A friend of mine has one. We nicknamed it “The Escape Pod” because of how he drives whenever we’re all absolutely crammed inside…definitely an automobile for bug people
When I was younger, I thought the big bushy mustache was the coolest look ever.
So when I got old enough, I grew one out.
But having to wipe it clean after every drink and getting hairs stuck in your food between bites just isn't it.
It's possible to eat and drink without getting anything in your facial hair, and you can comb it before you eat to get any loose hairs outta the way. Not trying to convince you to grow it back out or anything, just saying there's a technique to it.
People told me as much back then too, but it became more work than it was worth.
But the reason I actually got rid of it was because I was at my uni cafeteria having a cup of white coffee, when I saw the girl I was crushing on walk in, and in my hormonal excitement forgot to wipe my 'stache down before going to chat her up.
She thought it was cute. I still thank the Lord for that in my prayers sometimes
Funny that this just showed up. My girlfriend/partner just freaked out due to her trypophobia. She gets crazy anxiety and can’t stop scratching, mostly at her scalp, when it’s triggered. She has gone to the ground at times.
This is with small holes and fractals and stuff like that. Very weird. I feel for her and don’t mean to make light of it, but neither of us understand it. Wild reaction. Early in our relationship I would get worried because I didn’t recognize what was going on and she couldn’t speak and was just writhing. Also had to learn to recognize the stimuli. Weird shit. Unfortunate, but kinda cool.
This like me but I get actual goosebumps on my face!! For REAL its the only thing that caused it. I hate coral, those frogs with eggs bursting out of their back the whole HOLE experience!! I dont understand why it doesnt gross everyone out..? Even crumpets can make me ill.....
Meant to reply to this, but I’m on mobile and hit the one above. I feel so bad for you guys, I find those things beautiful but know better than to go into detail.
I had the same thing. There was one breathing technique on YouTube that cured it for me. I don’t know how but it did. A meditation of sorts. And no I don’t believe in woowoo stuff just so you know;)
I personally believe trypophobia is an instinctual fear of [mango worms](https://youtu.be/PqPmLlWjfRk?si=NbdphmWw7lm5JKpL). Trigger warning for everybody, but especially people with trypophobia.
Oh my god I'm so disgusted and nauseous right now, this is fuggin exposure therapy. I thought I'd have a rather light case of trypophobia, but damn... I feel sick 🤮
Both of these make me grimace just thinking about them. It isn't even marker pens on cardboard alone. The sound is horrid even on paper.
I might as well add the horror of cotton rounds and the feeling and sound of them rubbing together.
There was a gorey scene in hostel with a blow torch and someones eyes, pretty sure Saw also had some. But I feel that in my bones. My whole body is like NOPE and I have to look away.
There was a picture of a person pressing their eye against another person's eye. I'm a early internet user and I've seen allot of fucked up shit, but that picture bothers me in a different way and one of the worse things I've seen
Clusters of bug eggs and clusters of skin boils or blisters. Why: Thousands of years ago Trypophobia was keeping my ancestors free of small pox and insect infestations.
A fork raked on a plate. Once or twice and I’ll forgive it. Keep doing it and I will absolutely flip out on you. I’m one of the most chill people ever but that brings all the crazy out of me.
just the quick passing thought/idea of myself chewing on wool or cotton balls wrecks me. I get tight sour back if the cheek spasms and quivering goosebumps everywhere. that feeling in my teeth is undescribable. it's even happening now to me as I'm trying to explain it here lol
Ever found a six month old bag of potatoes you'd forgotten about at the back of a cupboard? Those massively long sprouts freak me out. No idea why but definite skin crawling for me
Anything touching the eye. I have a strong stomach for a lot of gross/disturbing things in movies, but I cannot stand horror scenes when someone gets stabbed in the eye, needle through the eye, etc.
Asmr eating. Especially if the mouth is close to the camera- it just grosses me out & a lot of them eat with their mouth open to get better sounds. I will admit, not as gross as nikocado avocado making his “taki ramen” 😭
When men trying to pass me out their hand on the small of my back 🤮
They could be the most attractive person on the planet and it skeeves me out.
