That's the inevitable result when everyone around you constantly tells you how amazing you are, but you still have to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see irrefutable proof that praise is empty. There's nothing compassionate about trying to convince people that the reality of their situation is something other than what it really is. It's a huge problem not just for people with obvious physical conditions like him, but for everyone that gets elevated to impossible heights by the people who surround them.