Anyone else have a weird phobia

[LindsayDunn228]

My fear has got to be the weirdest. PLEASE NO FLAMES, I DON'T MEAN TO OFFEND ANYONE!! but, I'm terrified of little people/dwarfs. OMG, I break out in a sweat, can't breath, etc. I have no idea why, I'm not afraid of The Wizard of Oz folks but Time Bandits is wayyyy beyond what I can stand. Can't even be in the same room when it's on.

Oh man, what a sad phobia to have. I'm not flaming you at all. Just think a phobia about another human being would be burdensome to have.

 

[ChrisnSteph]

I hate clowns. When I was very young, a clown had tried to be funny and jump out at me when I walked into a circus tent. It traumatized me forever!

I don't like my hands or feet hanging over the side of the bed at night. Just thinking about it gives me the heebie jeebies!

I can't drink out of drinking fountains, and I can't eat after other people - even my dh and kids! I avoid salad bars if I can because of what or who may have touched the food. Blech!!

 

[bigmerle1966]

My worst fear is of those bugs with all of those legs that live in my laundry room. They are called house centipedes and just looking at a picture of one frightens me. (google it, you will see what I mean! ) They look like moving moustaches and they seriously terrorize me!! When I see one I will drop everything I'm doing, scream like a crazy lady, and run.

I get those in my house too. Not phobic of them but they sure do creep me out.

 

[weluvdisney]

vomit, the sight, the sound of someone vomitting, knowing someone is doing it in the area....you get the picture. I do everything in my power to avoid it. My family knows how I'm about it and gives me a heads up on movies, tv shows, etc that may have someone getting sick in it. Even if it's fake I still can't handle it. Even if I don't see it or hear it first hand I still get an uneasy uncomfortable feeling just knowing that someone has vomitted in the area, if I hear it or see it I start to feel sick myself, like I'm going to be sick to my stomach also. Ugh just thinking about it is making me feel yucky.

this is the only thing that stopped me from ever being a nurse

Thank God I am not the only one who is like this!!! I get so paranoid whenever someone even feels like they are going to be sick!!! I agree that this is the one thing that stopped me from becoming a nurse & I would rather be in excruciating pain than to throw up myself!!! That being said it doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would to clean up after my kids when they are sick, but anyone else I will avoid like the plaque !!!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Wow, Im half way done reading the replies and trying to think of a strange phobia of mind and I'm not coming up with anything. The closest would be driving over bridges, especially in the rain, or through tunnels. The bridges one I conquered, though when I had to pick up my DD at college. I drove across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the rain and I was fine (real worried the night before, though). The tunnels isn't so much a fear, but I get tunnel vision and feel dizzy, which is fun when I'm not driving, but I would be worried that it would happen when I'm driving.

There are other things that I don't like--fingernails on the chalkboard, for example. People hair in food gags me, but pet hair only mildly grosses me out.

I guess I'm odd in that I'm fairly normal when it comes to phobias, at least.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

OK, I read one that I have--centipedes. I HATE them and if I have to kill them I do it with a shoe or flyswatter and never a tissue because I couldn't take that and wouldn't want to feel that crunchy sensation on my fingers.

 

[glass-slipper]

My Dh has a funny one, wet or damp fingers on ice cubes where the ice sticks to your skin... totally freaks him out. When he was a kid someone put their tongue on a frozen pole and tore a piece of their tongue off, so now DH is scarred for life!!!

Mine would be driving over a bridge that spans a body of water. I'm always afraid we'll fall over and get stuck in the car. I also avoid sewer grates, I'm afraid of falling in and being swept away!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

mushrooms (don't ask. trust me. don't ask)

OK, I MUST ask...

 

[bigmerle1966]

OK, I MUST ask...

You would!

 

[MerryPoppins]

I thought of another one. I feel like I can't breathe when I drive past the concrete highway dividers that they sometimes put up during construction. They terrify me!

DS has the numbers thing. He goes nuts in my car if I put the volume on an uneven number or run the air at an uneven temp.

DD is afraid of overpasses and bridges. She hates it when a red light stops us on one.

 

[glass-slipper]

I thought of another one. I feel like I can't breathe when I drive past the concrete highway dividers that they sometimes put up during construction. They terrify me!

I can't believe I forgot this, me too!!! I hate those things!!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

You would!

Asked before you did...

 

[Amapola]

I hate clowns.

I don't like my hands or feet hanging over the side of the bed at night.

I can't drink out of drinking fountains,

Are you my long-lost twin? I was wondering if I was the only one who is deathly afraid of clowns. Can't stand them. I don't recall having any bad experience with them, I just don't get them.

I have to sleep with a bedsheet over my legs, even after a hurricane when the power is out for days and it's too hot to sleep, I can't have my legs bare.

And gag on the drinking fountains too!

 

[mouseclick1]

Dolls - they creep me out. The worst thing is to be alone in a room with a doll, especially at night. I always think they are going to blink on their own or something! Glad I have boys so I don't have to deal with dolls too often (though I do have two nieces).

Driving along mountains or cliffs. We are planning on going to Hawaii in 2007, and I am already freaking out about some of the road trips we plan to take.

Bees, wasps, hornets, etc. I wish they would all just become extinct.


However, at 41 years old, I still think popping opened a can of biscuits is fun!

 

[KAMLEM]

There was a girl I went to school with when I was younger, her mom was afraid of bridges. DEATHLY afraid. She would avoid a 10-15 minute ride over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in MD by going all the way up into the next state and back down around the other side of the bay to avoid that bridge. It used to take them an extra 2-3 hours to get to the beach.

That is a real phobia. What most people are talking about in this thread are just things that they don't like or that that creep them out. Many times people with phobias cannot function normally because their fear of encountering what they are afraid of is so great.

 

[GoldenGate]

Driving. I can't and don't but would like to but the thought of driving petrifies me . I think I could drive if there was noone else on the road

Good thing I live in an area with good public transportation.

 

[Equidae]

aliens...... sorry ET scarred me for life

me too!! I don't know if it was ET, but I am deathly afraid of those aliens they call 'greys'. YUCK! I have nightmares about it!

I have this weird phobia of blood veins. Not just blood, but the veins. I used to be ok, but then I donated blood and something about that just creeps me out now.

 

[ktpool]

I am with the cotton balls. Can't stand to touch them, see them or even imagine them. As a matter of fact, I have the hebbie-jeebies just talking about them. I wll have DH take the cotton out of the Tylenol bottle and make sure all of the little straggling pieces are out.

Also hate Q-tips!

And unsharpened pencils. My kids write with stubby, dull pencils and it drives me insane!

 

[mommyintn]

I am afraid of bridges and overpasses - the worst is when I get stuck on an overpass and I can feel it start to sway!! That is the worst feeling in the world!

This is me! I drive to my cousins in Maryland every summer with my boys and I have to drive over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on the beltway and I have to stay in the inside lane and look straight ahead. Also when I lived in CA the drive across the bridge from San Diego to Coronado was horrible. If someone else is driving I have to close my eyes! Once I hit the side of the overpass during a rain storm and thought I was going to go over, so that could be where that comes from! I get tense thinking about it!

 

[mommyintn]

Oh, one more....those wooden ventriloquist dolls, very creepy!