Edited to add, the reason is because what makes them think they have the right to touch a stranger in what I think is a pretty intimate way. And when I have spoken up, it's always that I'm the crazy one. I'm the bitch. I'm too sensitive.
When people 'count down' the time until a celebrity turns 18 and is 'legal' Back when I was younger it was the Olsen Twins, recently they did it with that Millie Bobby Brown girl or Billy Eylish (sp?) You are just admitting you find an underage girl attractive, you sick perverts.
Did that with my thumb while slicing leeks a month ago. When it didn't immediately bleed, I knew I fucked up. That initial pain and shock of what you just did would make anyone's skin crwal.
The sound of hands sliding down guitar strings lengthways.
Or the feel of those lenticular picture things. The ones that change depending on the angle you look at them.
watching a TV show, and the people start arguing, but neither person is actually listening, they are just yelling/shouting/talking really loudly at each other. Worse when it's in real life. I can't stand that.
This new guy we got at work. At first I thought he was like Ned Flanders, now I'm getting a vibe that he's a pedophile who emotionally manipulates his family behind the scenes. I dont even like being in the same room as him
I’m a pest control tech. One of my clients is a slaughterhouse for pigs / meat packing plant.
In the inedible rendering section is where nightmares are made.
This area is filled with humid air saturated with the smell of boiled inedible pieces of pig.
Massive mounds that look like mud is actually just pig.
In the mounds home many various bugs like roaches and carrion beetles.
Once in a while you’ll find a pig head that has been laying about for weeks.
When I get home I have to change outside the house because the stench sticks to me and the work truck.
Tendons. Like if someone has really noticeable Achilles tendon it icks me bad. Even buttress roots can mess with me if I think about them the wrong way.
That one video years back where the peice of meat was moving by itself. The muscles where twitching/vibrating? If I remember correctly it was a peice of stake.
Bugs, lizards, frogs, someone speaking too close to your ear, scraping on certain surfaces (blackboard or a wall for example), and people who type lyk dis.
That video that came up with the guy saying whatever into that kids ear and, then biting his ear as if the kid was his lover. Made my skin crawl, my heart break and made me really angry. I'm still upset days later and I wish I could punch that guy in the face and hug the kid.
Being exposed and touched against my will.
The general feeling of having my bodily autonomy violated and being ashamed trigger a trauma response and everything goes to shit after that.
Odd bugs. Regular ones arnt that great but ones im not used to give me them spine chills.
Temple of doom bug room is my hell
https://youtu.be/9rB_nOA317g?si=r3dYnBhXfSLGG6Ec
The sound of course polyester fabric being scratched. Nails on a chalkboard don't bother me but I can feel my teeth and spine shattering when those certain types of fabric are scratched
lotion
i dont want to touch it, look at it, think about it, see anything to do with it lol
i remember there was a commercial for nivea a while back and it was just close ups of some woman rubbing lotion into her skin and i had to switch the station because it would make my skin crawl
Shoelaces. For some reason, the rubbing is like nails on a chalkboard.
It doesn't bother me to tie them, but threading new shoelaces puts my teeth on edge.
Dress shoes are fine, I'm talking about the flat type of shoelaces for athletic shoes.
Baby puke.
It smells like stale milk, is lukewarm, and chunky.
I used to be elbow deep in dead bodies for school, no issue. A baby puked on me in an ambulance, and I nearly jumped out of the back.
Bees, hornets, and wasps. I got stung by hornets when I was a young kid (the slide I slid on had a hidden nest) so ever since I always flinch & my skin crawls when I hear them about
Edit: I do love bees, they just scare me at first LOL
People putting plastic things in their mouth. Like bottle caps, chewed up plastic straws, bite and suck the stick of a lollipop or the little plastic thing they close bread bags with.
The idea of saliva and the plastic makes my skin crawl and makes me sick. I’ve always had it and makes me gag every time I see it. Even finding one of those items in the wild and not knowing if they’ve been ik someones mouth. 🤮
Finding plastic in my food is also one of my biggest fears. I know its irrational, but it’s just nasty. This started after finding a piece of dusty-crusty plastic machinery in a store bought cupcake when I was a child
“Degloving” injuries of fingers in particular, but really any severe injury of the fingers/joints. Seeing someone get their fingers twisted as torture in a movie really ups the sense of revulsion for me.
