Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
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.
I have code word I’ve just not used it here as people won’t understand what I’m referring too. And considering there’s people that say just get over it I’m not gonna add fuel to their argument by giving out my code word. Hence the evil creepy thing as at least people will know what I’m referring to.

My code word doesn’t make a difference to how scared I am. I don’t get you people not actually understanding what a phobia is and I can just turn it off at will. That’s not how this works. I know most of them mean no harm and are likely more scared of me but we are dealing with an irrational fear here. I don’t get why so many of you can’t grasp what a phobia is.