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12 Jul 2011, 3:29 pm

Is there a name for "mentally always a kid" syndrome?

I think I have that syndrome. I wish I was still a kid and I sometimes find things that only kids find funny. Also, this syndrome would partly explain why I'm struggling in school right now. I can't stand "trying hard" and life for me needs to be "fun fun fun". I can't handle the responsibilities required to succeed in university.

In terms of relationships, I don't want to date anyone. It seems too much of an "adult" thing.

So, is there actually a name for it?



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12 Jul 2011, 3:33 pm

The ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ affects people who do not want or feel unable to grow up, people with the body of an adult but the mind of a child. They don’t know how to or don’t want to stop being children and start being mothers or fathers.



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12 Jul 2011, 3:35 pm

Peter Pan Syndrome. It appears I have been ninja'd.



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12 Jul 2011, 3:38 pm

Jonsi wrote:
Peter Pan Syndrome. It appears I have been ninja'd.


Zing!



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12 Jul 2011, 3:40 pm

Don't listen to these people. They're ignorant!

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12 Jul 2011, 3:43 pm

I think Peter Pan Syndrome is technically the correct answer, but I disagree with it.

It treats being childlike as a disease or abnormality that should be "cured" even if it is innate to your entire personality.

I am perfectly happy being childlike, that is just me, and I deeply resent any suggestions or efforts to make me become something I am not and never aspired to be: an adult.



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12 Jul 2011, 3:52 pm

Jory wrote:
Don't listen to these people. They're ignorant!

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:lol:

jc6chan wrote:
I can't stand "trying hard" and life for me needs to be "fun fun fun". I can't handle the responsibilities required to succeed in university.


That actually sounds like most people I met during my short time at university.

Aside from that, being "adult" is overrated.



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12 Jul 2011, 4:35 pm

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12 Jul 2011, 4:39 pm

Being a manchild... syndrome.

I am a mega (wo)manchild.


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12 Jul 2011, 4:54 pm

This is me!! My neighbor told me I have Peter Pan Syndrome but it's not a bad thing! I am extremely immature for my age! I don't wanna grow up and I am afraid to because I have no concept of being an adult or living an adult life! I am extremely fearful of so many things in general! And I agree being an adult is overrated! It's no fun! I have so much fun being a kid! It makes me happy! Little kids even see as a kid not an adult! I get mad when people I know call me an adult and I tell them not to call me that or I just won 't wanna see or interact with them at all! Kinda extreme but I don't care! That's ME!!


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12 Jul 2011, 6:19 pm

I totally agree with BillyIdolFan ^^^



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12 Jul 2011, 8:35 pm

MollyTroubletail wrote:
I totally agree with BillyIdolFan ^^^


Thank u! I thought someone was gonna say something mean about what I said but I'm happy to see someone agrees instead lol!


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15 Jul 2011, 1:17 am

jc6chan wrote:
Is there a name for "mentally always a kid" syndrome?

Autism
There was an article here about autism & it said they are mentally kids. Case example was a woman in her 30s with the mind of a 5year-old.


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