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Pediophobia

Sep 13, 2005

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    1. I showed my dolls to my Step-dad for the first time last weekend and he was asking me all sorts of questions. But he seemed to be more wary of my Pukifee. When I took Jasmine's (MSD) head off to show him, he was fine, but as soon as I took Chi's (Pukifee) head off, he was like "Oh my, that's creepy!" - I didn't see the difference to be quite honest, but oh well XD
       
      #621 Apple89, Jun 15, 2013
    2. I don' like reborns, particularly the ones that are too realistic, and asleep, they do, to me, look like they are dead babies. I don't like those living dead dolls, either, or anything representing 'zombies'.
       
      #622 Bluemoonjules, Jun 15, 2013
    3. Back at my old school when I was first getting into the hobby some of my friends were down right terrified of them. I asked her why and she said it was because the eyes and how realistic they look since it casts off a shimmer. I didn't ask her but I'm assuming other dolls with eyes like these would scare her too.
      And since how many movies or stories there are out there that are about a doll that they wonder why it looks life-like [they see the realisticness in their eyes or expressions] and it turns out to be the doll is possessed by some bad spirit and it comes around to kill them all.

      I am not afraid of dolls and surely not BJDs, but I can see why some people don't like them because how they might have realistic aspects to them. Like I've seen other people on this thread state that they don't like reborn baby dolls because they have down right too many features and look just too real.
      Those absolutely mortify me, plus some of the people I've seen that collect them honestly do believe that they are real and it makes me uncomfortable and want to cry.
      But I do not believe that all of the ones who collect them are like that.
       
      #623 nostalgicCheesecake, Jun 24, 2013
    4. Just wanna say first, everytime I see this thread I'm like "pedophelia wtf?' lol.

      But anyway, in my experience so far its usually the eyes that creep people out. I guess its the realism aspect bothers them. Doesn't bother me though and actually I prefer glass eyes because I think they look more realistic. I had one girl say one of my girls was creepy but she said it was because it was a half naked doll lol. To be clear she had on long pants and a somewhat skimpy top....so not naked lol.
       
      #624 blueboy57, Jun 24, 2013
    5. Some at-least-part-pediophobic friends of mine actually linked me a youtube -video, where a girl is just holding her pretty BJD, then apparently for no reason at all, the dolls head turns towards the girl by itself ...which results the girl screaming and throwing the doll away xD

      That's one "reason" I've gotten out of my pediophobic friends. The other one came from the person who dislikes dolls the most; he finds them extremely creepy because of the fact that they are so lifelike. Most bjd:s look very much like humans and they are very well made to detail ...and apparently THAT is what's so creepy about them.

      And, after all, the best horror stories usually have something to do with dolls xD
       
      #625 Regularity, Jun 24, 2013
    6. I thinck its all about fear meeting the new "species". I've noticed that people are affraid of those dolls, that look like human, but not of those that look like elfs, hobbits and etc. Its becouse elfs are fictional to us, but human beings are real. THey are affraid to see odd litle people, that "can" be alive.
       
      #626 Onkani, Jun 25, 2013
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