What are your odd phobias?

InKonspikuou2 · 04-01-2010 7:58pm

Arachibutyrophobia. I love the stuff but have to drink water before putting the peanut butter into my mouth so it doesn't stick to the roof of it.

gypsygirl · 04-01-2010 8:25pm

Trí wrote: »

The wooden stick in an ice pop. Freaks me out - hate sucking the ice cream off it.

Ooh me too, can't stand the sensation, horrible. < shivers>
Biggest fear though is Daddy-Long-Legs, creepy feckers, flying around with their legs dangling beneath them and I can't stand the fact that they have KNEES, totally irrational I know but I can't help it, they don't even fly in a straight line, they zigzag all over the place so you can't even avoid them, a few years ago I though I had a hair in my mouth, when I took it out I was a leg from a Daddy-Long-Legs. Freaked me out for days, couldn't stop brushing my teeth. Even the memory is making me shake. I run from the room if I see one and I hate September when they're dying off as their flying is even more erratic than usual making them harder to get away from. They totally freak me out.

The Shark · 04-01-2010 9:01pm

Big disgusting horrible jellyfish, ugh!
Not the clear little fellas can deal with them..

gmonov1 · 05-01-2010 1:15pm

i lived with a few friends in australia and we advertised for a new roommate to help split the rent. we got this english girl, nice enough but she told us one night while drinking that she had a weird phobia of newspaper. next day while she was in work we thought we'd fill her room wit it, we put it on the walls, in her bed, on all the handles of her drawers, wardrobes etc.
we thought she'd only be a little bit creeped out by it but she totally freaked out, had a full blown panic attack and started vomiting, hysterically crying, the lot!! we felt really bad and took it all down but when we got back from work the next day she'd moved out. oops

christina_x · 05-01-2010 3:10pm

for me its crabs, spiders, birds, other peoples hair - even head hair, and feet. i think myn are all normal enough

I work with a girl who has the strangest phobias though. Jelly, bellybuttons, boths, birds, men shorter than her, and plugs.

sunrise91 · 06-01-2010 3:31am

Touching my bellybutton. I don't know why, I can't touch it and I can't let other people go near it.. It just freaks me out!
Moths
Going down escalators. I can go up them but going down is another story!
Touching the veins on the back of my wrist. It just feels unnatural.

starbelgrade · 06-01-2010 3:33am

I can't stand phobias - they really freak me out.

emzolita · 06-01-2010 3:43am

never heard of anyone else afraid of my biggest fear. Seeds!! not one or two on their own, just when theyre all together stickin up every which way etc (like in a yellow melon, possibly the scariest of all seedy things)

its weird! some things that resemble seeds too, like cobbles that are the small rounded stones. but my fear is only if its 3D, like if the cobbles are causing shade on one side of the stone. or the seeds are all sticking up. *shudder*

aDeener · 06-01-2010 3:45am

I have a terrible fear of buttons.

Mars Bar · 06-01-2010 3:47am

stripysocks85 wrote: »

Biting into a wad of cotton wool

Spiders

Ghosties........ [not the crisps, the dead people]

Gah! Just the site of it makes me want to be sick. Couldn't do some biology experiments at school coz of it!

Same with velvet, I would make those pink and purple velvet tracksuits illegal if I had my way. Ugh! The feel of it makes me want to rip my nails off my hands. Very strange.

And broken bones. particularly bones in the legs...

starbelgrade · 06-01-2010 3:48am

emzolita wrote: »

never heard of anyone else afraid of my biggest fear. Seeds!! not one or two on their own, just when theyre all together stickin up every which way etc (like in a yellow melon, possibly the scariest of all seedy things)

its weird! some things that resemble seeds too, like cobbles that are the small rounded stones. but my fear is only if its 3D, like if the cobbles are causing shade on one side of the stone. or the seeds are all sticking up. *shudder*

I just googled "fear of seeds".. according to WikiAnswers, it says (not kidding) -

"Q: What is a fear of seeds called?

A: Weird."

Numina · 06-01-2010 4:09am

I have an irrational fear of Grey Aliens. Not their behaviour, just their appearance. I'm not as bad as I used to be as a kid, but they still freak me out alright. I remember in the Beano there was an ad for a limited edition flavour of Chewits that had 4 greys in it, and I couldn't bare to have the page open, I just couldn't do it. I never did find out what the Bash Street Kids got up to that week....

Funny thing is that I had a great interest in paranormal stuff and aliens topped the list, so what fascinated me the most was something that I also feared the most. Very ironic.

lalee17 · 06-01-2010 4:22am

Whenever the bus turns a corner (even a gentle corner) I'm always convinced it's going to tip over =/

Futurecrook · 06-01-2010 5:11am

lalee17 wrote: »

Whenever the bus turns a corner (even a gentle corner) I'm always convinced it's going to tip over =/

Same here. Yet I pretty much always insist on sitting upstairs for some reason.

