[ SECRET POST #4176 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4176 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like a lot of this "tryptophobia" crap is people overreacting and diagnosing themselves as having an actual phobia instead of just having the heebie-jeebies. They once saw that disgusting photo of an arm photoshopped with a lotus seed pod making it look like the arm was riddled with parasites, and they remember it every time they see clusters of something. THATS what they're grossed out by. If they really had tryptophobia, they'd be afraid of a lot more things: Stereo speakers, for example, have tons of tiny holes, and if these people had an actual phobia, they wouldn't let speakers anywhere near them.

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't the lack of uniformity part of what makes it work, though?

[(Anonymous)]

I half agree and half disagree. Few people have true arachnophobia, but still loads of people are terrified of spiders and call themselves arachnophobes as a result of that, and no one complains.

[(Anonymous)]

Most people just say they don't like spiders unless they're children who just learned that arachnaphobia's a thing. Which is sort of the same thing that happens on the internet with tryptophobia, but with the added bonus that tryptophobia is something the internet made up and has no actual clinical basis. There's no harm in someone claiming to be tryptophobic, but they deserve about as much indulgence as someone who blaming their bad day on Mercury being in retrograde.

[(Anonymous)]

I dunno, I've never diagnosed myself with the phobia, but I'd say I come close to it. Speakers are no issue, but I wouldn't eat a piece of raspberry cheesecake yesterday because the shape the seeds made freaked me out (and I love raspberries!) It's not everything, but it is a number of things, and anything on the human body is worst.