A New Yorker Faces His Phobia, One Stroke at a Time With Intensive Swim Lessons, a Man Attacks His Fear of Water Phobias come in countless forms. Some are commonplace. Aviophobia: fear of flying. Acrophobia: fear of heights. Arachnophobia: fear of spiders. Others elicit less attention. Peladophobia: fear of bald people. Geniophobia: fear of chins. Some, one imagines, are pretty much universal. Pentheraphobia: fear of your mother-in-law. Traumatized by childhood incidents, Attis Clopton was deathly afraid of water. Here’s a story about a man conquering his fear of swimming. (NYT)
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:00:00 +0000
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