Like the fear of long words = Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
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This name given is really evil
- Which phobia do you have?
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
It's kinda of a joke name, the scientific name is sesquipedaliophobia, just a smidge over four letters.
This people also never learn German
Hate to be a spoilsport but this is just for fun, not a real thing.
If there's a name for it, it's real, or something
try telling that to someone who's aibohphobic... (jeez that was close)
Ideally it should be one of those irregular language thingies: someone who suffers from aibohphobia must be cibohphobic.
There goes my day
the guys who invented phobia names are all evil.
I present: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia:
Fear of long words
Fear of robotic dogs.
That's just normal
Forget the shooty dog thing!
Are these kinds of phobias legit stuff people have? As phobias?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't phobias supposed to be irrationally terrifying fears?
Nah not really. There's a bunch of names that were given just for the sake of inventing a names and getting attention. From Wikipedia: >>> Many -phobia lists circulate on the Internet, with words collected from indiscriminate sources, often copying each other. Also, a number of psychiatric websites exist that at the first glance cover a huge number of phobias, but in fact use a standard text to fit any phobia and reuse it for all unusual phobias by merely changing the name. Sometimes it leads to bizarre results, such as suggestions to cure "prostitute phobia".[2] Such practice is known as content spamming and is used to attract search engines.
An article published in 1897 in American Journal of Psychology noted "the absurd tendency to give Greek names to objects feared (which, as Arndt says, would give us such terms as klopsophobia – fear of thieves, triakaidekaphobia – fear of the number 13....)".[3]
Interesting. So basically a race to invent as many dumbass names to put against your name, huh?
Anatidaephobia is the phobia of being watched by a duck. The phobia even specifies that the fear is not that the duck will attack, but that it will simply spy on you and it hides from you. Funny enough there is a game by the same name that literally surrounds around hiding from ducks.
We're also using phobia to refer to irrational hatred now, apparently, so that could be more common.
This confused me even more. Homophobia and transphobia don't make any sense unless the hatred comes from irrational fear.
Some of them are a bit oversimplified. For example, the so-called “fear of long words” is actually specifically supposed to be referring to an anxiety about misspelling or mispronouncing long words, which is a slightly more sensible and relatable phenomenon. Then there apparently some that are just made up, like apparently the palindrome ones.
I see...
Isn't the existence of the names just easy bait for impressionable people to go around thinking they have that?
Doesnt phobia treatment usually involve some sort of exposure therapy? Call me crazy, but making the name a palindrome itself seems like a clever part of the treatment, as even discussing the phobia would help provide exposure, and work towards a cure. (Assuming it's a real thing...)
No one's actually afraid of palindromes, it's a joke phobia.
There are 8 billion people on this planet. At least one of them has to have had a traumatic experience while listening to Bob.
Actually, it's called iocusphobia, the fear of joke phobias.
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