Automatonophobia

Automatonophobia can be loosely defined as the fear of wax figures, humanoid robots, audio-animatronics, or other figures designed to represent humans. Why does this fear exist, and why do even those who don't suffer from this phobia still have some sort of apprehension around these types of figures?
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[@adorableabby8]

I have this phobia and it's a full blown phobia for me. I've dealt with it since early adolescence and was never really exposed to scary movies or anything like that. I also don't have a fear of corpses. I discovered I had it when we visited a hall of presidents and had a full blown panic attack.

[@koifishboy12]

I have the same fear. For me, it all started when I went to the Animal Kingdom at Disney World and saw the Yeti animatronic on Expedition Everest and cried. Now, whenever I think of them I think they are here with me and have panic attacks. And the sad thing is, I love Disney World.

[@lvb48272]

it’s will lmao I went to Disneyland Paris on a school trip in February and we went on the pirates of the Caribbean ride thinking it was a fast boat ride but it was the animatronics one and I couldn’t breath and cried into my friends shoulder the whole time

[@KittyTvvlogs]

@@koifishboy12 I'm the same way, I love Disneyland but I'm terrified of the animatronics and if I get near them I have a panic attack and get scared.

[@Notyourbusiness.-_]

Same

[@PlebeianGoth]

At age 25 I'm still afflicted by a trauma from when I was 6 when I was on a dark ride that's like a target shooting game in a cutesy haunted house. There was an animatronic suit of armor that falls toward you just slightly as a jump scare, but it tilted too far and may or may not have bumped my head, and I still have nightmares. At age 21 I got peer-pressured into going on the ride again and it still scared the crap out of me. Feels like the dumbest fear ever.

[@jamesmckinney3372]

I am just going to say it waxed figures and anamatronixs are freaking scary

[@rae7158]

shinichi izumi for real!!!! Animatronics can stop existing and I’d be so happy

[@jamesmckinney3372]

Rae Caliguri if I could get a restraining order for them I would

[@garethflattery3010]

I agree, they shouldn’t exist

[@halohalohalo99]

*I suggest you to play fnaf so you can get happy and cheery!*

[@1judgementday]

I have this phobia

[@janpecinka9101]

I am freaked by statues that are larger than me or elevated, especially in dark. It's weird but I feel like they are about to talk to me or fall on me or something and it's really strange. At the same time they intrique me and I look at them even though it scares me

[@rae7158]

YEP!!! I have this. It’s adrenaline pumping, anxiety for me. Almost like someone is holding a gun to my head and I need to RUN AWAY. I get like this around giant stuffed animals too. I can’t go shopping around Halloween because there’s stuff everywhere! Which sucks because I LOVE Halloween lol I know, wicked contradiction. My first memory of experiencing this fear was when I was maybe 4 years old and my sister pointed out a BIG Frankenstein painting at a store.

[@rae7158]

The worst part is, no one understands or gets this fear and always thinks I’m just being weird. I’ve literally had to have friends hide stuff from me so I could be in rooms before because I wouldn’t go in them. Like my friend had this giant panda and she’d have to hide it every time I was over. And if something big or a statue or mannequin or mascot catches me off guard, oh MAN do I cause a scene!!!!!! A thought that really creeps me out of thinking if I were ever in the vicinity of the snuffaluffagus from Sesame Street... WOAH. Or just any of the Sesame Street puppets or The Muppets, is probably have a heart attack.

[@rae7158]

This fear is VERY REAL. I know it’s super irrational but please don’t make fun of others who have it, it’s seriously torture.

[@adorableabby8]

THE HALLOWEEN STORE IS THE WORST!!! I've also found that a lot of unexpected places have wax figures and the like, I love museums and theres a lot of them I can't go to

[@rae7158]

Abby Weaver yes!! I love art museums too but it’s such a gamble. I always try to do like a virtual tour of the museum before I go to avoid making a scene and feeling trapped/scared out of my mind. We cancelled a trip to the Philadelphia zoo once because I found out there was an art installation happening with giant animal sculptures placed randomly throughout the zoo lol. I’m so glad someone finally understands how bad going in Halloween stores is!! My friends used to try to take me in, one on each side of me holding my hands while I closed my eyes and put my head down. They’d guide me to the kids section and I’d get there and just start crying and look down and run out of the store as quickly as possible like I’m surrounded by murderers and they’re all trying to kill me!

