While not a clinical pathology, it has a number of attitudes and behaviors that are recognizable. Anyone who is dedicated to pleasing others (usually his family) setting aside his own needs and aspirations, and feels guilty when he cannot satisfy other people's desires, clearly shows Wendy's syndrome. The name comes from a character from the play Peter Pan and Wendy (James Matthew Barrie, 1904), where a solicitous young Wendy Sara Moira Angela Darling always cares for and entertains her younger siblings with stories, so Peter Pan decides to take her home in Neverland to be the foster mother of the lost children who inhabit her.
