Rare condition userboxes! Both made because I have them and there's hardly anyone else who posts about it, much less makes userboxes.
Kosmemophobia: The irrational fear/revulsion towards jewelry and sometimes other small metal objects. It is often developed early in life for no clear reason.
Rhinotillexomania: Chronic condition involving compulsive nose-picking that can lead to serious harm to the fragile tissue. Rhinotillexomania is a BFRB, and can be linked to OCD.
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Fun fact about me, I absolutely cannot stand certain types of metals. Jewelry, coins, keys, metal zippers, etc. and it’s not like a little “oh ew I don’t like those”, no, if I touch certain metals it makes me anxious, and I have to either rub my hands over my clothes relentlessly or go wash my hands. It’s not just me touching it too, seeing someone fidget with a necklace, or worse, bite it, is freaking torture.
it’s been like this since I was a kid, and I genuinely thought I was crazy until I found posts online talking about having a similar experience-
i really have got to catch up on wtnv since i left off on 163 but congrats on the sweep king. unleashing this 4 year old art of the cecilos wedding episode :-)
I'm talking about this again cus I don't think I posted it in my main blog.
I'm gonna be talkin about phobias n it's gonna be a long as ramble V
SO like I have a few phobias but some are more severe than others.
Most common biggest phobia I have is Arachnophobia. Had it for years and I don't think it's ever gonna go away. sobs
I don't hate spiders man they just scare me something FIERCE
My dad fr wants me to watch the movie Arachnophobia and IM LIKE?? HELLO??? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??? No way.
I think I have some slight Hemaphobia which is the fear of blood. This came about from a pretty bad experience I witnessed (tho didn't happen to me specifically)
It's not SUPER bad but still effects me sometimes.
Big ass ramble here cus I'm gonna talk about a personal one that effects me even more than these two on a day to day basis.
I have Kosmemophobia and cuprolaminophobia.
Both are essentially the fear/disgusts of small metal objects such as jewellery, coins and even in some cases cutlery. Luckily cutlery doesn't gross me out but a LOT of other things do.
I refuse to wear any kind of jewellery and try my best to avoid it when I can. I also fucking hate holding coins or even looking at them.
FR if I have to pick up anything like a coin or ring I have to wash my hands INSTANTLY because its just so... EW. It's like my hand won't ever feel clean again after handling small metal objects. And the smell it leaves behind.. 💀
It's genuinely so bad that I can't eat or drink if there's money or something near me. Cus all I can imagine are those coins being in my mouth and it actually makes me want to VOM.
I always thought maybe this was just apart of my autism experience(tm) but turns out there are other people with this phobia and. I guess it's nice to know I'm not alone in this.
This is a pretty personal post because I'm talking about something that I don't usually talk about publicly apart from my close discord group out of embarrassment. But I wanna talk about this because it effects me every day, including self shipping!!
I have Kosmemophobia!!
Short explanation, The fear of jewelry.
Long explanation, for me it's not a fear but more of a general dislike of jewelry and other small metal objects, this includes rings, money and literally just anything small and metallic. I don't like touching or really looking at them, it's something I can't control but I've been trying to get better with it.
I don't like the feeling of metal against my skin, it makes me feel really uncomfortable and I always have to wash my hands after coming in contact with anything small and metal, the lingering smell doesn't help either!!
This effects how I self ship majority of the time, especially if I imagine my S/I and F/O's getting married, obviously I don't like rings so I like to just not include those at all.
Like I said I am trying to not let it effect me as much as it did in the past!! There are some F/O's I have who do wear jewelry!! But it's not very often. It's also why I never draw any of my sonas wearing it either.
Hey! It's been a year from today since opening night of my AFA graduation show -- Kosmemophobia! Because of this, I will be putting all of my artwork/animations here so all of you can experience it. This will be rather long, and I ask that if you want to reblog the post PLEASE WAIT until the post is complete!
Kosmemophobia (Kos-MEEM-o-phobia) is the fear or disgust of jewelry and small metals. It has affected me since childhood, though I didn't realize that's what it was at the time. The following artworks and animations are not to be taken literally! They are exaggerations of how I feel in order to help the viewer who may/may not experience the phobia to understand and relate to me, the artist. Be aware that since the artworks are meant to portray Disgust, there will be some imagery of things that could possibly make you squeamish. While this is exactly how you should feel when looking at these artworks, I understand if that's not something you want to put yourself through. Feel free to ignore this post!!
There are 4 main illustrations, 3 animations, two digital drawings to accompany those animations, and then 8 relief prints creating something called a Tolerant Scale. I hope you enjoy!
