Peter Pan syndrome describes one's inability to believe that they are
of an older age to engage in behaviour usually associated with
adulthood. This 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 do not know how to or do not want to stop being children. The
term comes from the fictional children's character Peter Pan, who
never ages. While it is more commonly attributed to men, it can affect
women as well.Some characteristics of the disorder are the inability
of individuals to take on responsibilities, to commit themselves or to
keep promises, excessive care about the way they look and personal
well-being and their lack of self-confidence, even though they do not
seem to show it and actually come across as exactly the opposite. Also
they are constantly changing partners and looking for younger ones.
“Whenever the relationship starts to ask for a high level of
commitment and responsibility, they become afraid and break it up.
Relationships with younger women have the advantage of being able to
live by the day without any worries, and they also involve less future
plans, therefore less responsibilities.†People who exhibit these
characteristics associated with the Peter Pan syndrome are sometimes
referred to as Peter Panners. Humbelina Robles Ortega, a professor of
Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment at Universidad de
Granada, links the syndrome with overprotective parents and the lack
of life skills which create anxiety in adulthood.Though similarly
presented, there are distinct differences between Peter Pan syndrome
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