[jaredmcateer]

To counter your anecdote, my parents never really censored what I viewed as a kid either. Aliens was (and is) one of my favourites as a kid. My babysitter used to "force" me to watch horror movies, she and my parents thought it was funny or something. I don't feel I'm any more or less uncomfortable in the dark by myself than the average person is.

[philsnow]

zo1's anecdote shows that at least some kids get lifelong anxiety issues from watching horror/slasher movies at an early age.

Your anecdote shows that at least some kids do _not_ get those lifelong anxiety issues from the same.

How does yours "counter" zo1's in the slightest? That would be like the tobacco industry saying "but look at all the smokers who never got cancer!".

I'm (honestly, as a human being to another) glad you don't seem to have been affected (overly) by your caretakers abusing you, but you can't seriously be advocating this kind of behavior, enough to argue for it?

[shawabawa3]

> zo1's anecdote shows that at least some kids get lifelong anxiety issues from watching horror/slasher movies at an early age.

No it doesn't.

It shows that at least one person has lifelong anxiety issues that they attribute to having watched horror movies.

I don't have anxiety issues and I watched horror movies at a young age, maybe I would have anxiety issues if I hadn't? Maybe on average it has a positive effect on anxiety? Maybe it's completely unrelated. You can't draw any conclusions from a couple of anecdotes

[psykovsky]

zo1's anecdote shows he has lifelong anxiety issues. Not sure how you diagnosed the cause to be horror/movies and not something else.