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Post by MorningPerson on Jun 1, 2015 22:27:48 GMT
Mine are kind of wierd: Belly buttons, and that piece of skin under the tongue.
I cringe whenever I see someone touch their belly button, and if you try to touch mine, be prepared for a punch in the throat (also don't get me started on outies- Jokingly I made my OB promise to give both my kids innies).
I have no idea why the skin thing under the tongue, but when I wal little, I thought if it got cut, your tongue would kind of roll up like a window blind, and its still in the back of my mind. I'm sorry if this seems insensitive to your phobia, but the visual image of your last sentence made me lol.
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Post by raindancer on Jun 1, 2015 23:43:09 GMT
Roaches. We have some big ones here and they freak me out! Same. I had no phobias until I was a grown woman and met a sewer roach. They are huge. They terrify me. I know it is totally irrational but I react in total panic and nearly have an anxiety attack if I even see one.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jun 1, 2015 23:49:06 GMT
so, did anyone who is afraid of roaches ever have to read Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis in English class?? (it's about a man who wakes up one morning and discovers that he has turned into a gigantic roach, and how his family deals with it-- not well, as I recall... it's just weird and somehow is also a "classic.") And for my own phobia, no, I will never willingly watch the movie Arachnophobia again, ever! ETA: just Googled the yellow dress worn by Uzo Aduba-- it didn't bother me quite so much, but then I started reading the articles linked to the Wikipedia trypophobia article-- blue ringed octopus!! <shudder!!!> And don't go to the trypophobia web page to look at the pictures!! ick!!!
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Post by peasapie on Jun 1, 2015 23:49:06 GMT
Roaches. We have some big ones here and they freak me out! I was thinking that I have no phobias until I saw this. I once babysat at a house with roaches everywhere. Every time I opened a closet or moved something, even when I used the bathroom, one of those horrid creatures came trotting out. I think I'd have to be sedated if I ever lived somewhere with roaches.
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Post by maryland on Jun 2, 2015 0:36:40 GMT
elevators flying snakes
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Post by polz on Jun 2, 2015 0:51:27 GMT
Rodents and heights.
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Post by Merge on Jun 2, 2015 0:52:35 GMT
Ugh, I have trypophobia, too. I didn't know there was a name for it. I feel faintly nauseous when I see things with closely spaced holes.
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Post by stittsygirl on Jun 2, 2015 0:55:53 GMT
so, did anyone who is afraid of roaches ever have to read Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis in English class?? (it's about a man who wakes up one morning and discovers that he has turned into a gigantic roach, and how his family deals with it-- not well, as I recall... it's just weird and somehow is also a "classic.") And for my own phobia, no, I will never willingly watch the movie Arachnophobia again, ever! ETA: just Googled the yellow dress worn by Uzo Aduba-- it didn't bother me quite so much, but then I started reading the articles linked to the Wikipedia trypophobia article-- blue ringed octopus!! <shudder!!!> And don't go to the trypophobia web page to look at the pictures!! ick!!! Yeah, the dress didn't make me feel sick like many of the trypophobia example photos will, but it was still uncomfortable for me to look at, and at the time I couldn't have told you why. Growing up, my mom had a flower arrangement full of dried lotus pods, and I hated it. I wonder now if it was the holes in lotus pods freaking me out. It is a weird phenomenon.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 0:57:53 GMT
Dead things. I can handle most living things when they are alive, but dead.....I am a basket case and outta there!
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Post by cycworker on Jun 2, 2015 1:06:20 GMT
Mine are weird:
*Earthquakes. I have this sense that I'd not survive an earthquake.
*Being alone in the woods... I won't go out by myself, lest I run into a cougar. Deathly afraid of cougars. Like, neurotically afraid. As in had a nightmare that I left my patio door open & one got on the patio, into the apartment & killed me. If you knew where I lived, you'd know that a cougar getting this far w/o animal control taking care of the matter is doubtful, to put it mildly.
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Post by Scrappyhappy on Jun 2, 2015 1:07:29 GMT
Escalators! I fell down one at Ohare airport when I was 6 years old. I'm now 55 and my fear of them is horrible. It drives my husband batty. I have elevator locations memorized at the airports we frequently use. Also at the mall. Ugh!
