Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-6529205-20140419164329/@comment-11533671-20140514045321

I've studied Psychology as well as had some interesting discussions with my older sister who holds her Master's degree in Child Psychology and has worked as an Elementary school Counselor for the past 14 years or more. All I can say is this:

Malia, despite her unconventional upbringing, is presented to us as a pretty normal teenager. There can be any amount of speculative reasons for this that would still satisfy her psychological development.

Ex: She could possess her father's intellect and so she was already academically advanced. She could have interacted socially with other animals and therefore met the psychological criteria for social interactive development. The list can be checked off one by one using any sort of explanation the writer's choose.

Fundamentally, I understand your argument but by all observational points of reference, Malia seems to have defied conventional abnormalities. We may not know the 'how' part of it but it stands to reason that she has met all or at least most of the criteria for "normal" development to be as she appears. I certainly agree that in real life it would be highly unlikey but on a show about werewolves and other supernatural things, conventional psychology doesn't empirically apply.