Anyone else have a weird phobia

[julia & nicks mom]

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!

I don't avoid them - I am just a mess when I am on them - my parents used to live in SF and before I went to visit them the first time I made the SF Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge my screensavers so I could get used to them before I left - if I looked at the pictures and really thought about them - I would have a panic attack - we drove over both - and we got stuck on the Bay Bridge in rush hour traffic -talk about 1/2 hour of total panic!!!

 

[Aurora63]

The only thing close to a phobia for me is frogs. I do not like frogs. And I grew up in S. FL, surrounded by them. But I don't think that's weird...if I were afraid of cucumbers, then I'd be weird, but frogs are normal.

Funny, though, I can deal with snakes, roaches (in small numbers) rats (again in small numbers) spiders, and any other creepy crawly thing you can imagine. Except frogs. I'd be plastered to the ceiling if one got in the house!

 

[720L]

I will not step on top of a manhole cover. I think it's from watching the movie C.H.U.D. when I was younger.

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

I am terrified of bees with a passion. I can't even look at a beehive without panicing and feeling sick.

I also hate that squeaky noise of wet shoes against tile. It makes me cringe. Everytime it rains I am so afraid I am going to hear that noise. Just thinking about it now is making me cringe!

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

I am absolutely petrified of cockroaches. I can't even touch a picture of them.

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

I just thought of a few more:

1) Fine point pens. I can't stand the way they scratch their way across paper.

2) Trying to suck something thick, like a malt, through a straw. I can't even sit by anyone doing that.

3) Someone sucking on a straw until it collapses. See #2.

4) Anyone gritting their teeth.

5) Hair in my food. It almost makes me hurl. Even if it's my own.

 

[Rachie0507]

Fish. I'm completely freaked out by them. They give me the willies! I won't swim where there are fish, I hate going in the pet food aisle at WalMart because I can see the fish and even the fish case at the grocery store bothers me.

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

I"m scared to death of birds-hate them. One flew in my house last summer and I nearly had a coronary. Hate mice too-just the thought of them makes me pull my legs up on my chair.

I also am scared of the canned biscuits and balloons.

The way they both pop scares the crap right out of me.

 

[2Xited4Disney]

OOoo

I thought of another one... I hate two sounds

One is nailfiling... makes me cringe just thinking about it


The second one is hard to explain

Picture a frozen over freezer..... Ok.... now take something hard (like an ice cube tray or a box of frozen vegetables) and the sound of the hard thing rubbing on the ice at the bottom.... makes me squirm!!!

 

[Mkaz]

I thought I was the only one who hated nail files! It's not the sound that gets me. It's the way it makes your hand feel. It gives me the willies! I have to clip them because I just can't bring myself to file them.

This one isn't mine, but I had a friend who was deathly afraid of moths! One time she got up and ran accross my mom's kitchen table to get away from one! I thought I was going to pee my pants.

 

[anut4disney]

I found another one.

I freak out if I have to stand on a ladder or a chair. Can go on a plane..no problem. Stand in a chair..help!

Swinging bridges are another phobia. One time we were in the mountains and there was a bridge to cross I started across without thinking and the wind was blowing and it started swaying and I froze. DH had to literally pry my fingers from the rail and get me back to the the mountain. I guess if I had made it to the other side I would still be there because they would have never got me back across.

 

[Sandy V.]

I have this "thing" with numbers. When I buy gas, the total must be a round number, like $30.00. If I happen to get $30.01, I have to see if I can put in enough to get $31.00.

When I turn the volume up or down on the tv, the volume number must be an even number or a multiple of 5. I can't stand it any other way.

Weird.

 

[anut4disney]

I have this "thing" with numbers. When I buy gas, the total must be a round number, like $30.00. If I happen to get $30.01, I have to see if I can put in enough to get $31.00.

When I turn the volume up or down on the tv, the volume number must be an even number or a multiple of 5. I can't stand it any other way.

Weird.

OMG, I do this too. I am finding out that I must be the queen of weird phobias.

 

[Firedog]

Shots, needles, injections, IV's (you get the picture). I had to give a blood sample for a new life insurance policy about 8 years ago, had one kid running for a bucket, another for a cold washcloth. Nurse said I was in a "pre-shock condition"?.

Now I can sit there while they are stitching up one of my kids, but if I'm watching a TV show and someone's getting an IV, I'm squirmin'.

 

[smilie]

Here's a funny one about my future BIL.. he can go deer hunting, kill a deer and gut it. But if he gets a steak or a hamburger with even the slightest bit of pink he gets sick. Or if he gets a cut and sees his own blood (no matter how small the amount) he almost passes out. What's up with that?

 

[poohbear1029]

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

I see nothing wierd about this phobia!!! Seriously....if you have puked in the recent past(minutes, days, weeks, who cares!) and tell me about it I need to step back and disinfect cause you might give it to me!!! In fact the one thing I am most afraid of in this pregnancy is puking....I made it through without morning sickness.....BUT NOW....I am afraid they will give me a medicine during delivery that will make me puke! I would rather feel excrutiating pain than PUKE! I am definitely WACKO!!!

 

[anut4disney]

Here's a funny one about my future BIL.. he can go deer hunting, kill a deer and gut it. But if he gets a steak or a hamburger with even the slightest bit of pink he gets sick. Or if he gets a cut and sees his own blood (no matter how small the amount) he almost passes out. What's up with that?

This is my dh to a tee. If you even talk about a cut or something he will get so white you think he is going to pass out. But he can do the deer thing and doesn't bother him at all. I am the exact opposite, watch a lot of the dhc and nothing seems to bother me, but couldn't stand to see a deer gutted.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

I do the same thing with canned biscuits.

HA HA HA! DH is TERRIFIED of canned biscuits! DS and I like to take turns making a "PSST!" noise whenever DH is opening a can of them. He will be so glad to know he isn't the only one!

 

[Mulan'sMom]

Fish. I'm completely freaked out by them. They give me the willies! I won't swim where there are fish, I hate going in the pet food aisle at WalMart because I can see the fish and even the fish case at the grocery store bothers me.

Fish totally shkeeve me. I swim at the Jersey Shore a lot - when I was younger it was very polluted and I used to laugh and say I was the only one who was happy about it because at least it killed off all of the fish. Now the water is very clean, and I see fish all of the time. One rubbed up against my leg once and I nearly climbed up a perfect stranger standing next to me (he was pretty cute, too!) Won't eat fish, won't touch fish, won't have a fish as a pet, won't look at a fish if I can help it. My poor daughter is Vietnamese by birth - I tell her that she's out of luck, she's the only Asian girl on the planet who will never eat fish until she leaves home as an adult and can cook it for herself. I saw a show on ESPN once about guys who pull huge, ugly catfish out of rivers down South by sticking their arms in the fishes' mouths - all the way to the elbow, and flop them up into their boats I nearly passed out.

 

[Sparx]

canned biscuts

bunnies

crickets/grasshoppers

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