What's Ye ~ Less Usual ~ Phobia ?

failinis · 30-04-2016 08:57AM

I do have a fear of wasps, I just really panic when I think I hear one or see one.
Used to have a bad fear of heights as a child which is slightly better as I got older?

I do have a very strong fear of losing senses or use of my body, like going blind/deaf or paralysis.
Not sure if that is a "phobia" or just a worrier.

30-04-2016 09:41AM

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Crap, really sorry. I didn't mean to help trigger your phobia or anything.

Don't be sorry

I didn't even know it was a phobia!

biko · 30-04-2016 10:06AM

I have a hint of cacophobia, it's pretty crippling

In my hometown we had a beauty contest.
All the local girls signed up.
No-one won..

lawlolawl · 30-04-2016 05:20PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Butterflies indoors.

They flap their wings too fast and fly straight at my head.

Not just me then? :pac:

Insects in general weird me out. They look weird, they move weird, i don't know what they want. Horrible ****ing things.

The worst run in i had with them was when i was in Australia and a dragonfly that was as long and thick as my pointer finger hovered about 3 inches from my face for about 30 seconds and i just froze in terror and had to endure it

Ken. · 30-04-2016 05:22PM

I've mention this before a few years ago on boards. My brother use to go out with a girl who had a friend that had a heart stopping fear of folding a slice of bread in half. She'd get so worked up she would nearly pass out.

hairyslug · 30-04-2016 05:25PM

Bellybuttons (mine and others) and standing in the sea where I can't see my feet but can feel seaweed

failinis · 30-04-2016 06:36PM

ken wrote: »

I've mention this before a few years ago on boards. My brother use to go out with a girl who had a friend that had a heart stopping fear of folding a slice of bread in half. She'd get so worked up she would nearly pass out.

Cutting it in half is okay though?

Two of my tutors have odd phobias, one is scared of buttons (her clothes don't have any) and other is scared of seeds on strawberries (might be tryophobia thing?)

maudgonner · 30-04-2016 07:10PM

Fish.

They freak me out. Horrible flappy, dead-eyed, scaly creatures. With killer teeth. And why anyone would want to eat them, I can't fathom.

And they can walk on land, they're coming to get me!

mohawk · 30-04-2016 07:13PM

I freak out at the idea of walking barefoot on grass. I can't stand seeing someone else doing it either.
Don't really go into the water in the beach anymore in case I step on something like seaweed, crab, worm, basically anything that isn't sand.
It's ridiculous I know, but I can't talk myself out of it.

Touching raw meat. Sends shivers down my spine to even type it.

30-04-2016 07:17PM

Oh my God I really want to Google trypophobia! It's like a weird compulsion.

Who started this feckin thread!

:pac:

J Mysterio · 30-04-2016 07:20PM

maudgonner wrote: »

Fish.

They freak me out. Horrible flappy, dead-eyed, scaly creatures. With killer teeth. And why anyone would want to eat them, I can't fathom.

And they can walk on land, they're coming to get me!

Haha. Do you know whats delicous? Squid. Squid is delicous.

Barry Badrinath · 30-04-2016 07:23PM

I cant look directly up into the sky without holding onto something thats grounded.

If I do, my stomach turns and I think I'm going to float away.

Had to give up playing Hurley because of it.

Stigura · 30-04-2016 07:33PM

lawlolawl wrote: »

Insects ...... I don't know what they want.

Excellent! It's, honestly, never occurred to me to consider what an insect wanted!

That one definitely goes down in the big book of 'Someone in a forum said ....' stories, for down the pub

quadrifoglio verde · 30-04-2016 07:38PM

I've a fear of palindromes. Curse the fecker who thought up the name for it, Aibohphobia

Ninjini · 30-04-2016 07:41PM

mohawk wrote: »

Touching raw meat. Sends shivers down my spine to even type it.

I'm exactly the same, I can't bring myself to touch it. I get a horrible squirming sensation in my stomach. I'm fine once it's cooked.

Sound Bite · 30-04-2016 08:04PM

Clowns really freak me out.

Everything from the make up, grin, falseness etc

Also why would anyone want to dress as a clown, it's a disguise with access to children. Creeps the hell out of me - really nasty undercurrent about it. Leaves me so cold and uncomfortable.

Esel · 30-04-2016 08:08PM

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

I've a fear of palindromes. Curse the fecker who thought up the name for it, Aibohphobia

A man, a plan, a canal - Panama

SEPT 23 1989 · 30-04-2016 08:08PM

The colour red

30-04-2016 08:18PM

Wolf Hanssen wrote: »

I cant look directly up into the sky without holding onto something thats grounded.

If I do, my stomach turns and I think I'm going to float away.

