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Auntie is very phobic about credit card scams but she hasn’t listened when my parents tell her that scams come through the phone and mail too.

The six-minute video is not for the needle phobic, as White films herself lying down calmly with her eyes closed as a doctor inserts a needle into her cheeks and her lips and even jiggles it around to dissolve the fillers.

With hundreds of years of baseless myth to supply us, it’s no wonder as many as six percent of people are phobic of arachnids.

As for not noticing someone’s phobic tendencies, remember: Having to get along to get by is a powerful incentive to keep our hostilities, our “stuff,” tucked away.

Croft: There’s still some resistance from editors of a certain generation — to translation itself, to properly crediting and remunerating the translator — but I think people are less phobic than they once might have been.