Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
Yeah, because Anakin would have been like 6 years older than the other younglings and unable to form those bonds anyway. They wouldnt have been his peers.
That's not how it works. He wouldn't have been put in a classroom with three year old toddlers. Younglings are taught in classrooms and every indication suggests they're grouped up by age, like a regular school. Anakin absolutely could have been placed in the same group as children his own age, to learn with them. He would have simply been a fifth year exchange student, essentially. It would have greatly helped alleviate his feelings of isolation and exclusion. Imagine being nine years old and feeling like nobody wants you around them, like you should just leave the Jedi Order and go home. Imagine how Anakin felt.

Anakin spent so little time with kids his own age he developed a superiority complex. He began to believe he was better than them because he was a padawan and they were only younglings. Other padawans even tried to bully him because they believed he got special treatment, although it ended badly for them because even at only nine years old Anakin was already more powerful than 90% of the Jedi Order but that's beside the point.