Not here. I have no fear of bees unless they land on me, and even then only in the normal, “please don’t sting me” sense. My wife, on the other hand, is terrified of bees because of a childhood incident and has no revulsion to hole patterns.
I actually gagged at that second one. I’m with you- it has to be biological, and the more it resembles a parasite infestation, the grosser it is.
This is exactly it. It looks like maggots eating dead flesh.
I’m so disgusted at hoards of staples in telephone posts. The wooden ones where people post their lost pet or garage sale posters. It makes me physically ill.Even the sight of pores or little bubbles in drinks make me want to vomit in my mouth. I’ve had this fear forever and don’t know why, but I guess I have Trypophobia.
This kind of stuff disgusts me, not enough to have a phobia but yeah, it just gives me an urge to smash the thing into oblivion, and it feels like deep down its the whole riddled and infested with parasites image it creates in my mind. We recently left some garbage in the garage that was open with food inside and the next day I found maggots all over it. Its bizarre because I’m so repulsed by them I almost vomit but at the same time I felt the need to smash every one of them.
Am I missing something here? The reason why we find these things repulsive seems really, really obvious.
These things all look like a *really *serious infection. *Most *of them look like a clear case of fly strike.
(I will not post images of fly strike, you can do your own search. If you want *really *similar images, do a search on “bot fly”. I warn you: if you suffer from this condition, you *will *vomit. The images you see will look identical to many pf those already posted, but they are not photoshopped and they are of actual diseased individuals). (Now wheres that pukey smiley?)
At the very least the images posted look like a severe skin ulcer (and again, you can do your own search if you want to vomit).
The reason why we would innately “fear” the symptoms of a serious infection hardly needs explaining does it?
The whole “phobia” seems ludricrously simple to me.
If you didn’t know that that was a photo of perfectly healthy quokka, it looks like the animal has an open wound to the abdominal cavity. It’s hardly surprising that we have evolved to feel disgust at animals or people with such clear symptoms of infectious disease.
Ah. I wondered what somebody bothered by holes thought of the granary trees created by acorn woodpeckers. Common in CA chapparal areas.
(The acorn woodpecker drills holes in the trunks of dead trees to store acorns in, often completely riddling it. Always struck me as an awful lot work to go to for an acorn.)
Is that the cause or the effect though? We naturally seek order in this world, especailly in living things, and infections have the kind of disordered appearance we don’t associate with living things. I don’t know if there’s a way to separate the cause and effect here.
I agree that this may not be a phobia, anymore than rational fear of harm is a phobia.
