Pick a phobia that you have (anatidaephobia) and write a paragraph explaining the process of how your phobia is transduced in your body when you are exposed to it. You will have to determine beforehand if your phobia is a visual stimuli or an auditory stimuli.

In your paragraph, include the following sensation vocab words:
The scientific name of your phobia
Transduced
The anatomy of the eye or ear
Thalamus
Visual or Auditory Cortex

Anatidaephobia is a creation of Gary Larson's, cartoonist and creator of the popular comic The Far Side, and it is a phobia belonging to the "fictional and humorous" category of phobias. The word "anatidaephobia" can be broken down into "Anatidae," which is Greek for ducks, geese, and other kinds of waterfowl, and "Phobos," which is also Greek and translates to dread or fear.

While fictional and humorous phobias can be conjured up as a response to the idea that "anyone can be afraid of anything, and so anything can be a phobia," artists may actually be hitting the nail on the head, so to speak, for someone who has suffered from this fear and is now grateful that it can be referred to by name. Technically, no one can suffer from "anatidaephobia" because the name itself is not an official psychiatric term. However, the fear can be very real and categorized as a member of a phobia family that has been officially recognized by professionals.

Phobias are serious fears, and they should not be taken lightly. Though, it may be therapeutic for someone to see his or her fear cast in a comical light. This is because it may be helpful to laugh at the related material, as it could lead to the person coming to terms with his or her fear and no longer reacting to that particular stimulus with terror, but with laughter.