Monday, October 19, 2009

Gelotophobia

I HAVE GELOTOPHOBIA!


according to wikipedia : Gelotophobia is a term, from the Greek for laughter gelos and fear phobia, to describe people who have a “fear of being laughed at”. While most people do not like being laughed at except, perhaps, for gelotophiles, there is a sub-group of people that exceedingly fear being laughed at. Without obvious reasons, they relate laughter they hear e.g., in a restaurant to themselves and feel unease when confronted with laughter.

BUT, i dun have that in a restaurant and feel unease when ppl laugh. -.- i dun have tat.
Im more of afraid of being laugh at. hahah, so im a gelotophiles. eww, sounds so disgusting. >.<

The consequences of gelotophobia:
Social withdrawal to avoid being ridiculed
Appear ‘cold as ice’/ humourless
Psychosomatic disturbances e.g. blushing, tension headache, trembling, dizziness, sleep disturbances
‘Pinocchio Syndrome’ congeal, clumsy, ‘agelotic’ face, ‘wooden puppet
Lack of liveliness, spontaneity, joy
Humour/laughter are not relaxing and joyful social experiences

hmm, but i dun suffer from those consequences eh? haha, maybe im not a gelotophile yet. hahah! :D

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