[@rae7158]

MissFeliciaaaa right? I feel like it’s something you don’t understand unless you have it. I always compare it to the girl who’s afraid of pickles on Maury!

[@chloei_]

This fear literally haunts me. My family initially thought I was scared of ghost trains (despite me LOVING horror), but then they saw me cry and cover my eyes/ears (I don't like the sounds either) on rides with these figures literally made for young children. Being confined to a seat and seeing these figures terrifies me, but I've found that if I'm walking around I'm a little bit more relaxed. Some rides are so pretty and I wish I could enjoy them but I can't thanks to this fear!

[@NurseHuhhhhhChar]

I have his phobia. I have panic attack’s when I come near dolls, statues, fugues, etc. even large paintings of anything with eyes or human shape. I wish I could just eat over it but my body won’t allow 😕

[@RayneDavila]

I can't go into a Halloween stores cuz of the costumes and I can't walk through kids toys aisles normally because of animatronics and I refuse to go to Disney world cuz I know id like implode djjfjf . I'm scared of puppets and mascots and if u put me in a room with a dancing Mickey or tickle me Elmo I will cry LMAO. But I'm not scared of wax figures. Idk how to explain it I'm just AFRAID OK I wish people would get that lmao

[@broadcast770]

Man I ve discovered this fear the worst way possible. So me and my family were in an amusement park and it was closing so things were getting darker and darker. They had this attraction full of animatronic dinosaur and people, we had to walk through it and thats when i fell to the ground

[@griddyworld5566]

Ventriloquist Dummys are SO CREEPY, always feared but loved the one's from Twilight Zone, Goosebumps & Dead Silence....Raggedy Ann always spooked me too .

[@garethflattery3010]

I actually have a fear of this, I’m very scarred of human animatronics. This was caused on a trip to Skegness as a child, we were on the pier and we saw this shooting gallery. You shoot the figures and they move; the theme for this one was an old wash room and it has seen better days. Because the animatronics were fading, their faces were stone grey, one of them has their clothes all torn and you can see the robotics and they look not very human. In the gallery there was an ark house if you shoot the door an animatronic slowly appears as he opens the door. By then I completely had enough and my parents took me somewhere else. I can’t touch them, stand near them, go on a ride if they have them on display because of what happened. I also hate wax models and certain masks if they look very creepy.

[@JustinCase-ey4ok]

If you were to look at the far past periods of human evolution based on our current mental structure it leads to some interesting questions. We are almost hardwired to be distrustful of things the look nearly human. When we are sitting around with white noise in the background our brain puts it together into words, that trigger a fear response its known as audio matrixing, and is well documented but poorly understood. And then we have visual matrixing (way overused to try to debunk). The intriguing question there is why faces? Based on how traits evolve it would seem our ancestors needed to be wary of something that was very quite, had really good camoflage, and looked kinda human but still a little bit off.

[@EnigmaObscurius]

J. Case Very interesting thought! I really like it

[@OneTrueHeart13]

taxidermy, is also a subset of this category , as a person with this phobia, its not fun, its not little and it is terrible, i cant go into sporting good stores, Old Navy, places with large mannequins or halloween stores, or Disney world, or natural history museums. the whole corpse thing sounds about right. But its not resent ive had this phobia since i could remember, and it started with Taxidermy deer in a bait shop when i was like 6. I'm 30 now so it doesn't really get better until you actually seek help. but im totally not down for exposure therepy

[@SarahAliceDouglas]

I'm the same!! Ever since I can remember. Taxidermy, wax figures, corpses, animatronics... alright with most mannequins though. Not up for exposure either 😅

[@davida.p.9911]

When I was little, I was afraid of the mannequins in the stores. Yes, sounds strange but I was. I remember clinging to my mother's pant leg every time we would go into a department store. There was something about them that freaked me out. Probably as you described Kat. I also had, to a lesser degree, a fear of dolls. I still dont like them to be honest. I try to stay away from them. I don't have fits, I'm just repelled by them. A general dislike for them. Thanks for sharing Kat. All this time I thought it was just me. I didn't know there was a name for it.

