Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-6529205-20140419164329/@comment-10280603-20140708193636

LadyX wrote:

Bigwolfonbase wrote:

LadyX wrote:

202.46.143.120 wrote:

Grahamburglar wrote: '''Okay, if you don't see why she wouldn't have the maturity of a sixteen year old, I'm going to guess you're too young to have ever studied any psychology ever. You don't just magically mature because you're aging.'''The teenage years are developmentally a HUGE deal, most especially socially. They pretty much form the basis for how functional you are as an adult. So to go eight years without being a part of society -- especially THOSE eight years -- you're NOT going to be functional in society, you're not going to be functional in high school.

Even overlooking all of the social developments she's missed -- and the fact that mentally she's an animal (literally) not a human -- take into account that she hasn't learned any math, English, science etc since the third grade and now she's getting put into the 10th or 11th grade? She's also missed some vital things like health classes -- sex ed? I mean, she is automatically going to fail all of her classes simply because she doesn't have the vocabulary they expect of someone in that grade.

You don't just magically turn into a coyote either in the real world to be fair....

People shouldn't be applying an exact 100% realistic science to something that is A) fiction and B) Supernatural. We will probably get some vaguely possible explanation that works in a world with werewolves, hunters, kanimas, etc.

But we can expect some form of logic. She was an elementary student when she stopped being human, and they've thrust her into high school.

There are some ways that she would be mature, possibly more so than normal high schoolers. But to expect her to grasp anything educational at a high school level is ridiculous. And she had no human social interaction in her formative years.

I do see they are trying to make sure we see she is barely functioning, and I appreciate the effort. But I still find it hard to accept that they decided to put her in school with them. She should be being privately tutored or in special ed. I was thinking that to. The social aspect of it i dont really mind because i dont really think you need people to mature but as far as going from what like 6-9, i forgot how old she was when the accident happend, then to a junior in highschool seems almost impossible. Unless she was getting tutoring in Eican house I'm pretty sure she was nine...possibly eight.

There are different forms of maturity. She certainly has wilderness survival skills/maturity, and 'life isn't fair' maturity, and some of those can be translated to knowing when to keep your head down in human situations and when not to. But as far as interpersonal relates she wouldn't be mature at all, because she hasn't dealt with them for half her life, and she would've been early in the development of interpersonal relations at the time of she shift.

But she was only in Eichen House for a couple of weeks at most, if not only a few days. There's no way they could've tutored her that much True but at 8-9 thats 5th grade heading to middle school level and while im not saying your not right about that being the early stages. Thats still old enough to have developed some form of morality as well as to have begun having relationships in basic and slightly more complicated matters like having a bf or gf. To me from there to where she is mentally is less of a strectch than where she is academically