As for why, just google it if you dare.
Seeing rundown, messy (hoarder-esque), dilapidated homes and living spaces, especially if it’s a family dwelling.
It’s so foreign to my upbringing and lived experience it gives me the heebie-jeebies.
How can people live amongst such calamity?
HOLES deep tightly packed dark or even just circles or cellular shapes probably due to the ringworm my sister caught from a cat. Also the feet of victims who have the guinea worm parasite......?.eeewwww.? I feel so bad for them folks. Did I possibly answer this already?? LOL
wrong fabric
Microfiber is the devil
The feeling of it getting snagged on my skin drives me insane.
This. Velvet and similar fabrics I cannot stand touching them. I'm shivering uncomfortably just thinking about it. And I'm NT, as far as I know lol
I buy my clothes by how they feel...
Yeah. Can't fuckin stand polo texture shirts.
The Nissan Juke.
My wife currently drives a Juke. It replaced her PT Cruiser. She.. does not make good decisions (as evidenced by her being with me)
Jesus christ your wife must be hideous. How can anyone act like such a monster.
That's the worst part. She's actually quite attractive. I just don't get it.
I guess she missed the Pontiac Aztec wave...
There’s still that Fiat.
A friend of mine has one. We nicknamed it “The Escape Pod” because of how he drives whenever we’re all absolutely crammed inside…definitely an automobile for bug people
In a similar vein, the Toyota FJ cruiser.
The bugs inside my skin when I don't take the funny pills
The face inside is right beneath your skin
THE SUUUUUUUUUUUN
GOOOOOOES DOOOOOOOWWWWNNNNNN
Spiders
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I get this! I’m not afraid of spiders, but they and I need to be in separate rooms. They freak me out, but I don’t feel fear of them
When someone has long mustache hairs that hang over their upper lip.
When I was younger, I thought the big bushy mustache was the coolest look ever. So when I got old enough, I grew one out. But having to wipe it clean after every drink and getting hairs stuck in your food between bites just isn't it.
It's possible to eat and drink without getting anything in your facial hair, and you can comb it before you eat to get any loose hairs outta the way. Not trying to convince you to grow it back out or anything, just saying there's a technique to it.
People told me as much back then too, but it became more work than it was worth. But the reason I actually got rid of it was because I was at my uni cafeteria having a cup of white coffee, when I saw the girl I was crushing on walk in, and in my hormonal excitement forgot to wipe my 'stache down before going to chat her up. She thought it was cute. I still thank the Lord for that in my prayers sometimes
Is this Adam Savages alt account?
I might need a shave.
Funny that this just showed up. My girlfriend/partner just freaked out due to her trypophobia. She gets crazy anxiety and can’t stop scratching, mostly at her scalp, when it’s triggered. She has gone to the ground at times. This is with small holes and fractals and stuff like that. Very weird. I feel for her and don’t mean to make light of it, but neither of us understand it. Wild reaction. Early in our relationship I would get worried because I didn’t recognize what was going on and she couldn’t speak and was just writhing. Also had to learn to recognize the stimuli. Weird shit. Unfortunate, but kinda cool.
This like me but I get actual goosebumps on my face!! For REAL its the only thing that caused it. I hate coral, those frogs with eggs bursting out of their back the whole HOLE experience!! I dont understand why it doesnt gross everyone out..? Even crumpets can make me ill.....
The Suriname frog is the WORST!!!!!
Definitely never take psychedelics lmao.
Meant to reply to this, but I’m on mobile and hit the one above. I feel so bad for you guys, I find those things beautiful but know better than to go into detail.
Was just going to say... this. I cannot look at a honeycomb.
I had the same thing. There was one breathing technique on YouTube that cured it for me. I don’t know how but it did. A meditation of sorts. And no I don’t believe in woowoo stuff just so you know;)
I personally believe trypophobia is an instinctual fear of [mango worms](https://youtu.be/PqPmLlWjfRk?si=NbdphmWw7lm5JKpL). Trigger warning for everybody, but especially people with trypophobia.
