04-27-2015, 12:56 AM
I think it's a bit more than that. I believe that when you remove Sheldon's routines and other behaviors that were built up over years of solitude in a world he didn't understand what remains is an 11-year-old boy. And that is who we've seen over the past couple of seasons. And I think that Amy Farrah Fowler is essentially a pedophile taking advantage of him. And despite their vaunted intelligence, neither of them are mature enough emotionally to realize this. Their friends, however, are just satisfied that Sheldon isn't bothering them as much and are able to submerge themselves in their own dysfunctional relationships, letting the strange lady do whatever she wants to their friend.