The Peter Pan 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. The syndrome is not currently considered a psychopathology. However, an increasingly larger number of adults are presenting emotionally immature behaviors in Western society.

Are Gifted kids highly emotional?

Giftedness has an emotional as well as intellectual component. Intellectual complexity goes hand in hand with emotional depth. Just as gifted childrens thinking is more complex and has more depth than other childrens, so too are their emotions more complex and more intense.