Weird Phobias

Terry Cotta · 13-03-2010 06:23PM

I've got hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - a fear of long words....

Hank_Jones · 13-03-2010 06:24PM

pikachucheeks wrote: »

I have a phobia of milk.
Drinking it, seeing it being poured ... ugh.

My cousin would never drink milk growing up.
Would always have Apple juice on cereal.
It resulted in him becoming a very, very short adult.

Hank_Jones · 13-03-2010 06:26PM

Terry Cotta wrote: »

I've got hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - a fear of long words....

Googled that one as I thought you were making that word up.

Turns out you weren't.

misstierney · 13-03-2010 06:54PM

I have an innate fear of my feet being uncovered in bed. I often wake up in a panic when I realise my feet are poking out of the duvet. I'm aware it's a bit odd but I have it in my head that something will grab them if I don't wrap the quilt around them.

Also, a friend of mine has a phobia of sticky paper or stickers. Her mother thinks it's from when she had a nasty experience at the dentist and he stuck a sticker on her. Honest!

krustydoyle · 13-03-2010 07:13PM

Mine is pillows... fcuking hate them going over my head or anywhere near my head... its a childhood thing... im in my mid 20's now and it still frightens the bejesus out of me:mad::(

Hank_Jones · 13-03-2010 07:23PM

krustydoyle wrote: »

Mine is pillows... fcuking hate them going over my head or anywhere near my head... its a childhood thing... im in my mid 20's now and it still frightens the bejesus out of me:mad::(

Just out of interest, what do you lie your head on to sleep at night?

bazmaiden · 13-03-2010 07:43PM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Just out of interest, what do you lie your head on to sleep at night?

a nice pair of breasts:D

Chicken breasts

Vanbis · 13-03-2010 07:54PM

I know someone who has a Phobia of Mirrors. I asked how he shaved and he said he has always used an electric shaver and hasnever had a wet shave in his life. Crazzzy.

AfterDusk · 13-03-2010 08:22PM

Afraid of heights, and slightly afraid of flying. They're not weird at all right? Thing is.......

I'm starting cabin crew training at the end of the month and my goal is to be a pilot.

krustydoyle · 13-03-2010 10:48PM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Just out of interest, what do you lie your head on to sleep at night?

A folded up Hoodie i've had for years.. does the job anyways..:D

gagiteebo · 13-03-2010 11:37PM

DublinWriter wrote: »

Trypophobia.

Don't ever google a pic of a Lotus seed. You have been warned!

I'm not afraid of lots of circles but something about the lotus seed makes me feel very ill....ugh can't look at that again

Teutorix · 13-03-2010 11:38PM

This thread is about weird phobias, which is redundant.

A phobia is an irrational fear, hence strange by definition.

So anything like heights, poisonous amimals, potentially dangerous situations, are not phobias.

Personally insects and arachnids of all descriptions creep the **** out of me.

*NSFW*
http://blog.synthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/larva.jpg

Jumpy · 13-03-2010 11:41PM

Chalk. Cant go near the stuff or see someone using it.

Jumpy · 13-03-2010 11:42PM

Teutorix wrote: »

This thread is about weird phobias, which is redundant.

A phobia is an irrational fear, hence strange by definition.

So anything like heights, poisonous amimals, potentially dangerous situations, are not phobias.

Personally insects and arachnids of all descriptions creep the **** out of me.

*NSFW*
http://blog.synthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/larva.jpg

I want to look at it more because its boobs. But I want to look away because its weird.
Its still boobs though.

Teutorix · 13-03-2010 11:44PM

Jumpy wrote: »

I want to look at it more because its boobs. But I want to look away because its weird.
Its still boobs though.

DILEMMA!

Cheap Thrills! · 13-03-2010 11:44PM

I can't bear cockroaches. I lived abroad some years back and there were HUGE flying cockroaches...

