Sheldor the Conqueror

[Wisp]

Thank you, SpaceAnjl, for a perfect post. You basically analyzed and summed up Sheldon, especially in his current state. I actually had a lump in my throat reading it.

Anyway, I agree with everything your wrote. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that most people around Sheldon are quite pathetic, socially inept and even morally dubious themselves. They are damaged people with damaged relationships, yet they keep trying to 'school' Sheldon in life. To be honest, I think when it comes to social situations and to relationships, Sheldon gives a bit too much credit to their advice, their interpretations and their POV. I believe as an intellectual, Sheldon should trust his own interpretation and his own understanding of life a bit more. Then again, as you pointed out, some life-altering incidents in his life have made him doubt himself, so...

As Spaceanjl wrote:

if you take a guy like that out of his comfort zone, and expose him to stress and anxiety, and then destroy the one area that he is supremely confident in, his intellectual ability, he's going to crack.

The whole post strikes quite a chord. Sheldon is now looking to the others for guidance, they have successfully damaged his sense of self. And these characters all had less confidence in themselves than he did. Now it's the other way round.

That's what can happen if you let others' misery into your head.

I had never realised it until the show's decline, but Sheldon is a very delicate character; not in his (old) personality, that was very strong, but from a creative point of view. They had to be so careful how they made him react to others and how much his friend's mundane concerns about women (and their continuous hang-ups about bullies that were just as insecure as they were at school) influenced him, but they've totally buggered that up now. All the emotional barriers have dropped and the character is a mess now.