Does The brave companion Pyg have Jacobsen syndrome

[Hop robin]

He is described as having small eyes

 

 

that's my entire argument 

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some other evil characters are described as having small, pig's eyes. It is the syndrome of evil.

 

[Walda]

I don't think so. Jacobsen people usually die young of heart defects or bleeding disorders, both of which would be unfortunate conditions for a sellsword. 

Their eyes are not so much small as wide-set with droopy lids, although the broad nasal bridge does give a porcine look when it is combined with a turned up nose. 

More to the point, GRRM is very general and non-specific and inaccurate about disabilities. For example, Hodor is not typical of a person with intellectual disabilities or a person with autism. (Not that these very broad catergories are easily typified...there are literally thousands of varieties of both conditions). Illyn Payne can't talk because his tounge has been removed, but he can make a clacking sound when he laughs. In real life, a functional voicebox and cheeks can take you a long way, verbally, but clacking sounds are tricky. Wex's muteness is also unrealistic. Bran's injuries make no medical sense at all. He was in a coma for weeks, and has spinal damage, and given the height he fell from, his skull would be too smashed for him to live. He should have come out of the coma (if he ever did) with severe brain damage and literally years of re-learning to swallow, turn in bed, grasp things, relearning language and speech etc etc, with no guarentees he would ever get far. Tyrion finding something suspicious in Bran's ability to recall what happened immediately before the fall is pure ignorance, as is Bran's vague recollections of the golden man. In real life, he would be lucky to have any memories of anything that happened before the fall, and for a shockingly long while after it. He would need a lot more support than someone to carry him and a few bars around his bedroom. He would not be as quick on the uptake or as verbal as Hodor (who really demonstrated excellent verbal comprehension, but very poor verbal expression)

When Jaime returned to Harrenhal to rescue Brienne from the bear

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Jaime cupped his hands to shout. “You in there! Open your gates, or I’ll kick them down!”

(ASoS Ch.44 Jaime VI)

Kick, because he only has one hand.

GRRM's depiction of ability and disability is not even a little bit realistic. It is done for literary purposes, symbolic purposes, or its just how it came out.

His understanding of genetics is neither medieval or modern. And given how important genetics are to the plot, it would be foolishly particular to zero in on a syndrome so rare it was first identified in the early 1970's, and to date has only a couple hundred cases.

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24 minutes ago, Walda said:

More to the point, GRRM is very general and non-specific and inaccurate about disabilities. For example, Hodor is not typical of a person with intellectual disabilities or a person with autism.

In fact Hodor is a joke. He understands a lot and is able of making many things while GRRM tries to convince us he is a cretin with tricks like constantly repeating "Hodor". Jon considers Wun Wun as less intellectually efficient than Hodor... if so Hodor is quite intelligent I think Hodor must be as he is for the sake of the story.

I was wonderning if the Herons (slave soldiers) are healthy or maybe they have sort of genetic disorder.