Whoa. I just listened on Radio Lab about the Peter Pan author, J. M. Barrie, and people believe his physical growth was stunted from emotional stress - psychogenic dwarfism.
His mother's favorite child died. She was so distraught that she remained in bed for almost the rest of her life. He would come in the room and she would ask if he was the other son. His physical growth was stunted at that point on. The mother seemed happy that at least her favorite son would stay a little boy forever, Barrie yearned to fill the shoes of his departed brother. Very interesting considering the story he wrote about never growing up.
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