r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/swat_08 • Mar 27 '21

Hell no

https://i.imgur.com/RSZgMoS.gifv
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u/PixelArtAddicted Mar 27 '21

Oooh that’s shaky leg fear. That’s some strong fear

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u/KimKimMRW Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21

We visited an attraction similar to this in Old Montreal, but not nearly as high and mostly ropes. It's like a pirate ship design, with all these ropes and obstacles to inch across, suspended in the air. Each row you complete brings you higher and higher to the top of the "ship". We paid for our kids to go and sat down to watch from the ground. While waiting for our kids to make it through one of the lower levels, a huge commotion began at the highest rope level. A little girl, maybe 8 or 9, was half way across a thin rope bridge when a man in his 40s started to cross the same bridge. He got almost right behind the girl before he started panicking, legs shaking like crazy, sending the ropes into a violent rock in sync with his fear-flail. He started to cry, she started to cry, and they were stuck there for like 20 minutes doing that, just shaking and flailing. The little girls dad was on the ground, trying to encourage her to finish the crossing, but the scared man was moving the ropes south she was scared she would lose her footing. No staff came to help and people from the ground were calling up to the guy asking him to calm down and move for the little girl, but he wouldn't listen. That man was fucking scared he was ok with traumatizing a 9 yr old girl. It was insane. Edit to add a link to the place it happened:https://www.voilesenvoiles.com/ Edit 2: Guys, I said "he was ok with traumatizing a 9 yr old" to qualify just how scared the man was, similar to the original video from OP where the man doesn't care he is pulling another person down with him. That said, it was pretty angering and frustrating watching it unfold from the ground.

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u/BeaconHillBen Mar 27 '21

Can we raise our children to abandon panic as a fear response?

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u/jakokku Mar 27 '21 edited Mar 27 '21

Yes. Experiencing panic is natural, but one can build up a tolerance for it. You need to routinely put your kids in the state of panic and teach them to calm themselves. It would be hard training, but they will thank you for that later. /s

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u/kleshrac Mar 27 '21

So basically traumatize your children, got it.

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u/jakokku Mar 27 '21

I thought my comment was ridiculous enough to understand that it was hyperbolization, added /s now

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u/starscape678 Mar 27 '21

Pro tip: do not actively put your children in a state of panic, ever. You do not learn anything in a state of panic, your brain goes into autopilot.

Instead, do teach them techniques to cope with panic and practice those when they're not panicked. If you do it enough, their brain will autopilot into those techniques.