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Peopley says "Oh! That gives me trypophobia!" like if a phobia were some clothes that you can put on and off whenever something with tiny holes appears. There is a lot of things with tiny holes, funny that just happens with very specific and uncommon things and not with your papel towel, or another mundane thing.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Exposure therapy works on phobias, that's why they're triggered by specific and uncommon things. If you're exposed to the tiny holes in paper towels all the time, they'll bother you less and less until eventually they might not even bother you at all.

I'm sure if I interacted with lotus seed pods all the time they wouldn't make me want to vomit and scratch my skin off.

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