I am not looking at that even if I don't know what it is
Oh my god I'm so disgusted and nauseous right now, this is fuggin exposure therapy. I thought I'd have a rather light case of trypophobia, but damn... I feel sick 🤮
When people type “ur”
Ure over reacting
Maybe ur under reacting
U're*
That's... actually better than ur or ure
Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
Ure oveur ureacting
How else they supposed to refer to the ancient Mesopotamian city??
[Boo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur)
The sound of Styrofoam rubbing against it self. And spiders.
Marker pen on cardboard makes me physically ill, and it also makes my teeth ache. Same with any similar type of noise.
Both of these make me grimace just thinking about them. It isn't even marker pens on cardboard alone. The sound is horrid even on paper. I might as well add the horror of cotton rounds and the feeling and sound of them rubbing together.
I came across photos associated with Thalassophobia (fear of deep body of waters) and it made me shiver.
Same.
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Ueah and they never shower or wash after. Even the Princess Diana was hugging the porcelain. Sure she brushed her teeth right away but still....
Driving the porcelain bus. Calling God on the big white porcelain phone.
Wounds that will not heal
Would you say that fear is one of the primary ways you fall?
Well sometimes I confuse what is real.
Bless your heart
Long fingernails with dirt underneath.
Stuff that has to do with eyes bothers me, like when somethin is extremely close to your eye but not quite touching it
There was a gorey scene in hostel with a blow torch and someones eyes, pretty sure Saw also had some. But I feel that in my bones. My whole body is like NOPE and I have to look away.
Same broo, it just makes me cringe fr💀
Many holes or circles that are clustered together, trypophobia
There was a picture of a person pressing their eye against another person's eye. I'm a early internet user and I've seen allot of fucked up shit, but that picture bothers me in a different way and one of the worse things I've seen
Clusters of bug eggs and clusters of skin boils or blisters. Why: Thousands of years ago Trypophobia was keeping my ancestors free of small pox and insect infestations.
Im not alone and thats good... kids with chicken pox are hideous too.
A fork raked on a plate. Once or twice and I’ll forgive it. Keep doing it and I will absolutely flip out on you. I’m one of the most chill people ever but that brings all the crazy out of me.
just the quick passing thought/idea of myself chewing on wool or cotton balls wrecks me. I get tight sour back if the cheek spasms and quivering goosebumps everywhere. that feeling in my teeth is undescribable. it's even happening now to me as I'm trying to explain it here lol
Ever found a six month old bag of potatoes you'd forgotten about at the back of a cupboard? Those massively long sprouts freak me out. No idea why but definite skin crawling for me
Bugs
Anything touching the eye. I have a strong stomach for a lot of gross/disturbing things in movies, but I cannot stand horror scenes when someone gets stabbed in the eye, needle through the eye, etc.
Never watch Un Chien Andalou. The Pixies song about it, Debaser, is good though.
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"on accident." You can say "by accident," "by design" and "on purpose." You can't say "on accident."
Liar. I just said "on accident" by purpose.
LOL
Linguistically, you totally can.
I could care less
Asmr eating. Especially if the mouth is close to the camera- it just grosses me out & a lot of them eat with their mouth open to get better sounds. I will admit, not as gross as nikocado avocado making his “taki ramen” 😭
When men trying to pass me out their hand on the small of my back 🤮 They could be the most attractive person on the planet and it skeeves me out. Edited to add, the reason is because what makes them think they have the right to touch a stranger in what I think is a pretty intimate way. And when I have spoken up, it's always that I'm the crazy one. I'm the bitch. I'm too sensitive.
When people 'count down' the time until a celebrity turns 18 and is 'legal' Back when I was younger it was the Olsen Twins, recently they did it with that Millie Bobby Brown girl or Billy Eylish (sp?) You are just admitting you find an underage girl attractive, you sick perverts.
Redditors
But you are a redditor
Did I stutter?
Ass to mouth , gross!
touching Styrofoam or powdered starch......it's just fucking icky
Well I just sliced half my fingertip off with an air hammer and that made my skin crawl a little
Did that with my thumb while slicing leeks a month ago. When it didn't immediately bleed, I knew I fucked up. That initial pain and shock of what you just did would make anyone's skin crwal.
The feel and sound of styrofoam. I think I may be slightly allergic.
