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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hilarious? Not if you're affected by it.

Check out this link http://therapyevanston.com/2012/09/failure-to-launch/, which reads in part:

Low functioning grown children who are highly dependent on their parents are a growing phenomenon in many parts of the world. In Japan they are called “Hikikomori”, in Italy “Bamboccioni,” in Germany and France “Tanguy Syndrome”, and in England “NEET” (not in employment, education, or training) or “Kippers” (kids in parents pockets eroding retirement savings). In Canada, they are called “Boomerang Children”, in Austria “Mamma”s Hotel Children,” and in South Korea, they are known as “Kangurus.” In the Unites States, we call it the “Full Nest Syndrome” and “ILYA” (incompletely launched young adult).[/quote]

Dead link. Also it is just shitty parenting, not a disorder.[/quote]
Interesting.  Our friends have a adult son in his early 20s who still lives with them and appears to be in no hurry to make anything of himself.  He was diagnosed with ADD when young and with clinical depression after falling on his face when he tried college.  His sister, 20, is a star student on a full ride at a well-regarded University; it's fair to describe her as "driven."

Do you think somehow they were shitty parents for the one, but not for the other?
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A parent's job is to raise independent functioning adults. They have medicine for ADD and depression, so yea....[/quote]

So a parent's job is to seek therapy (required for the "medicine" you mention) for their kids, but OP seeking a therapist is pathetic, etc.?  Go back under your bridge.

Sorry for the responses OP.  Good luck.[/quote]

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