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The child's fantasy 'When I grow big and you grow little' also exists in the reverse form. The parent may fear growing little and being looked after by his child. When this happens it is because the child has been endowed with the characteristics of the parent's parent in childhood. These amalgams of identity result in transient feelings of confusion.