Koutoumouphobia. Does anyone else have it?

[TheyRepulseMe]

Phobia of buttons.

I can barely type the word.

It's not that I'm scared of them. They just physically repulse me. Make me feel sick.

I hate them I hate them.

Awwww...

Oh yeah, it only appears on this very thread in the whole internet?!

what are your medical or psychiatric qualifications to say that?

The OP misspelled it. It’s Koumpounophobia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koumpounophobia#:~:text=Koumpounophobia%20is%20the%20term%20used,U.S.%20suffers%20from%20this%20phobia.

Ah ok fair enough. Thank you!

So true! I don’t want to be ok with the gross things! They’re repulsive and ugly.

Good job they invented zips 🤣

Yep, ex colleague of mine couldn't even dress her child some days if the weather required certain clothes.

Really highlights that phobias cover everything and whilst can't be explained shouldn't really be made light of. Some are more understood like spiders etc but it can be anything. One friend twitches at the sight of cotton wool as she says she can feel it between her teeth just looking at it.

exactly, I’ve told friends about it before who then delight in sending me pictures of them or even birthday cards with them on, and I really don’t find it funny, I lost a good friend over it that time. As she thought I was being ‘dramatic’ and I thought she had completely disregarded the feelings I had told her they made me feel. Even in this post a person said it was ridiculous, and I’m sure it seems that way to people, but the phobia is very real for me and isn’t any less awful than sending someone with arachnophobia a spider in a box.

Currently fighting for my life in a comments section on tiktok and frequently on here trying to explain that I fcking know they can't hurt me and they eat all the bugs but a phobia is irrational and I judge the intelligence of people who try to rationalise it to me like I'm an idiot.

Anyway... my friend suggested next time I just need to point out that people are scared of buttons, so this thread is timely and you have my sympathies OP.

@FrivolousKitchenRollUse

"Yep, ex colleague of mine couldn't even dress her child some days if the weather required certain clothes"

Nah, there's not a season, climate, nor weather system in the world that requires clothes to have b#&*%ns. Just say no.

My ex had this! Not to a massive extent but he hated buttons on collar (too close to his face) and loose ones lying around. It was to do with chocking!

I asked ds yesterday if he still avoids buttons and he said 'hell yeah!'. Still couldn't explain why though.

I'm struggling with my own phobia at the moment. Coccinellidaephobia.

There have been swarms of them this year. And even today in between massive rain showers, they're creeping around the doors and windows trying to get in 🤢.

A friend of mine with this phobia found dress shopping in the 90s particularly challenging: for a few years, every dress seemed to have tiny buttons from top to bottom (which she described as ‘death by buttons’!).

Another friend has a phobia of regular patterns of shapes - think honeycomb, or the top of a box of straws. She was told that this type of phobia had its origins in the mass trauma associated with the plague and its distinctive skin rash