Study: Clowns are "universally disliked" by kids

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i really dislike clowns and always have. For some reason i dont like them because they look too much like people still. Its like a morphed human; still looks a little too much like a person. They creep me out. Clowns and the Doodlebops, as well as people in animal costumes that still look like people...i.e. CATS, the musical. I cant even explain

I detest clowns. Though not because their clowns. When I was 2 years old I was taken to the circus, had my face done up like a clown, and the picture was inserted into a mug. I liked the mug because it had my picture. Well all my relatives interpreted that as meaning I loved clowns, and my parents wouldn't let me tell them anything different.

So for the next 18-19 I was given a ton of clown stuff for every christmas and birthday. I didn't like clowns in the first place, so you can imagine how it felt to get all this stuff and not only have to say thank you for it, but know that you would get a ton more the next year because you weren't allowed to say you didn't like your gifts. I used to wait for the day i could take it all outside and smash it to bits.

Well I never did that, but when I moved out I left every single clown item I had and I've no intention of ever retrieving it. A couple years ago my one grandma bought me some more clown figurins for christmas. This was after I had told everyone i hate clowns. I "forgot" them at my mom's house, and then when she tried to send them to me said I had nowhere to put them that the cat couldn't break them

Quatermass - you beat me to it ... I was gonna say "Greatest Show in the Galaxy"....

Now I'll have to content myself with...

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The clown doll from Poltergeist.

I was freightend of the clown at the circus, but I liked the Bozo the Clown show.

I do take your point (and appreciate the distinction you make)-my issue is with contemporary clowns, of certain sorts (behavior, aesthetic, etc.). I acknowledge the value of the "fool" role/archetype/function throughout history, as person who points out things that those in power don't admit or recognize. A person being in touch with the absurdity of life overall-that's a whole different thing, in my mind. I enjoy comedy (and the insights contained within)-just not the stereotypical "clown" thing as it is popularly expressed/portrayed/embodied.

AHHHH!! ! That is such a creepy picture!
I am 16 and still have a fear of clowns. I always have been frightened of them and always will. I hate their creepy laugh, their white faces and their weird looking hair. I just hate everything about them!

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My NT son was always frightened by clowns at parties but he always liked the Saw movies (yuck), Chuckie, and the Shakes the Clown film. My NT daughters liked getting their faces painted and my oldest used to do the clown makeup thing for kids as a teen in a volunteer job at fun fairs.

I have always found clowns disturbing, so I share Dawndelion's Ragtime's, Brittany2907's, and Belfast's disdain for them. I sensed a sort of overwhelming evil lurking just under their unmoving grotesque smiles. I used to imagine them hiding under my bed and I could feel them staring at me through the mattress and especially so if they were hiding in a closet. Quintessential monsters, the clowns.

I'm in my forties and still am creeped out by the blasted things.

Clowns never realy scared me, but I always have seen then as pretty creepy,
I never got entertained by a clown.
Can't realy see why they're funny, other than looking ridiculous.

Maybe it's an NT thing to laugh at the guy not wearing regular clothes?

I was never scared by clowns, but I found the appearance of them annoying, I thought they looked stupid when I was a kid, I wondered why they put lipstick on outside the boundaries of their lips, (it bothered me) and wondered why they would wear a strange wig.. I think I just spent a lot of time staring at various parts of them in confusion. I especially didnt like Ronald Mc Donald, with his clashing red and yellow outfit. There was no logic to them.

I still dislike clowns; they distract me with their weird make-up and clothing. Anything that is ridiculously dressed irritate me. This includes mimes, dummies, humanoid marionettes, robots, and odd cartoons. When I was little I was horrified by clowns, whether it be a people dressed, a toy, or image representing a clown. I remember seeing a picture of a clown at a balloon festival and was scared to death the rest of the day.