Talk:Season 7/@comment-75.38.71.7-20130725041735/@comment-91.101.96.164-20130811222917

The reason Sheldon is so weird when it comes to physical contact, human relations, his obsession with routines and so forth is that he is an autist. It has nothing to do with the fact that he was bullied as a child, because he would have already by then have had some severe social disorders, since he was born that way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

Some om the "trademarks" of persons suffering from autism are:

- Impaired abilities regarding social interaction as well as verbal and non-verbal communication; unable to read facial expressions (a smile is not something natural to them, it's something they have been taught that you do when you are showing happiness or expressing gratitude)

- They tend to focus completely on one area of work, which for them is a way to shut out their surroundings and all the "noise" they're hearing all the time. This is one of the reasons that many autists tend to excel in their respective fields along with the fact that their mind, because of the disorder, is very capable in a single field (for instance math) but lacks the capacity for processing social interactions. The noise I'm speaking of is something described by most autists as the way they experience their mind or thoughts, i.e. if they are not focused entirely on one thing they feel like their mind is constantly in chaos which leaves them very anxious - I have a cousin who suffers from a mild form of autism and this is somewhat his explanation.

Most of the great minds through history has suffered from autism; Newton and Albert Einstein are two of the most famous examples.