Quote Originally Posted by Alicat View Post
To me they are. It’s easier for me to call them things like that because genuinely the word can trigger me if I’m talking about them. I know I’m weird, especially if I can talk out the superhero. I don’t get how it works but it’s just how I see them and it helps to call them creepy or evil things.
But by calling it a "creepy evil thing" you reinforce in your mind that it is a creepy and evil thing, further associating it with negative feelings.

Call it a thing, call it a bug, call it something neutral – and maybe it will become easier to think of it as something that means you no harm.