So I know I made a journal about it a couple years ago, addressing the points, but since I've clearly been attacked and called a "pedophile" and "making excuses" in regards to my points by a couple of people, I'm going to go over the claims, and explain why I'm not "making excuses" and why fans can believe what they want, regardless of if anyone disagrees. "Spike acts like a child because of his child-like behavior, he often rides Twilight, and the other fans treat him very child-like by calling him Spikey wikey and pinching his cheeks" This is true in the early episodes more than anything. Ok, I'll admit in the early episodes, he does act childish in many regards, and the characters treat him as such. But he matures mentally as the series progresses, and likewise the characters don't treat him like a child as much in the later seasons, if at all. Maturing mentally admittedly doesn't make one physically older, but it's also about how the characters treat him less child-like too in the