Impulsivity
Impulse-control disorder is a clinically recognized inability to resist temptations, urges, and longings.
More specifically, these temptations, urges, and longings are things most adults are capable of resisting because we learn over the course of our lives that such things are rude, harmful, unhealthy, and/or dangerous.
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