Pediophobia

Being brought up around dolls and collecting many kinds of dolls myself I've always had a love for dolls and have never been scared of them (even after seeing horror movies about dolls) I've also had a good deal of mixed reactions....some people love them and want to play with them or touch them and ask where they can get one and others won't even go in the room where the dolls are.

 

I always freak out if I saw clown doll! I hate them so much! I still freak out when I see one now. I hate those dolls, porcelain, any 'human' form dolls, all of them creep me out. I do like barbie before but thats because I love the clothes but not the actually doll. But I hate it now because its so plasticy.
first time I got my BJD, it was Luts El, I was excited when I got him but first night I couldnt sleep - because of my pediophobia, it took me one week to get used to him but after my Tony arrive I didnt have the slight feeling of being scared of him. Alas I sold my El and keep my Tony. I love El but there is so much issue with him and it just not working.
now i cant sleep if Kiki isnt around me (i even bring her to my overseas trips), i feel secure with my BJD.

 

I find mannequins a little scary (though it's not to the extent of a phobia), but not dolls. Dolls are too small to seem menacing to me, and anyway I rather like creepy-looking or half-broken old dolls. I find clowns and clown dolls simply hideous, but not frightening.

 

I, personally, remember a lot about the tale of the little girl and her doll in a red dress and how the doll was alive and killed her family and burrowed them in the backyard, but to tell you the truth, I guess some I used to be afaid of china dolls.
I have always been very parinoid, that may be one reason some build a fear of dolls, but it all has to do with the human mentality. I guess if you have a horrible expeirence and a doll reminds you of it, for some reason, then that could somewhat explain it.
It is a very hard thing to explain.
All matters on how one things of such things...
There are some things that just can't be explained...ESPECIALLY with humans.

 

My fear of dolls came from the fact that they look like people, but they're not actually alive. I still have a problem with department store mannequins. I couldn't even do the CPR training in High School because "Annie" scared me to the point of tears.

Nowadays I'm much better. I'm hoping having a doll of my own will help my lingering discomfort for dolls. Give it a story, personality, etc. Basically make it "live".

 

I have never heard of Pediophobia, but I have a sort of fear against dolls. Mostly the infant/baby dolls. I don't know why, but I just find them creepy. Also, when I am watching a movie with a doll that is alive (mostly an evil doll, but it doesn't have to be a horror movie) I am really scared.

I don't know where it comes from. I have no problems with ABJD's or barbies because they look more mature.

I also really dislike (or even hate) young children.

 

The only dolls that I don't like are the ones that look like children. xD I don't like children so yeah. xD

 

Everyone has good answer, and I don't! D:
Maybe because everyone's seen those scary posessed doll/ghost/paranormiasgsjdagk movies and you can't really../do/ anything about it unless you knew how to.(You can slap a murderer and lock him in a closet but you can't really do anything about possessed dolls can you?) Do you think this has to do with the "Golden Ratio?" I'm really attracted to dolls that look like they have symmetrical features, but I'm sort of repulsed by the ones that don't. D Does this even have to do with what "pediophobia" is?

 

>>; honestly I am afraid of almost all dolls, which is why it's so odd for me to like bjds XD yet I love bjds (not really a fan of te tinies >> and some bjds scare me... buuut) my bjds could never scare me T.T I love them lots

I don't really know why I'm afraid of dolls, and realy it's more dislike then fear
I dislike china dolls and baby dolls because I find them a bit scary, and having one in my room freaks me out

With bjds I have never felt afraid of them
My parents say this is unreasonble XD; since they occassionally move on their own and their eyes seem to follow you
But they've never even frightened me T.T

I do know some of my fear of dolls comes from watching chuckie at a young age...
Horror movies leave lasting impressions on me

 

I can speak of this a bit, as I'm sort of a doll- convert.
When I first saw BJDs it was at an anime convention where a girl had two dolls sitting on top of a rolling suitcase. The dolls were probaby MSD-ish sized, and they were decked out in gothic clothing. That they were sitting so perfectly straight and staring ahead (and in my direction) creeped me out (it was also in a fairly dim public bathroom). They sorta reminded me of ventriloquists' dolls (which I'm not particularly fond of).
Now I really like them, and most of the ones I see don't bother me at all.
What happened to change that, I really don't know. Time, I suppose? (I started liking them about a year after I was creeped out by them XD). I also have never had a fear of goth clothes or anything (though I don't wear them, I am very drawn to them) so I guess it might have been the blank look the dolls seemed to have that bothered me.
edit: I think the girl with them might have also had coffin-shaped accessories, which could have added to my initial impression of her dolls.

