Confessions on Yik Yak | when people are afraid of like super normal things for no reason i legitimately see it as an evolutionary failure. like what do you mean if you see a butterfly you’ll cry??

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Confessions 1d

when people are afraid of like super normal things for no reason i legitimately see it as an evolutionary failure. like what do you mean if you see a butterfly you’ll cry??

Anonymous 1d

and not things that are genuinely harmful in some way like water or heights. i mean irrationally fears of harmless things.

Anonymous 1d

Has op ever taken introduction to psych? People have always had irrational fears, lol. Nice to know some people are dense pretending to be intelligent

Anonymous 22h

A butterfly flew into my ear as a kid so Im terrified of them…

Anonymous 21h

humans are just funny and weird like that. for some reason i have a visceral…not so much fear but discomfort when it comes to cotton stuffing specifically. like cotton balls are fine but cotton that is/was inside something and is visible or poking out of it (teddy bear, comforter, chair) makes my skin crawl

Anonymous 1d

I’m afraid of heights cause trauma

Anonymous

#1 1d

i literally said i don’t mean fears of things that can genuinely cause you harm..?

Anonymous

OP 1d

I’m just sharing

Anonymous

#1 1d

ok💀

Anonymous

OP 1d

Its cause i fell from a kids roller coaster and traumatized me

Anonymous

#4 21h

i’ve largely become less afraid of balloons and them popping around me but when i was younger this used to be a huge fear of mine, too LOL. unlike the cotton one, where i have no clue where thst comes from, i know my fear of balloons popping was cause when i was younger i got a balloon and i was so happy with it but then it just unexpectedly popped for no discernible reason 😭 i guess it scared AND scarred me a bit

Anonymous

#2 11h

pretty sure intro to psych would actually support my point..? the existence of irrational fears doesn't make them adaptive. if a fear serves no survival purpose it’s maladaptive by definition.

Anonymous

#3 10h

but that makes it a rational fear rather than irrational right?

Anonymous

#4 10h

this seems way more like a sensory aversion rather than a fear. but i guess fear could easily be developed through an aversion to something like the feeling of cotton stuffing or the loud noise a balloon popping makes

Anonymous

#3 10h

actually the more i think about it i feel like origin of the fear is rational, but the fear itself could still be considered irrational since there’s no real threat being posed. so i’m not too sure.