Most of my phobias are ones I seem to share with other people - lifts, wasps, clowns (I blame stephen king's It), porcelain dolls, puppets, manequins... I also hate paintings with children in them. Freak me out. I have no idea why.

Pingu-D · 06-01-2010 7:55am

bosco used terrify the bejesus out of me i have no idea why!

shivvyban · 06-01-2010 9:28am

Anything with dinosaurs in it - was traumatised after Jurassic Park and if I so much as get a glimpse of a dinosaur on tv, etc. I have nightmares for days afterwards...

homerun_homer · 06-01-2010 10:42am

My cousin's girlfriend has a phobia of cheese. If cheese is on someones food she can't even be in the same room she gets that scared. He has to have pizza on the sly without her knowing.
What's funniest is she works in a restaurant. How she gets away with not having a panic attack everyday is beyond me.

sbsquarepants · 06-01-2010 10:54am

sunrise91 wrote: »

Touching my bellybutton. I don't know why, I can't touch it and I can't let other people go near it..

At last, for a long time i feared i was the only one!!

Also cheese and things that look like cheese, especially when abroad i'm convinced them dirty foriegners are slipping cheese into my food thinking i won't notice. Well, not on my watch jose, hell no!!

sbsquarepants · 06-01-2010 10:55am

Homer, your cousin should marry that girl, she sounds just perfect:D

star.chaser · 06-01-2010 11:02am

razor blades. just the thought of one slicing my eye lids off or the tip of my fingers

Originally Posted by Trí

Anything to do with fingernails. That f*cking flicking sound drives me demented.

yeah, have this phobia of my fingernails being ripped off with pliers.

Shivers26 · 06-01-2010 11:05am

Oh here it goes.....

Water features (you know like ornamental ponds)
Driving (never got over a very minor crash - this is just annoying me now)
Swans (dirty evil feckers)

Actually the mirrors at night thing kinda freaks me. I was in hospital for a while when I was a kid and I remember this one night a few of us were sitting up late talking and one of the others said that if you look into a mirror at midnight you will see the devil over your left shoulder. I know its rubbish but I'm still just a little bit afraid to look

..........I'll be in the corner

wixfjord · 06-01-2010 11:06am

I dont know whether its a phobia or not but I cant handle cardboard or hear the noise thats made when you pull that box tape off cardboard! I literally shiver when I hear that!! Eugh even thinking about it now :P I think its something to do with the dryness.

wixfjord · 06-01-2010 11:07am

Trí wrote: »

The wooden stick in an ice pop. Freaks me out - hate sucking the ice cream off it.
Mannequins, ventriloquist dolls, porcelain dolls. DIE

Anyone touching the back of my knees. Hate that feeling.

Anything to do with fingernails. That f*cking flicking sound drives me demented.

This aswell! Horrible!

zerotolerance · 08-01-2010 12:30pm

Cotton wool, can't stand the feel or thought of it being torn apart......makes me cringe:mad:

Azureus · 08-01-2010 1:35pm

I know loads of people who hate cotton wool... Weird.

Mine are mushrooms (mycophobia) I cannot stand them, weird fungal freaky things. Its actually bizarre how much i hate them and ive never figured out why.

Also not quite a phobia to the extent of the mushroom thing, but I cant sit with my back to people when eating. For example in restaurants, I have to request a table that is in an alcove / booth or something where waiting staff/general people wont be passing behind me. I have gone so far as to cancel dinner reservations when Ill be in an aisle seat because I know that I wont be able to relax and enjoy my meal.

*I am not a totally neurotic freak despite how this post makes me sound

BraziliaNZ · 08-01-2010 1:37pm

i have a terrible phobia of ketchup

dragona · 08-01-2010 1:53pm

And its not that I don't like them, it is a totally irrational fear of them. I am petrified - that they will burst, or fall on me, or start to squeak, or...or...:eek: My skin crawls just thinking about them.

NoDice · 08-01-2010 1:59pm

I'm freaked out by bald men and men whom don't have hair on their legs. Had the weirdest nightmare about a completely hairless guy and have been freaked out since!! Can't even watch the men's olympic swim! *shudder* :eek::o

Mars Bar · 08-01-2010 2:25pm

NoDice wrote: »

I'm freaked out by bald men and men whom don't have hair on their legs. Had the weirdest nightmare about a completely hairless guy and have been freaked out since!! Can't even watch the men's olympic swim! *shudder* :eek::o

Or the Tour De France...

rjb80 · 08-01-2010 2:32pm

I have a fear of developing a phobia.

Captain_Generic · 08-01-2010 3:08pm

rjb80 wrote: »

I have a fear of developing a phobia.

Phobophobia

What are your odd phobias?

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