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Post by tiado on Apr 21, 2009 19:08:15 GMT -5
I can't say that I have any weird/unusual phobias, but one phobia that I most definitely have is the fear of wasps - the flying insect kind of wasp. It probably has partly to do with the fact that I have an allergy to wasp/bee stings.
The unusual part about my phobia, I think, is that I'm afraid of wasps, but not bees, even though I'm allergic to both their stings. It might be because wasps are a lot more aggressive here than the bees are.
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Post by ragabash on Apr 21, 2009 19:29:54 GMT -5
I don't consider my phobia of heights at all weird, as strong as it might be. The weird phobia I have, that did take some time to learn to control, is of zombies. Zombie movies, video games, etc. would completely freak me out.
I can now watch a zombie movie or play a Resident Evil game after slowly building up to it, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't go anywhere near a zombie walk.
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Post by antichrist on Apr 21, 2009 21:17:47 GMT -5
I can't say that I have any weird/unusual phobias, but one phobia that I most definitely have is the fear of wasps - the flying insect kind of wasp. It probably has partly to do with the fact that I have an allergy to wasp/bee stings. The unusual part about my phobia, I think, is that I'm afraid of wasps, but not bees, even though I'm allergic to both their stings. It might be because wasps are a lot more aggressive here than the bees are. Bingo When I lived in the Okanagan, I could be working under the cherry trees when they were swarmed with bees, no problem. Hubby said all of a sudden my head would come up and I'd start sprinting for the house screaming WASP! He could never figure out how I could tell the sound of one wasp over that of a hundred bees. And if you think wasps are mean in Alberta, try fruit bearing areas like southern BC, those things are the meanest drunks of the animal world. Every year the lower mainland/Fraser valley put out wasp alerts in the fall.
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Post by devilschaplain2 on Apr 21, 2009 22:56:04 GMT -5
*shudders* White Anglo-Saxon Protestants freak me right the fuck out as well.
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Post by antichrist on Apr 21, 2009 23:35:37 GMT -5
I knew a girl that was afraid of taxidermy, especially deer heads. I could never figure that one out, but maybe it's because I grew up with them always staring at me.
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Post by Panthera on Apr 22, 2009 3:01:09 GMT -5
I'm a severe meningitophobe (meningitophobia - fear of brain disease.) Even reading abbreviations can send me into a full-blown panic attack. Doesn't help that I'm a hypochondriac, too, or that those two things feed back on each other, which once led to a five-month long string of crippling panic attacks
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Post by wmdkitty on Apr 22, 2009 3:03:04 GMT -5
I'm afraid of closed shower curtains. I think it comes from watching too many horror movies, but I'm always convinced someone is hiding in the shower. If I walk into the bathroom, and the shower curtain is pulled shut, I have to look inside to make sure no one is there before I can do anything. Even when it's open, I still have to check, just to make sure no one is there. But when I walked in and find it closed, my mind immediately jumps to the conclusion that someone is waiting for me. I started doing that after seeing "Psycho". I still do it to this day.
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Post by Cymraes on Apr 22, 2009 5:49:53 GMT -5
I suffer from agoraphobia - which isn't a fear of being outside or wide open spaces as such, but of being afraid of finding myself in an unfamiliar place and not knowing how to escape.
I think it comes from not having any sense of direction - I can turn two corners and be completely lost!
I also have OCD - one of the symptoms of which is that once I know how to get myself from A to B, I cannot then deviate from that route, even to the extent of crossing to the other side of the road.
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Post by tiado on Apr 22, 2009 12:33:16 GMT -5
And if you think wasps are mean in Alberta, try fruit bearing areas like southern BC, those things are the meanest drunks of the animal world. Every year the lower mainland/Fraser valley put out wasp alerts in the fall. Well then, if I visit those areas of BC, I'll make sure to be quite careful, and have some Epi-pens on hand. Those little bastards are mean enough already here for my liking. *shudders* White Anglo-Saxon Protestants freak me right the fuck out as well. I knew that sooner or later, somebody was going to make that crack. And yes, some WASPs freak me out too.
