Does anyone else have any funny and irrational fears?
Example: I’m afraid of cans of biscuit dough. I’m afraid that one day my quest for buttery goodness will have me losing at a game of biscuit roulette. I will be opening a can, which will explode, and I’m left looking at the stumps where my hands used to be.
#1
That everyone everywhere can read my mind. It’s actually really annoying.
#2
Spiders. Where I live, the United Kingdom of UK, there are no spiders that can physically hurt me, so why am I so freaked out? Arachnophobia makes sense if you live in Australia, when every little creature is poisonous, but where I am? Nope. Ridiculous.
I do remember a theory that spiders were extra-terrestrial in origin and that is why so many people are afraid of them, spiders not literally being otherworldly. And it makes sense to me. Yes, I know it is not a serious theory…..
#3
I’m always anxious when I look at people with long fingernails doing any precise tasks, especially the ones requiring pressing or prying. I can’t help but expect that their fingernails will snap or rip off leaving bare, bloody meat on the fingers. For the very same reason I can’t grow my own nails too much.
#4
I AM TERRIFIED OF THE OCEAN. The ironic part? I’M FROM MALDIVES! I can literally go to a crossroad and whether I look left or right, all I see would be waves. I’m mainly scared of drowning I suppose. So, to get over this irrational fear, I’m going to a swimming competition tomorrow.😬 In. The. Ocean. Wish me luck!!
#5
I’m afraid of escalators and by extension moving sidewalks or amusement ride/ tubing conveyer belts.
Now… the story to explain it. When I was a kid, my shoelace got stuck in an escalator. My shoe got really tight and it was freaking me out. I tried to tell my mum but it was loud and busy so though she could feel me moving she couldn’t hear or see what the problem was. Out of nowhere, a guy going the other way could see it, he jumped over the barrier, grabbed me, snapping the shoelace and ran me off the escalator. My mum thought I was being kidnapped and freaked. When he explained what had happened, she was grateful as I could have been seriously injured. I was 3.
To this day (26) I still avoid escalators and if I must take them I have to psych myself up to get on or off. I don’t dare walk on them and I grip really hard on the handrail the whole time.
I also will say that they are less irrational than being afraid of sharks as more people die in freak escalator accidents than in shark attacks (thank you shark week for that random fact)
#6
I have the fear of looking up.
There is a name for it but I forgot what it was. It only applies if I am seeing nothing but sky. It makes me feel like I am going to suddenly fall to my death, even if I am standing on the ground.
Not terrified to do it but it makes extremely uncomfortable.
It’s a weird one.
#7
That my fan will fall on me in my sleep and the blades will chop me up.
#8
Finally! Somewhere I can shine. Well, if anyone reads, or even upvotes it.
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I can’t wear anything around my neck–scarf, necklace, even turtleneck–because I’m afraid if it’s caught on something it’ll cut off my head.
#9
I got locked in the room with a corpse when I was like 6 I think. I was in there well over an hour before they found me. I just sat in the chair and stared at the dude worried if I took my eyes off of him he was going to get back up. Due to this I don’t like corpses. I’m not scared of them in the sense I’m going to scream, but my heart starts to race any time I need to go to a viewing and I try to avoid them where I can.
#10
No idea what caused it but I have an irrational fear of something coming out of the power sockets at night and zapping me. If I get up in the night it is very hard not to run to the bathroom and then run back to bed and jump into bed to avoid touching the floor. I also struggle to have my feet on the floor if there is a thunderstorm, not sure what will get me there.
And clowns, those dudes are terrifying despite never having seen such classics like IT.
#11
Balloons. Logically I know that there’s nothing to be afraid of but they’re like little explosions waiting to go off. I avoid any & all balloons whenever possible.
#12
When boarding an airplane, I must touch the outside of the plane with my right hand as I step onboard. Otherwise something bad might happen. It is the only thing like that I do.
#13
I fear small children with a passion
#14
I’m terrified of cheese graters.
