Or get a big stick/branch/hammer/baseball bat/whatever and smash it into tiny pieces. Or just shoot it! You're from Texas, you probably own a gun.

Except the gun probably isn't outside the house.

Once it shatters, OP, don't forget to pick up all the ecstasy!

Maybe it's like the BF3 gnomes, and when you shoot it it goes "ow!" in a chipmunk voice.

tooo easy. Call in the task force.

You can't be sure OP is a dude. But anyways, OP should keep telling himself its inanimate and push through it. It's the only way to get over their fear.

You don't just "get over the fear". A phobia is irrational and no matter how much you try or don't want to be scared it feels like the scariest thing in the world. I have a phobia of needles. I'm a grown woman and I will scream, cry, and run away. I have to be psychically dragged into the room and held down if anyone wants to take blood or give me a shot. It's embarrassing and I hate it, but its not something I can control. No amount of therapy or anything else has helped me with this. People get phobias mixed up with things people are just afraid of or that bothers them a lot. Phobias are extremely intense and nothing to tease a person about. OP's dad is cruel.

I'm the same, but only with giving blood. All other needles are fine, but once they're going into my beyond, either for IVs or taking blood, I lose my shit. People say to get over it, but you can't. I run scream, cry, all of that, and I know it's not rational, but you can't tell your subconscious that everything is okay. And seriously, shoving tiny metal tubes into your veins is ******* creepy anyways. As are gnomes, I'm sorry OP. We feel your pain.

Mind over matter... Anything can be overcome by the power of the mind. If u can't handle it than ur not trying hard enough. Take some time to meditate and strengthen ur abilities. There is no excuse to fear such things other than weakness, tighten up!

Most phobias don't have a certain cause for them. It's something that is unexplainable. I have a phobia of whales, and I don't know why

So I guess it's just like a fear but way more traumatizing I grew an odd fear of little children in horror movies but its not a phobia yet.

I've had a phobia of metal toilets and other types of toilets for my whole life, my mum doesn't even know how I developed it. I also have a phobia of velvet and fleece :/

The fable series is my shit

No, you're right. There comes a point in your life where you have to decide that fear isn't going to hold you back from getting shit done. Like walking into your own house. Grow a pair. Kick the gnome, go in the house. And then, late some night, pee on the in-take fresh-air vents of your dad's car (the ones at the top of the hood/base of the windshield). There's no way to clean it out, and the smell will make him hate his own car.

That's the exact definition of a phobia: It's an irrational fear. Unless you have that exact phobia, at least to some extend, it doesn't make sense to you. I'm happy for you that you don't have a crippling phobia, but phobias are diagnostically classified as serious anxiety disorders equal to disorders such as panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder. It shouldn't be dismissed as something one should just get over and growing up from by pulling oneself together. It isn't that easy. Many people have some sort of phobia (some less rational than others - for example, evolutionarily it makes sense to be afraid of spiders, since the spiders living in the tropic parts of the world from where humans seem to originate are often quite poisonous), and some phobias, while irrational, may be extremely crippling to the extend where the behaviour exhibited to avoid the topic of the phobia prevents the person from living their live and going about their business. Fear of gnomes probably isn't as crippling on a daily basis, as you don't see gnomes too often, unless your ignorant and intolerant ass of a father puts one next to your front door - in which case it makes sense psychologically that you would be stuck outside your house for ages.

Sorry, but in my opinion, saying someone with a phobia should 'grow a pair' is like saying someone who's depressed should 'get happy' and someone with cancer should have lived healthier. Sure OP could take control of his/her life by going to a actual doctor who can actually help OP. A phobia is something serious that can't just be fixed by growing a pair.

I have an extreme phobia of wasps. If I see one I start to freak out and then I can't breath. I also have nightmares about them (really bad nightmares). Even if I see one in a picture I'll get creeped out. I can't help this. I wish I didn't freak out when I see them because my friends get angry at me. They think I'm a baby for running away. But OP can't help it. Sure gnomes are a weird thing to be afraid of, but so are a lot of phobias. If you don't have a phobia, you can't tell OP to get over it. Because they most likely can't.

The knights who say Ne could have ruled England if it wasn't for that one word they were never supposed to hear. Take a lesson from them and don't let your fears hold you back. Your next boss may be only 3 feet tall and have an affinity for pointy stocking caps.

My sister is one of the few teenagers in B.C diagnosed with severe acrophobia (meaning afraid of being touched) this phobia is known to trigger other things: she is afraid of hair (even the ones on her head), dish towels, people, spiders, and dirty laundry. Having a phobia is a medical issue that normally you are diagnosed with and there are steps to take to "grow a pair" it's a very long process of having people aid you with them. Obviously this dad isn't giving his child the support they need by putting them in a traumatic situation.