Not Growing Up Sucks: Difference between revisions

'''Claudia:''' And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never, ever grow up. Tell me how it came to be that I am this...''thing''. }}

* Ben from ''Castaways of the Flying Dutchman'' is stuck at about fourteen: just old enough to fall in love, but still young enough that if he stays in one place too long, it will become obvious very quickly that he's not aging.

* ''[[The Little Vampire]]'': Rüdiger (Rudolph) and his siblings Anna and Lumpi. Lumpi became a vampire while in puberty and will never grow out of this difficult phase. Rüdiger and Anna still seem to be children at heart, despite the fact that they have been vampires for at least 150 years.

* Seria Mau in M. John Harrison's novel ''Light''. Her physical age is around 30, but her mental age is still around 13; the age when she was voluntarily imprisoned as a K-ship. She is shown to have tantrums and not have the understanding one would expect of a sane, unbroken adult; her body is also unable to grow past the age she was when [[Spaceship Girl|she merged with her ship.]]

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* [[wikipedia:Turner's syndrome|Turner's Syndrome]] is one of a number of genetic disorders that can result in the appearance of extreme youth.

* Many low-functioning, non-verbal autistic kids (which make up less than 10% of all diagnoses) have this issue. Those with higher-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome can, and very often do, function as adults without insurmountable problems. When they can't, it's usually a case of [[My Beloved Smother]] and/or [[Meddling Parents]], though this is rare.

* [[wikipedia:Bart de Graaff|Bart de Graaf]] was a well known Dutch television presenter who suffered a growth disorder which caused him to look and sound 12 for most of his life.

 

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