[@NurseHuhhhhhChar]

David A.P. I’m still afraid of mannequins

[@adamlederer6239]

My wife keeps a female mannequin in our bdrm that she uses for display purposes. I've learned to be okay with it, but in the beginning it was kinda strange waking up to seeing it staring in your direction

[@southernpimp5252]

Your comment is very relatable. The mannequins, the dolls, everything...

[@lvb48272]

I used to be so scared of them in shops but thankfully most of them don’t have faces anymore- which weirdly makes them less scary. But I recently went into an antiques shop with my mum and there were a couple of mannequins displaying the clothes and they looked so real and I held only my mums arm so tightly. And I might have cried a tiny bit also and made us get out of that hell hole asap

[@CallHerAsha]

I’m terrified of animatronics, but I’ve learned that human animatronics don’t bother me. Just animals or characters do. I can’t do Rainforest café... AT ALL!! I discover I had it when I rode a ride at Six Flags over GA called “The monster Mansion” but i remember being fine with them as a kid going to chuckee cheese 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@jamesmckinney3372]

I spy with my little eye rose and a weeping angle at 2:05

[@sparrow8767]

Just the thought of animitronics makes me scared, I especially have submicaniphobia

[@goldplatedstudios7450]

Same. I’m afraid of Aquariams even because I’m afraid they’ll have a scary prop in the water

[@_Kreature]

Im afraid of small human beings.....Is this the same thing?

[@boopbleep4513]

Like people with dwarfism or like tiny elf's running around?

[@_Kreature]

Boop Bleep Like children that I don't know... and dolls... especially if they have creepy grins... They give me the creeps!

[@boopbleep4513]

Kristen Noe'l oh that makes sense

[@heheboi7180]

Its called microphobia

[@katiebrady1714]

I am horrified of animatronics and any other human-like robots...never knew it was a justified phobia😂

[@mariestrasser2575]

Same with me god especially the animal ones. And when they malfunction such as melting or voice box malfunctions I freak.

[@katiebrady1714]

@@mariestrasser2575 same! I do not understand why those are intended to bring JOY TO CHILDREN😂

[@mariestrasser2575]

@@katiebrady1714 idk it's weird. Dont watch west world

[@katiebrady1714]

@@mariestrasser2575 oh gosh...now I'm curious though...

[@mariestrasser2575]

@@katiebrady1714 ya all robots issue is you cant tell which one is which.

[@broadcast770]

For me its animatronics in the dark like the t-rex in the jurasic park ride

[@kmart1396]

TL;DR: The Uncanny Valley I 100% percent agree on the corpse aspect because of the Uncanny Valley. The concept that suggests humanoid objects which appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit uncanny, or strangely familiar, feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers. Thus things people find unsettling like corpses fall in that category, so do zombie (aka moving corpses), and so do prosthetic hands. I find the closer we get to super realistic video games where the graphic just look like they filmed real people super unsettling since that also falls into the Uncanny Valley. Quantic Dream is a really good example of super detailed graphics and motion tracking that kinda fall into that category.

[@nadiamurchie1949]

yup, they defo feel dead looking at them. empty vessels.. terrifying. told a friend its like looking at a dead thing reanimated. spot on.

[@marcomagana7639]

I get nervous when They Tell Me to get close to a wax Figure that's Of My Size or even Bigger than Me I Just Feel Intimidated and Frightened and when They Get Closer I'm like saying in my Mind. "That's how close I will get"

[@rv3359]

I just hate *HATE* statues , theres this giant statue of the virgin mary in a glass case in my room (my father is too religious) and i dont sleep in my room because its like i can feel her staring at me , dad called me stupid for telling him im scared of the statue not mary herself its sad ik

[@dea3851]

Love your videos, They are always so fun and informative!

[@liaballerina1327]

I'm afraid of animatronics and when dolls, but in a specific way. I can play with dolls and I'm fine with them, but them moving in movies and stuff scares me and makes me paranoid sometimes. On the animatronic side, I can go to Disney world and enjoy it, I LOVE it's a small world, but if I think about animatronics (without even being there) I get a feeling of anxiety or fear. That's not it though, I can't be close to them, like at chucky cheese, even turning my back and standing in front of them gives me fear and anxiety. If a ride ever had a problem at Disney world where we would have to get out, I would want to literally DIE. No joke. I think about it a lot, and I just can't, I would be frozen in fear if that happened. On the contrary, I am not afraid of stuff because they are human-like.

