Peter Pan Syndrome

I took this image while laying in the middle of the Trans Canada highway in northern Ontario. I don't know what the occupants of the approaching car thought when they saw a grown man, laying in the middle of the road, photographing a Dollar Store doll. They may have thought that I was doing my darnedest to place in the Darwin Awards top three but, in fact, I was celebrating a good friendship.

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The full story can be found on my web site, which I've all but ignored since starting this blog. The story of Timmy, the other clown on the highway, can be found by clicking here.

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The person who gave me Timmy, the clown, graduates from the University of New Brunswick today with a Doctorate in Child Psychology. Perhaps her training makes her a specialist in dealing with people like me. I'm suffering from Peter Pan Syndrome, and Aimée probably diagnosed this a long, long time ago.

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If you don't have the time to click on the Peter Pan link, then a brief summary of my condition can be paraphrased as follows:

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"He covets independence and freedom, chafes at boundaries and limits, and tends to find any restriction intolerable."

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You talkin' 'bout me? It goes on...

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"Peter Pan syndrome is a pop-psychology term used to describe an adult who is socially immature. The term has been used informally by both laypeople and some psychology professionals in popular psychology since the 1983 publication of The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up, by Dr. Dan Kiley. "

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I'm 45 years old, I play with dolls in the middle of the highway and I haven't had a job in 17 years. I think that I should perhaps conduct a little more research. Maybe I should read Dr. Dan Kiley's book.

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I wonder if he's written any other books. I'll do an internet search (please stand by).

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This is interesting...Kiley also wrote a companion book, The Wendy Dilemma, published in 1984.