My Life is an Open Book ~ You are Part of my Story

Okay, so I love Sherlock and Mycroft’s relationship. It intrigues me to no end. I know that a lot of people have already analyzed their relationship from all sorts of different angles, but while re-watching the Buckingham Palace scene from Scandal the other day, the psych student in me suddenly recalled a phenomenon which fit the two brothers’ different personas to a T. I was rather pleased to find that such a common and ordinary approach as “dysfunctional family roles” (something I’ve observed in many a family, including my own), fit these extraordinary boys so well. The result is this (rather long) speculative essay.

I don’t want to run away with any wild theories about childhood abuse (especially since Gatiss himself has said the boys probably had a normal upbringing), but I think there’s no denying that both Sherlock and Mycroft seem a little… well, stunted, emotionally. This could be attributed to mild autism or sociopathy, or it could simply a by-product of their unique brilliance (all of which has been said before), but there are also several other explanations.

This is one of them.

Well, its been a while. Shame on me!