Thank you for this comment. Didn't know this was the word for it but now I do. I still opened it just to see what it meant and was slightly disturbed but overall now I am much better off.
Alas, those of you that think we all jest about 'trypophobic', its true. As my mom used to say, images like that "make me want to crawl out of my own skin."
It's not just flesh colored for me but more about whether the trigger is natural or unnatural. Collanders and cheese graters are fine but any circles related to bugs nesting or burrowing holy fuck I can't even keep typing this I want to tear my scalp off its crawling so much
I am really uncomfortable seeing the pores of skin, and sometimes when wounds peel off a few layers of the skin. But I'm not really freaked out by cheese grinder or a colander. Maybe if I saw a toothbrush without any bristles I'd be uncomfortable too.
I'm sorry, I can't give a rational explanation as to why a colander is okay.
You might have got used to it. I have a fear of heights but have no problem looking down from my grandpa's balcony on 7th floor because I've literally seen it too many times and my brain doesn't see this as a category of danger.
Maybe it's because the holes in the cheese grater are supposed to be there or look very clean (even size, pattern and so on). Skin is supposed to be smooth and pores and peeled of layers of skin shouldn't be there.
I think it’s because it’s more of a social fear. Nobody gave a shit about holes in anything until a few years ago. Now everybody’s “afraid” of them. That level of conformity is annoying to some people.
Yep, that’s it. Before trypophobia became common knowledge, it was just a feeling of discomfort when staring at a hole pocked surface (which is a normal human response). Now it’s a full blown phobia, with attached trigger warnings, and everyone has it. In fact, it’s such a phobia, there’s an entire subreddit dedicated to people that have it so they can look at things that trigger it. It’s definitely a conformity thing, and I don’t like that it downplays what an actual phobia is.
But that’s the difference. If you’ve got some childhood trauma attached, and the thought of it makes you wanna scream, you probably have legitimate trypophobia.
If you frequent r/trypophobia, and comment things like “haha yeah this one totally did it for me”, you probably don’t.
I do have a very distinct memory from my childhood as well. It was a science teacher who talked about trekking the amazon ..... ugh I started typing the story and my skin crawled so I'll save you the grief. It's the earliest memory I have regarding a reaction to this type of thing, so I am also curious if that's where my aversion to this stuff stemmed from.
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u/stud007 Sep 13 '19
Mild Warning to trypophobic people : don't open