Horror 101, Monday

[chosehumanity]

"Today, it's your turn to shine," Mitchell said, beaming at the class. He clapped his hands. "Show us what you did this past week. It can be a film fragment, something you read from a book, just describing it. Tell me what it says about the phobia of your choice."

He put the remote to the beamer on the table in front of him, and backed away so he could sit down at the back of the class.

"What are you waiting for? The floor is yours."

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Re: Present Your Findings

[vanillajello]

"So, my fear was haptephobia, which turned out to be the fear of touching," Kate began.

"And I actually found this flick, um, Sven and the True Gal? Where the protagonist guy kinda has this phobia. But, he's so messed up, so completely unable to deal with actual people, that he ends up falling in love with this life-sized doll." She raised an eyebrow at that. Despite all she'd seen, that was still weird.

"So the fear of touching is just one of his many social ineptitudes. But I think it all ties together with shying away from other people. 'Cause if you're afraid of being touched, or touching anyone, then you're having to cut yourself off from people. So there's no hugging or cuddling or even, like, handshakes. And, I can't imagine what it feels like to have this phobia, but I know that the idea of having it scares the crap out of me."

Said the girl whose first attempt at research for this assignment got interrupted for a whole lot of touching.

And who also tended to refuse touches when she needed them most. So, she'd know.