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Coulrophobia is a real phobia. It is the fear of clown. But are those who claim to be afraid of clowns, or hate clowns real?
On January 1, 2006, Alex Waterfield (Columbia News Service) wrote an article on The Orange County Register - Health & Family - segment of the paper titled, "Clowns are no fun for many people."
The article gave a lot of credit to the "ihateclowns.com" website, and it seemed geared to the view of those who hate clowns. Including a group of clown haters from Sarasota, Florida, the circus capital of the world, who are trying to prevent the city from displaying life size statue of clowns, as well as images of clowns.
Being a clown a run across those who are truly afraid of clowns, and those who pretend to be afraid of clowns.
Those who are victims of Coulrophobia would do their best to get away from the situation, quietly, and with out calling attention to themselves.
Those who are fakers, especially, teenage girls, will yell, scream, shout, and loudly declare how much they hate clowns.
All this they will do to call attention to themselves, and get sympathy from their boyfriends, and/or their group of friends.
Often, when they are alone, away from their friends, these same girls would smile, even kid around with the clown.
Unfortunately, these fakers end up scaring younger kids around them. What they see as a joke, it turns harmful to others.
Parents / grown ups are guilty of scaring young ones. Some will force their terrified child to approach a clown, to their own amusement.
Others, thinking they are doing the right thing, bring the crying child closer to the clown, hoping that long exposure will take away the fear.
Then, there are those who threaten a child by saying that if they do not behave, the clown will come and get them.
I have encountered all these types and more. When a child is afraid, I quickly cover my face; make myself as small as possible and walked away. If the parent insist on bringing the child toward me, and I can’t get away, I get down on my knees, do not make eye contact, but smoothly tell the child that I am just as scare. And that “I will stay right here, I won’t move.” One of my favorite lines is to tell the child that, “When I was a little clown, I was afraid of children too, but now, thanks to you being nice, I can see that children are nice and won’t hurt me.”
If the child calms down, often they do, I tell them the story of “my life” and what it was like to grow up as a clown.
I tell them, that as a baby, my parents knew I was a clown because I spoke funny. When I begun to talk, I talked funny. I always like food that tasted funny. But I bathe everyday, because I did not like to smell funny. And I knew that I did not have to fear dinosaurs or pirates, because everyone knows that dinosaurs do not eat clowns, because clowns taste funny.
VeeKay - the Original Zoot Suit Clown
tribes.tribe.net/iloveclowns
On January 1, 2006, Alex Waterfield (Columbia News Service) wrote an article on The Orange County Register - Health & Family - segment of the paper titled, "Clowns are no fun for many people."
The article gave a lot of credit to the "ihateclowns.com" website, and it seemed geared to the view of those who hate clowns. Including a group of clown haters from Sarasota, Florida, the circus capital of the world, who are trying to prevent the city from displaying life size statue of clowns, as well as images of clowns.
Being a clown a run across those who are truly afraid of clowns, and those who pretend to be afraid of clowns.
Those who are victims of Coulrophobia would do their best to get away from the situation, quietly, and with out calling attention to themselves.
Those who are fakers, especially, teenage girls, will yell, scream, shout, and loudly declare how much they hate clowns.
All this they will do to call attention to themselves, and get sympathy from their boyfriends, and/or their group of friends.
Often, when they are alone, away from their friends, these same girls would smile, even kid around with the clown.
Unfortunately, these fakers end up scaring younger kids around them. What they see as a joke, it turns harmful to others.
Parents / grown ups are guilty of scaring young ones. Some will force their terrified child to approach a clown, to their own amusement.
Others, thinking they are doing the right thing, bring the crying child closer to the clown, hoping that long exposure will take away the fear.
Then, there are those who threaten a child by saying that if they do not behave, the clown will come and get them.
I have encountered all these types and more. When a child is afraid, I quickly cover my face; make myself as small as possible and walked away. If the parent insist on bringing the child toward me, and I can’t get away, I get down on my knees, do not make eye contact, but smoothly tell the child that I am just as scare. And that “I will stay right here, I won’t move.” One of my favorite lines is to tell the child that, “When I was a little clown, I was afraid of children too, but now, thanks to you being nice, I can see that children are nice and won’t hurt me.”
If the child calms down, often they do, I tell them the story of “my life” and what it was like to grow up as a clown.
I tell them, that as a baby, my parents knew I was a clown because I spoke funny. When I begun to talk, I talked funny. I always like food that tasted funny. But I bathe everyday, because I did not like to smell funny. And I knew that I did not have to fear dinosaurs or pirates, because everyone knows that dinosaurs do not eat clowns, because clowns taste funny.
VeeKay - the Original Zoot Suit Clown
tribes.tribe.net/iloveclowns
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