[@emmaisweird735]

i have pupaphobia, they make me really sick and make me tremble. The "hey look ma i made it" music vid triggered it, i almost vommitted myself when seeing a puppet vommitt.

[@RiZUMU_arts]

I went to my younger cousins birthday party at Chuck E cheese, and I was fine walking around until the countdown started for the show and I began full on panicking because I just hate animatronics. It's kinda weird because fnaf doesnt scare me but any other animal animatronic does.

[@ZuluOwaShayingozi]

Have to master the art of sculpture in all it's forms to overcome this

[@jamz1507]

Something about dolls mannequins and what not is just unnerving definitely the uncanny valley at play here

[@ShimshamTheClown]

i sorta developed this fear when i was super young and i watched a video called something along the lines of mannequin spider and over the years its just sorta grown i cant even go clothing shopping without a friend/family member/ person i trust so that if i start freaking out they can get me out and console me

[@nadiamurchie1949]

My friends cant understand it, especially when my fave disney is pinnochio lol but he's a cartoon! I tell them, There's nothing there it's like their dead it's so not natural. I'm often gifted figurines and I honestly have to compliment them incase they have a sentience so they don't attack me lol. It is so irrational, but my wee brain can't cope with it lol.

[@TheSimisunshine]

I have this phobia, along with clowns. And I've seen dead bodies but have no fear of them.

[@blakethomas4118]

I have it but I just figured out what it was...this helped a lot thanks :)

[@danjaye]

wow two phobias already: submechanophobia and automatonophobia! Yayy!

[@archiemarchie4288]

i had been outing off watching this video for so long just because of those faces in the thumbnail XD , ty for this videk tho i know know what to call my fear of humanoid things

[@sharslager520]

Wow this is the first time I hear someone else talk about this. I have a phobia of wax humanlike figures. Not dolls or puppets. I've had times I immediatly started crying on the floor, shaking, getting sick. Somehow it's getting better. Now I still get nervous but it's not as bad as it used to be. I'm also unsure about the source of the phobia. It might have been seeing a corpse for the first time. Well it's a weird phobia for sure!

[@eldarhighelfhealermiriella7653]

Are you afraid of just the wax figures exsisting? Or are you afraid that the wax figures will violently attack you and hurt you? Because It migth not be a phobia at all but just a fear proyected of something else.

[@lvb48272]

I’m not too scared of dolls and puppets, but I am definitely scared of animatronics and wax figures. For some reason the more real they look the scarier they are to me. Like thank god most big stores have mannequins without faces or I wouldn’t be able to go shopping

[@doktaahwho8858]

Fear comes from worrying about what this corps will do. Courage comes from when the corpse needs to worry about what is going to done to it.

[@lexparishactingadventures5448]

I have a phobia of animatronic Xmas trees ect, any reason why?

[@rosiedawson7606]

I have this but only really towards statues. I get extremely anxious and nervous around statues, I can barely stand near one and I have to walk away. It makes it so much worse when they're big too, and for me it's the eyes that really freak me out. I didn't realise this was an actual phobia until last night and I thought I was just a weirdo.

[@brandonhasting424]

My dumbass hate goin inside of stores like party city cuz they stay with shit that moves awkwardly especially during Halloween 😂

[@bloomvine3383]

This is a serious phobia for me I've had it for as long as I can remember and my mum took me to Madame Tussauds I didn't know what it was so when she took me I saw the first wax figure screamed and ran all the way through I was crying my eyes out when I got back never again😂

[@danielthompson4463]

I was in Dublin with my wife a few years back. We went to the wax museum of Ireland. She thought it would be some form of aversion therapy. I held on to the wall all the way round shaking in fear. I was in my late 30s at the time.

[@emmabear997]

I have the anomatophobia (fear of animatronics) like the ones at the Halloween stores and it started from a nightmare where one came to life and stabbed me and I felt the knife and I've had ones where they chased me through the store, till this day I'm terrified and can't go near animatronics

[@Graciechan-39]

I have anomatophobia that started from a trip to Chuck E. Cheese’s that went wrong.

