Autism in young adults

teleia
Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:29:50 +0000

Failure to launch might not be related to an autism spectrum diagnosis. I recently read an article about Japanese young men that never leave their bedrooms (the Japanese have a name for them, hikikomori), which seems like an extreme case of failure to launch. I can’t find the article I read but here is one that talks about failure to launch or Peter Pan syndrome .

Scientific American

Failure to Launch Syndrome

Call it failure to launch or Peter Pan syndrome, it’s the phenomenon of adult children not making the transition to adulthood. The Savvy Psychologist explores why Peter Pans stay on the launchpad

Our neighbor from across the court has an adult daughter that failed to launch. Went to university and then came home and hasn’t left since. Doesn’t work. I don’t know all the details but it seems like the longer one finds themselves in this pattern, the harder it might be to break out of it.