The character’s traumatic past has decided it all once again.
Ever since it was initially launched back in 2017, Young Sheldon was something much more than just The Big Bang Theory prequel about Sheldon Cooper’s earlier years in his family house in Texas. The show turned out into a beacon of hope for those who had tried to uncover numerous mysteries of the titular character’s personality during all the time that the original show aired on TV, but eventually never found the answers.
Though Young Sheldon still had another aim prioritized rather than giving fans answers to all of their questions, some of those big mysteries indeed were clarified with the prequel’s arrival as the show finally revealed the reason for Sheldon’s big and previously inexplicable fear.
In The Big Bang Theory, it becomes almost immediately obvious to viewers that Sheldon is some kind of passenger princess who’s driven around wherever he needs to go by his friends who, in turn, don’t appear to be that happy about the prospect of taking Sheldon around the city for the rest of their lives.
During the original show’s run, Leonard, Howard, Raj and Penny repeatedly tried to talk Sheldon into taking up driving lessons, and once they even succeeded in bringing him to a driving school, but the whole plan got thwarted by Sheldon’s unconquerable fear of ever getting behind the wheel.
Years after this sequence initially appeared on TV in the earlier seasons of The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon finally addressed that major issue that Sheldon had, and his fear turned out to be reasonably legit.
The prequel’s season 1 episode 3, titled Poker, Faith, and Eggs, features Sheldon’s father George suffering from a heart attack and being taken to the hospital, something that rushes their kids with Georgie as their lead to get a car and go visit their dad in the hospital. The following scene proves that things didn’t go according to plan, as Georgie eventually crashes the car while both Sheldon and Missy witness it all.
Given that at that time Sheldon was not older than nine years old, the frightening incident most likely affected him in a way that he became determined in his decision never to drive a car himself.
