Fear Of Automaton-Phobias

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During the span of our humanly years we all have things that make us jump, things that may go boo in the night giving a very big fright scare. Maybe something off of Nightmare before Christmas. Either way a phobia is an extreme irrational fear of something.
Firstly, ladies and gentlemen I present to you automaton-phobia. Anyone afraid of ventriloquist dummies, wax dummies, scarecrows, and so on have this fear. In short someone with this fear can’t handle anything that falsely represents a sentient being. A sister fear to this is pupa-phobia, the fear of puppets and marionettes. Usually to treat this you go through different therapies to minimize certain aspects of the fear that get in the way of your daily life. Unfortunately there’s no conclusive

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