Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-26516813-20160131045823/@comment-24399666-20160204182330

Syscrash53 wrote: Buffy turned out ok. she died twice and released Angelis. But on the whole she turned out Ok.

Technical she started as the choosen one then there where many. Buffy had a normal childhood, right up until she learned she was a Slayer. And then she tried to reject it, until the end of the Pilot, and at the end of S1, she had a horrible time with the prophecy and wanted to run away. That's really when the show treated the psychology realistically.

Harry Potter, once he got away from the Dursleys and started attending Hogwarts, also had a horrible time with how everybody treated him as "extra-special." Frankly, if he hadn't been abused and neglected for the first part of his life, he would probably have turned into another Draco... but one with the weight of the world on his little shoulders. He still ended up with the weight of the world on his shoulders, and it resulted in... book 5.

Aang, from Avatar, the Last Airbender, really has the most realistic portrayal, seen in the episode, The Storm. When he reacted to learning he was the Avatar by running away.

IRL, when a child is declared to be extra-special (usually by his/her parents), the lesson that's learned is either a) being loved is contingent on being extra-special, or b) you don't have to work for anything, because you deserve it regardless, because you're extra-special. Either way, it's tantamount to child abuse.