Why Do Adult Babies Exist

Why do some people want to be an adult baby?

I don't know if anyone posed the question “are you an adult baby?” would answer “Me. I am. And I want to be.”But the do exist don't they?Dr. Harry Tiebout (Author: The Tiebout Papers) coined the phrase “King Baby Syndrom”. The idea behind this in simple terms is that most children as they move from adolescence into adulthood have varied stages of development. Particularly in the areas of negotiating needs and having them met.An infant bangs the spoon on the high chair and wails letting you know he or she has a need. A brooding adolescent will stomp aeound, slam doors or deafen you with a silent-treatment as a way of expressing dissatisfaction or need that they want fulfilled. Theoretically, by the time we reach adulthood our methods of communication have evolved and we become more straightforward about negotiating the meeting of needs.Not so with some people. While in Dr. Tiebout’s work he was primarily focusing on alcoholic tendencies this phenomena could be experienced by a variety of “immature” people.I speak of immature not so much as a put-down or a judgement but merely as someone who has not evolved into a mature rational reasoning associated with communicating ones needsSo the idea that some might be an “adult baby” could be true in this context. While they might not literally bang a spoon or throw themselves down in the middle of a store, crying for something they want - they have in likelihood evolved to other forms of communication or manipulation. Silent scorn, passive aggressive behaviors, guilt-tripping or one of my favorites - being an unwilling contestant on the game of “guess what I’m mad about”So while I know few people who “like” being an adult baby, they know of no other way. At some point growth was stunted or stopped evolving. Even the smallest child will learn once language develops that you needn't cry incessantly when you’re hungry you can say “I'm hungry”If you believe yourself to be an adult baby or know someone who is, encourage them to seek help from a professional. People with this affliction rarely make good lifetime partners unless they can find someone willing (and they are out there) to meet their incessant (and never ending) demands. It's quite dysfunctional and very uncomfortable for others to witness this behavior.Best of wishes to you from Austin, Texas.

What came first, the adult or the baby?

The adult. Using the tunicate (an extant distant relative of ours) as an example of an extinct, distant shared ancestor, we can see a life cycle that includes a mobile larval stage and a sessile, sexually reproducing stage.However, both the mobile and sessile stages are technically adults. Certainly neither forms go through infancy.Hagfish have a similar multistage lifecycle that includes both reproductive and non-reproductive stages, but no infancy.Salamanders are amphibians that, depending on environmental conditions, may become sexually reproductive during their larval stage, and never reach the “adult” stage. Again though, larvae are not infants.Below is a cladogram illustrating how the ancestors of mammals (that’s us folks!) split from the ancestors of reptiles and birds a long-ass time ago, like basically around Giant Amphibian Time (real thing, yo). So a diagram of the life cycle of komodo dragons won’t really say a whole lot about the adult/baby question, since the lizard equivalent of infancy is not a precursor to human infancy. But anyway, the point is that adults came first, and then later species specialized in one morphological shape, and their growth and development of said shape was the whole of their life cycles. Thus, babies.

Do babies already have adult teeth waiting?

And how!Tooth development happens in the womb, so both baby/milk and adult teeth are present when you are born.Primary (baby) teeth start to form between the sixth and eighth week of prenatal development, and permanent teeth begin to form in the twentieth week.[1]Until the teeth erupt, they are crammed tightly into the jaw. The jaw of this 5-year-old’s skull has a layer of bone removed to display the adult teeth waiting.[2]Here’s a typical child’s dental x-ray:[3]You can fit a truly horrifying number of teeth in a jaw. This is not a normal child, but one with hyperdontia (extra teeth):Other mammals also store their permanent teeth under their baby teeth! Here is a puppy’s dental x-ray:[4]See also: Why do we grow temporary baby teeth first and then permanent teeth? Why not permanent teeth in the first place? and What is the evolutionary advantage of deciduous teeth in many mammals?Footnotes[1] Human tooth development - Wikipedia[2] About the cover : British Dental Journal[3] Anatomy of your child’s jaw  - Dentist in Brampton, ON - Brampton Dentist[4] Canine Overbite - Our Seattle Veterinarians Explain Some Potential Dangers For Your Pup