Anyone want to share some irrational fears?

[Hana]

I'm just going to be straight forward. I am afraid of ketchup. It's very odd I know. Most people are afraid of spiders or clowns.... I fear the most popular condiment in the US..... Does anyone have a really weird fear like mine? Maybe one that's weirder?

[Elizabeth]

@ Adriana I don't have a problem with big dogs or really any size now. Its just that if I see one outside somewhere and it is big and growling or acting defensive I get nervous... if its small, eh I'll just kick it if I need to haha. And I like being alone a good bit too and doing things by myself but its more like being totally alone for the rest of my life or having everyone I know and love just vanish for good that I was afraid of.

@ Jenna I LOVE fireworks! We go to my aunt's house at the beach (she lives on an island) and watch the big firework show every independence day. :( You would probably not like it. And I am still afraid of the dark sometimes too. When its late at my house I'm usually the only one up so if I get thirsty I have to turn on the hall light and then the small light in the kitchen or I'm too creeped out to go in there for a drink ^^ kinda sad sometimes haha. And they always show the scary movie previews at night....

[Jenna]

I'm also still scared of the dark. It is really embarrassing to say that. It's weird though, because I have fears over the stupidest Things but things most people are scared of I'm not scared of. For example let's say you lock me in a room with a big snake. I would go stand on the other side of the room perfectly clam unless it tried to come and bite me. XD (I also for some reason have absolute no problem with things like blood and such. I actually find medical stuff like that cool. XD)

[Jenna]

Hmm it makes no sense and it I a bit embarassing but I have a fear I fireworks.I can watch it if it is on a tv screen but I do get a tad bit uncomfortable. If I'm in the place they are shooting, however I start crying and I can't control it. It is weird,I know.

[Hana]

Elizabeth, we're like complete opposites.... Tornadoes are scary, and I hate to be pinned down. But I'm really athletic. I've always thought elevators were fun. I love big dogs! The bigger the better, I'm not a fan of the smaller ones. And I definitely like to be alone. Because even if no one is around me, I'll always have the characters in my daydreams. My characters feel more real then real life sometimes. Thanks for your response!!!!!!! =]

[Elizabeth]

Oh no Adriana you would HATE going out to eat with me if there was fries or things because I LOVE ketchup!! But I would try and hide it from you somehow.

Its not irrational (or I don't think it is) but I am terrified of tornadoes. We have had a few here so its not like it could NEVER happen but every time there is a thunderstorm I get so nervous because it COULD happen. I think people believe I am afraid of thunderstorms, but its not the actual thunderstorm - thunder, lightening, rain - that scares me its the fact that it might lead to a tornado. And at night its worse because nobody is awake and I don't know if the siren is managed at night, so its this feeling of not knowing what is going on that scares me. I even dream about tornadoes often.

I am also afraid or anxious about people making or forcing me to do physical activity. I am not athletic and hate being forced to participate in athletic events or activities, aside from just hanging out or goofing around with close family or friends. If I do decide to participate I am not competitive and being around those kind of people make me nervous because I don't feel good enough or like I've caused us to lose and then its not fun for me. I tell people this and they just don't understand. I hated PE when I was little because I felt like everyone was just watching at how I sucked at sports. (except this variation of volleyball we called - nookum - I was surprisingly pretty decent). And competitive people don't get it that them being like that takes the fun out of it for me. I loved dancing and I enjoy swimming, kayaking, hiking, and other physical things just not group sports.

I hate having my legs or arms pinned or held to where I can't move. Its happened when I was little and playing with my friends wrestling, or them holding me to tickle me and they held me to where I couldn't move - not trying to be mean or anything - but I just started freaking. I have been in cars where someone moved the seat too far back or there was a lot of stuff and I felt my legs trapped and just started to hyperventilate and freak out. Its not really claustrophobia but its related I think.

I am better but I used to be afraid of getting trapped in elevators.  And if I was alone it was worse. You know the ones that when you're at the floor but they take a second to open? I would and sometimes still do, start having a little mini heart attack and start screaming (on the inside) "Open! OPEN!" I was afraid of getting stuck and then running out of air. Glass ones never bothered me because if I got trapped in one people could see me and I could signal.

