re: Do you have trypophobia

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It kinda gives me the heebs

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Alright the foot is pretty nasty but the rest of these pictures are hum drum whatever.

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The understanding of trypophobia is limited.[3] Although few studies have been done on trypophobia, researchers hypothesize that it is the result of a biological revulsion that associates trypophobic shapes with danger or disease, and may therefore have an evolutionary basis.[1][3]

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That's what I would've guessed. Honestly, it makes perfect sense.

It's where things like arachnophobia come from. It's an evolutionary tool that tells people to stay the frick away from spiders because they could be poisonous. Arachnophobia may seem silly to some people, but one has to remember that anti-venom has not existed for the vast majority of human evolutionary history. Nowadays, a brown recluse bite may be no big deal, but 10,000 years ago it could've caused a fatal infection.

Those kinds of weird, nasty patterns on a human body would most certainly be the result of some kind of (possibly communicable) disease or infection. Being grossed out by the same patterns in nature is just our brains being hijacked by our evolutionary aversion to such sights.

Here's what smallpox looked like. You can imagine why humans might have evolved to stay away from things like this.

I honestly didn’t know that there was a name for this, but I absolutely have it. I fricking HATE looking at stuff like that and have no idea why. Just looking at those pictures for like .2 seconds made my skin crawl.

The first picture be good eating on da bayou.

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yea that's bad. very bad.

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