Re: YASID human biological age frozen short story

: Phillip SanMiguel <pmiguel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
: This is a short story in a _The Year's Best Science Fiction_ volume.
: Takes place in a world where some event caused everyone's body to stop
: aging and developing in most ways. So while a nine year old girl
: (which the main character is, if I remember correctly) becomes more
: sophisticated intellectually, she does not grow any taller, age, go
: through puberty. The main character is in real estate and lives in
: what is essentially a play house with several similar "age" friends.

Almost certainly "Start the Clock" by Benjamin Rosenbaum.
Called something like "Aquired Developmental Stasis Syndrome"
(though I've probably misremembered the exact name).

Snipping from a previous post:

Of course, the ones stuck at age three are the
scary/powerful/incomprehensible ones, because (with the best intentions)
they were cybernetically Augmented so that they wouldn't be stuck
helpless for decades...  I'll paste in the surreal passage where a Nine
speaks to a Three:

    "What are you afraid of?"

    "I'm afraid of cows.  And Millie is afraid of, um, um, you know
     the thing where if you take all the money people spend and you 
     put it inside what the weather's going to do and then you can
     sing to cats and stuff?  She's afraid of that."

    "Do you like being Augmented?"

    "I like it but Millie doesn't like it.  Millie thinks it's scary
     but she's just silly.  Millie wishes we were like people and trees
     and didn't have to make things OK all the time.  But then we couldn't
     play with bolshoiye-gemeinschaft-episteme-mekhashvi-ibura."

Millie, of course, is the three-year-old's doll.  Um.  Yeah.  It's a very
interesting story.  Though I suppose putting people and trees in the same
category (perhaps based on relative intellect, compared to the Three)
is perhaps a bit insulting, even if true.  On the other hand, I'd like
to sing to cats and stuff.  If I could cary a tune.


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