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Fluttermoth Mrs Treguard
Great Old One Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Total posts: 398 Location: Cornwall, GB Age: 43 Gender: Female |
 Posted: 31-05-2013 13:21 Post subject: |
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| bunnymousekitt wrote: |
Fluttermoth - does your bar-code induced nausea have to do with how the lines look? I've heard of a phobia about small holes that sounds similar. The brain has a hard time processing the visual information and it creates a sickening feeling. |
I've never really thought about why, but you might have hit the nail on the head there!
I'm not sure it'll help with the phobia, but it's brilliant to have some sort of rationale for it  |
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| bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 880 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 31-05-2013 18:26 Post subject: |
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| bunnymousekitt wrote: | | CarlosTheDJ wrote: | Cotton wool.
Makes me teeth go funny - and, no I don't chew it. |
Same here. Ugh. And Styrofoam (polystyrene). The hideous squeaking noise it makes goes right to my bones and teeth *shudder*
Fluttermoth - does your bar-code induced nausea have to do with how the lines look? I've heard of a phobia about small holes that sounds similar. The brain has a hard time processing the visual information and it creates a sickening feeling. |
Just this morning I was on a bus sitting on the top deck at the front. There was some advertising graphics over the window which were printed on some material with lots of little holes and I felt quite disortentated when I looked through it.
I was fine looking out the side window but whenever I had to look through the holes, I would feel dizzy and be unable to focus. |
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| Maviself Yeti Joined: 18 Sep 2007 Total posts: 73 Location: mixing potions in the lab..... Gender: Female |
| Posted: 03-06-2013 15:42 Post subject: |
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| CarlosTheDJ wrote: | Cotton wool.
Makes me teeth go funny - and, no I don't chew it. |
Me too! It makes my fingernails and teeth itch 
But my youngest daughter used to suck her thumb whilst holding a one or two cotton wool balls - she called it "fluff". I even had to go to specific supermarkets to get it because other brands didn't smell right!
I never knew there were so many cottonwool haters out there?! |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-06-2013 20:09 Post subject: |
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Could it be some horrid memory of those cotton-wool plugs they stuff into dental cavities? These tend to produce the old fingernail-on-blackboard sensation as they meet your exposed nerves! 
Blackboard may require a footnote these days! |
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| Spudrick68 Great Old One Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1110 Location: sunny Morecambe Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-06-2013 20:34 Post subject: |
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| I don't know if it's strange but I have an instant gag reflex if there is either a hair or eggshell in my food and I cannot take another bite. Being quite round, perhaps I should use it as aversion therapy. |
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| CarlosTheDJ Dazed and confused for so long its not true
Great Old One Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Total posts: 1927 Location: Sussex Age: 37 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-06-2013 20:57 Post subject: |
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| JamesWhitehead wrote: | Could it be some horrid memory of those cotton-wool plugs they stuff into dental cavities? These tend to produce the old fingernail-on-blackboard sensation as they meet your exposed nerves!
Blackboard may require a footnote these days! |
Not in my case - never had a tooth out! |
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| GingerTabby Grey Joined: 20 Nov 2012 Total posts: 12 Location: all lost in the supermarket Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 03-06-2013 21:04 Post subject: |
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Cotton wool.
Makes me teeth go funny - and, no I don't chew it. | Quote: |
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I have the same reaction to the sound of a metal utensil being used to scrape out a metal saucepan. My front teeth are particularly sensitive to this noise. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17895 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 04-06-2013 06:45 Post subject: |
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The tines of forks trouble me. They have to be perfectly curved and parallel. If one is out of line or bent I feel quietly horrified. I couldn't pick up a bent fork, much less eat with it.
At a gallery recently I saw a display of artistically distorted forks, with their handles and prongs bent in every direction.
Couldn't get out of there fast enough, must've looked like a nutcase! 
Dunno why forks have this effect on me. I'm comfortable with other cutlery in any condition - even the odd spoon dropped down a catering waste disposal system and bent into a spiral. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 21:28 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Mother haunted by childhood phobia of The Muppet Show
http://metro.co.uk/2013/10/03/automatonophobia-mother-haunted-by-muppet-show-phobia-4133756/
Thursday 3 Oct 2013 6:57 pm
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Mother lives in fear of the Muppets
Terrible prospect: Miss Piggy and other Jim Henson characters scare Lindsay Broom (Picture: Camera Press/Medavia)
Most people have fond childhood memories of Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear.
But even the thought of The Muppet Show terrifies mother-of-two Lindsay Broom.
She has suffered from a phobia of puppets – called automatonophobia – since she was five.
‘All it takes is for my husband, Alex, to hum The Muppets theme song and I’m a wreck,’ she said.
‘When I see them, I automatically imagine the puppets’ facial features twisting and distorting, I just have to get away from them.’
She realised the extent of her fear when she spotted a furry Muppet toy in a shop as an 18-year-old and ‘just completely freaked out’.
On another occasion, she was at a theme park in Florida with her nephew. He wanted to queue for a Muppets ride – she took flight.
Automatonophobia: Mother haunted by Muppet Show phobia
Scary prospect: Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show (Picture: AP)
The 37-year-old’s phobia dates back to when she bought a rabbit hutch with her mother and was left ‘in a dark room’ inside the seller’s house with an elderly woman.
‘The elderly woman didn’t say a word, but was obviously unwell.
‘She sat there groaning and wheezing as an episode of The Muppets was playing on the TV,’ she explained. ‘It was the strangest and most terrifying experience of my entire life. When mum came back to collect me from the room, I burst into tears.’
It’s not just Animal and the gang that upsets her, she is also scared of Jim Henson’s other creations – Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock.
While there is no known cure for automatonophobia, possible treatments include hypnosis, psychoanalysis therapy and medication.
But Mrs Broom, from Swansea, said: ‘I haven’t sought medical advice – the phobia is so specialised that I can’t imagine anyone will be able to help me.’ |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 21:41 Post subject: |
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She added, "That will be £250 plus VAT, thank you Metro."
Now where is my Fear of Buttons* story? . . . Give it a make-over and I feel a fear of Zippy coming on.
*Not the harmless fastening, which does have its phobics. I refer to the pantomime character who is played by the most annoying people in the business.
edit: 23 edits. None of them an improvement. It's going, next, unless I fall asleep or someone answers it. |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 05-10-2013 11:44 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Now where is my Fear of Buttons* story? . . . Give it a make-over and I feel a fear of Zippy coming on. Smile |
The first time I ever heard of button phobia, it seemed really odd and random for about 10 seconds, then 3 or 4 people in the room said they experienced it or had a friend or relative that did.
Zipper phobia doesn't seem weird to me as I can't stand the sight of them, it's really hard to explain what makes an ok zipper and what makes a nasty one... put me near the wrong sort and my flesh starts creeping and I want to throw up.  |
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