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After hitting yet another scary number which is your age, have you ever thought, "I can't be XX, I don't feel like it at all"? No one actually knows how a proper adult should feel, so we should just embrace our inner child, which doesn't seem to go anywhere throughout our whole life. No one asked what that child inside of us would look like brought out, but French Photoshop wizard Cristian Girotto did it anyway.

Girotto took the term "inner child" a little too literally and retouched portraits of adults to look like toddlers. The photo series called L'enfant Exterieur (or "The Outer Child" translated from French) explores how adults would look if their childish cuteness and innocence, playfulness, and sincere emotions were visible. He took portraits originally captured by photographer Quentin Curtat and edited subjects' features to resemble children. And although the combination of chest hair and beards with huge eyes and rosy, chubby cheeks seems a little bit creepy, the result is still oddly adorable.

"Imagine big fawn’s eyes winking in the night clubs or little chubby hands shaking in the offices," says a snippet from the project's description, which, after scrolling through this list, you will be unable to unsee. How bizarre would your inner child look if it was brought out?

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    Mya Armstrong
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jennifer... did you steal my cookie?

    Doggo Kiddo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He looks like Nilly from doctor Proctor

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this looks very surprised.

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    Why?
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He's got the 'I just farted look'.

    ruthenium the ruther
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's more of a "Me? I not embarrassed." kinda look.

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    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it seems that he has just filled the diaper, with great satisfaction, and with a lot of poo

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    Annie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Puberty hit him hard. : )

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    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this is truly the only one that seems to me to be a child, in everything, in the childish look, in the face with a trace of pink that indicates the excitement for some discovery, the bright eye. really, she looks like a girl.

    Annie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cute! Reminds me of a girl in middle school.

    Pseudo Puppy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "child of the local hippies". <3

    Bunzilla
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like somebody I know.

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    Becky Coleman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where’s me lucky charms 🍀🌈

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    cabbage this is not a child, it is a gnome. than the Irish ones.

    Doggi
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    5 years ago

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    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    o mom, i have a friend who looks a lot like him. the similarity makes an impression.

    Doggi
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    5 years ago

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    Are those match earrings? On a child?

    frederic eeckman
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, some of the others have beards, so a pair of matching earrings... :D

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    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    too much makeup to give the impression of childish

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    Annie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Grounded?!? You''re sooooo mean!

    Pseudo Puppy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that chick that could keep up with the boys, and would thump you hard if you picked on her mates. :D

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    here the rejuvenation has succeeded, perhaps because of the trembling lip, which makes a lot of child who makes tantrums.

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    mr. t-rex
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BWAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a friend who has a face exactly like his, although not as big as his body. he probably has his inner child, not too inner.

    Your Mother
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kinda looks like Dwight k schrute (rainn wilson)!

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    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    also in this case the rejuvenation is not seen, but rather, from a feeling of discomfort to see that big head on a small body.

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    Annie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Teacher! Guess what Bobby just did!

    Pseudo Puppy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the kid that would be scared by more stuff than anyone else, but was the bravest because she'd face all her fears in order to hang out with her mates. :)

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ebony1k124 touch is right. looks like Chucky's wife, without the scars. no offense.

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    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't like this very much either. perhaps his mouth open like this, gives an impression of lost rather than young.

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    Lavender Brown
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To fart or not to fart...... That is the question.

    Pseudo Puppy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that cheeky kid that was waaaaay smarter than their sense of humour would have you assume. :P

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    Felipe StillChill
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does this dude remind me of agustas from Charlie and the chocolate factory

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I honestly don't like this photo. makes the face as if it were a little delayed. no offense. but the elusive gaze, the lost eye, from precisely that impression.

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    Panda Hugger
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no one else commented on this one so i felt bad lol

    Annie
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've been really good so can I have some cookies, please?

    Pseudo Puppy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the best mate you could have - always willing to give you a hand on whatever adventures you were creating. Loyal and genuine.... and got the cutest one in class as their partner, because he was such a good bloke. <3

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this also does not convince me. he looks like an adult with a big head

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    Annie
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She made it into the cheerleader squad!

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this girl has a slightly shot look. it seems he drank too much coffee.

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    Yeah, you heard
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Would help if we knew who these people were, or saw pics of them as adults. Otherwise, meh.

    Bob Klein
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well executed but weird. Proportion definitely counts for something.

    Kikka io
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know but it doesn't convince me too much. he looks just like an adult with too big a face

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