They scare the living sh!t outta me. The ghastly heavy noise of their armoured filthy bodies hitting off the tiles, the way they survive even the crush of a flip flop and head off malevolently to complete their sinister business with legs off and half a head....euuurghh....:(

I would far prefer a pit of snakes anyday than a pit of cockroaches.

EEUURRRGGHHH !!!

:eek:

Quaver · 13-03-2010 11:54PM

Daddy-long-legs...they are all plotting and conspiring to kill me, I know it. Can't go into a room with one in it.

Also terrified of being locked into a toilet, so I hardly ever lock the door, which is fine if I'm with friends who know about it, but it has led to some extremely embarassing occasions.:(

Teutorix · 14-03-2010 12:03AM

Quaver wrote: »

Daddy-long-legs...they are all plotting and conspiring to kill me, I know it. Can't go into a room with one in it.

Also terrified of being locked into a toilet, so I hardly ever lock the door, which is fine if I'm with friends who know about it, but it has led to some extremely embarassing occasions.:(

My bedroom window was left open with my light on by my mother and the place was crawling with them, i slept on the loveseat in my computer room which wasn't comfortable due to me being 6ft tall

Quaver · 14-03-2010 12:07AM

Teutorix wrote: »

My bedroom window was left open with my light on by my mother and the place was crawling with them, i slept on the loveseat in my computer room which wasn't comfortable due to me being 6ft tall

ugh I'm getting freaked out now just thinking about them, they're just wrong and they serve no purpose in the world!

degausserxo · 14-03-2010 12:11AM

Cotton wool is disgusting. The thought of pulling it apart actually makes me wanna cry.

Teutorix · 14-03-2010 12:15AM

nicegirl wrote: »

Not afraid of spiders, heights or anything like that. Phobia of approaching lads I like though

Is that not just ordinary social awkwardness though?

nicegirl · 14-03-2010 12:21AM

Teutorix wrote: »

Is that not just ordinary social awkwardness though?

Thats true. Shyness as well though, just something I can't do!

scallywags · 14-03-2010 12:47AM

My girlfriends have a phobia of ugly guys in fact one of them dropped out of college cos she couldnt hack this chap who hung around with the two good looking males.

lintdrummer · 14-03-2010 12:51AM

neil_18_ wrote: »

Biting the sleeve of my uniform as a kid... I still shudder when i think about it...

not a phobia as such, but makes me cringe just thinking about it

Thank God I'm not alone! Oh I can't even think about it. Hate it. Ugh.

Teutorix · 14-03-2010 12:52AM

scallywags wrote: »

My girlfriends have a phobia of ugly guys in fact one of them dropped out of college cos she couldnt hack this chap who hung around with the two good looking males.

More than one? care to spread the love, I have a phobia of loneliness.

Hank_Jones · 14-03-2010 01:09AM

scallywags wrote: »

My girlfriends have a phobia of ugly guys in fact one of them dropped out of college cos she couldnt hack this chap who hung around with the two good looking males.

I honestly didn't understand that sentence.
At least I think it was a sentence, of some sort.

1mcampo1 · 14-03-2010 01:15AM

Feet make me cringe like mad........not sure why though?!?

bazmaiden · 14-03-2010 01:17AM

scallywags wrote: »

My girlfriends have a phobia of ugly guys in fact one of them dropped out of college cos she couldnt hack this chap who hung around with the two good looking males.

by phobia you mean ignorance/arrogance/delusions of grandeur on their part

Canard · 14-03-2010 01:19AM

Not a fear per se, but anyone else hate breaking styrofoam?

gagiteebo wrote: »

I'm not afraid of lots of circles but something about the lotus seed makes me feel very ill....ugh can't look at that again

Agreed. It reminds me of dead skin on my feet.

Teutorix · 14-03-2010 01:21AM

bazmaiden wrote: »

by phobia you mean ignorance/arrogance/delusions of grandeur on their part

Are they still delusions of grandeur if you really are better than everyone else?

Patchy~ wrote: »

Not a fear per se, but anyone else hate breaking styrofoam?

Ah you bollix, shivers down my spine now. :pac:

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