“Our solution was the line, “I’m not crazy. My mother had me tested.” And that put it to rest. Mary took Sheldon to a general practitioner in East Texas in 1990 who said, “Oh, he’s fine! He’s peculiar, but he’s fine!” It was probably a doctor who was still smoking! I think not having a label gave Jim a great deal of more freedom to play the part as he wanted to play it, as opposed to how we might have been pressured to do for a very-real syndrome that can be difficult.”
