Let me introduce you to another rare condition here. The fear of buttons. It is said than only 1 in 75.000 people are known to experience it. And guess what... Im one of them -not a lone freak to this either!
To be accurate enough, Im not afraid of buttons, I just hate them. Im a bit -and a bit more- disgusted by them. Yes, I never wear clothes with buttons and I don't touch them, being fully aware that they won't hurt me -Im not crazy people I just don't like them. Im totally fine with the metal jeans buttons though.
It all started when I was about 6 months old when my mum accidentally scratched me with one of her dress's buttons on the forehead -of course I can't recall anything about it. Since then I refused any type of buttoned clothing on me. The only time I attended a parade for the 28th of October, I marched with a white turtleneck (like Papandreou (!)). Also, if I have to iron a polo t-shirt I try my best to accomplish this difficult task by not touching any of the little nasty buttons (EW).
Another fellow-koumponophobic you all know, was Steve Jobs. His phobia actually shaped the evolutionary era of touch screens. When I read that, I felt proud and quite a loser for not being able to do anything with it and just nag about Zara's obsession with buttons in clothes that don't even need them to be there.
I don't plan to overcome my "phobia" or more accurately my quirkiness about buttons. For 31 years I've learnt to deal with it and I kinda like it as well!
