#haphephobia

I’m so SICK of seeing people put error sans into uncomfortable situations.

I understand (obviously) that he is fictional, but when you do this, it STILL can hurt people with PTSD or haphephobia (like myself).

Stop it.

It’s ok if you didn’t know any better, but PLEASE learn from this:

Him freaking out about touch isn’t

IMMATURE

It isn’t

CUTE

It isn’t

FUNNY

The ways that he reacts are REAL ways of coping with PTSD and haphephobia and I hate when people say

“He secretly enjoyed it!”

“He secretly likes it”

Ect.

Stop it.

I’m sick of it.

And before you say it:

It’s NOT something I can just scroll past and forget about, because it’s EVERYWHERE

If you look up something error related you’ll find it

I love undertale and the AUs and I don’t want to keep seeing people abusing the characters,

It needs to stop.

I don’t care that it’s been going on for YEARS,

I don’t care that nobody is gonna see this because tumblr has a crappy algorithm,

If you see this, please reblog it.

The ways some people talk about error are not ok.

The ways some people portray him aren’t ok either.

And I’m not saying you can’t have ships or put him in tough situations,

I’m saying stop putting him in situations that are genuinely inhumane

Theres a difference between putting him in the situations (if you absolutely feel it necessary) and highlighting that the situations are awful vs putting him in the situations and laughing about it

I guess what I mean is stop laughing about it because it isn’t funny.

If you care, I’m gonna write about my experience with haphephobia and PTSD and how this content affects me when I accidentally find it (my experience, not everyone who has haphephobia but it’s mine and I’m willing to share for you to understand):

I experience flashbacks from my trauma every day.

They hit randomly.

It’s not just a memory, but it feels like I’m reliving it.

Over and over.

My skin heats up, my vision goes either really dark or really bright, I struggle to breathe, my ears sometimes ring, my heart races, sometimes it gets so extreme that I start crying or having depressing thoughts.

It’s not a joke, stop romanticizing and laughing about it.

- Chaos

I really hate when I am looking at fanart of Error Sans and he is in an uncomfortable situation that triggers his fear and it’s played off as “hehe funny” or “lol he looks so scared”.

Like, he is traumatized, ofc he is scared. Haphephobia is not a joke, and nothing about it is funny. As someone who has this fear, I really hate whenever people make fun of people who have it.

I have not been s3xually assaulted before, but I have been s3xually harassed (still happening) and physically assaulted (past).

I especially hate whenever Error is drawn super uncomfortable in situations that are supposed to be “ships”. I don’t ship characters, and I don’t care if you do, but can you NOT make Error so uncomfortable? I have come across so much ship art (accidentally) of nightmare LITERALLY M0L3STING Error and all the comments being like “I love this ship” like, that’s what a normal, healthy ship looks like to you?! And don’t get me STARTED whenever people say “he secretly liked it” like, um, no he didn’t.

I’m not hating on any artists or shippers.

As someone who has haphephobia, and haphephobia not being represented a lot in fiction, I don’t like seeing a character I kin who has that fear being represented as hilarious or entertaining. You could pick literally ANYTHING else to make fun of error about but the fear is pushing triggering territory. His height, his posture, literally ANYTHING else but the fear.

Also, I hate when people make ship art and completely ignore the fear.

Something I think is cool when people ship characters tho is when they include RESPECT!!!!

Like, instead of making the ship forceful or boundary-crossing, they try to make it work in a way that his boundaries are being respected. (An example I’ve seen is error and ink holding hands with error’s strings so their actual hands aren’t touching.)