Growing up obsessed with Disney movies I have seen Peter Pan more times than I can count, but I never thought of it as an adult themed story until reading The Case of Peter Pan. The more I read the more it made sense. How would a child truly appreciate the fear Peter has of growing up? They would not have faced the same problems that adults have faced and they have not wished they could go back in time and be a child again. That is the premise of Peter Pan; a boy that doesn’t want to grow up. Most children I know wish they were older, and most adults I know wish they could be a child again. An adult could relate to Peter’s feeling more than any child ever could. Not only was the main story point better suited for adults, but also the history of the author is definitely not fit for children. It bothered me when I realized the author was more than just interested in writing a story about young boys, but that he was attracted to little boys. There is clearly so much wrong with that statement in today’s society, and to discover that a story I grew up adoring had such a twisted background history really affected me. Would the incredible story of Peter in Neverland have ever existed if the author didn’t have a strange obsession with children? As a reader we will never know, but this has made me look at all of my favorite childhood stories in a new light and begin to wonder, are any of these really just for children?