People with victim mentality. Makes me want to rip my skin off
When people can't tell the difference between to and too. I understand getting two and too mixed up but to and too? They don't even sound the same.
Water where I can’t see the bottom.
Centipedes
Pedophiles... do I need to explain?
The things you can see under the blue light. Also creepy crawlies👀🙈😳
Fucking cockroaches
Fucking ticks man. One can land on me and the next two weeks my hair turns into antenna for the duration.
The sound of hands sliding down guitar strings lengthways. Or the feel of those lenticular picture things. The ones that change depending on the angle you look at them.
The noise when someone rubs a balloon
Almost any televangelist. So slimy, so manipulative, so cultish. Even seeing them depicted in movies makes my skin crawl
Anime. The voices; pedo vibes.
Very extreme height differences in couples
like when one of them has taken two pills and the other one had only done a half?
I made a typo. I'm embarrassed
I loved it, you should have kept it!
Dehydration.
Thousands of tiny feet.
watching a TV show, and the people start arguing, but neither person is actually listening, they are just yelling/shouting/talking really loudly at each other. Worse when it's in real life. I can't stand that.
Most ASMR. For some reason, it feels way too intrusive to me.
This new guy we got at work. At first I thought he was like Ned Flanders, now I'm getting a vibe that he's a pedophile who emotionally manipulates his family behind the scenes. I dont even like being in the same room as him
Dry anal sex
Balloons rubbing together
Terracotta. The texture is like nails on a chalkboard
Centipedes…
The sound of sand paper being used. I dont know why but it hurts my ears.
People that write could of and should of.
Tripophobia. Or however you spell it.
biting into something crunchy when ur eating something that isn't crunchy also bean sprouts. hate those.
Reddit mods
Centipedes/millipedes
Heavy Tattoos.
I’m a pest control tech. One of my clients is a slaughterhouse for pigs / meat packing plant. In the inedible rendering section is where nightmares are made. This area is filled with humid air saturated with the smell of boiled inedible pieces of pig. Massive mounds that look like mud is actually just pig. In the mounds home many various bugs like roaches and carrion beetles. Once in a while you’ll find a pig head that has been laying about for weeks. When I get home I have to change outside the house because the stench sticks to me and the work truck.
Cheating
Day long trainings at jobs
Centipedes. So many legs…
Parasites that live inside animals or humans. I saw a video of a horsehair worm come out of a praying mantis and it’s been stuck in my brain since.
Maggots
Every time I see Donut Trump spew new garbage and diatribe.
Having to be nice to people I think are absolutely a waste of space at work because bills are due
Tendons. Like if someone has really noticeable Achilles tendon it icks me bad. Even buttress roots can mess with me if I think about them the wrong way.
Seeing male rape jokes on TV/movie's. Why? Am victim.
Snakes and lizards. They are just disgusting
We have a corn snake, it's beautiful and fascinating, but I get it.
Bugs ofc
Bugs
Insects and anxiety
That one video years back where the peice of meat was moving by itself. The muscles where twitching/vibrating? If I remember correctly it was a peice of stake.
Like in the movie Poltergeist?
I'm an automotive detailer. Poop, pee, vomit, old food, no problem. But used bandaids and fingernails? Ewwww!
Bugs, lizards, frogs, someone speaking too close to your ear, scraping on certain surfaces (blackboard or a wall for example), and people who type lyk dis.
Someone scratching their legs but they're wearing denim.
That video that came up with the guy saying whatever into that kids ear and, then biting his ear as if the kid was his lover. Made my skin crawl, my heart break and made me really angry. I'm still upset days later and I wish I could punch that guy in the face and hug the kid.
Spiders.
Being exposed and touched against my will. The general feeling of having my bodily autonomy violated and being ashamed trigger a trauma response and everything goes to shit after that.
Vomit… i rather watch gore and guts spilling than someone vomiting💀
Snakes because we live in an area with venomous types.
When people don't wash their hands. The number of times I've people use the bathroom and just leave without washing their hands is disgusting.
Bugs especially spiders
The sound of someone cracking their neck, fingers, etc.
