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Right out of a children's storybook (lemmy.world)
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[–] takeheart@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:

  • shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
  • fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
  • Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
  • wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
  • Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
  • etc

The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago

Well that explains why my psychiatrist’s nickname for me is “Peter, Philip, and Johnny in a trenchcoat.”