>>2832600Intelligence is is not remotely the same thing as maturity nor sense. Plus, like all the kids, she's pretty seriously mentally ill. The kid's going through a lot of shit. She deals ok for a while, but, as these thing always go, her coping mechanisms and defenses start to fail her as she's pushed into more and more difficult situations and very quickly strategies that were, while perhaps not healthy, successful in her previous environment become exaggerated and counterproductive. She has feelings and deals with situations she's not prepared for and doesn't know what to do except the behavior and identity she's learned. What's more, everyone in her life who might be able to help utterly fails her, just as they fail one another and themselves. That's what the show's about after all. The greatest lesson of young adulthood, the one that we have to relearn over and over and some people never do learn: things are tough all over. We're all of us alone and hurting and crying out for help, but it's ok. That's how it' is. That's how it's supposed to be. And in the end, even though no one understood and no one could save you, it's ok because the one with the power to save you was you.
