Fool's Gold
“Rudy had heard about some of them before, without knowing their scientific names. He knew about acrophobia, for instance, in which people were so afraid of high places that they couldn’t go up in airplanes or even in tall buildings, but he hadn’t known what it was called scientifically.
There were others, however, that he’d never heard of at all, like gatophobia (fear of cats). That struck him as a little bit weird. He got one of his vivid mental pictures—a big muscle-bound guy cringing in a co...rner, trying to hide from a fluffy little blob of a kitten. But then, a phobia was a phobia, and he supposed gatophobia made as much sense as any. There wasn’t any mention of fear of dogs, or cows, but he supposed some people had hang-ups about them too. Not to mention horses. He snickered. Like Shetland Ponies from Hell. Maybe he’d make up a name for Ty’s phobia and tell Barney and Heather about it. Pintophobia, maybe?
Another one he didn’t recognize right off was nyctophobia. Who’d ever heard of nyctophobia?MoreLess
There were others, however, that he’d never heard of at all, like gatophobia (fear of cats). That struck him as a little bit weird. He got one of his vivid mental pictures—a big muscle-bound guy cringing in a co...rner, trying to hide from a fluffy little blob of a kitten. But then, a phobia was a phobia, and he supposed gatophobia made as much sense as any. There wasn’t any mention of fear of dogs, or cows, but he supposed some people had hang-ups about them too. Not to mention horses. He snickered. Like Shetland Ponies from Hell. Maybe he’d make up a name for Ty’s phobia and tell Barney and Heather about it. Pintophobia, maybe?
Another one he didn’t recognize right off was nyctophobia. Who’d ever heard of nyctophobia?MoreLess
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