# Sheldon Cooper Q

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheldon-cooper-q/743413>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 17, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheldon-cooper-q/743413 "2016-01-17T16:40:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheldon-cooper-q/743413/41 "2016-01-23T19:03:31Z")

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Sheldon having a dissociative disorder would explain certain inconsistencies. E.g., why he was allergic to cats in just the third episode of the series but obtains a good sized collection of them in _The Zazzy Substitution_ without any problems, just 3 seasons later. One alter is allergic and one isn’t. (Being able to pull this off is something most people can’t easily do.)

(This is starting to sound familiar. I think I’ve proposed this before.)

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheldon-cooper-q/743413/42 "2016-01-24T04:37:50Z")

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I used to have an extreme allergic reaction to shellfish, but now i can eat the stuff without incident, so it is possible to outgrow an allergy.

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**Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheldon-cooper-q/743413/43 "2016-01-24T05:16:02Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> Leonard’s brother and sister seem to be well adjusted and successful, so I would consider Beverly an overly strict mother who didn’t show affection, and for whatever reason, it affected Leonard the most.
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> Leonard is also successful in his field, working with Stephen Hawking and such, but his mother doesn’t appear to consider him as successful as his brother and sister.
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> Cue Jane Kaczmarek!

I don’t know how well-adjusted his siblings actually are, but I wonder if his mother treated him as some sort of social experiment. In one episode,he talks about the differing reactions his mother had to his science experiment about lima beans, and he says “If you’d like to look at the relationship between nurturing and growth, I’d like to point out that my brother is eight inches taller than me!”

ETA Should have read further - I see it’s already been suggested.

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