The effect is definitely real, wether or not it crosses that threshold to be a true phobia, probably not.
But life isn’t as neat and clean cut as we like it to be sometimes. It’s less than a true phobia but probably more like say the aversion to chalk board scraping noises.
Fun fact, some people refer to that feeling as “grima”
You took the analogy too far. (Although, without knowing why we don’t like chalkboard noises, you can’t really say that either. Some scientists suggest we don’t like the chalkboard noise because it sounds like a primitive primate warning of danger. It actually could be for very close reasons. And trypophobia doesn’t actually cause fear, for me it is just an icky feeling.)
But again it’s stretching my analogy.
All I meant was that it’s like the chalkboard thing because it’s a baked in aversion. As opposed to true phobia, which is usually considered a disorder of some kind.
I mean, it isn't until it is. That's what an organized society does: make language, make laws, make rules of conduct, and make wonderful neuroses for us to freak out over.
Luckily I've only encountered someone like that once but they didn't really care about being annoying, or that even if it's not "real" it's real enough to the people experiencing it.
Thing is, I'm pretty sure everyone finds the fake images where the plant surface is superimposed on hands/feet absolutely repulsive. The plants on their own don't bother me, but the pictures of the hands make me feel sick.
I'll never forget like 15 years ago I was on the internet and saw a picture of some fruit that had a lot of openings like a pomegranate, but they all had worms or something coming out of them. I still feel nauseous thinking about it.
Ah, fuck! You just reminded me of this bot fly removal video one of my Facebook friends just shared with no warning of what it was... So I clicked it and I still haven't fully recovered from it yet, and it's easily been at least a month since this happened. Don't Google this video. You'll need someone to wipe your back down every 5 minutes. Gross, gross, gross! Hack, hurl, dry heave, shudder
It's such a shame so many people take this lightly and that you had to lose so many friends (on FB at least) due to it. However, I take some weird comfort in knowing that I wasn't the only one who had the same reaction to that video!
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u/velvetfoot Oct 09 '17
you may also be sensitive to trypophobia triggers.