I, for no particular reason, am terrified of spiders. Literally. The other day, when I was cleaning out an entertainment center, I saw a spider crawl weakly down the side of it and jumped back. Then I walked off and refused to come near it until I was sure the spider was far away from it.

I can't think of any other ones at the moment, but really I do have quite a few fears that make no sense...what about the rest of you?

Public Bathrooms

New things.
Highways.
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I have many....
elevators
flying
sailing
vomiting
cleaning out the plughole lol

...but I like spiders

Pygmies.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

You haven't been in Willy Wonka's elevator?

kidelrich said:

Dying, I'm not sure why

but seriously:

Crowded places make me anxious.
Flying
prescription medication

Spiders. I can't even look at pictures of them.

And now that I've said that, I'm not coming back to this thread.

squooshy bread! Not mine but someone else's

fathermcmeekle said:

that's called princephobia

Universaluv said:

heights, and I do not mean huge distances, it can be a step.

oh yea that too steps cause of the height factor. elevators 4 me.

I am deathly afraid to put my hand in glass cups to wash the inside of them. I destroyed my hand doing that once and since then I am terrified that it will happen again.

I also hate to fly.

Needles.


I don't do them.



Period.

jerseykrs2 said:

Snorting heroin is so much better than injecting.

kidelrich said:

Kinky.


Speaking of him:

missmad said:

Do you have vision problems? Are you good at things requiring solid depth perception (like, say, hitting a baseball)?

I've always had an issue not with heights, but with going down stairs, stadium seating, and stuff like that. . . I learned recently that it's common for people who have grown up with binocular vision / depth perception problems, even if those problems aren't obvious to them.

In my case, my vision issues are obvious, but I never made that connection before.

jerseykrs2 said:

I like needles.

Kinky.


My stupid phobias are insects. Bees and spiders, expeshially.

Protege said:

spiders are mine too. i catch and release them out of here

i forgot. crowds bug me too. i feel edgy and nervous in a crowd of people
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Stage. I can't have any attention focused on me. I turn red/purple.

I would say being in front of an audience, but I didn't mind being live on national tv!

Spiders, wasps, mosquitoes...

Oh, and the letter "Q"...it freaks me out.

Byron said:

no way! Qs are great! I so wish more of my clients had a Q in their name

Byron said:

That's quite a queer & quirky quandary.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

you're telling me. I NEVER knew I was afraid of heights until I was a freshman in college. My girlfriends and I went out to this enormous tree to climb it and I got to the first branch and freaked out. I don't even know how I got down after that.

then, last March, I went to my boyfriend's brother's house. the upstairs sleeping area had a fireman's pole to get to the second floor. my boyfriend and his brother slid down first and I was the last... but I couldn't slide down for about five minutes. I got really flushed and started to break out in hives. finally I slid down but was really shaky for a long time after.

just yesterday I was in the city and made the mistake of looking down what looked to be an elevator shaft/hole on the sidewalk. I couldn't see the bottom and I thought I was going to faint.

kidelrich said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Don't be afraid!

I'll let you push whichever button you'd like!