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Post by Nicole in TX on Jun 2, 2015 1:09:15 GMT
Thinking about having someone touch my feet. They are super ticklish and the thought of having someone hold them down and tickle them makes me want to hyperventilate.
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Post by penny on Jun 2, 2015 1:11:49 GMT
Spiders... Especially leggy ones - small bodies compared to the length/spindliness of their legs... Or ones that just seem crazy... The ones that go from not moving at all to leaping five feet and making a cheetah dash right towards you... Spiders with a death wish freak me right the f*** out...
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Post by conchita on Jun 2, 2015 1:16:03 GMT
My roach story begins as a young girl of 12. I was finally allowed to attend a good friend's sleepover who lived in a sketchy part of town. We were going to watch scary movies, pile together in one bed, eat popcorn and candy and run screaming to the bathroom down the hall together with the lights off. Silly girl stuff. But the true horror story wasn't what was showing on the VCR. It was the incredible roach problem they had in their home. I'd never seen a house so infested until I watched a few episodes of Billy The Exterminator many, many years later. You know a home is infested when the roaches are out on the walls, ceiling, everywhere during the day! They'd be on the ceiling and fall onto the table and other furniture. They crawled on the headboard and footboard of the bed we slept on. They came in different sizes and varieties. Small fast moving baby ones, medium sized ones with wings, big black armored ones. I didn't sleep a wink that night. I was too busy flicking off roaches that had crawled or fallen onto my friends who were asleep. I also didn't eat anything or take my shoes off. It's no wonder I go into a cleaning frenzy when I see a roach. No other insect impacts me the same way.
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Post by cycworker on Jun 2, 2015 1:21:18 GMT
Oh - also spiders, snakes, heights & staircases. Well stairs going down.... have this fear I'll get too close & fall. Same with firepits when I'm out visiting the campsite with my friends in the summer.
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Post by kate on Jun 2, 2015 1:24:34 GMT
Fish. As a child, I would hide my eyes as we passed the seafood in the grocery store. When I was a waitress, someone ordered trout - I picked up the plate and the world started to go black. I set it down and begged a busboy to carry it out for me. I still won't eat anything from a bin adjacent to the tuna salad on a salad bar, but in general, that phobia has become manageable - I can manage to eat my own dinner in a restaurant if a tablemate orders fish. My meal would be ruined if they ordered trout, though! I used to have a phobia of dead bodies, like a PP. I would get physically ill at the prospect of going to a wake (physically ill meaning fever and chills - plenty to get me sent home from school!) I would avert my eyes and run if I had to go past a funeral home. That phobia has all but disappeared. For years, much of my income came from singing at funeral masses. If you'd told me as a child or young adult that that would be the case, I never would have believed it.
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Post by lancermom on Jun 2, 2015 1:24:35 GMT
Open stairs. As in no backs and holes where you step. Just went up some today and realized how scared and freaked out I get!!
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Post by cycworker on Jun 2, 2015 1:32:21 GMT
I just thought of two more.. well two examples of one fear; the fear of being trapped. I was once on a ferry & for some reason the elevator didn't come so we ended up having me carried down the stars. And one time, our car broke down on a bridge. Both of these were childhood experiences that clearly scarred me.
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Post by jillonthehill on Jun 2, 2015 1:47:33 GMT
Birds. Caged ones especially. I won't stay in the room if a caged bird is out of it's cage.
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Post by cyndijane on Jun 2, 2015 2:52:35 GMT
so, did anyone who is afraid of roaches ever have to read Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis in English class?? (it's about a man who wakes up one morning and discovers that he has turned into a gigantic roach, and how his family deals with it-- not well, as I recall... it's just weird and somehow is also a "classic.") And for my own phobia, no, I will never willingly watch the movie Arachnophobia again, ever! ETA: just Googled the yellow dress worn by Uzo Aduba-- it didn't bother me quite so much, but then I started reading the articles linked to the Wikipedia trypophobia article-- blue ringed octopus!! <shudder!!!> And don't go to the trypophobia web page to look at the pictures!! ick!!! Yes, I read that book in high school. Ick. And our English teacher made a point of telling us- the author didn't say he woke up as a roach- he used the term "vermin". I can't handle deep, dark water. I don't like movies/TV where they show underwater scenes/explorations. I'm not sure I could actually get myself on a cruise ship for fear it could sink.(it HAS happened before!) Even photos where the camera is down deep, and it's pointed up toward the surface and the only light... [shudder] no, no, no. I would pass out before physically getting into a situation where I'm surrounded by dark water.
