[ SECRET POST #1898 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #1898 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.



__________________________________________________

02.


__________________________________________________

03.


__________________________________________________

04.


__________________________________________________

05.


__________________________________________________

06.


__________________________________________________

07.


__________________________________________________

08.


__________________________________________________

09. [repeat]


__________________________________________________

10.


__________________________________________________

11.


__________________________________________________

12.


__________________________________________________

13.


__________________________________________________

14.


__________________________________________________

15.


__________________________________________________

16.


__________________________________________________

17.


__________________________________________________

18.


__________________________________________________

19.


__________________________________________________

20.


__________________________________________________

21.


__________________________________________________

22.



Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 65 secrets from Secret Submission Post #271.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I saw this as a kid with my friends. Everyone else almost peed their pants and insisted we stop watching after the first five minutes, to my great disappointment. A few years later I finally got my hands on the movie and watched it alone.

I found out I wasn't scared of the clown, but extremely attracted to it. (I blame Tim Curry, I swear he's got that effect on me in every role I've seen him in.) But I'm one of those weird people (and in the minority, probably) who have liked clowns all their life and never seen them as scary. I think it has a lot to do with my childhood; clowns were the best part of circuses for me, I had a few cute clown-themed toys and dolls, my favorite children's program featured a clown (again, other kids found this show creepy), I dressed up as a clown a few times, etc... My parents didn't want to raise me playing with girl toys only but didn't want to pressure me into playing with boys' toys either; clowns were neutral because they could be for both girls and boys, & they were colorful instead of color-coded (pink for girls, blue for boys). Whereas my friends who hate clowns were never that familiar with clowns. I think it's the anxiety of the unknown that triggers the fear with clowns - they're very characteristic, personalized and expressive in their own way, yet a clown is still essentially a disguise. It's a fake person who communicates differently than a normal adult. It makes sense to be afraid of a stranger.

All my friends are terrified of IT, and a few even developed Coulrophobia because of him, just like you, so I understand. It's nothing to be ashamed of IMO, and very common. If I'm not mistaken it's one of the most common phobias, even.

If you really can't deal with it even if you want to, go see someone about it.