31-year-old Brazilian

Ah, childhood - a carefree time, the most wonderful time of our lives, when everything around is filled with bright colors, when you believe in a variety of wonders, when it seems that the world revolves only around you. I'm sure all adults, knowing all the prose of worldly existence, not once wanted to return to this magical time.
And imagine, in Brazil, lives a girl who at thirty years is still a child, and in the literal sense. Audete Maria (Maria Audete do Nascimento) both mentally and physically is the development of a nine-month child: she does not speak, can not walk, but only with surprise, a distinctive feature of the children, looking at the others. Doctors determined deficiency of thyroid hormones, and if the disease was detected in the beginning, Maria could develop normally. But parents without material resources, go to the hospital only when the girl was 28 years old. Doctors believe that the "child" may develop to some extent: it will be able to learn to walk, feed himself, and perhaps even pronounce some of the words, but it will always be a baby.
Stepmother Mary Dora "grow" it, since I married the girl's father Raymond. His own mother had died thirteen years ago. "It's a passion of my life. The child was sent to me as a gift of God to take care of it "- said Dora.

Source: rumbur.ru/people/1732-mariya-audete-jenshina-mladenec