What is Peter Pan Syndrome?

In 1983 Dr. Dan Kiley published the book "The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up." "The Peter Pan syndrome, men who never grow up."
People who suffer from this syndrome are irresponsible, insecure, afraid of loneliness, dependent and afraid of moving away from their safe environment, generally the family home. This childish behavior makes them take a cynical attitude, fleeing from any responsibility, and they are narcissistic and self-centered.
They are considered special people, who are beyond the laws of social order, above the rigidity of the world of the old, that they will never lose the freshness and happiness of childhood, that their life will be an eternal party. However, the clash with reality makes them take attitudes rather of manipulation and blackmail to the people around them and to society.
Socially they are fun people on trips and parties, apparently very imaginative and creative, but irresponsible to fulfill any type of commitment or activity. In the long run, this irresponsibility causes people to withdraw due to lack of seriousness, and the affected person ends up being lonely. Many times they form their own fantasy world.

In addition, in the affective field, it is very difficult for them to establish a normal and stable relationship, since their characteristic immaturity prevents them understand the feelings of another person, except in case you find their counterpart, a person with the syndrome of Wendy.
Perhaps the most notorious examples of this type of behavior are the much-talked-about Michael Jackson, who was diagnosed, and less notoriously, but closer, the case of the "ninis", since many (not all), take advantage of this circumstance to take a cynical, irresponsible and dependent; without taking into consideration the effects of the passage of time or your own needs.