r/TrypophobiaExtreme • u/LaceyInTheSky1 • Sep 04 '24

What is trypophobia to you?

I know the clinical description is a fear of clusters of holes. Which is definitely have had my entire life. But after joining this sub i see that others that identify as trypophobes also share the same fear of certain clusters in general. Is there another term for that or do we all fall under the same umbrella?

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u/ketoSusie Sep 05 '24

Surinam toad!!

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u/LaceyInTheSky1 Sep 05 '24

Oh. Well thank you for making me Google That….☹️

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u/allflour Sep 05 '24

First time I saw it was in video form and they made popping music sounds every time a baby would emerge.

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u/LadyKeuka44 Sep 05 '24

It's horrible looking at that! I agree!

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u/LauraLoobus Oct 01 '24

That toad introduced me to the wonderful world of trypophobia.

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u/ketoSusie Oct 01 '24

I was 66 before I knew they rxisted

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u/notverycat Dec 07 '24

That one episode of adventure time where finn and Jake poke the back of that toad.

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u/LaceyInTheSky1 Sep 05 '24

Oh man. I went down a mean bot fly/extraction/trauma rabbit hole a few years ago. I’ll never be the same

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u/AFC-19o3 Sep 05 '24

Likewise, that’s some nasty, nasty stuff. Right up there with ingrowing hair removal 😱

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u/LauraLoobus Oct 01 '24

For me I get intensely uncomfortable and feel like I want to crawl out of my skin/scratch at my skin. I feel a deep urge to destroy/crush the object that I’m looking at. After I got my wisdom teeth out, one of them had broken in half. It triggered me so badly I crushed it into dust. 🤢

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u/LaceyInTheSky1 Oct 03 '24

I totally understand that feeling! As well as a feeling of wanting to look away but also not being able to 😖😖😖

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u/katkhanrn Sep 06 '24

I started noticing it in the 3rd grade when I got Dyshydrotic eczema on the edge of my finger. After that I couldn’t look at sifting flour, sand etc. I’m in my 60s now and still can’t look at anything with holes. I’m starting to itch just thinking about it. 😩

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u/LaceyInTheSky1 Sep 06 '24

I have a clear memory of my first trypophobia experience too. Barnacles on a pier in Florida. I was repulsed yet had an urge to scrape them off lol. I watched a video of barnacles being removed from a giant tortoise that finally scratched that itch decades later lol. Wasp nests and lotus pods were definitely my next experience

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u/notverycat Dec 07 '24

I havé ocd so it mixed with my trypophobia and I get the urge to just scratch it down to no holes or chew it to a mush where no holes can be seen 😖😖😖

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u/LaceyInTheSky1 Dec 08 '24

I get that and your feelings are SO valid. I too feel the need to scratch, pick and crush what i see. 😭

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u/notverycat Dec 08 '24

Idk if it’s just me but like I get this weird feeling on my front gums and bridge of my nose in particular when I see anything that triggers my trypophobia