History Recap / StevenUniverseFutureS1E14GrowingPains

* EmbarrassingHospitalGown: Steven visits Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran in the hospital due to him glowing pink and random parts of his body swelling and shrinking rapidly. When instructed to put on a hospital gown, he asks the following:

Dr. Maheswaran concludes that everything he's been through during his childhood has caused him incredible stress through his life, and its affecting his ability to handle new forms of stress in a healthy way. Since the stress of major threats to his life is all he's ever known, his body is now responding to the stress of minor threats as if his life was in danger. Steven shows concern as to why this is happening now, and Dr. Maheswaran suggests a couple possibilities, including losing his emotional support systems however Steven particularly reacts when it comes to the possibility of having a recent experience that didn't go so well for him. As he thinks about his proposal to Connie backfiring, he starts to glow pink again and grow exponentially.

Back at the house, Steven and Greg talk about how making mistakes is okay and normal to most people, which makes Steven realize that his future is for him to decide. Steven begins to show concern for pulling his father away from his tour, however Greg waves off the concern. He suggests Steven gets some rest and tells him to take care of his problems one at a time, putting Steven a bit more at ease.

* AscendedFridgeHorror: One of the most discussed arguments is how did Steven managed to stay sane after everything he has gone through, from fighting monsters and stopping a millennia war to becoming everyone's LivingEmotionalCrutch. This episodes reveals that he never did, as not only these experiences caused him real physical damages (his skeleton is full of cracks never completely healed), but also mental trauma in the form of PTSD (or "Adverse Childhood Experiences" as Connie's mother puts it) that is starting to catch up with him.

* CerebusRetcon: Steven's entire life of AmusingInjuries and as a KidHero is deconstructed with serious consequences. The diagnosis from Dr. Maheswaren for Steven [[TransformationHorror losing control of his shapeshifting abilities]] when stressed reveals that Steven is in fact dealing with ''genuine PTSD'' from the psychological trauma of all he's lived through for the past four years. Now he can't cope with minor stress from mundane life because his body responds like his life is in danger, since that's what he's been experiencing for so long. It's also found that Steven's hybrid gem-human physiology (as well as Rose's natural healing powers he has inherited) has resulted in him having a sort of HealingFactor that near-instantaneously heals his wounds, but he also has [[DentedIron numerous fractures from impact trauma from his adventures over the last four years that have healed over]].

* FamilyVersusCareer: Greg has been on tour with Sadie and Shep for a while, and its extension leads to Steven missing a chance to talk to him about the proposal. Greg would have been fine taking off, if only Steven was willing to let him know, and ends up coming back anyway when Connie calls.

* AscendedFridgeHorror: One of the most discussed arguments is how did Steven manage to stay sane after everything he has gone through, from fighting monsters and stopping a millennia war to becoming everyone's LivingEmotionalCrutch. This episodes reveals that he never did, as not only these experiences caused him real physical damages (his skeleton is full of cracks never completely healed), but also mental trauma in the form of PTSD (or "Adverse Childhood Experiences" as Connie's mother puts it) that is starting to catch up with him.

The episode begins with an emotionally hungover Steven, who is eating ice cream, watching a preview of a Dogcopter movie (which is ironically about Dogcopter getting married), where he laments how everyone is getting married except him and glows pink in frustration.

* HealingFactor: It turns out Steven doesn't just have SuperToughness, but the ability to heal quickly and easily from many severe injuries. It hasn't worked perfectly, as many fractures have left their mark on Steven's skeleton.

* OffModel: When Steven is being examined by Dr. Maheswaran with a stethoscope, his gem has a hexagonal facet instead of the usual pentagonal one.