#15
Portraits on walls creep me out. Just eyes in general are freaky and portraits or pictures with eyes escappily at places I’m not use to creep me out
#16
Bridges. I don’t know why but whenever I am on one I think it will randomly collapse
#17
Balls being thrown at me, like towards my face
Balloons popping by my face
Heights, even just watching a movie when they are looking down from a skyscraper or something it makes me physically sick and I have to turn away
#18
I have a fear that what I see/experience as reality is just my mind playing tricks on me and that some day my mind will suddenly show me the “real” reality -but at a time where I can’t avoid being badly hurt or even “unalived” ( as I think BP prefers to call it). Example: I think I am out for a walk in the sunshine in a park…. but in reality I am out on the ocean about to drown.
Example: I think I am sitting on a bus listening to music…. but in reality I am falling down from a cliff.
It’s weird but I’ve always had this fear.
#19
The older I get the more fears/phobias I seem to have, but, lately it’s driving on any roads with a sped limit over 50mph. Also worked in emergency room will NEVER ride anything that doesn’t have a roll cage
#20
My biggest fear is wasps but my most irrational fear is children wearing makeup. I don’t know what it is about seeing a young kid in makeup but it creeps me out. That scene in the movie Bad Grandpa when the kid enters a beauty pageant is both extremely funny and unnerving.
#21
You know those big wind turbines? They scare the shite out of me. I KNOW someday they’re gonna become self-aware, come down off those poles and chop everyone to bits.
#22
I am afraid of any nuclear disaster. I am so terrified that I know exactly how to survive. Whenever I go to a new space I plan how I would know, and how I would survive. For example, on my first day of middle school I identified how I would be able to tell (aka I identified all the windows so I could see the flash), where I would go (the gym), and how to help others. I even have a plan for if people don’t make it in in time, they would be radioactive so they couldn’t come into the gym with the non contaminated people, so they would have to go to the multi purpose room
Sry it’s a bit long
#23
Wide open flat areas, and long tunnels with multiple points of entry
#24
Geckos
#25
That people and inanimate objects can read my mind. I can’t touch people, touch the same object as them, or stand on the same floor tile as them if I’m having bad/intrusive thoughts. If I’m touching something like a door handle or a button or the sink knob I have to hold on to it until I finish the thought so it has context.
#26
Eels… Something about those… dreadful faces… I can’t stand them.
As for a story of how bad this “fear” is {first, I’m 7’4 and I was 33 years old at the time of this story.}
I went to the zoo with my baby brother for his birthday and headed over to the Fish Tank area.
There was a walk-through glass tunnel with…
You guessed it… EELS…
Just swimming and poking out all over.
My brother had to clutch my hand and let me bury my head into his shirt/Jacket so I wouldn’t see them while going through the tunnel, Because every time I tried valiantly to “man up” and get close… I started crying and having a panic attack.
#27
I, still to this day, cannot watch the movie ET. The part when he’s making the Reese’s pieces float terrified me as a child.
#28
Lizards will consume my soul… I go into panic mode everytime I see one. As a side note however, I reaaaalllllyyyy love snakes.
#29
Im scared of the color yellow
#30
Showers. Yes, I take them regularly, but having to hold my breath while the water hits my face wigs me out. I think it’s an extension of my fear of drowning, but my husband thinks it’s hilarious to tell people I’m afraid of the shower.
#31
I’m a single mom of 2 babies and terrified that someone will just sneak into my house and unalive us.
#32
You know when you pull back on s rubber band and shoot it at someone? Yeah, I am always afraid of that happening to me. I don’t care if someone does it with a ponytail holder, but the idea of it happening with a rubber band scares the c**p out of me. One of my friends found this out last year and I kept flinching away when he would pull it back and he thought it was hilarious. He said it was like repellent against me.
#33
I have a fear of bridges after watching something on History.com. just nervous that they’re going to fall out from under or break from over me.
