What are your phobias and do you have any strange ones?

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I can phobic of corpses too, but I am not phobic of death itself. I have no problems with going to funerals or even the idea of being around a body that has not been dead for that long. Just the decaying scares me... in fact I cannot even look at decaying food without the need to run away. Hmmm... but this is the main reason I will not walk into a forest. Not because of the possibility of getting hurt, but because of the idea of finding a body! UGH.

Ah interesting. I'm more scared of ME throwing up, which has generalized to fear of others throwing up for fear I might catch whatever they have. My phobia began after a brief virus when I was 9. It immediately skyrocketed although thankfully over the years has reduced because I haven't gotten sick since I was 14. For a long time though, the flu season was my hell, every year fearing to be around other kids who were wiping their germs all over everything. Every time a kid came back to school and I knew they had been sick with a stomach virus, I would completely avoid them and if they walked passed me in the halls I would hold my breath. If I walked past a place where some kid had thrown up in the hallway (you know they always put those awful smelling crystals over it until the staff could clean it up) I'd also hold my breath. And I also couldn't stand to be around when one of my animals threw up.

Within a few years it generalized to fear of gagging, fear of diarrhea (because when I was 14 I managed to get it coming out of both ends ), and fear of indigestion. At that point I tended to become rather superstitious and remembered that the night I got sick when I was 14, I had forgotten to brush my teeth. After that point, if I was feeling any indigestion I would make sure to brush my teeth (sort of like knocking on wood) before I went to bed.

After the time I was sick at 14, I started having these "attacks". I don't exactly know what they were, whether they were completely somatic or a combination. But I would frequently feel like my tongue was swelling up and like I was about to gag. This went on for probably a solid year and I would always panic and my mother would have to sit with me and try to calm me. I know these "attacks" really scared her too because she had no idea what was going on other than what I told her. It was a horrible sensation, like my tongue was too big and I had every desire to get it out of my mouth! I ended up losing weight because of it, because I would never want to eat when this happened. And then eventually, around age 15 it just went away.

I'm so grateful that my extreme phobia has reduced in severity over the years. Like I said, I started learning that it's harder to catch a virus than I once thought. Plus, in adults the flu tends to cause respiratory symptoms whereas in kids it can also cause GI upset. So if I catch the flu nowadays, it's just respiratory which I can handle. And also once I moved out at 19 and I had my own animals, I couldn't make my mother clean up the cat vomit so I had to bite the bullet and do it myself. It was hard at first. Truth be told, I'd normally leave it sit for awhile until I could get up the nerve. But it eventually got easier and now I have no troubles cleaning up after the cats.

Even though I'm much calmer about throwing up nowadays, I still don't know how I'll react if I do throw up again in future. It's been so long, almost 14 years. Will I be as panicked as I used to get? No idea. But I have learned one thing: having a full blown panic attack while being sick to one's stomach successfully stops one from being sick, hehe. Apparently, the body can't handle vomiting and utter panic at the same time.

My phobia is snow. I hate when it snows, and the paths are slippery, and the buses come at unpredictable times, and everythings held up and disrupted, and all the schools close so there's no peace in the streets, and getting snowballs thrown at me by horrible types of teenagers, and the air freezing which causes more snow to come, and the roads icing up and increases more car crashes, and having to wear extra clothing, and....ohh, so many things. That'd be one phobia overcome if I lived in India where there's hot weather all the time.....*sigh*....

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Roller coasters.

I hate seeing strands of hair lying around. I don't know if I necessarily fear it, but it just grosses me out.

Birds. Goddamn birds.

My phobias:
Vomit, buses, people, bacteria, clowns, crossing streets, heights, insects, blood, bruises, laughter, anxiety, purple clothes, cellphones, darkness, medication, horses, sitting, thunder, wetness.

Spiders, strangers, and heights, depending on the height.

I have a MASSIVE fear of pain, basically, and that's really about it. Oh yeah, and "sticking out", really.

*looks at a spider*

"Huh."

My biggest phobia is cremation and anything related to it. Are there anyone more aspies on here that feel the same way?

Spiders, centipedes, camel back crickets
Storms, especially tornadoes
Getting lost
Strangers
Someone breaking into my house
Germs, sickness, death, etc.

I think i have a couple strange ones

1. People walking behind me - for some reason i just cant handle it! Sometimes i even wait until there is a large enough gap between me and the person behind me before i begin walking.

2. The sound/feeling of serviettes, paddle pop sticks, cotton buds and other things - just hearing this is enough to make my scream in pain!

3. Chemicals - i can't stand the smell of mostly all of cleaning chemicals

4. Social

5. Germs

6. Needles - can't watch anything that has needles in it

I'm afraid of matter.

agoraphobia/social phobia, I fit this to a t. I've heard that it can't really be considered a phobia if it "prevents you from getting to wal mart and back" (I don't shop at wal mart but anyway) basically if it doesn't interfere with your everyday life or keep you from getting out. But fear of being in public or talking to people has kept me at home in certain situations.

batophobia - afraid to look up at tall things like buildings or cranes. as a child i used to be too afraid to look at clouds, and i would cover my head when airplanes went overhead. it is sometimes worse than at other times, and it is especially bad if i have a dropoff nearby - so i can't stand at a cliff's edge and look up at a bird, for example. when riding in a car through the mountains i usually have to take a tranquilizer.

trypophobia - difficulty looking at organic clusters like a group of holes, particularly if there are curled edges. kind of like the holes an old t-shirt will get, but in a cluster. i have a very mild case, but my 16-year-old daughter feels it very strongly - she can't look at faceted bug eyes or honeycombs.

lightning - from a story my dad told me when i was child

needles, heights.

being woken by an alarm clock

death when i was a child but not so much now.