[@casting_spells7861]

Hi i have this phobia ever since i was 7 and when i was little we went to a chunk e cheese for my friends birthday it was fun until i saw chuck e cheese up on stage with the band i was horrified by the sight of him the way he moved the look of his eyes moving and his face made my face turn white and my heart would drop and i cant even go on the Jurassic park ride at universal i don't like going to wax museums i also have submechanophobia which is the fear of man made things submerged in water i'm 16 now and i still have it i don't think it will go away anytime soon.

[@theandroidsentbycyberlife]

I have this phobia and one time I had such a panic attack that I passed out in a toy shop because of those stupid baby alive dolls...

[@leannefam4816]

I cried win I saw a beetal and realistic manicin and I did figure out I had this phobia and I still cry because off that's

[@kelseyhood393]

I have this phobia of animatronic and I found it out when I was going through a Santa’s ghrotto

[@DethronerX]

Lindsay Broom , according to an online site, has it, especially The Muppets, because of her past experience with the show, when she was left with someone in a dark room, with the TV playing the show Phobias are related to mostly some incident in the past, otherwise, it doesn't make any sense to be scared of something just without reason

[@karllong1570]

Awesome video cat :) maybe a fear of seeing bodies that have passed on

[@emmyk2570]

I have a horrible fear of puppets and whenever the Muppets came on the tv I always used to cry😂

[@taymay4894]

I hv a phobia of statues, animatronics, wax figures.(not dolls/puppets) there a statue in my house n I had a panic attack n I crawled into a ball crying for like 30 mins until my parents covered it up n put it away. I can't go near them. I'm more comfortable around animal statues but not like deer heads n real animal heads on walls I feel like when I look at that I gt a sensation tht its just me n the statue n I can't escape n ion notice anyone else. my mom wants me to gt a psychological test

[@deanna7297]

i have this phobia towards mannequins, wax figures and robots. the corpse theory kind of explains this for me seeing as my brother passed away when i was 9 and i was too overwhelmed to view his corpse at the funeral. i was both filled with fear and sadness. i ended up having a slight uncomfortable feeling towards humanoid figures after this and it was strange because when i was little i loved mannequins and stuff, i thought they were funny. it all escalated when i was 12 and had an intense nightmare about mannequins chasing me. what i didn't realize until now is that i was really, really torn up about my brother at the time of that nightmare and in the own part of my mental health cycle. another possible reason i had this nightmare is that that day i went to a museum with robots and wax figures that creeped me the fuck out. it all makes sense now

[@CharbelFak]

When I was little I was petrified of the weeping angels from doctor who. I would literally shit myself and scream

[@jhcollects]

Holy fuck same

[@hilkcherryblossom]

I have it. When I was like- 7 I was using a story app that my parents told me not to use. I was playing as a girl who used this website that pairs people together based on their taste. So my character got paired up with this dude (let's call him... Alex) aNd the two started dating. but something happened and some human used an electric gun thingy and shot Alex. The picture that it showed was of Alex on the floor cluching his stomach that had wires and stuff in the shape of the bottom of a shoe. I thought he was being turned into a robot so I started crying. I was so scared but I decided to figure out a bit more and I figured out that he was actually a robot and that the person (let's call him Greg) who shot Alex was someone who worked for the company that made Alex. So- Greg was trying to kill Alex and take him back to the company that made him. I was super scared about that. That's when I gained a fear of robots, I constantly have nightmares about robots. Fnaf was the cause of my animatronic fear. And I just fine maniquins scary cause they look like humans and it's hard to explain. As for wax figures, I get scared cause they look like humans but their not but I get scared that they used skin to make them or things like that. Or that they used actual humans and just sowed stuff into the human after killing the human. This video made me a bit scared but it was worth it now that I know more about the phobia

[@goldplatedstudios7450]

I’m so scared of anything fake. I frequently have nightmares of being in a museum! Not even an especially scary museum. Just museum halls with large statues waiting around the corner. Or with a animatronic dinosaur head unexpectedly poking out of the wall. The worst experience I had as a child was going to the children’s museum and walking around a corner to see a large table of scary puppet people! Why would they do that!!?? Lol

[@mooncatstudios3175]

I know I'm late to comment on this, BUT: I was at an orchard/fall festival with my friend, and we walked past a stand with singing animatronics. I FREAKED out, and my friend was very confused as to why I was so scared. And the thing was, I had no idea how to explain it.