Had to give up playing Hurley because of it.

Me too!! It makes my stomach fall to the ground.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 30-04-2016 08:19PM

Birds. Not all of them, ducks are fine and I can just about manage tiny little ones like chaffinches as long as there's some physical barrier between me and them. The one time I was at Trafalgar square was back when they still had pigeons and I think I set a land speed record.

And yesterday I was feeding the ducks in the canal near my house when the bastarding seagulls arrived. One of them got way too close and I legged it, got about 25 or 30 feet before I realised, shít, I have a seven year old with me, better go back.

tomwaterford · 30-04-2016 08:52PM

Crabs...(not sti type)

They freak the sh1t outta me the way they scurry about with the crab hands (??)...
I do go to beach and had even the sight of dead ones washed in gives me the heeby jeebies

I'm not too gone on scorpions/lobsters etc....don't mind pictures but any them nature programmes where I see them like live....just fcking hate it

J Mysterio · 30-04-2016 09:47PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

They freak the sh1t outta me the way they scurry about with the crab hands (??)...

:pac:

30-04-2016 10:10PM

I can't drink out of dark mugs.

Also hate the idea of things going under water that don't live there. Like I couldn't watch a documentary about submarines! I get that 'someone walking over your grave' feeling but worse!

Shint0 · 30-04-2016 10:47PM

Marcus Crooked Bridle wrote: »

Birds. Not all of them, ducks are fine and I can just about manage tiny little ones like chaffinches as long as there's some physical barrier between me and them. The one time I was at Trafalgar square was back when they still had pigeons and I think I set a land speed record.

Snap!
I could never walk through Trafalgar Square. I always had to walk around it.
I'm not so bad around birds now compared to when I was younger but I still could never touch one or pick one up. My heart nearly stops if one ever gets into the house through an open window. At least we get a fancy title for all our suffering - ornithophobes :cool:

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 30-04-2016 10:53PM

Shint0 wrote: »

Snap!
I could never walk through Trafalgar Square. I always had to walk around it.
I'm not so bad around birds now compared to when I was younger but I still could never touch one or pick one up. My heart nearly stops if one ever gets into the house through an open window. At least we get a fancy title for all our suffering - ornithophobes :cool:

Stop. Stop! I'm a total bleeding heart eejit about animals as well so if I see a bird hurt I have to help it, but I'd be actually in tears while I'm doing it.

Accidentally opened a gif on reddit once of someone who had AN OWL IN THEIR HOUSE. Like as a pet. One of those huge motherfcukers with the talons and beak that'd take your eyes out and the cold dead eyes of a demon. Had nightmares

Shint0 · 30-04-2016 11:08PM

Marcus Crooked Bridle wrote: »

Stop. Stop! I'm a total bleeding heart eejit about animals as well so if I see a bird hurt I have to help it, but I'd be actually in tears while I'm doing it.

Accidentally opened a gif on reddit once of someone who had AN OWL IN THEIR HOUSE. Like as a pet. One of those huge motherfcukers with the talons and beak that'd take your eyes out and the cold dead eyes of a demon. Had nightmares

We had one of those stuffed birds back in the day when people thought having stuffed animals in the house was a key part of the decor. My family used chase me around the house with it when I was a kid trying to get it to peck me. Oh the cruelty! I could never go in the room alone where it was kept because I always thought it was staring at me with its beady eye perched on top of the glass cabinet. I think the fecker is gone now. I don't recall seeing it for a long time.

fima · 30-04-2016 11:20PM

Slugs and snails. I can't even think about them but I had to because of the thread title. My little boy brought me in a present from the garden the other day. It was a slug. I considered pouring bleach on my hands.

Deer · 30-04-2016 11:26PM

Tidal waves... whenever I am near water they are on my mind. Will only go to beaches with high cliffs and always have an escape plan when near the sea. Completely irrational I know!

Stigura · 30-04-2016 11:59PM

JanaMay wrote: »

Quarries freak me out.

Now, this caught my eye. For some reason, Quarries have always came to my minds eye as places with big, deep, still pools on them. Slatey black rock faces, surrounding even blacker, stiller bodies of dark, foreboding water.

Fcuk That! Schit could be in that water ....!

We on the same page? Or, are ye just freaked out by rock faces?

I don't mind cliffs and such. But, still, dark water tightens my rusty nut. Hate it.

Andrewf20 · 01-05-2016 12:04AM

maudgonner wrote: »

I've heard of something like that. It's called Trypophobia (fair warning, there's an image on that page that might set you off), a fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. Things like seed heads, sponges, bubbles, pomegranates and...honeycomb

ETA: Damn! Beaten to it

Suriname toad. Jesus wept.

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