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October 13, 1999

Well, the teething monster is back at our house again. I swear my son has turned into Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. I feel bad that he is in pain, but at the same time, I want my sweet boy back. Ah well, I love him anyway.

The other thing that is going on is that Jason's becoming scared of things, which is an interesting development (especially since I just posted about him loving to be startled). I was over at a friend's house, and since they are having a Halloween party, they had some of their decorations/costume supplies out and about. Well, at one point Jason was pointing at this rubber skull mask that was on the TV, so another friend took it down to show it to him.

He freaked out. I mean, he shrieked and started crying. Obviously we put it back immediately, but I wonder why he was so terrified. What context does he have to know that the mask represented a scary concept? Is it an instinctual response? What is it about the mask that he finds frightening? There's also this toy spider that he's scared of, too, but he's played with other toy bugs (including spiders) without incident.

Maybe it's that he's finally starting to associate the parts of the critters with his own -- that he recognized that the eyes on the skull were analogous to his own, and that similarity was enough to make him get a sense of "wrongness." Or, maybe I'm reading too much into it, and he was just scared of the yucky skull.

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