#34
Dogs. When I was young one…didn’t necessarily “attack” me, but lunged at me. Now I’m afraid of dogs.
Now that I think of it, this doesn’t really fit the title of the discussion post, does it? This fear is pretty rational.
#35
throwing up.
#36
horses…Eff horses man.
#37
I forgot about my second one because I don’t allow them in my house…
Pictures of people. I’m convinced that they can see me from wherever they are. TV doesn’t bother me, but a picture of my nieces or nephews terrifies me.
#38
Dolls. Like the old ones, and the “fake baby ” ones. When I was younger, i had to sleep by my aunt. The moment i was begining to fall asleep, i saw it. A porcelain doll on the wardrobe. This empty look terrified me, and i couldn’t take my eyes off it, because i was scared it could move and get on the bed. Animatronics, puppets (on strings) also scared me.
#39
I am always paranoid that my glasses will fall off when I am looking over the edge of a bridge or ferry boat.
#40
I am so much scared o’ spiders 🕷️. Jeezz!
#41
i’m afraid of big table lamps and going into any 7-eleven type store. don’t know why. i’m also afraid of heights, yet i love skydiving.
#42
I have an irrational fear of hairy fruit. Kiwis, peaches, coconuts, etc. Produce of any kind growing hair like fibers freaks the hell outta me.
#43
Super intense claustrophobia. I always like to be on the outside of groups of people and even looking at pictures of like mobs or large crowds makes me nervous. If I can’t see a door from where I am, i feel trapped.
Weirdly, I also love sitting in tiny cozy spaces as long as I can get out really easily and quickly anytime i want to.
I’m also afraid of heights. And ladders. Omg i LITERALLY will not even stand on the top step of a four-step step ladder. Those spiraled staircases with spaces in between the steps are also a big challenge for me
#44
Bunk beds I can’t sleep in the top or bottom I’m always afraid I’m going to fall off or get crushed or crush someone else terrifying
#45
I’m really scared of belly buttons
#46
I have irrational fears
They’re not funny though. Most of them are connected to my mom because she wrecked me. She reflected so many bad concepts onto me, like one time when I was 11 she was complaining about her weight.
My stomach looked bigger. I was scared that I’d blow up like a balloon.
One time, I was 12 and she noticed we had the same pant size, except her waist was 1 size bigger.
I didn’t have hips yet, I started falling into a bad place.
Eighteen days ago, I was nearly kicked out because my mom is transphobic but since that’s politically incorrect, she tried gaslighting me into believing that someone must have hurt my feelings for me to think about such “adult matters”
She was the only one who ever hurt me.
Ever.
Because she wanted me to be what I wasn’t. She wanted me to be her perfect daughter.
#47
Hotel corridors. Analog horror fans don’t act slick you know exactly what I’m talking about.
#48
Wormy things with legs – grub worms in particular. I don’t know why, and I know they don’t bite, but I don’t want to touch them. This also includes millipedes and centipedes, but mostly because of how creepy they look. And millipedes smell terrible if you squish them.
#49
Bridges. I don’t know why but whenever I am on one I think it will randomly collapse
#50
I don’t like moths. I can hear them fluttering around, but I usually can’t spot them. It gives me the w*****s. I don’t mind snakes or spiders or stuff like that, but send a moth after me and I cringe.
#51
Dogs, despite the fact that I have one and love her to death. All other dogs are demonspawn, though.
#52
I used to have a fear that someone would strap rockets to my bedroom and make my room take off into space so I would fly up and freeze to death.
Yeah, kinda strange. It was because when I was a child, I went to a space museum, and they had this thing where you have to dress up the astronaut in appropriate clothes for space. Me, being like 5, dressed him up in random stuff like shorts. The sound of the astronaut freezing to death and me watching it happen was freaky to me.
Yeah, that was weird.
#53
i have a fear of hanging crucifixes on my walls. too many horror movies as a kid. also terrified of heights. that’s why i’m short ;)
#54
Butterflies. Yes, butterflies.
