Jun 30
lil self-reflection
Honestly, I was wary of watching PHM at first. Context: I saw that it included an alien that was spider-shaped, and I have arachnophobia.
A phobia is severe when it disrupts your daily life. One way it can do this is through fear generalization.
Fear generalization is when a fear jumps from something specific to a whole lot of other related things. So spiders -> bugs with legs -> anything with vaguely spider-like legs.
But I think that the fact that I was able to watch and enjoy PHM and love Rocky as a character shows how much I’ve grown. I still have arachnophobia, but it’s no longer controlling my life to the same extent. Because old me wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the movie in the same way.