I have a fear of Jewelry that started out as a fear of buttons but morphed.  I was two and a half and suddenly stopped wearing my favorite dress that had buttons down the back and my mom couldn't figure out what happened.  I wore zippers and snaps until Elementary school or so.  (Although that makes me sound like I frequented leather bars all through kindergarten.)  Somewhere along the line the phobia became more of jewelry than of buttons.

I still won't wear SOME buttons...like really really small dainty ones or pearl buttons, but I started off wearing bigger, plastic, non-shiny ones and I've been working my way towards the more delicate ones.  I still, when I'm wearing a cardigan or something, don't like crossing my arms if my sleeves are rolled up because I don't like feeling the buttons against my skin.  I also don't like hearing buttons click against a counter top.  And I would never stick my hand into a big thing of buttons at a fabric store or anything.

So I guess I'm still a little afraid of buttons, but it's not my main thing anymore and I do wear some of them that I didn't wear when I was younger.

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-q