[@samanthapadilla5061]

Im here cause I’m Scared of Mannequins and tried to search this phobia,I dont watch horror movies but yeah

[@Fairychamber]

You know those dolls that ventriloquist use. I think they are super creepy. Especially the ones that have big eyes and very wide smile. I can´t go near them or even look at them. Now I have to stop thinking about them. I guess I have ventriloquist doll automatonophia.

[@Choclatekissed]

I was walking on a waterfront and ran into this civil war statue holding a bayonet, as if ready to attack. Anxiety swept over me quickly. I quickly turned to get away, only to to be faced with a tribal statue yielding a large stick, I almost fainted. I ran from the area and had to sit in a bench for a moment. This was only 3 years ago. Thinking about it now made me dizzy.🥺🤷🏾‍♀️

[@jessicataylor7005]

I have this phobia. Mine stated when I visited the Milwaukee Public Museum as a kid. It somewhat gotten better....until I saw Dr.. Phil's wax figure.. Dr. Phil's wax figure re triggered my automotonphobia

[@scoobies_doobie1032]

I don't have a fear of the humanoid ones I have it of the ones like rock afire explosion and chuck-e-cheese those ones give me a full panic attack

[@HorrorGalSusan]

I never even knew this was a thing - excellent video!!

[@WillOfMyD]

I'm only here cause I'm making a story in which one of the characters is seriously afraid of robots & his son becomes one of the worlds leading robot distributor.

[@jayisay4485]

It's abnormal size things with human features for me. Statues large faces those creepy giant puppets

[@mearahmclean4215]

I am extremely scared of corpses... I’ve had this phobia since I. Could remember

[@KittyTvvlogs]

I have automatonophobia specifically the fear of animatronics hence why I don't like the rides in Disneyland but otherwise I like Disneyland which is stupid because pretty much every ride there has animatronics in it of some sort. I'm also extremely terrified of "It's a small world" over all other animatronic rides cuz those animatronic dolls in it are terrifying as fuck. Anyone else feel the same way?

[@DorysStories]

😀 i actually love this stuff.. but my mom is legit terrified of ventriloquist dummies and mannequins. She had been her whole life. A few twilight zone episodes messed her up as a kid

[@AGCollectorRoom]

I throw up at the thought of thinking them

[@el_van9108]

IM TERRIFIED OF HOLLOWEEN ANIMATRONICS

[@ridgedog2317]

I have automatonophobia. I don't know why or how, I just remember being extremely scared of any audio animatronics or wax figures ever since I was a baby. I also had a huge fear of store mannequins too. I grew out of the store mannequin fear, but I'm still afraid of audio animatronics. I really can't get close to any animatronic, which has really stopped me from going on different rides at Disney World and other theme parks. Even though I have this fear of animatronics, I'm still a huge fan of Five Nights at Freddy's, which doesn't really make any sense to me. I think it's because FNAF is just a video game, and I know it's not real. But yeah, anyway, I do have a huge fear of audio animatronics.

[@reverendcoffinsotherson5807]

"Detroit : Become Human" is a horror game for me cuz I have this phobia.

[@Phil4RealMusic]

Im actually DIRECTING a movie right now called "PREY FOR ME" that plays on this phobia. I will have a moving STATUE ;)

[@LifeInAConcreteBox]

Yep, I %100 have this fear. Especially around animatronics. Disney World was not fun for tiny me. I’m okay around dead folks though, so maybe the theory doesn’t apply to me?

[@Fairychamber]

I also get very nervous around humanoid robots. It´s uncanny valley. I don´t think my fear for them is because of corpses. It is more fear for AI. Artificial intelligence it´all around us yet it´s also something that us humans can not fully control.

