Sheldon S02e02 Bd9 Fixed - Young

The intruder was a quiet, bespectacled boy named Dr. John Sturgis. Actually, young Dr. John Sturgis—a 12-year-old prodigy who, like Sheldon, was attending high school while his intellectual peers struggled with long division. Unlike Sheldon, Dr. Sturgis (he insisted on the title) was eerily polite, well-adjusted, and—worst of all—smarter.

Sheldon came home that day and went straight to his room. He didn’t speak. He didn’t lecture his twin sister Missy about the proper way to fold socks. He simply stared at his whiteboard, where half an equation for quantum loop gravity remained incomplete. young sheldon s02e02 bd9

Sheldon snapped. “You’re not a prodigy. You’re a statistical anomaly with good posture.” The intruder was a quiet, bespectacled boy named Dr

Sheldon replied, “That’s factually incorrect, Mom. Being the smartest is the entire basis of my identity.” John Sturgis—a 12-year-old prodigy who, like Sheldon, was