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Post by maanantai on Apr 22, 2009 13:30:36 GMT -5
Hmm, besides having that regular and normal fear of spiders and snakes I do have few... Almost abnormal fear of butterflies and especially moths. Having either one of those inside our aparment takes me to panicky tears and rocking myself in corner in 10-20 seconds unless I'm too shocked to even scream. And yes, it's been getting worse... 10 years ago I would have just killed it after freaking out just a little bit. Dark. Or actually things in the dark that can not be seen. And things under the bed that might get you. And closet door left ajar - I just hate when cats do it (I hope it is our cats doing it...) you never know who's watching you from there. And closed shover curtains. Sleeping alone. I'm too afraid to sleep when hubby is not at home. At least in dark room. Hated living on countryside because of it too because if there was to be crazy ax murderer in the woods they would know that in our cabin there would be someone probably at home. Alone. Zombies. And other related stuff, movies on subject and so on... not that bad thou... it just stays in my head forever and I'm about to see nightmares with zombie/end of humankind themes and it sucks since I don't sleep that well even without them. Oh, and hights! Can't look down even if just standing on a chair, not to mention how I feel when hanging curtains and I can see out of the window. Also dentists, especially female dentists. I had crappy biatch as my dentist when I was kid who hated me and was mean to me and refused to use anything and everything when it came to releaving pain and such... I love my current dentist thou.He's OLD man who has more experience on dental stuff in years than I've lived so far and he really knows what he is doing. Last time it took almost 6 hours to me to be able to feel my whole face again *grin* no pain, I just love it. (still it makes me almost faint to go there when the smell of those places comes to my nose and I'm hearing distant sound of a drill...) I guess that was most of it. *feels totally embarassed* Why there is never such a thread as "things that you'er not afraid of"
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Post by Jebediah on Apr 22, 2009 14:07:53 GMT -5
Dark. Or actually things in the dark that can not be seen. And things under the bed that might get you. And closet door left ajar - I just hate when cats do it (I hope it is our cats doing it...) you never know who's watching you from there. And closed shover curtains. I'm still afraid of under the bed. I know there is nothing there, but I can't stop myself from imagining things. I won't let any part of my body hang off the bed, because I imagine something will come out from under my bed and bite it off.
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Post by maanantai on Apr 22, 2009 14:21:39 GMT -5
Dark. Or actually things in the dark that can not be seen. And things under the bed that might get you. And closet door left ajar - I just hate when cats do it (I hope it is our cats doing it...) you never know who's watching you from there. And closed shover curtains. I'm still afraid of under the bed. I know there is nothing there, but I can't stop myself from imagining things. I won't let any part of my body hang off the bed, because I imagine something will come out from under my bed and bite it off. That! I even still avoid having anything hanging off the bed even we have that kind of bed that there is no "under the bed" area... Over active imagination is such a nice thing to have *sigh*
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Post by Zabimaru on Apr 22, 2009 14:25:27 GMT -5
Why there is never such a thread as "things that you'er not afraid of" That was a good question, so I just started a thread on that
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Post by maanantai on Apr 22, 2009 14:32:25 GMT -5
CLOWNS!
*hides*
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Post by antichrist on Apr 22, 2009 14:48:08 GMT -5
Almost abnormal fear of butterflies and especially moths. Yeah, I'm freaked out by moths. I usually end up screaming at the cats about their only "job" in life is to kill insects. The dogs help me sleep. I know nobody is getting into the house without them lighting up a storm. Of course when my neighbours car was stolen, they were barking like crazy and I just laid in bed screaming at them to shut up. If I could get nitrous for cleanings I would. I also had to leave a friends house once because he was cutting porcelain, and it sounded just like a dentists drill. Damn I'm messed up.
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