[@Phil4RealMusic]

Fear of STATUES as well because people think Statues will MOVE lol

[@Emyums]

I'm afraid of animotronics in water, like jungle cruise

[@xKhrypt]

I’m afraid of pretty much anything along these lines. Dolls, mannequins, wax figures, you name it. Mannequins are the worst, though. Dolls, I can handle to a point. I’m not sure where this fear came from, but it sucks and people just don’t understand it’s a real thing -__-

[@SvanVosianMusic]

I think this fear/phobia is a bit philosophical 🤔

[@theywantmycheese7884]

Dolls creep me out

[@Bigtmac2200]

As someone with Automotonophobia, I do have a severe fear of corpses, pairing it with severe case of necroPHOBIA. (Capitalised to emphasize phobia not philia.)

[@jessy.3.16]

Bigtmac2200 I am an automatonophilophobe. People who fall in love with, and attempt to legally marry their video games and/or a sex robot/doll and/or pillows are creepy as fuck.

[@soccerandtrack10]

This makes sense.

[@Choclatekissed]

Corpses are not part of my automatonophobia. I can touch a body in a casket. I don’t want to be in a room with one by myself though.🤔 I am not afraid of most mannequins or some statues, but I don’t recognize the fear until I see it. In my city I can walk by certain ones without issue and others make me feel faint. I did walk closer to one daily, until I was no longer fearful of it. I was surprised to meet another person with similar fears, but hers was more severe. We have horse statues, differently designed, around the city and they give her anxiety. They don’t bother me. Some pictures of statues make me turn my head until I can cheer my screen. I think mine derived from watching Greek mythology movies as a child. Statues always came alive in them. The Hanna Barbers land had a boat ride that took you through an animated tunnel filled with larger than life characters. They loomed all around you in the darkness. The exit was a large mouth with Gargamel from the smurfs reaching out from the side. 😂😂 My family took that trip to Hanna Barberra land for years. It traumatized me.🤣

[@ashlynnjohnson8014]

I think automatonphobia being linked to fear of corpses is a very likely theory. They both tend to give me similar thoughts , like 'But what if it moves?', which is why I think they definitely could be linked. I by no means have a phobia of either, just a mild... uncomfortable feeling? I can walk through a wax museum just fine and have fun but I wouldn't do it alone. I wonder if this phobia would cover human statues?

[@valeriepayan7755]

When I was 14, my mom tried to get Mickey Mouse to take a picture with me at Disneyland. The second he stepped towards me, I booked it and ran about a block away. I couldn’t stop crying for an hour

[@landen5279]

i just found out i have this phobia

[@7atab]

The doll like clown behind you 🤡😨

[@amandazim3089]

lol i will not be showing this to my niece. shes got a pretty intense fear of dolls. hi kat!!!

[@Kristina-fb4jq]

I thought I was alone damn

[@kawaiimochis3469]

I don’t like wax figures i have tryphobia,fear of oceans, and this phobia

[@Sara-dj9mi]

I honestly love animatronics but not mannequins cause I think it’s a person and like they r creepy

[@walidnazih890]

there's also a thing called the uncanny valley

[@Jayzzzzz003]

Because of fnaf and because I just feel that it can come to life and kill me anytime the more dead and lifeless it is the better for me

[@landen5279]

my friends always played fnaf and i would see it at the corner, so i'm terrified of it

[@hayscollins5867]

I freaking hate mannequins so much. I literally shiver every time I walk past one

[@KatanaBart]

Mannequins are cool. Dolls can often be creepy, but depends on context. Had a burned down area (former house) nearby; all that was left was a burned up doll, mostly a head. Eww. Nothing scares me more than needles. Like, even peeking through my fingers is too close for comfort with medical stuff on TV. Yeah... a grown man that's mortally terrified of Grey's Anatomy. Srsly.

[@honeyfairy4506]

Its all in the eyes for me. Souless. Hollow and yet pierces my soul. I live to hate it. And hate to love it 😑😁

[@Meow-Meow-Music]

before I watch this, I shall declare first hand that this is a full on phobia for me, and has been since i was a baby. I will reply to this comment after I finish the video

[@Meow-Meow-Music]

didn't know it was so short, thought there'd be more in depth explanation but i liked the short and sweet video! this might help in my journey to ridding of my phobia so i can enjoy robotics and animatronics as much as i wish to!

[@caristicomistico7684]

I hated dolls as a kid

[@mrsc6917]

Gah! I love your channel!

[@casiofx-100ms3]

The woman is like a doll