 

I'm in the camp of "no creepy baby dolls" too-- I love my teen & tween & adult BJDs, and find nothing creepy about putting them in fetishy fashions or effed-up hair. But when it comes to those pink wrinkly baby dolls and their demonic empty grins and their fat-rolls, yikes!!

As for little-girl and little-lady dolls (i.e. the porcelain kind or Madame Alexander stuff with all the bonnets & ruffles), those don't scare me as much, but most of them are so blank they leave me cold. I think that's probably rooted in being underwhelmed with the trappings of femininity, though, even more than disliking the trappings of childhood.

Ventriloquist-dummies scare the living bejeezus out of me.

And I don't really care for actual children, no. I do like visiting & playing & talking with them sometimes-- their world-view is great, and you can learn so much from them that you didn't realize you'd forgotten!-- But only as long as I can give them back at the end of the day. (Or at the end of an hour. ;; Depends on the kid.) Besides, if you have a kid with you, nobody blinks at seeing a grown woman in a dress & heels playing Catch The Secret Agent Man in a hotel lobby.

 

It's so true. I'm waiting until my brother has children, so I can teach them to do things that will bug him. It's so fun teaching kids, when it's something you're both interested in.

 

I dont have any fear of dolls whatsoever. Unless its a doll of something I'm REALLY scared of.. such as ALIENS D':

 

I never really liked dolls. I wasn't afraid of them, but I wasn't really interested in them either. (Except for those clown dolls. A wonderful lady gave me one of her collection for my first daughter. It was very sweet gesture, but the darn thing was so creepy with it's frozen smile it never saw the light of day!)

BJD are completely different. When I saw my first one at a Florida convention, I was fascinated. They were so beautiful, delicate and fascinating. You just can't help wanting to pick them up!

 

Dolls always frieked me out. My sister had one of those life sized 'friend' dolls. I hated it. Too many B horror movies as a kid maybe. I still don't like american made dolls. Baby dolls really friek me out. I'm not sure why I like the BJDs so much. I guess they're more art than toys.

 

I always have liked dolls. When I was younger I was really into barbies and the porceline dolls(though I never had any cause I wasn't alloud). Well, I liked them until my friend told me this one story about a doll that kills the little girl that owns it <_<; I didn't really get over that fear, and to this day I don't like porceline dolls. On the other hand, I'm not afraid of my boys at all and ball jointed dolls have never scared me, even though I find they on about the same level of realism as porceline dolls. I think with bjds, it's the fact that I can move them and change how they sit etc. so they don't always have the same stiff pose(if they're staring at you, you can turn their head).

 

Wow, somewhat disturbing subject. I don't know, I think fear of children seems like a weird thing but I guess it happens. I've never been afraid of dolls... not really. Unless a doll is really disturbing looking obviously. I think some BJDs are creepy but not really because they look real.. I more prefer a less realistic doll though. It's just personal taste I guess, that makes one fear dolls or like them. Some people can't believe that they are just pretty pieces of plastic that in no way are alive or dead. Stories are stories, I'm not very superstitious and don't believe dollies are real. I kind of see it like drawings.. you can draw something realistic or completely distorted (caricature like) but obviously it's just a representation of something else... a human. I don't know, stop creeping me out with this thread lol 8D

 

Hmm..I think people are truly afraid of dolls because of horror movies. I also think that a problem with BJDs is the fact that they do look VERY real. Me and my sister have both had mixed reactions with our dolls, taking them out and what not. Some people are intrigued by them and find them gorgeous. Someone else told me that their eyes creep them out. Other people just think they're plain creepy. I had a friend at college who was just dead afraid of dolls no matter what doll it was. Other people have seen them and made jokes like "Oh, it's Chucky". ::Shrugs:: Guess it depends on the person.

 

Dolls are a bit uncanny. And I admit it, some dolls scare me- but not BJD. People are entitled to their phobias- most of the time, they cannot be helped. But despite how much revulsion you feel at the sight of a Barbie or what not, there is no excuse to be rude. I'm very afraid of ventriloquists' dummies after some rather weird childhood trauma (being locked in a dark bathroom in my sister's best friend's scary basement that looked like a medieval torture chamber while they watched Goosebumps again and again and again on the big-screen TV... yeah, it's weird, but she was mean... and I wa scared.) and I'm afraid of bees, clowns and the man on the Quaker Oats box to boot... but if I meet a Quaker Oats collector or a beekeeper or an actual clown one day I won't freak out at them and tell them their favourite things (or them) are hideously ugly and shouldn't exist. They take pleasure in it, and just because i have the opposite reaction in a visceral way, it does not mean that I am not in control of my reaction. It's not a clinical problem, it's just an ordinary fear. It's fine to vent online or TALK about what scares us but when you say it to a doll owner's face in a serious manner it always seems kind of blunt and unkind to me.