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"The young parents of a severely developmentally disabled daughter have decided to freeze her growth at age nine...As a result, Ashley will remain a perpetual child. She will never experience puberty ...she is Peter Pan, forever frozen in it."
Ashley's mind, her *personality*, what it means to be an experiencing person, is frozen at 3 months old, not through any choice of her parents. She won't just remain a perpetual child, she will remain a perpetual infant. Developing secondary sexual characteristics while having the mind of a 3 month old is nothing like experiencing puberty. She isn't Peter Pan (who was portrayed by an adult), she is an infant. The quoted language is radically misleading. It is dishonest to the core.
