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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 9:44:00 GMT -5
Post by The_L on Sept 16, 2009 9:44:00 GMT -5
It would appear that there aren't any threads on our irrational fears, so why not start one?
For me, it's ROACHES. Other creepy crawlies don't bug me, but roaches give me the screaming heebie-jeebies.
Snakes? No problem. Spiders? Mi casa es su casa. Cockroach? OMFG EW EW EW DO NOT WANT!
The closest I ever want to get to a roach is sucking it up with a vacuum cleaner. I spazz out at the thought of even picking one up with a tissue. When there's a roach in the house too big to be vacuumed up, I always have to ask someone else to get rid of it for me. And then I don't want to touch the spot where the roach has been for weeks afterward.
So how about you guys? What little things creep you out?
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 10:13:46 GMT -5
Post by Mordeak on Sept 16, 2009 10:13:46 GMT -5
I don't want anything with more then 4 legs near me but if you want to talk irrational fear, wasps, spiders and heights.
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 10:24:34 GMT -5
Post by Hades on Sept 16, 2009 10:24:34 GMT -5
Active fears: Spiders, heights, water deeper than my waist.
Fears I've gotten over: The dark. Took me a hell of a long time to get over my fear of the dark, because of a traumatizing event from my childhood. But woo, I'm over it now.
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 10:39:11 GMT -5
Post by Bezron on Sept 16, 2009 10:39:11 GMT -5
Heights, clowns and spiders...
However, neither clowns nor spiders make me run screaming any longer. Clowns do still make me very uncomfortable, and I nearly punched one recently walking down the streets of Chicago (he did nothing except being dressed as a clown, I restrained myself). Spiders I kind of had to get over, because my wife is phobic to the point of crying in terror during Arachnophobia (and not from the sheer badness of it).
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 10:39:39 GMT -5
Post by Spark on Sept 16, 2009 10:39:39 GMT -5
I'm also afraid of cockroaches, especially the ones that can fly. I scoop up the dead ones with a dust pan or a piece of paper. Some spiders scare me but only when I'm surprised by finding one right near me when it wasn't there before. I'm afraid of heights, too.
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 10:42:42 GMT -5
Post by Aqualung on Sept 16, 2009 10:42:42 GMT -5
Bats. I hate them. I once lived in an apt. where bats would get in, and my then landlord tried to tell me they weren't dangerous. Bullshit! Just last night on the local news there was a story about a state senator who got bitten by a bat and got all swollen up and had to get a round of rabies vaccine. D:
Haha, thinking about cockroaches, I've seen them on my parents' farm a couple of times, where the roach is just sitting there in the yard and a few barn cats sitting around it wondering what to do with it. It was quite a sight! ;D
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 10:48:13 GMT -5
Post by Mira on Sept 16, 2009 10:48:13 GMT -5
fstdt.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=814fstdt.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=lounge&action=display&thread=1958We've had two of these threads before, but those said strange phobias. So, my point is that I don't know. Contribution: I tend to forget all of my phobias, but here are a few I can remember. Crowds, they make me uneasy and in extreme cases I can hyperventilate. Low ceilings, I feel so cramped! High ceilings, I'm so exposed! (these two are more things that make me uneasy that anxious) Suburbs, I like the country where I can just walk without ever seeing anyone and I also like the city where I can just blend in. Suburbs are in between and lead to me being reluctant to go out. Social Anxiety Disorder, not much to say on this, but it's a crappy handicap. Edit: I am one of those weird people who likes most insects (as long as they stay outside.) I also find bats awesome.
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 12:07:00 GMT -5
Post by tiado on Sept 16, 2009 12:07:00 GMT -5
I biggest and most severe phobia is that of Yellowjacket Wasps. Those fuckers are aggressive and mean, and I have been swarmed by them once and left with several excruciating stings. That is probably why I'm scared of them now.
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 12:10:48 GMT -5
Post by tygerarmy on Sept 16, 2009 12:10:48 GMT -5
I used to be afraid of the dark and death. I lost my thantophobia when I stopped believing in an afterlife
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 12:45:37 GMT -5
Post by maanantai on Sept 16, 2009 12:45:37 GMT -5
Same old fobias for me. Clowns, butterflies & other (flying+non flying) creepy crawlies (spriders and butterflies being the only ones that make me scream), hights, dentists (especially female-dentists) and all the thingies that could be lurking in the dark just waiting to jump out and kill.
I really wish that someone could ban the clowns, since nothing ruins your day at amusement park like clown-mascot-thingie creeping behind your back :/ And why it had to be that same day that we went to the zoo wishing to see the baby lions that there was this creepy clownlikethingie making balloon animals for kids (and protesting agasinst zoo's?) on the path from zoo gates to parking lot? CLOWNS RUINED MY SUMMER!
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 13:16:25 GMT -5
Post by Marc on Sept 16, 2009 13:16:25 GMT -5
I used to be scared of dogs. Though that was actually rational, based on several bad encounters as a child. I still don't like them.
I also don't like being in crowds all that much-especially in a small room.
Marc
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 14:57:15 GMT -5
Post by Old Viking on Sept 16, 2009 14:57:15 GMT -5
I used to fear being wrong, but I came to realize that concept is ludicrous.
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 16:05:14 GMT -5
Post by agnosticantagonist on Sept 16, 2009 16:05:14 GMT -5
Clowns and porcelain dolls. Can't be at ease around either of them.
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 16:44:56 GMT -5
Post by RavynousHunter on Sept 16, 2009 16:44:56 GMT -5
Ticks and roaches. Roaches because I used to live in a house full of the bastards, we used to have fun setting them on fire when they congregated in something like a canned cat food container. I also have an irrational hatred of ticks. Mosquitoes don't bother me that much, and I like leeches.
Other "creepy crawlies?" No problem. Spiders? Just don't bite me, and we're good. Snakes? IS IT CAN BE HUGZ TIEM NAO, PLEEEEEEEZZZZ?
ALSO, I fucking HATE chickens. I worked with them for a while after my grandpa had a heart attack (this was a while ago, and he survived)...they are the most irrationally violent creatures on Earth. You think Africanized Honey Bees are bad? At least they aren't the size of a small dog and can (and will) bite your toe off for no reason or survive 18 months without a head.
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Phobias
Sept 16, 2009 18:43:44 GMT -5
Post by Sleepy on Sept 16, 2009 18:43:44 GMT -5
Dots bother me. By dots, I mean many of them arranged closely together. If I had chicken pox (which I never have had), I would freak out. They don't scare me in a screaming, OMFG kind of way, but they can bother and worry me. If that makes any sense.
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