Who has weird phobias?

[Crunchie]

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I do something very similar, but mine has always been with dead animals on the side of the road. I don't know why, but just always have. When we pass one or I see it coming, i hold my breath until my lungs are empty. It is bad sometimes dependng on how big the animal is. For example, a bird I will only hold for a count of 6, a deer..until I my lungs are completly empty. I will even do it in mid sentance and then continue on with whatever was talking about. Not a phobia, but definately in the weird catagory.
Now My younger brother has a terrible time with styrofoam, can't look at it, and even worse, hear it. If he hears it rubbng together he will get up and leave....like go get in his car and leave. The funny thing is his wife is just as funny..she FRWAKS out when there is a black trash bag on the side of the road. Can be white, purple, blue..just not black!

Oh, I do the same thing with stuff on the side of the road too!! Too funny!! And a former boss of mine had the weird styrofoam thing. If we had a box to unpack w/styrofoam, we had to wait until he wasn't in the office.

 

[TheOLDNewChick]

I have alot of phobias. This one, though, is NOT one of them...I just like to confuse people saying it. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. <---- The fear of long words. That word alone would give anyone a fear of long words. Except me. I love it!


Try having THAT word thrown at you in a spelling bee!


[edit:] I love the number thirteen, although odd numbers made me gag. The ONLY even number I can NOT stand is "666". Oh, and "999". Because "999" is only "666" upside down. Those numbers will make me nauseous, and sometimes cry.

I have mild Arithmophobia, mixed in with Atychiphobia.

Plus alot of other things. Including (go ahead, crack up), the sound of people farting. I don't know why. It makes me shudder.

I have paranoia, dunno why. Feel like someones always watching me and following me. I won't use the bathroom or shower with the lights on or the curtains open. I HATE public bathrooms...the idea of someone hearing me pee scares me and makes me feel extremely insecure. I'm always self-conscious, even when I know no one is home or near home, I'm always acting as poised as possible, as if someone IS watching me. I don't know. I've been like that since I was LITTLE. Funny thing is, if someone is in the bathroom with me that I know, or talking to me from outside the bathroom, I'm fine.

 

[LuckysMom]

I'm worried I'll drop my keys in the grate on the ground when I'm walking through a parking lot. I found out recently my sister has the same phobia. We asked our Mom, "What happened when we were kids to make us afraid of this?" But she couldn't remember anything.

 

[Henrietta23]

"Including (go ahead, crack up), the sound of people farting. I don't know why. It makes me shudder. "

Maybe because of the odor that follows?

 

[Krysstyllanthrox]

Crickets. Though it is a learned phobia and I have a good reason.

In high school I had a job where I was the only employee at a small store and did EVERYTHING. I ran the place. The front two displays were big plywood boxes built over pallets. Big so we could get the merchandise at window level and on pallets so I could move them on my own with a pallet jack.

We had a bad cricket outbreak that year and the owner sprayed bug killer. I was the one that kept sweeping up the crickets outside and just from inside the door. One day we noticed an odd smell that would not go away. Finally the owner declared it was coming from under the pallet displays and I should move them and sweep under there.

3 to 4 inches solid thick of dead and dying crickets. When I say 'dead and dying' I mean horrid half chirps and bodies jumping around and losing limbs. And the smell...oh god the smell...

I'm not sure how I managed to clean it up. To this day I DO NOT remember that afternoon, just seeing the mass of crickets and then everything is a fuzzy gray. When break was over and I went back to college a few weeks later and the cricket problem was on campus, I'd let out an ear splitting shriek any time one landed on me. And I nearly passed out a few times from holding my breath as I jogged across the quad, thanks to the smell.

The other, tornados. And I live in Oklahoma. Volunatarily. Figure that one out.

 

[BearSwampChick]

I'm scared to death of bridges that are arched, especially across the Mississippi River in
Baton Rouge, LA and Beaumont, TX. I just about had a heart attack when I saw that one! It is freakishly high for the cargo ships. I don't really like any bridges, but will drive across flat ones. I just repeat this phrase, "Just look at the road, just look at the road, just look at the road!"

I also hate the feel of sandpaper and the sound it makes when you're sanding something. Ick, ick, ick!

I also have a weird compulsion to drive under really high flat-bed trucks, a la Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation. Thank goodness, I haven't acted on that compulsion!

I know, I'm

Susan

 

[mullers3acers]

Mine is snakes,ticks,flies and head lice.

 

[ChicknThief]

I cannot believe I forgot this!

FEET! I hate them! I can't touch them, smell them, see them, feel them.... Ugh! My little brothers and sisters have decided its funny to stick their feet on me when I am not looking and watch me flip out when I realize what is touching me.

Anyone else fear/hate feet?

 

[punkin]

My biggest phobia is SPIDERS!!!! We've killed about a dozen black widows so far this year. Snakes aren't as bad to me. Oh, and ticks

I really hate those things. I have a problem with pincher bugs, too. My dad used to throw them at me when I was little

 

[TheOLDNewChick]

Oh. Yeah. Bridges.


HAHA Henrietta. I can handle that. Just the sound. I dunno.


Oh. When I'm wiping the stove, and the wet sponge accidentally touches the heating element, the sound and the feel of it makes me want to gag. Same thing with brushing with a dry toothbrush. I can't STAND it. That's why I hate the dentist.