what's your biggest phobia?

lauren grier

lauren grier

you're like stars
the irrational crazy fears that make no sense in a logical world, but you're still terrified. it's normal to fear failing your kids, or losing a loved one etc.. I mean true blue phobias :P



I am afraid of trains. All trains. slow trains. fast trains. The bart in California and the subway here. commuter rails.. the lot. THEY'RE ALL EVIL.

i'm also excessively claustrophobic (cant even have a blanket over my head) but i think that one is pretty common :P it makes many moments in my life unpleasant though :P


so spill. tell me why you're weird.
 
Birds.

Chickens especially! I know, but I don't like them.

Certain little birds don't bother me, seagulls and pelicans are ok, I grew up with those all over in Florida.

And I hate the big, ugly birds.
 
Apples.
It troubles me just typing the word.
I can't tolerate the smell, the sound it makes when people eat them... shudder!!! TOUCHING one is totally out of the question. When I buy a new kit with apple stuff in it, I delete these elements immediately. I can't have any inside my house EVER, and my family is not allowed to eat them when I'm anywhere near. And ONLY OUTSIDE MY HOUSE!!! Plus, I don't want to know it... absolutely.
I have NO IDEA why it is like this, but it's been this way since I was a child.
 
bridges - I hate bridges.

When we go over them, I have to be in the middle lane - don't talk to me, I won't answer because I'm holding my breath... and I've been on some doozies when I would travel for business... but being a mom, this phobia has increased...

I used to have nightmares when Jake was a baby about bridges crumbling out from beneath us and being trapped in the car, in water, and can't reach around and get Jake unhooked from his car seat. And then get out of the car before the car filled up with water... which I guess leads me to my childhood fear of being trapped under ice... I pretty much told my husband that if he ever... EVER...took Jake ice fishing on the Lake - I would skin him alive! :cursing::blink::o
 
I don't know if I even have one anymore. It used to be birds. I mean, I would break out in a cold sweat just seeing them. My dd's preschool went on a field trip to a dairy farm and there were ducks/geese/chickens running all over the place and I couldn't get out of the parking lot, even though I knew I was embarrassing myself. BUT, a robin made a nest right next to my house a few years ago and I checked it everyday and was so obsessed with those little babies that I ignored momma dive-bombing me, lol! I still don't necessarily like birds, but I'm not as freaked out as I used to be.

What is it with you all and ants?????
 
You all have some weird phobias! Haha! (Laughing WITH you not AT you ;) )

I don't think I have an unreasonable phobia. I don't like bugs/spiders/creepy crawly things, but I don't think it's a full blown phobia - I just don't like them. I do have a fear of dying before my kids are grown, but I think every mother probably has that, and it's not unreasonable anyway. And I hate to fail at anything, but that's more a character trait than a phobia.
 
ants are eff-ing terrifing.

also
Choking on Ants
Siafu ant
Also known as the driver ant, this African species is the only insect known to actually attack and devour humans, although you have to be very unlucky to die in a Siafu attack. These ants are very slow, and blind; unless you are unable to stay out of their way, you really don’t have to be scared of them. Usually these ants feed on smaller animals, but attacks on sleeping people, babies left unattended, and at least one drunken man who broke a leg and couldn’t run away from the ant army, have all been reported. Domestic animals such as cows and goats who were left tied to a pole for the night, and thus rendered unable to escape, have also been known to be devoured by Siafu ants. What makes these insects so scary, is that they can bite and sting, but that’s not the way they kill you. During the attack, they will attempt to go into any opening they can find, including your mouth and nose, and victims are said to die of asphyxia after the ants crawl into your lungs! If that’s not scary…
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When I was like 3 my older brother told me a scary story about a man who would kill people by trapping them in glass boxes and then pouring millions of ants in there and then watch them eat the people alive. It was slightly traumatic.
 
Trish, did you ever see this Ant Hill layout I did??? Having that in our house did frighten me more than I thought. Those Harvester Ants would LEAP for our fingers when we opened the top of the ant hill!!! I taped it shut with packing tape so they couldn't escape. LOL
 
I don't have any true phobias.

I'm afraid of heights and public speaking (which I am working on)
 
MamaBee said:
bridges - I hate bridges.

When we go over them, I have to be in the middle lane - don't talk to me, I won't answer because I'm holding my breath... and I've been on some doozies when I would travel for business... but being a mom, this phobia has increased...

I used to have nightmares when Jake was a baby about bridges crumbling out from beneath us and being trapped in the car, in water, and can't reach around and get Jake unhooked from his car seat. And then get out of the car before the car filled up with water... which I guess leads me to my childhood fear of being trapped under ice... I pretty much told my husband that if he ever... EVER...took Jake ice fishing on the Lake - I would skin him alive! :cursing::blink::o
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OMG yes!!! I. hate. bridges. Big ones, little ones, in between ones. Especially now that so many of them are so OLD! They've been rebuilding one of the bridges in our city that goes over the interstate and I have avoided that bridge for the past year - will go more than a mile out of my way to get to that side of town and not go over that bridge. It's just not natural to be able to cross a bridge that is only half there. :D We have a few "singing" bridges here in Maine too that can't be avoided if you want to go to certain places - they shake and "sing" with the wind and you can feel it swaying if you have to stop on it *shudder* :unsure: I mean it's not so bad that I avoid bridges altogether (obviously that's rather impossible to do) and I can drive across one without fainting, but I do hyperventilate a bit on really bad ones ;) LOL
 
I'm SO afraid of the dark! I don't go outside, and if I come home after dark my heart beats so fast while I make my way from the car to my door (about 5 meters). I hate going downstairs durin the night, because I only leave one small lamp on when I go to bed and it's too dim to not be scary if I for some reason have to get up.

