The neuropsychologist Bryan Kohberger's defense team hired to protect him documented something his family had been trying to address for years. Dr. Rachel Lawson Orr spent six sessions testing Kohberger, observing his behavior, and interviewing his parents and sisters. She found restricted affect, absent social smiling, poor reciprocity, impulsive tendencies, and a man who redirected every conversation to his own experience. His family described years of failed social coaching. Orr confirmed the pattern: rigid thinking, limited perspective-taking, and "overall poor" insight. Kohberger showed only fleeting awareness of his own role in situations, and only when directly confronted. The evaluation reveals eight total diagnoses, four previously undisclosed, including a teenage heroin addiction and anorexia. It also connects to forum posts attributed to Kohberger at sixteen, where a user cataloged his own symptoms and described hugging his family and seeing nothing. Understanding how Kohberger's mind works isn't the same as excusing what he did. He admitted to killing four people under oath. But the evaluation explains why the pattern hasn't changed: the petition, the prison interview, the claim that everyone else is the problem. The evaluation says this is a man who has never seen himself the way other people see him.
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