I can't see this working the same way if he'd said he had an irrational fear of clowns.
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Woah, I wasn't expecting to find anyone who knows about pirate101 on here.
Is this wholesome or scumbag?
Look at his smile
This is a wholesome joke
A smile? It looks like a wince or a grimace to me. As a teacher, he has to keep his composure around his students, and sometimes that means sucking up one’s discomfort and playing along.
Though maybe he looks happier in a better resolution and it’s just potato quality on my phone?
I still think he found it funny. I don't think he would have taken a selfie then posted it with this caption on social media if he was scared by his students costumes
I don't see how it could be scumbag. Fear of sharks != fear of people in very obvious and unrealistic shark costumes. People who are afraid of ghosts don't have panic attacks from seeing people in ghost costumes on Halloween.
Well, it could go either way depending on the severity and recency of the irrational fear...
But, to me at least, the teacher seems to be genuienly smiling with his eyes in the selfie.
Exposure therapy can work well with certain fears and traumas that are ... less severe, and more distant in time and space, introduced in a safe environment.
Arguably, the cutesy/cartoonish nature of the hammerhead costumes may also help, and if the kids/students aren't literally swarming and attacking him, but are instead acting completely normal, non threateningly?
That can help to establish that at least depictions of hammerheads are not immediately threatening or dangerous... the only domain it would make sense to be worried about them is where they may actually be present.
He does say 'irrational' fear and it was during an ice breaker, I'd take it as wholesome since it wouldn't have been a really serious situation when it was revealed.
Possibility different if they had brought in real hammerhead sharks. Also, if he'd been attacked by a hammerhead shark, but being an irrational fear I'm guessing not.
Possibility different if they had brought in real hammerhead sharks.
Hey teach, hope you don't mind I brought my Olympic sized pool and full grown hammerhead shark to class. Couldn't find a babysitter.
... Teacher makes a 'wtf' face, begins to speak...
But then the kid looks to the external windows, a back up warning siren can be heard, truck with large pool slowly backs into the yard/greenspace right outside the classroom.
It's certainly a repost.
It's not like they showed up in his bathtub