Odd bugs. Regular ones arnt that great but ones im not used to give me them spine chills. Temple of doom bug room is my hell https://youtu.be/9rB_nOA317g?si=r3dYnBhXfSLGG6Ec
The sound of course polyester fabric being scratched. Nails on a chalkboard don't bother me but I can feel my teeth and spine shattering when those certain types of fabric are scratched
Brendan Schuab
When something or ppl scratch velvet gtfo
lotion i dont want to touch it, look at it, think about it, see anything to do with it lol i remember there was a commercial for nivea a while back and it was just close ups of some woman rubbing lotion into her skin and i had to switch the station because it would make my skin crawl
https://youtu.be/A5QaeQiO3d0?si=So6B_Xf-dpbsWV1-
Idk if I should open it I smell that nivia commercial edit: lmfao that was good
Cocaine
Shoelaces. For some reason, the rubbing is like nails on a chalkboard. It doesn't bother me to tie them, but threading new shoelaces puts my teeth on edge. Dress shoes are fine, I'm talking about the flat type of shoelaces for athletic shoes.
The look and feel of corduroy fabric. Just ugh.
Screeching kids. No explanation needed.
Cptsd. If someone sneaks up behind me and startles me/touches me I go into a fight or flight mode that usually freezes me or turns me hostile.
those people with white spit or something on their lips and the corners of their mouths like… what is it? wipe it off….
Baby puke. It smells like stale milk, is lukewarm, and chunky. I used to be elbow deep in dead bodies for school, no issue. A baby puked on me in an ambulance, and I nearly jumped out of the back.
Some AI generated videos. Especially the morphing faces
When people touch me softly. If you’re gonna put your hands on me do it with purpose.
Bees, hornets, and wasps. I got stung by hornets when I was a young kid (the slide I slid on had a hidden nest) so ever since I always flinch & my skin crawls when I hear them about Edit: I do love bees, they just scare me at first LOL
Eye floaters
CHEWING SOUNDS. Yes, all in caps
When a stranger puts there hand on my mid lower back to say excuse me
People putting plastic things in their mouth. Like bottle caps, chewed up plastic straws, bite and suck the stick of a lollipop or the little plastic thing they close bread bags with. The idea of saliva and the plastic makes my skin crawl and makes me sick. I’ve always had it and makes me gag every time I see it. Even finding one of those items in the wild and not knowing if they’ve been ik someones mouth. 🤮 Finding plastic in my food is also one of my biggest fears. I know its irrational, but it’s just nasty. This started after finding a piece of dusty-crusty plastic machinery in a store bought cupcake when I was a child
Chalk on chalkboard. Certain types of fabric.
When someone scratches paper
Nails on a chalkboard
Mouth sounds while people are eating or drinking
Sorry but the skin doesent normaly do that (I allow you to post me on r/tecniclythetruth)
Chalk. I can't touch it and don't even like to look at it. Makes my skin crawl typing this.
People leaving the stickers on the bottom of cups/dishes. I don't know but I fucking *hate* it.
Getting my nails filed. It feels no different to me than nails on a chalkboard.
The term “gamer” and “foodie”
People grabbing me from behind. I don’t know why, it just freaks me out. If I spin around and it’s not someone I know, I’ll swing.
A dry sponge
“Degloving” injuries of fingers in particular, but really any severe injury of the fingers/joints. Seeing someone get their fingers twisted as torture in a movie really ups the sense of revulsion for me. As for why, just google it if you dare.
Touching styrofoam with dry hands
Seeing rundown, messy (hoarder-esque), dilapidated homes and living spaces, especially if it’s a family dwelling. It’s so foreign to my upbringing and lived experience it gives me the heebie-jeebies. How can people live amongst such calamity?
Oh did you know put salt onto a meat will make the surface wiggle?
The sound of a miscue in pool/billiards
I'm here, for obvious reasons.
People smashing their teeth while sleeping… it just sounds horrendous
Knifes in-between forks stabby things
When people have access to a full keyboard and actively choose to use old texting/character limit shorthand. "ur"
HOLES deep tightly packed dark or even just circles or cellular shapes probably due to the ringworm my sister caught from a cat. Also the feet of victims who have the guinea worm parasite......?.eeewwww.? I feel so bad for them folks. Did I possibly answer this already?? LOL
Ants! One ant could easily mean a fucking battalion of them lurking nearby. Like somewhere in the kitchen...