Also bugs. I can't stand to have them anywhere near me.
 
I have too many to list 1 above the other O.o

Heights really bad.
Spiders (anything crawly really but spiders x1000),
dark/deep water,
jettys/piers I can't walk out on them,
being lost in the bush or lost in general away from civilization,
zombies,
frogs,
snakes/lizards,

I also hate the phone. I'll ignore all calls. Although I have talked to Yari & Amber via FB messenger and I am proud of myself for it.
 
Only flying (really not flying but fear of being in a plane when it crashes) and snakes. Snakes terrify me. The flying thing I can control. Snakes not so much. They are all over in Florida. My youngest son was terrified of elevators and escalators. My daughter is scared of clowns. Used to be afraid of dolls too. But now she has a daughter so not so much anymore because she has so many baby dolls. My middle son was afraid of heights.
 
needles. Most people think I'm afraid of the pain, but I'm afraid of the needle actually sticking into me and being in me (seriously creeps me out *shudder*) and zombies. I'm terrified of waking up and suddenly living in a world of zombies. Or one of my kids turning into a zombie and eating the other two before I realize what's going on. Or my hubby turning into a zombie and attacking me and the kids. Zombie hubby is my worst fear of all time.
 
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Oh, and vampires. I'm so afraid they're actually real. I can't watch anything with vampires, it gives me such horrible nightmares.

I firmly believe that vampires live in parking houses and barns and would never ever go into either after dark.

I know, I'm nuts!
 
fifilur said:
Oh, and vampires. I'm so afraid they're actually real. I can't watch anything with vampires, it gives me such horrible nightmares.
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this is me with zombies, lol! I swear some sort of parasite or virus is going to attack all of us and turn us into zombies.
 
Lakes/oceans/any body of water that I can't see what is in there....my friends keep telling me that I'll totally get in the water when we go to Hawaii. We shall see.
 
flergs said:
Oh and the dark was always a big fear. I've suffered sleep paralysis since forever but never knew it even existed until recently. Now I know there's no actual black smoke monsters coming out of the air vent, it really is all in my head O.o http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/08/22/4072460.htm
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My hubby suffers from sleep paralysis also. I remember the first time it happened when we were dating and I kind of freaked out. His whole body will go stiff and he cries out for help. It's terrible!
 
flergs said:
Spiders (anything crawly really but spiders x1000),
dark/deep water,
jettys/piers I can't walk out on them,
being lost in the bush or lost in general away from civilization,
zombies,
frogs,
snakes/lizards,
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Well you live in Australia for a start. All those things are either found in the wild or in your waters. I don't know how you get out of bed each day :D
 
Haha not so much in the wild even. I've had 3 frogs in my bedroom lately. We have lizards in our backyard and a house full of spiders. We can't get away.
 
frogs and toads, especially toads. (ugh, shivering with the willies just thinking about them.)

When we lived in Hawaii there was a huge cane toad that lived under our deck and it used to come out and sit in the middle of the pathway to my detached garage every time the sprinklers were on, I guess because it liked getting misted. I wouldn't even go out the back door if I could see it on the pathway, and would make my husband go out and scare it away so I could get to my car. And then DH deployed and after being forced to walk out my front door and half way around the block to get to my garage (our garages opened onto an alleyway behind the house) rather than, oh, I don't know, get out the garden hose to shoo it away or actually stand up to my irrational fear, I changed the sprinkler timer to go off an hour later just so I wouldn't have to interact with that monster toad!
 
Snakes.

Too many close encounters growing up on a farm... now when I see one at a zoo or reptile park, in a glass enclosure which I know it can't escape from, I still get anxious and my heart races.
 
Flying. It's terrible, especially because I have to do it so often (I live 18 hours away from home by flying). Last year was bad; with planes disappearing and being shot down and going down in bad weather. I had nightmares for weeks just from the headlines, but I couldn't help but read the heck out of these crashes. I'm kind of morbidly obsessed with it.
 
heights, mice, and social situations (I will worry myself SICK about doing something I'm unfamiliar with with people I don't know)
 
I have the normals, like water, heights, birds and spiders...

but moths are a big one. And getting things (insects) in my ears, which is related to the moth fear. First time ever getting an insect in my ear, I was 8 and an ant crawled way in. I was so sure it was a bee because it hurt so bad. My mom eventually got the ant out. Then about 12, we moved into a new house and slept on the floor before we had our furniture put together the first night... Woke up to a little squarish beetle in my ear. And, when I was about 20, a moth flew into my ear!! I saw it coming out of the corner of my eye, and it just went right in. totally freaked! My brother grabbed a fork and acted like he knew what he was doing lol, trying to get it out. It was so far in, he didn't believe me that anything was in there. It eventually backed out. OMG, I slept with cotton balls in my ears for years! I've had a few more close calls with moths and my ears since then, too. Even now, I sleep with my hair over my ears, and if I'm going to be spending any time outdoors, my hair has to be down. Dh tells me that if I roll over in my sleep, I still fix my hair over my ears.

lol, sorry so long, just felt I had to explain why my fear is rational :D
 
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