>>>>>>>It also hits some of those deep childhood anxieties in a way that is unsettling even to adults. (Then again, so did "The Wizard of Oz").
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>>>>>>Ah, "The Wizard of Oz" ... one of my all-time favorites when I was a kid. I don't remember what age I was when I first saw it, but I distinctly remember that the Wicked Witch was featured predominantly in the very first nightmare I ever remember having. <g>
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>>>>>Yup. I thought the flying monkeys were creepy, too.
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>>>>Now you guys have caused me trauma as I flashback to my first childhood fear - the whale in Pinnochio. Still remember the picture book where are big scary whale was coming up out of the water and how I learned to skip that page on subsequent readings. ( actually flashed on it once when on a boat looking at the ocean and was embarrased to explain to my current wife why I had suddenly turned pale )
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>>>>To this day I can't bring myself to give money to Greenpeace <s>
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>>>My parents rented the old Homeward Bound movie when I was little (not sure if that was the name or not, but it was the one where the two dogs and a cat got lost in the woods and made their way home).
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>>There was a whole spate of those Disney films: with names like "Fantastic journey" :-)
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>>>I was tramatized. They tried to get me to watch it a second time to see it wasn't so bad, but I still remember the second I saw the camera pan over the woods, and I immediately threw a tantrum. When I am out in the woods and I lose track of where I am, even for a few seconds, I start panicking and I think it is because of that movie.
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>>And there's you, traumatized and panicky in the woods, with your firearm, and without your meds. Brrrrrr! :-)
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>Would Childhood Disney Movie Tramatizations be a section on your proposed "crazy test" to buy a gun?

HA HA! I wouldn't have thought of that one till you brought it up. But the idea of strolling into the woods with you all trigger-happy and panicky, cos of the animal movie ... The same could be said of applying to become an FAO in the British police and they ask if, as a child, the candidate used to "hide behind the sofa" (the oft-said cliche) during Dr Who.

Anyways, I always felt sorry for the animals, and wondered how they got them to do things like jumping rapids and stuff, than getting a forboding as a human.

BTW is there no "u" in the US version of trauma? Like we say "paedophile" and you say "pedophile", "colour" vs "color", et al?