From the comments on Facebook, it's clear that many people didn't even realize these photographs bothered them until they stumbled upon them on Google. So I'm not convinced about this trypophobia. And down in New Orleans, people harvest lotus from the bayous and then fry up the seeds. They just peel the pods and pop the seeds in their mouth. And I have to admit, these pictures can give me the heebie-jeebies if I think about them long enough.īut in Southeast Asia, people eat these like peanuts. The standard litmus test for trypophobia seems to be a photograph of lotus seeds. "When macaroni noodles stand up straight when I'm boiling them, I wanna cry," Kelcey Piper remarked on Facebook. The trypophobia Facebook page touts nearly 7,000 followers, who commiserate on their "condition" and triggers. "I don't like the holes in crumpets or sponges or Swiss cheese," said on Twitter. Many images show holey foods or clusters of seeds, like aerated chocolates, the innards of a red bell pepper, and bubbles rising up in pancakes while they cook. On Instagram and Reddit, people share photographs of clusters that make them anxious, obsessed and even nauseated. It's not recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or any clinical psychologist we could find, but a whole trypophobia community is rising up on the Web. Trypophobia, as the Urban Dictionary defines it, is an irrational fear of holes, pods or cracks - specifically, clusters of them. Then he gets obsessed and can't stop talking about it.Ī bit concerned by his behavior, I started researching it on the Web. The melon seeds, all clustered together, make his skin itch and his stomach churn. Four years ago, my husband revealed one of his more peculiar qualities: He's freaked out by the sight of sliced cantaloupe.
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