Talk:Cutie mark/@comment-69.135.212.112-20110618214359/@comment-98.92.217.120-20110629011535

Sometimes human beings have diseases that prevent them from going through puberty properly or at all... and at any rate, cutie marks seem at least as psychological as physiological. Every cutie mark explanation I can remember seeing in the show so far characterized them as representing something the pony already wanted quite a lot. In fact, to me that explains why Apple Bloom isn't getting hers: she has no actual interest in any of the things she's tried beyond their ability to give her a mark. She's trying things, then seeing if they give her a mark to decide if she should like them, when she's supposed to make the decision /first/. Apple Bloom is putting the cart before the horse, as it were.