Agreed with you but and there's always a but.
When a child gets beaten relentlessly and regularly, the fear in anticipation become dulled as the body's natural response. It becomes accepted as a natural occurance and the mind prepares the nerves to accept and protect.
However it also dulls excitement levels as a result. One can develop constant anger, or constant acceptance and either is never a good thing.
You can see that I have looked into this and that I have studied the responses. What it did for me was to work around these issues to lead as normal a life as I can, with the weapon of kindness.
Kindness to the little boy inside me and kindness to all others.
Amazingly true kindness can banish all fears, but you know this methinks.

Whenever we take little Troy to the dog park, other peoples dogs run to me and their owners have to come and fetch them. But when a big dog comes my wife Marian jumps into the car.
She was bitten by a dog once and it was because of her fear, I then smacked the dog and he ran away.
Dogs can sense fear and then they snap at the fearful person to show their superiority.
They don't see us as people, but rather as a part of a clan that they don't belong to.

In the meantime Marian's fears have improved and believe it or not, the other day she patted a Great Dane dog. One of the biggest dogs that's the height of a small pony.

Continue with the Mister Prophet thing and I will respond with Lady Toadalina 😵 😇