Speaking of conferences and phobias, what about a conference for people Agoraphobia, (not Agraphobia as I had initially thought, which is actually a fear of sexual abuse, according to phobialist.com). Agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets (once again according to phobialist.com). This is the phobia we traditionally attribute to people who are afraid of crowds.
So surely nobody would show up to the conference.
Or perhaps if they did you could immediately start to assume that they are either malingerers or people suffering from Factitious Disorder.
I wonder if there are any people out there who suffer from Agoraphobicphobia, I just made it up on the spot, but it would be a fear of people who are afraid of crowds. Imagine if there was a conference for people with Agoraphobicphobia, everyone there would be fine because nobody is actually afraid of the crowd itself, just people who are afraid of crowds. But then, imagine that someone with Agoraphobia reads the sign wrong and accidentally walks in and starts freaking out because they see the crowd Agoraphobicphobes. The crowd of Agoraphobicphobes see the Agoraphobic person freaking out and immediately start freaking out as well and all of a sudden the once peaceful conference descends into mayhem as nobody is able to tell who is freaking out because of the crowd, and who is freaking out because of the people freaking out because of the crowd.
There is absolutely no valid reason for this blog or the one before it, my mind was just going off on one of its tangents this morning, so I thought I'd write about it.
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