My family thinks it’s hilarious. I don’t know, it’s just something about their creepy legs and the fact that they fly way too close to me for comfort. I used to like them, we’d go to a butterfly garden occasionally and I’d always try to catch them, but we went recently and I was nervous the entire time, especially when a butterfly came flying in my direction.
#55
Honestly I’m terrified of doctors
They just creep me out and it just feels scary and wrong to have someone else looking at my body, especially the private parts. Love them for saving people, but hate having to go to them
#56
Wasps. My family says it’s dumb and irrational lol
#57
I am so scared of mirrors for literally no good reason. Like idk, they just freak me out like I can’t look in a mirror or anything. Apparently there’s a psychological thing where if you look at yourself through a mirror in a dimly lit room after you stare at your face for a while you will start hallucinating. Even the smartest people do it. You can’t control it. Idk, someone test it out for me, I can’t do it. 🪞🫣
#58
being home alone, its just a scary thought that a killer is going or come or something.
#59
Needles
#60
I am terrified of bandaids and stickers. It freaks me out how they can be stuck to you at anytime without you knowing. Like if someone is wearing a bandaid I won’t touch them at all. Or if a little kid offers me a sticker I literally can’t take it.
#61
Of missing out on a conversation
#62
Cream – Yes I’m scared of this dairy product and I have no idea why. I don’t even like thinking about it. It makes me feel weird. I know it’s a silly phobia but the thought of eating it is unbearable. Or if someone uses the cream from a can it’s like nails on a chalk board to me and I have to look away too. I do like yogurt though!
#63
public bathrooms are gross and i never know which one to use because i could pass as both male and female which has given me really bad gymnophobia (“really bad” as in i rarely use the bathroom and shower fully clothed)
#64
Excavators. I am sure they are secretly sentient and will suddenly attack me.
Also tractors with very big wheels.
I’m 45.
#65
Airplane bathrooms, its so hard to open the door when you’re trying to get out and I get unrealistically scared that I’ll be locked in there forever, and that the toilet could suck me into a dark abyss in the plane. Yes, I know none of this could happen, but some of those childhood fears just don’t go away!
#66
I am 20 and still afraid of the dark. I can not sleep with out a light on. I think it is because I have a very big imagination and get thinking monster or something is going to come and get me when I am try to sleep.
#67
Duck and goose
#68
Sometimes I aways feel like a bad accident is gonna happen. Like a bad wreck or a shooting. Or someone gonna break in and kill me and my family. Sometimes it not that bad other times. It frightening to the core I don’t why. Like just crazy stuff that has happened. I think I just have aniextiety and when I go places sometimes I think something bad might happen. Because sometimes bad things happen. And I don’t want to see my kids get hurt……that my biggest fear. My family getting hurt. Aways aways worried about that a lot. Sometimes not. But sometimes……I know it is strange.
#69
Butterflys and moths. If they get near me, I freak out. The worst part is actually having people see… 😒
#70
I’m afraid of shower heads, and I have been for my entire life. Luckily I’ve gone from screaming and crying when just thinking about them, to just having an intense feeling of dread. I do take showers, don’t worry, but I can’t look at the shower head while doing it, I have to be quick (I probably don’t shower for more than four minutes at a time but I do make sure I’m clean), I can only shower at night, and I have to have music on.
I’m also afraid of change. I’ve been worried before that if I leave a room, and then come back, the furniture might be rearranged or the walls might be a different color, or that one day I’ll wake up and something will be slightly different. This fear is very mild but I thought I might include it.
Terrified of heights. Scared of what might happen once I die, especially since I’m not religious. Mildly afraid of texting. I have to check several times to make sure I sent my text to the right person. I’m worried that my reply isn’t what they want to hear, or that my tone might not be read correctly, or that the contact or phone number I have saved isn’t actually the person I’m trying to reach, even though it always is. I prefer talking in person, but that’s not always feasible.
