Automatonophobia

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I'm not sure where this post belongs exactly, so if it needs moving then please move it.
I have automatonophobia. Specifically, I am petrified of waxworks, although other people with the phobia can be afraid of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures or similar. I suppose it ties in with Freud's idea of the 'uncanny'.
Anyway, I'm trying to work out which bits of me are aspie and which bits are just personality, so I was wondering if anyone else had similar fears.

I do not share your fear, but it sounds like you have issues with abjection. In other words, things that seem real... but are a little off. They're familiar and yet... foreign. Things don't quite seem right, and it throws up the red flags that lead to fear.

It doesn't help to watch things like House of Wax and movies with evil dummies. Even if I hadn't seen those movies, I would have been disturbed by the appearance of both!

It's probably a primal instinct to detect what is real and what is not. Something you know is not real is not good and to get away soon (or however you deal with it)

I have the same thing. I don't like things that look like things, but aren't those things. I'm not a fan of realistic statues of people or animals, and I'm always suspicious of mannequins in department stores.

Also, if I'm in a room with something unfamiliar and vaguely person-shaped (say, a coatrack), I'll keep seeing it out of the corner of my eye and being bothered by it. Every time I turn around I tell myself yes, it's still just a coatrack. But five seconds later I'll think there's a person there and I'll look again.