Coulrophobia and Autonomatonophobia

Alright. Here is the post were I make confession (or rather state an embarrassing fact).

I'm not sure what it's called but Google called it Coulrophobia and Autonamtonophobia.

According to the all knowing Google, Coulrophobia is the fear of Clowns. I actually do have this fear. I am more scared of clowns than heights if that helps any of you understand. This fear stems from when I was a young child (and when I say young I mean like 5 or 6) and I was dumb enough to watch "It", which is basically about a killer clown. I was also dumb enough to watch "The Poltergeist" soon after and because of the clown scene it that movie I have been legitimately scared of clowns ever since.

Autonamtonophobia is a fear of animatronic figures, wax figures, and Ventriloquist dummies. I have this to a much lesser degree. I don't mind wax figures or animatronic figures...but I cannot be in the same room as a ventriloquist dummy. When I say dummy I don't mean Jeff Dunham, he's hilarious. I mean the creepy ones that have suits and such. I got this fear because I watched a show called Goosebumps as a kid (again 5 or 6) and one of the stories was centered around a dummy that came to life. I would have a picture...but I refuse to Google dummies and clowns.

Even by writing this post I'm starting to freak out so I'm going to wrap it up.

I also hate china dolls. I don't know why but those have always bothered me.

So there it is. Is it irrational?....Yes.....I really can't explain it