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Sheldon felt something strange. His chest tightened. He looked at Sturgis.

"You know what, kid?" the past George said. "You're weird. But you're my kind of weird."

The doorbell rang. Sheldon ignored it until Missy barged in without knocking. young sheldon s05e17 bd50

Downstairs, Sturgis stood holding a cardboard box. His eyes were wide with that particular mix of excitement and anxiety that Sheldon recognized as discovery-induced tremor .

Medford, Texas. Late spring, 1992.

Sheldon Cooper, age 11, sat on his bed with a disassembled radio spread across a towel. His mother, Mary, had forbidden him from using the kitchen table after he accidentally "recalibrated" her mixer into a rudimentary signal jammer.

Sheldon leaned in. "Define 'unusual.'"

It was Sheldon's own voice. But younger. Much younger. Four, maybe five years old.