I have a fear of being totally alone. Either winding up alone or even waking up and everyone I knew was gone. I felt for a while in a certain point in my childhood that everyone could just disappear and I would be left alone. I sometimes get that irrational fear at night and even went to look in my family's rooms to make sure they were still there. lol

I think that's about it for me.  Oh and big dogs. I was really scared of big dogs and  when I was really young, just dogs in general. I am for the most part over it, but if I come across one that I don't know and is a good size I still get a little nervous. ^^'

[Hana]

Wow that's a lot!! lol. I think I have a fear of pain. Like I'm not afraid of heights, but I'm afraid of the pain it'd cause if I fell... Or when I watch gory movies, it's not the blood and guts that freak me out, it's that pain of being ripped open or whatever is being shown... Does that make sense?

 

I'm totally with you on the belly button thing, I can't stand when people poke me there or something. It actually hurts. I once slapped someone in the face for poking my bell button.   >=X

[Truthful Alibi]

You might have been here already, but: http://www.fearofstuff.com/food/fear-of-ketchup/

Just to warn you, there's a picture of a hot dog with ketchup on it at the top, but that's the only picture on there.

I'm terrified of crane flies, and I am also slightly emetophobic (scared of vomit, as people have said) and it doesn't help that my cat was sick yesterday and I had to clean it up 0_o

I'm also a bit trypophobic, which is a fear of lots of small holes close together, like lotus seed pods.

The name 'botfly' now scares me because, from googling trypophobia, I've seen lots of pictures of botfly infections, or whatever they are. I hope we don't have them in England.

I'm arachnophobic (scared of spiders) but that's quite common.

I'm so scared of rollercoasters, I once had to go on one with my family and they weren't any loops or anything but I was so scared I was nearly crying. And I didn't even know it was a rollercoaster, someone said it was a train thing and I knew it WOULD be a rollercoaster but my family forced me on it anyway.

I'm terrified of flying in planes. If I could ride a dragon or a pegasus or a... massive bird or something, I'd be fine. Lol, you can tell I have an over active imagination

I'm scared of being physically forced into doing something, like in Year 6 I went on school camp and we had to do 'high ropes' which was stuff like climbing along rope bridges that were really high up, I couldn't actually get onto the bridge, lol. Then we did the 'leap of faith' which is where you climb a ladder and jump off this ledge at the top. The rope was pulling at me so I refused to do it. We also did the jacob's ladder where you climb up all these bars and a third of the class pulls you up and I couldn't do it because they wouldn't stop pulling me. I wouldn't do the zipwire either because I saw the guy who clips you on push this boy who wouldn't do it and I refused to go up the ladder, I was terrified he would push me.

I'm scared of being kissed on the neck, sound stupid I know, but I've always been weird about certain parts of my body, and I've always had this neck kissing fear. One day in science,  my friends (the ones who I laugh with and are probably gonna get moved off the table soon) were mucking around and this girl who sits next to me had a pig on her pencil, made of rubber, and she was trying to make it kiss me and she poked it in my neck (not hard, just tapped me really) but I freaked out completely.

I also have a fear of swimming close to people in the swimming pool, particulary when they're doing breast stroke. I worry about them kicking me in the kidneys.

I also don't like people touching my shoulders or shoulder blades, but that not really a phobia.

I have a strange phobia of my bellybutton being uncovered/out in the open, even in private. It feels weird. Also I'm scared of a bug flying into it.

Wow, I can even go on and on forever about my phobias. I just like talking. Or typing. Or whatever. Lol.

 

[Patty]

My boyfriend is pretty nervous about reading because he read slow and the kids in his class made fun of him.

[Hana]

I have a really close friend who is afraid of vomit. She threw up on a bus when she was young and the bus counselor ridiculed her. She was afraid of vomit ever since.

[littleschrodinger'scat]

I doubt this is anywhere as strange a phobia as ketchup or barbeque sauce,  but since I was about six I have been terrified of vomit. In 1st grade I would skip music class so that I did not have to be in such close courters to a kid who got sick in the room once. I do not eat if I ever go on a boat or a rollercoaster (even though I have never had any sort of motion-sickness).