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Any time I hear someone talk about their tokophobia and how grossed out they were to see a pregnant person on TV, I just want to tell them to grow up. And I know tokophobia is a real thing, so I feel bad for feeling that way, but I just do.

I feel kind of similar about trypophobia. It strikes me as a sort of false fad phobia rather than something something literally freeze up looking at.

I feel really stupid using the term but at the same time I was so comforted to know that it was an actual thing and my reaction to seemingly random things wasn't all that random nor was I alone in my reaction.

And I don't really freeze up, I get nauseous and light headed and really just this whole body queasiness. It's weird.

That whole thing is just so interesting to me. I just... Memetically transmitted phobia of lotus pods and beehives. It sounds like something from, I don't know, a weird cyberpunk novel. Something like that.

As far as I know, it's because it resembles a skin disease. Or at least, that's how a friend of mine that has it explained it to me. She said, she couldn't stop imagining her skin getting full of holes that dug onto her until reaching the flesh.

Is there an actual disease that looks like that, though?

I'm pretty sure there isn't. The closest thing is having pores, and that's, you know, normal.

The thing that interests me is that it seemed like practically everyone had it for a while there, and it kind of happened overnight. Like one person mentioned it somewhere and a bunch of people got it in their heads and spread the idea further.

Yeah, I remember. It was like some kind of memetic epidemy. An Anon in another comment made it clear there's no disease like that, it's in Snopes and everything. But (I'm sorry, I'm just going to C&P this): "Though, the disease may not be real, but what my friend tried to explain to me, was what she felt in her own skin whenever she saw pictures of too many circles too close together." I don't think she was making up the panic attack she had... so it's extra-weird for me. I'll give it the benefit of doubt, whether it is a legit phobia, or just hive-mind panic.

Like I said downthread, I think it was a legit mass hysteria. Which is just something that happens over a lot of weird things.

I think your friend may have been confused by an urban legend that was called Lotus Disease or something like that. http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/breastrash.asp (picture of lotus seeds photoshoped over a nipple. Obviously not real, but kinda disturbing still). Total bunk. As far as I know there's no skin disease that actually does that, though real ones can get really nasty too.

I'm not clicking at that |'D Sorry. I don't have the phobia but it's kind of nasty-looking either way.

Understood. Though, the disease may not be real, but what my friend tried to explain to me, was what she felt in her own skin whenever she saw pictures of too many circles too close together.

Seriously though, just thinking of that picture gives me the shudders something awful. I have a thing about holes/parasites/objects in/under the skin. Like, I've actually had gross dreams about removing (improbable) objects from under my skin or having holes in my body. I've even been squicked out by especially large/deep pimples on occasion. Also bot fly larvae. Bot fly larvae are nightmares incarnate.

But yeah. Lotus pods, that toad with eggs in its skin, some clusters of insect eggs (but not bee hives), and such give me the serious heebiejeebies. Not like, legit phobia reactions, but definite visceral response.

Dunno whether it's a real phobia or not, but some things of that sort (like the photoshopped boob from Snopes that's linked downthread a bit) really do squick me pretty badly.

Can you give them grief for talking about it too much without griefing them for having a phobia? The problem isn't the reaction itself, it's the degree to which they make it other people's problem.

...Is tokophobia going to be the new trypophobia? Because I just kind of assumed it was going to be carpophobia or emetophobia.

(On a related note, I wish someone would do a study on the phenomenon of a new phobia spreading over the entire internet every few years. It's like a 21st century version of mass hysteria.)

Oh, carpophobia. If I ever met someone with that I would freak them out so much because you can see my veins past my elbows.

I don't even get how that phobia is supposed to work... I mean, you've had wrists all your life. You should be used to them by now! XD

When I was a little kid, I used to scrub at my wrists because the blue from my veins was marker ink.

I might have a mild form of that. If I look at my wrists for a long time I start to get freaked out, so I prefer to just ignore them. I don't around looking at other peoples' so I don't know how that would affect me.

See, pregnant people don't make me freak out, nor do kids (even if I don't like them), but the idea of PERSONALLY being pregnant freaks me the fuck out.

I've had nightmares about being pregnant, and to me it's like the movie Alien and it's horrible. If I ever somehow accidentally got pregnant, I'd probably be running for Plan-B or an abortion clinic as fast as I could.

Genuinely curious: any idea why? From what I heard years ago, according to studies, women were typically *less* horrified by the Alien concept than men, and the theory is that this is because we grow up knowing we may one day incubate another organism and that's pretty normal.

(Excuse my rambling, disregard if you'd just rather not) I think it's fairly common to be nervous or scared when you haven't had any kids yet just because it's something new and major and does have its potential risks, but it's only in recent years that I've seen women actually being horrified by the idea, characterizing a fetus as a parasite and...I just don't get it. Maybe it's because people in industrialized countries are having fewer children these days, and kids don't grow up watching mom pop out one sibling after another?

Honestly, I really have no clue. Maybe it's because I have absolutely no interest or desire to have children and the thought that maybe I could get 'stuck' having one by not knowing I was pregnant until it was too late?

Maybe it's just the idea of not having full control over my own body. I really couldn't tell you. Just as long as I can remember, the idea of being pregnant almost very literally scares me sick.

That said, I think infants are adorable and have no problem being around pregnant people, so I'm guessing it probably does have something to do with it 'being in my body' more than anything else.

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