I’m afraid of all insects, specifically a certain kind of caterpillar. I can never remember what they’re called, but they’re a kind of moth, they’re fuzzy and yellow, have two black antenna on the front and one on the back. I can’t even look at pictures of them. When I was younger, we went camping, and all the frogs were gone. Usually there were so many frogs that you couldn’t go anywhere without stepping on one, and they screamed like dying kids at night, which is probably why I’m also uneasy around frogs now. But instead of the usual frogs, there were now these f*****g caterpillars, and they were everywhere. They were on the tent, in the tent, on my clothes, in our food, just everywhere. And their heads would fall off and gather and in clouds at your feet…not to mention they had acid on their feet. And no one else was scared of them. It’s been years and I’m still absolutely horrified by them. They went away after a few years (thankfully, because they were also killing the trees with the acid in their feet), but then the frogs came back.
I feel like I have a good sense of humor about all this, but oh my god do these fears suck. Sorry for the long post, feel free to ask anything.
#71
I’m from frightened of toothbrushes. It’s the sound they make that I simply can’t bear and turns me into a whimpering ball of fear. I can’t talk about them, look at them in the supermarket (I’m also from the United Kingdom of UK) or watch any form of advert where people are brushing their teeth.
I have to use an electric toothbrush as the motor sound masks that awful noise of scraping bone.
#72
That the refrigerated biscuit tube will pop open while I’m peeling the paper off. Freaks me out
#73
That while stuck in the Mammogram machine there will be an emergency, like the building catches fire or something to that effect, and I’ll have to practically rip my own breast off to get out of the machine and escape the building.
#74
I fear that my teachers have cameras in my house and they are always watching me. Anytime I pass where I feel they are, I flip them off with my pinkeys and ask them why me.
I think I need mental help ;-; Any suggestions?
#75
Terracotta pots. I get anxious around them for no reason at all. If they’re glazed, then it doesn’t happen. Just the plain brown gritty ones.
My heart is pounding just typing this up!
#76
Fish. I am incredibly scared of fish. no clue why, no clue where it came from. I don’t leave near the beach (the closest one is like a 3 hour drive).
I went on a vacation to Florida once. beautiful clear blue water, white sand, no washed up seaweed. it was amazing. But, because the water was clear I could see small silver fish in the water. I ended up staying high up on a float for hours because I wouldn’t touch the water. my dad has even threatened to take away my phone if I didn’t try to swim.
needless to say, I don’t like swimming anymore
#77
I am scared that if I go up a castle tower , high hill or really tall building I will fall off.
#78
Wet hair lol-loading
#79
I’m scared of fog patches that are at ground level. They freak me out and I hate having to drive through them. I also don’t like the dark or deep water where I can’t see the bottom (mostly the ocean).
#80
I am deathly afraid of birds, not small birds but chickens on up….
#81
Putting bleach anywhere. Ever since I learned about mustard gas I thought there was any kind of lethal gas that could be made with some good ol clorox and O2
#82
No noise. we have no idea why but when theres no noise in the room we are in, we freak out. After we are out of the room we look back and laugh.
#83
I hate crowds. Too many people and I feel like they’re all staring at me. Sometimes there are so many people I feel trapped. If I can’t see the door or have to squeeze past a bunch of people I don’t like it and will try to get out of there as soon as possible.
#84
Elevators. You could get stuck and go crazy. Either way, I just can’t trust them.
#85
Pop up toasters.
#86
Shrimp tails. Idk it just freaks me out
#87
Dogs and more recently the sound of silver on silver. Like the sound of keys jangling or bracelets and stuff like that. It stems from the fear of dogs (cynophobia) where i would get very scared when I heard the sound of a dog collar jangling, and now the two fears have separated so I will get very anxious if i hear silvery noises even when there is no dog! In fact, i would say the fear of silvery noises is worse now then the dog thing! my cynophobia was more prevalent in my early childhood.