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Post by scrapaddie on Jun 2, 2015 3:21:04 GMT
I did think of something that may approach the level of phobia. I absolutely detest mustard. When I go to football games and people come back with that flimsy paper and pretzels covered with mustard, I watch constantly, afraid that the mustard might blow up against me. The worst movie scene ever was in animal house when John Belushi squirted mustard all over his chest!
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Post by MissChris on Jun 2, 2015 3:37:42 GMT
I have what appears to be two of the most common phobias--spiders and clowns.
My biggest fear, however, is something that I have a hard time explaining and have never met someone else with the same phobia. I'm petrified, as in absolutely terrified, of man made things under water. That includes a patio chair that may have blown into the pool during a storm, a sunken ship, a car that's been driven into a lake, etc. If it's man made and it's in the water and I see it, I literally (and yes, I mean literally) start feeling the beginning of a panic attack. I hate movies where they have underwater shots and show a car on the bottom of a lake, a ship sunk on the ocean floor, etc. Don't even get me started on Titanic and Finding Nemo (yes, even animated freaks me out). I know, I'm odd!
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Post by anniebygaslight on Jun 2, 2015 5:05:39 GMT
Clowns and puppets and food served on a tile or chunk of wood. Wooden cutlery, wooden clothes pegs, wooden chopping boards spoons etc. *Shudder*
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Post by smartypants71 on Jun 2, 2015 15:49:38 GMT
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Post by peano on Jun 2, 2015 16:55:56 GMT
My roach story begins as a young girl of 12. I was finally allowed to attend a good friend's sleepover who lived in a sketchy part of town. We were going to watch scary movies, pile together in one bed, eat popcorn and candy and run screaming to the bathroom down the hall together with the lights off. Silly girl stuff. But the true horror story wasn't what was showing on the VCR. It was the incredible roach problem they had in their home. I'd never seen a house so infested until I watched a few episodes of Billy The Exterminator many, many years later. You know a home is infested when the roaches are out on the walls, ceiling, everywhere during the day! They'd be on the ceiling and fall onto the table and other furniture. They crawled on the headboard and footboard of the bed we slept on. They came in different sizes and varieties. Small fast moving baby ones, medium sized ones with wings, big black armored ones. I didn't sleep a wink that night. I was too busy flicking off roaches that had crawled or fallen onto my friends who were asleep. I also didn't eat anything or take my shoes off. It's no wonder I go into a cleaning frenzy when I see a roach. No other insect impacts me the same way. OMG! I think I just developed a new phobia!
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Post by chlerbie on Jun 2, 2015 19:27:53 GMT
Moths. I don't really like butterflies either. They both skeeve me out and I freak out when they get close to me.
My brother's phobias are frogs. And buttons.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 20:02:49 GMT
Deathly afraid of bees, wasps and hornets. Any kind of bug that flies, I do not want to be around it. Anyone know of Cicadas?? Yeah, the year my oldest graduated was the year of the "13 year cicada" and they were EVERYWHERE!!!! I had to go with him to a two day campus visit at his college. I was killing those things with one of those cardboard fans they give you at football games and such. After day one, I literally got into my car and cried. Not because he was going away to college but because I was finally back to safety inside my car. I did not go back for the second day. On your own buddy! I do not like automatic car washes, I am scared we will get stuck. I have massive panic attacks in water that is not a pool. River, lake, ocean? Forget it. Not happening unless you can ply me with lots of tranquilizers prior to the event. And I proved why I hate water this weekend when I caught a 10 lb catfish out of a lake where everyone wants me to come out on the boat with them! Ha freaking ha! Not happening!
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