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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 133711" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p>My easy child has always been terrified of people in costumes, from Santa to CHip & Dale to Mickey at Disney. It was the masks...the facial disguises that got her.</p><p> </p><p>As dreamer suggested, we bought a lot of dress up clothing and both my children being girls it was easy to make it a fun time. We started only with outfits, worked her up to things like hats, wings, funny glasses, and scarves, and then eventually she would wear those half masks. </p><p> </p><p>It seems (yes, at 20 she's still terrified of those big costumed animals) that as long as she can see at least part of the person's 'real' face, she can get past it. But, if the person is wearing a head costume, which blocks all recognition, she still gets a little freaked. When she was little it would take a while before she settled down at bedtime. When we went to Disney the first time we even had to skip parts of our planned trip to avoid running into any costumed characters! </p><p> </p><p>Buying lots of dress up clothes helped quite a bit. Other than doing it naturally, however, I would not push him to 'get over it' as that could make it worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 133711, member: 2211"] My easy child has always been terrified of people in costumes, from Santa to CHip & Dale to Mickey at Disney. It was the masks...the facial disguises that got her. As dreamer suggested, we bought a lot of dress up clothing and both my children being girls it was easy to make it a fun time. We started only with outfits, worked her up to things like hats, wings, funny glasses, and scarves, and then eventually she would wear those half masks. It seems (yes, at 20 she's still terrified of those big costumed animals) that as long as she can see at least part of the person's 'real' face, she can get past it. But, if the person is wearing a head costume, which blocks all recognition, she still gets a little freaked. When she was little it would take a while before she settled down at bedtime. When we went to Disney the first time we even had to skip parts of our planned trip to avoid running into any costumed characters! Buying lots of dress up clothes helped quite a bit. Other than doing it naturally, however, I would not push him to 'get over it' as that could make it worse. [/QUOTE]
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