#88
Ants, i despise ants, my skin crawls just by imagining them on me, dunno if its a phobia, but i can’t stand ants, and massive bodies of water also like Dams, ( pools no problem, ocean, as long as i don’t try to swim in it no problem, a dam or a reservoir…. my vertigo kicks in and i feel like my balance is gone, its really wierd ).
#89
Anything with more than 4 legs… the way they move just creeps me out so much that I scream shake uncontrollably, or even throw up
#90
I wouldn’t say this is necessarily entirely irrational, but it’s certainly an odd one. I’ve (F13) recently started my freshman year of high school, and I’ve had my hair cut extremely short since fifth grade. It’s just easier on the whole. However, that combined with the fact that I tend to prefer sweatpants and hoodies to even t-shirts and shorts (or the fact that I hate almost everything to do with the color pink) means that I have MANY anecdotes about being mistaken for a guy. So here’s one of my top three fears: That one day, some girl will think I’m a guy and try to ask me out or ask for my number. I can’t even imagine the embarrassment that would happen in that scenario.
#91
I actually have a phobia of sorts of crash test dummies. I’m a child of the 90’s, which (as some of you know) had some creepy television commercials. The car commercials that were featuring safety used crash test dummies to demonstrate. As a child, I found them disturbing and the result was a recurring nightmare where murderous crash test dummies took over the world and the last thing I would see is a child dummy trying to strangle and eat me after it killed my family. It always stuck with me and even now, at 36 years old, I cringe and squirm at the sight of a crash test dummy. I really hate them.
#92
I’m afraid of heights. This might not seem irrational, but I’ll explain. Standing on ladder precariously. Fine. Being in a perfectly secure building near a window. Holy c**p no! Lol
#93
Also, I hate going underground. And anything with glass. Glass bridges. Will definitely break. Glass lifts. Why would I want to see how they work? They’ll break!
#94
I have two
1) bike riding. I had a major accident and haven’t been able to ride since.
2) semi trucks. I’m afraid of being squashed by them. And I have claustrophobia so that doesn’t help
#95
Caterpillars!! Boy howdy do they give me heebie jeebies!!
I’m also afraid to hang anything on the wall above my bed, thanks to reading Flat Stanley as a child. I’m in my late 40s and have not been flattened by a picture yet, but I don’t want to take any chances.
#96
Octopodes!! (plural of octopus) I get so nervous whenever I’m near them, when I go to the aquarium (quite often; i love the ocean) i cant go into the octopus section without freaking out. I think this fear was caused when i was 5, i went to the aquarium and i remember seeing a video of a kraken destroying a bridge. I GOT SO SCARED! Later that night, i had a nightmare me & my family and friends were on a bridge and each getting individually ‘unalived’ by an octopus. And also I think theyre gonna pop out of nowhere and drag me down with their tentacles and sucker things. Eeekkk and also they’re way too smart, and they look like aliens-
#97
Mirrors or blank screens (as in tv screens or computer monitors), particularly in dark rooms. Some part of me always expects something to crawl out of them.
#98
Cut fruit! The sight of it makes me sick. I don’t know if it’s trust issues or what, but I just can’t!
Also mandarin peel. Cannot touch it at all.
#99
I still think my mom will find out anything and everything.
#100
I’m afraid of getting old, getting frail and being alone. I don’t have kids and I probably won’t have kids in the future. What if my partner dies before me and I’m alone and old? The older you get the less your body works and thinking about my future “golden years”. It freaks me out and gives me anxiety. Up to the point that I start crying.
Also seeing older people,especially ones that are feeble and have problems walking for example, really gets me.
#101
Getting my nails painted. Weirdly doesn’t apply to toenails ┐( ∵ )┌
#102
Wood
Especially wet wood
I think it comes from those awful little ice cream cups, with the tiny little wooden spoons. I was always terrified that I’d get a splinter in my mouth 🤮
#103
I have the fear of looking up.
