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doubleKO
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Phobias That wreck your enjoyment of Films, Television and Video Games.
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7-Feb-2014, 10:38 AM

Leonardo said:

the bean eating scene in "Blazing Saddles". You can't not laugh at that, IMHO.

Let me be the first to assure you it is possible :p

Turns out I have a disorder called misophonia which literally means "hatred of sound". A couple of my triggers are barking dogs and crickets and these things can infuriate me in movies or games almost as much as they do in real life. (I was kind of relieved to discover that it was an actual thing after thinking I was just going mental for the last ten years or so. Another name for it is "selective sound sensitivity" which I even came up with on my own and then dismissed because it sounded so made up).

Also, I'm not scared of the dark, but I am scared of the dark in video games. Scary movies are no problem, but when I'm in control and my dude's flare is going out or whatever... zoinks! Some games are just too scary for me unless someone else is in the room. I quit Silent Hill, Doom 3, STALKER and a couple of others because they freaked me the hell out. I even freak out if Lara Croft has to swim in the dark. You'd have hated it bkev. There were rats. Big ones.