What do you call it when an adult/teenager has child-like behavior?
March 10th, 2010 | 
Author: What is that disorder or medical condition called?
Is there even a name for it?
Yep, the other answerers have it right. It’s just immaturity. It can come from many different things, maybe a parent is the same way. Maybe they had too many childish influences as they grew up…no one mature around them that they idolized.
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Tags: Adult, Answerers, Behavior Disorder, child behavior, Immaturity, Many Different Things, Medical Condition, Teenager
4 Responses to “What do you call it when an adult/teenager has child-like behavior?”
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idk maybe bipolar but id call it immarturity if it doesnt happen often
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Is it necessary to call it a disorder or a medical condition. Isn’t the definition ‘Childish’ good enough?
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A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
In the state of development between puberty and maturity
For this condition named as adolescence
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Yep, the other answerers have it right. It’s just immaturity. It can come from many different things, maybe a parent is the same way. Maybe they had too many childish influences as they grew up…no one mature around them that they idolized.
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