Is it normal that i'm scared of the human insides?

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As you can see from the title, I'm very afraid of human, and generally everything including the insides of a body. Even when someone talks about it, I just start feeling very uncomfortable. One time my sex ed teacher said that you can grab the egg in a... female part, and just at the thought of it I started crying uncontrollably so my friend had to cheer me up for the rest of the class. In 4th grade 2 teachers showed the entire class 2 things which scare me to this day: a living parasite inside a human (on a slideshow, she didn't pull out real organs of course) and the view of the food when you eat it, something like a journey through intestines and such. I looked away as soon as I could but the others were fascinated by it or just didn't care, so I've been wondering if it's normal?

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  • 1WeirdGuy
    2 years ago

    When my wife had her C section I was able to watch them do it and they told me several times to stop saying people often throw up or pass out. It doesnt bother me. What bothers me more is seeing something that causes suffering. Like someone breaking a leg or something.

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    • LloydAsher
      2 years ago

      Organs are one thing. Bones and brain matter are another. Pimples and cysts are another thing altogether.

      People have their lines drawn. Organs are fine for me, broken bones are cringe worthy. Hurl factors are industrial accidents.

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  • bbrown95
    2 years ago

    It definitely gives me a queasy feeling, especially the intestines. They just kind of look freaky to me.

    I've also done the 8 Minute Abs workouts a few times in my life and was always kind of weirded out by how they have you put your hands on your abs as you're doing crunches in order to feel them working. I felt kind of grossed out by that, too.

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  • Boojum
    2 years ago

    There's probably some fancy name for that phobia, but I can't be bothered to look it up.

    I think lots of people are pretty squeamish about human innards. This obviously limits your possible career choices, but that's no biggie.

    A more serious issue is that if you have no idea whatsoever about what's happening inside you and if you deliberately block out any internal sensations because you're so terrified that a doctor might diagnose you as needing some sort of internal intervention, that could result in you having serious health issues diagnosed later than they could have been.

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  • Boojum
    2 years ago

    I take your point; human ova are miniscule - about the diameter of the thickness of a human hair. But in-vitro fertilisation requires the extraction and manipulation of eggs from the mother, so it's not beyond modern medical science.

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