There is a name for it but I forgot what it was. It only applies if I am seeing nothing but sky. It makes me feel like I am going to suddenly fall to my death, even if I am standing on the ground.
Not terrified to do it but it makes extremely uncomfortable.
It’s a weird one.
#104
I’m seriously terrified of a zombie apocalypse – so much so that it was over of the reasons I learnt to drive!
#105
I am terrified of people my age and small kids
#106
yes I am mortified if sitting on an overpass in my car surrounded by traffic just idling.
#107
I have PTSD from workplace bullying so I have been unable to return to any workplace, even as a volunteer. Can’t handle loud environments with too many people – even shopping or excursions also trigger me. I don’t get panic attacks any more but I do have to have a quiet lie down after such experiences.
In response to many of the fears expressed in this list, unless they can be traced to a present life source, then they may have a past life source. Past life regression is a proven assistance, as can meditation. Love to all!
#108
Giant flora and fauna.
I’m dead serious. It’s ridiculous. Fortunately though, it’s not something I stumble across everyday. In fact I was 20 before I realised I had this stupid fear. At first I didn’t even understand what was happening; one moment I was walking into the giant vegetable competition tent at a local fair, and the next I was outside on my hands and knees having a panic attack…
Through trial-and-hyperventilating-error, it turns out it’s really specific too- only the vegetables *in proportion* set me off…
A unreasonably long, but very skinny carrot doesn’t phase me at all. But show me a perfectly proportioned carrot as thick as my arm? Existential dread. Palpitations. The overwhelming urge to run away.
A few years ago I was in Vegas in a very nice hotel. I happened upon a chocolate-dipped strawberry the size of a child’s fist. I threw-up a bit in my mouth and started to cry.
Giant animals don’t evoke so strong a reaction, but they do give me a wicked case of the heebie-jeebies, making me sweaty and shakey. Just *the perception* that an animal is oversized is enough to do it. I was having a lovely time at the petting zoo until my daughter pointed out that the capybaras looked like ‘giant Guinea pigs’ and… I ran. I am ashamed to say I abandoned my firstborn and was over the fence in seconds. So now Capybaras have joined giant tortoises in the absurd category of cute animals I have to ‘psych myself up for’.
I’m in my late 30s. I have a good degree. Last week my children witnessed me yeet a punnet of grapes across the kitchen :-/
#109
Railings. On balconys, anywhere high up. Because they CAN give in so you WILL fall.
#110
Mirrors or blank screens (as in tv screens or computer monitors), particularly in dark rooms. Some part of me always expects something to crawl out of them.
#111
Giant flora and fauna.
I’m dead serious. It’s ridiculous. Fortunately though, it’s not something I stumble across everyday. In fact I was 20 before I realised I had this stupid fear. At first I didn’t even understand what was happening; one moment I was walking into the giant vegetable competition tent at a local fair, and the next I was outside on my hands and knees having a panic attack…
Through trial-and-hyperventilating-error, it turns out it’s really specific too- only the vegetables *in proportion* set me off…
A unreasonably long, but very skinny carrot doesn’t phase me at all. But show me a perfectly proportioned carrot as thick as my arm? Existential dread. Palpitations. The overwhelming urge to run away.
A few years ago I was in Vegas in a very nice hotel. I happened upon a chocolate-dipped strawberry the size of a child’s fist. I threw-up a bit in my mouth and started to cry.
Giant animals don’t evoke so strong a reaction, but they do give me a wicked case of the heebie-jeebies, making me sweaty and shakey. Just *the perception* that an animal is oversized is enough to do it. I was having a lovely time at the petting zoo until my daughter pointed out that the capybaras looked like ‘giant Guinea pigs’ and… I ran. I am ashamed to say I abandoned my firstborn and was over the fence in seconds. So now Capybaras have joined giant tortoises in the absurd category of cute animals I have to ‘psych myself up for’.
I’m in my late 30s. I have a good degree. Last week my children witnessed me yeet a punnet of grapes across the kitchen :-/
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