Peter Pan Syndrome Quotes

I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

Resolutely cheerful, unrepentantly sentimental, unfortunately prone to Peter Pan syndrome, in a bafflingly nonspecific relationship with a tall, beautiful woman, deeply enthusiastic about terrible hobbies, a tendency toward overdressing, neglectful or at the least careless of his health—Gomez Addams could have walked out of a pamphlet on trans-specific medical care from Vancouver Coastal Health.

An example of the Peter Pan syndrome is used in Aldous Huxley's 1962 novel Island. In it, one of the characters talks about male "dangerous delinquents" and "power-loving troublemakers" who are "Peter Pans". These types of males were "boys who can't read, won't learn, don't get on with anyone, and finally turn to the more violent forms of delinquency." He uses Adolf Hitler as an archetype of this phenomenon:[15] A Peter Pan if ever there was one. Hopeless at school. Incapable either of competing or co- operating. Envying all the normally successful boys—and, because he envied, hating them and, to make himself feel better, despising them as inferior beings. Then came the time for puberty. But Adolf was sexually backward. Other boys made advances to girls, and the girls responded. Adolf was too shy, too uncertain of his manhood. And all the time incapable of steady work, at home only in the compensatory Other World of his fancy. There, at the very least, he was Michelangelo. Here, unfortunately, he couldn't draw. His only gifts were hatred, low cunning, a set of indefatigable vocal cords and a talent for nonstop talking at the top of his voice from the depths of his Peter-Panic paranoia. Thirty or forty million deaths and heaven knows how many billions of dollars—that was the price the world had to pay for little Adolf's retarded maturation.

The psychologist Dan Kiley, in 1983, coined the Peter Pan Syndrome.  He wrote in his book, that for every Peter Pan there is a Wendy as his shadow.  Kiley figured there was a responsible motherly figure, Wendy, that would be the nurturing caregiver.  Peter would be the wounded boy in need of the kind, warming, and responsible Wendy.

Il nous restait une éternité à refuser éperdument de grandir. ~ p 163

Peter," she asked, trying to speak firmly, "what are your exact feelings to [about] me?" "Those of a devoted son, Wendy." "I thought so," she said, and went and sat by herself at the extreme end of the room. "You are so queer," he said, frankly puzzled, "and Tiger Lily is just the same. There is something she wants to be to me, but she says it is not my mother." "No, indeed, it is not," Wendy replied with frightful emphasis. Now we know why she was prejudiced against the redskins. "Then what is it?" "It isn't for a lady to tell." "Oh, very well," Peter said, a little nettled. "Perhaps Tinker Bell will tell me." "Oh yes, Tinker Bell will tell you," Wendy retorted scornfully. "She is an abandoned little creature.

Peter Pan Syndrome" I have peter pan syndrome I refuse to conform I refuse to transform I have peter pan syndrome I have peter pan syndrome Oh don't take away my visions Don't take away my dreams Oh don't take away my visions Don't take away my dreams I am living it up I am living in a dream I am living in a dream I am living it up I am living in a dream I am living in living in a dream I refuse to make kennies I refuse to be teased I refuse to be big I refuse to make us now I refuse to make kennies I refuse to be teased I refuse to be big I refuse to make us no Let's be small Oh let's be verbal I rather be an idiot than me be a crybaby a crybaby, cry, baby, cry, cry crybaby, cry, baby, cry, cry Oh don't take away my visions Don't take away my dreams Oh don't take away my visions Don't take away my dreams I am living it up I am living in a dream I am living in a dream I am living it up I am living in a dream I am living in living in a dream I refuse to grow I refuse to get old I refuse to be serious Oh, I wanna be delirious I have a peter pan syndrome Oh, peter pan syndrome Oh don't take away my visions Don't take away my dreams Oh don't take away my visions Don't take away my dreams Oh don't take away my visions Don't take away my dreams Oh don't take away my visions Don't take away my dreams (Dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams) (Dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams, dreams)