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I don't see how this isn't People Sit On Chairs. Only children aren't unusual. All the stuff in the introductory paragraph about how
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I don\'t see how this isn\'t People Sit On Chairs. Only children aren\'t unusual. All the stuff in the introductory paragraph about how \"an only child wouldn\'t learn to deal with people the same age/ opposite sex/etc.\" is ridiculous - even if they don\'t go to school, there are other people with kids around them. Also, it\'s sort of silly to expect writers to add in a \'\'whole character\'\' whose presence would have a major effect on the main character\'s development, just for some statistical balance. I feel like this was written by someone in some really old-fashioned place where every family has more than five kids or something. \\\\
If the trope is, as \"syndrome\" would imply, when the author attributes personality traits to their being only children, then it would be a trope, but that doesn\'t seem like what it was written as.
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