--- In b_phobia@yahoogroups.com, "essence_ryu" <essence_ryu@...> wrote:
>
> Umm..Well..Yeah. I have the same kind of phobia, but I can still wear
> snaps. I've had it since I was 3 and a half and I'm 17 right now. When
> I was in first and second grade, my parents had me go to a Catholic
> school. (You know what the uniforms are like, right?) Yeah. So
> anyways, I've had more guy problems then the average teen because I
> don't like getting close to people. Because of my phobia and because
> of the way people treat me when they find out about it. My little
> sister used to throw buttons at me and my brother would fling his
> shirt at me because he "forgot." I very rarely tell people about "it."
> One good thing about this type of phobia would have to be that people
> don't notice that you're not wearing buttons unless you tell them. And
> they forget easily.
>
Yeah, I've had people treat me less than kind because of my phobia
too. If it wasn't my mother forcing me to wear clothes with buttons on
them because she thought that I was being 'stubborn' and a 'brat', it
was the other children at my school mocking me because I was exempt
from wearing a school blouse.

I don't know why I told the other children of my phobia, but they were
too young to understand, so the word then got around that I was
exempt from wearing a blouse because I couldn't do the buttons up.

Anyways, these days I never tell anybody about it and like you said,
nobody really notices that you don't wear the horrid things.

If they did, it's probably best that one says that they 'just don't
like them' rather than say that they have a phobia. For some reason,
people are more able to accept this as an explanation.