Outing by toddlergirl

You can be an adult and be a child at heart without demeaning yourself. By doing this, you only enforce this insecurity rather then facing your adult life as an adult.

Look, it's like quitting smoking. At first, you get these withdrawal symptoms because your body doesn't know how to deal with not having the regular dose of nicotine. But if you keep at it, gradually, your body will adapt itself to the new conditions. In short, your body will get used to no longer having the constant release of sugars and nicotine whenever you would smoke. The symptoms will gradually lessen and then eventually disappear altogether.

The brain works in the same manner. The chemicals released when you are facing situations that make you uncomfortable, insecure or awkward are abnormal, very much like most depressions. You need to be able to adjust yourself to being an adult, to realize (albeit slowly, at your pace), that you are indeed safe and secure as a grown up. It's not to say that it's easy or that it will be all flowers and sunshine, but unless you face these situations and practice regularly, you'll never get out of the state you are in now. You have to do it slowly, like quitting smoking, and it wont be easy. You will have moments where you want to run away back into your 'safe zone'.

Frankly, it's like refusing to learn how to walk because you're afraid to fall over, so you're stuck crawling around. You can get help, at the very least perhaps medication that can correct this chemical unbalance in your brain so that you can at the very least adjust to functioning as an adult. Again, it's not to say you can't be young at heart, god knows I am and I'm 28, but to regress that far into toddler hood is simply too much.

And no, I'm not pulling this out of my ass either. I deal with anxiety, panic attacks and what not all the time so I know how it is to deal with situations that make you uncomfortable and insecure. With help, I've slowly learned to deal with it and come to my own realization that the feelings I'd feel during those moments of panic were abnormal, they weren't my feelings, they were an exaggeration, an overreaction.

Perhaps you've already heard this before and this is just a bunch of recycled BS, I just suddenly felt like expressing my opinion on the matter, albeit somewhat abrupt.

My brother is 27. And he wants to have a baby.

How come you want to BE a baby?