel for Spencer so much. He's so autistically coded and I really relate to him. I know that he cares very deeply about the people that he loves, he's very smart, socially awkward, he rambles, but most importantly he deserves to be happy.

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I've seen things online from the writers or people similar saying that it was to move the plot forward and make the fans feel deeply for him or something. I might be misquoting, sorry if I am. And that really pissed me off. Like they had fun torturing Spencer. What did he ever do to deserve this?

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I just feel that Spencer is a part of me. I feel represented. And it just hurts me that he doesn't really get a haopy romantic ending, or something similar. Like my heart feels like its been stabbed through multiple times because of everything that's already happened to him.

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Also, as much as it might make fans mad or how much they disliked it, the whole season 14 thing where JJ and Soencer confess their feelings for each other also had me feeling for him. Like why didn't she say something sooner. The reveal and everything made me think about how he must have felt after learning this after 14 years. Like surely something about a life that would have been completely different going through his head. How much hurt he must have felt. About how much it hurt him to confess, and even though I think JJ did the right thing and stayed with Will, and nothing really changed. Like I'm currently dating my best friend of 15 years but I wonder what would've happened if we got together earlier. Like just knowing that life would've been so much different.

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Oh, and its not just the romantic parts of his life. Like they tortured him man. He didn't have to go through all that stuff. Just because fans felt so much for him and loved him doesn't mean that they had to torture him. Like let my guy breathe. Please.

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Anyway, sorry for ranting. I just needed to get it out because I would've gone crazy if I didn't. If you got all the way through, thanks for reading and I'd love to hear your thoughts.