Something I've noticed is that people who are afraid of ball pythons with normal paterns often aren't as afraid of an obvious morph.

I own a pair of piebalds. I've had people who were afraid of my het pied be able to handle the pieds. The pieds look more 'tame' to them. So far all but one who has handled the pieds was able to bring themselves to handle the normal appearing het after they held the pieds.