Infantilism
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Infantilism may refer to:
- In psychology
- Paraphilic infantilism, a paraphilia involving the desire to wear diapers and/or fantasies of a return to infancy
- Psychosexual infantilism, a concept in psychosexual development introduced by Sigmund Freud
- In medicine
- Infantilism (physiological disorder) obsolete use of the term for some developmental disorders and disabilities
- Infantilism, also known as infantile speech, a speech disorder in which early speech stages persist beyond the age they are normally expected to fade
- Hypothalamic infantilism-obesity, or sexual infantilism, synonyms for adiposogenital dystrophy
[edit] See also
- Delayed puberty, delayed sexual development symptomatic of several medical syndromes
- Diaper fetishism, a paraphilic attraction to wearing diapers which does not involve fantasies of childlike behavior
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