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writes:Oh hey its me again! Just an odd little qeustion, i have automonophobia and i was just updating my profile and wondered "hmmm i wonder if anyone else has it." So i thought id ask some of you lovely lot and wheather anyone has it. For those of you who don't know what automonophobia is it is fear of manniquins, dolls, statues, robots and anything else which is made to impersonate the pyshic of something else. Luckily i am only afraid of manniquins and statues, dolls creep me out abit but i can handle them, stautes which are larger in size are normanally the worst for and if one has been made for the main purpose to be scary i will freak. I don't mind stautes which are alot smaller than me but ones which are the same size, in water or higher up freak me out loads and i freeze i won't take my eyes off them and i can cry and have been know to run away. The first expierence i had with them i was about five i went to a swiming pool on holiday and it had taking on a hindu indian theme with statues, i screamed and i screamed there was one giant one which i wasn't expect and man i had never swam so fast in my life. It has proved to be abit of a problem as i tend to like musems and art is where they most tend to be also citys like london pose as abit of a problem too. I want to know if there is any way to get rid of it or if anyone else has the same phobia thanks!
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reader, xTheAlmightyDuckx +, writes (28 October 2011):
xTheAlmightyDuckx is verified as being by the original poster of the question Thanks for your suggestions, and Chigirl yes i have touched one once before ( a manniquin) unfortunely it then fell on me which made it ten times worse.
But i will take on your suggestions about facing it head on, i do think if i get used to maybe seeing them more regurally i will get used to it so thanks.
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reader, chigirl  +, writes (27 October 2011):
 I don't have the same phobia, but I strongly dislike and feel uncomfortable around imitations of personal or private spaces and clothes. Statues and mannequins I work ok with, as they are either artistic or for a fashion purpose, and rarely try to imitate anything "real". But at museums they often have these "people-imitations", such as you also spoke of, and living-room imitations, or clothes that they have dug up from the cave-man ages or whatever. I can't stand things like that. Like stuffed animals, that also gives me the creeps. Things that resemble life, or resemble something "real", but are dead things.
Like there is one café I know of in my town where they try to imitate an alley, with shirts hanging between balcony's and painted windows. That seriously creeps me out. Fake painted windows, pretended living spaces and shirts that just hang there, resembling a shirt someone hang to dry. The imitation of personal things, you know.
I don't go into panic attacks, or hyperventilate, but it gives me the creeps and makes me feel very uncomfortable. So I tend to stay clear of museums that have this type of exhibit.
But like they say, the best way to get over it is to confront your fears head on. If it really poses as a problem that is. Maybe you should find a statue to visit every day? Or make a statue yourself? Learn about how they are created so you know what's on the inside? Or find less human resembling statues to get used to first? Ever tried to touch a statue?
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