• @takeheart
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    2110 days ago

    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!

    • @[email protected]
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      fedilink
      99 days ago

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