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Originally Posted by GLENNY62
Just to be clear, the parent (who is now deceased) was the one with the nudist behavior. The child, who is now 40 has some child like behavioiurs It wasn't a sudden change, I believe he was always like this , sort of arrested development. My question I guess was is this possibly a result of the parents nudist activities.
I comnpletely understand about nudist colonies and people enjoying the nudist lifestyle. In fact there are a couple nudist camps near here.
You are correct in that I could ask him about it, but we are not really close. Also, I don't feel I have a problem with it, just sort of interested in why. I really respect him in most ways, its just this behavour I don't understand. He did express interest in moving in with us and possibly having me be a father figure, That was a little disturbing to me for some reason.
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there is a physical health problem called down syndrome where some people are born with the birth defect of having too many chromosones but here in america this is diagnosed at birth (in which case you wouldnt be asknig about it now after this person is 40 years old.) but it does not cause a person to remain childlike all their life. they just learn at a slower rate and their physical aspects are a bit different then normal people (course whats normal in this day and age of diversity )
anyway my suggestion is unless you are this persons court appointed guardian you might want to leave the diagnosing of this person up to them and their own treatment providers. here in america those are the only ones that can figure out this problem. trying to diagnose someone through non professional means (online in mental health forum boards where most if not all the members are mentally disordered, physically challened and learning disordered can be a very dangerious thing even deadly at times if the wrong conclusion is made. no one here on psych central can tell you definitively whats going on with this 40 year old because we are not their treatment providers and this site does not allow us to make a diagnosis of other members, other members friends/family and acquaintenses.
if you are this 40 year old's guardian you can take them to a treatment provider and get professional diagnostics done.