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This is a brilliant example of child psychology ("Peter Pan Syndrome") in an adult: "Generally great difficulty is experienced in adaptation to the social situation and, in some cases, there is a kind of false individualism, namely that, being something special, one has no need to adapt, for that would be impossible for such a hidden genius, and so on. In addition there is an arrogant attitude toward other people due to both an inferiority complex and false feelings of superiority. Such people also usually have great difficulty in finding the right kind of job, for whatever they find is never quite right or quite what they wanted. There is always "a hair in the soup." The woman also is never quite the right woman: she is nice as a girlfriend, but... There is always a "but" which prevents marriage or any kind of definite commitment." ~ "The Problem of the Puer", Marie Louise von-Franz