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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.

It’s quite easy to recognize someone with this syndrome, we can notice by their actions to pursue life. Being unmotivated is a big sign of this syndrome, they are not willing to work hard. They are unwilling to take responsibility for their actions, instead they find someone else to blame. “If they are the one that makes decisions, then they are the only one that can take the blame if things don't work out, and that's not a place that they're willing to put themselves in.” Becoming adults comes with countless responsibilities, such as working, paying rent, taking care of ourselves among many more things. Those who struggle with Peter Pan syndrome, refusing to grow up and refusing to take on their new responsibilities create a huge problem for themselves. Since they don’t take the chance to learn how to do their tasks and stay organized with such things it is a big struggle for them. Many to avoid these problems they decide to not move out of their parents house, because their parents will be doing all the work for them.These are their most notable characteristics, their inability of 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 and puer aeternus.

The concept of adults regarding themselves as juveniles or adolescents is known as transageism (also referred to as juvenilism and adolescentilism, respectively), which is modelled on transgenderism. Transageism—which has garnered a great deal of controversy—is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, nor is it recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a specific mental disorder. Likewise, neither transageism or Peter Pan Syndrome are recognized by the World Health Organization.