Were you a fearful child?

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I can still remember some of them - and often it was very hard to explain because it wasn't just the image that was the problem it was the context or intensity. Don't know if that really makes any sense. I was trying to tell someone else about that when their child on the spectrum was upset but they couldn't figure it out because they didn't think anything they saw was scary. Well - it may have been scary for the child though for any number of reasons. I saw lots of things on TV that really freaked me out when I was a kid, like one old episode of the Twilight Zone. Alot of this I attributed to OCD - and I still avoid watching scary movies and things like that for which my husband thinks I am a baby.

My biggest fear was that I had accidentally done something and would make my parents mad at me.It didnt stop me from defying them when my mom wanted me to wear a dress to school(I would tell her I couldnt because it was gym day or we were going on a field trip)but I was terrified she would find out I was lying.

I also feared having a foot or hand off the edge of the bed and surrounded myself with my stuffed animals as protection.My mom said I often woke her up in the middle of the night screaming(Some of the nightmares were about her)I loved the scary movies on the late show and sneak out of bed to watch them but the only ones that scared me were "The Blob" and movies with little kids singing nursery rhymes.....*shudder*

I wasnt afraid of walking in the woods alone or of bugs like some kids....the scariest thing to me is people.

I was afraid of spiders, heights (got over both)
And terrified of the fisiotherapists place (the first time i went there with my mom, she had an appoinment there and didn't know were to put me so she took me along, it smelled funny and there was a painting on the wall of a docter massaging a person, but in the painting the docter stripped all the flesh of the bones of the person lying there, that totally freaked me out and gave me a phobia for funny smelling medical related places for a loooooong time, especially after i had to get vaccination like any other kid and i saw kids going in there like nothing was happening but they would all come out crying. It took 4 doctors to get me in there and i was 6 at the time :p)

I'm kind of like Beenthere,

I always thought about dangers, and tried to avoid them. As for heights? If there is a REASONABLE chance I COULD fall without stopping, I get apprehensive.

STILL, I was once on a path that eventually got to be about 5 inches! I wish I remembered the exact place. I was kind of scared there. What was the REAL chance of getting hurt? Well, I COULD have fallen over 500 feet, and over 11 people there DID die that year. I know that because it was listed on an official warning sign. I trusted the organizers, and ended up in a postion where I couldn't stop without andangering others as well.

I also took the aerial tramway in palm springs. That seemed a bit scary. I'm ok with most buildings, and planes.

Steve

I was a pretty unique kid in terms of fears. I was afraid of things that other children (and to a lesser extend, adults...) laughed at me for, but I was very fearless in actually dangerous situations.

Yes, yes it does. There was this one episode of the Smurfs where something happened to Father Time's hourglass that caused the sun to rise and set very, very quickly. I couldn't stop thinking about it for days, it made me so anxious I remember feeling nauseous. I remember being so afraid but not knowing why. My younger sister watched it with me but wasn't affected.

Yet I also once tried to ride a body-board across the Northumberland Straight (my mom swam after me... a fun day at the beach).



I never had any fears of drowning, falling from heights, being attacked in the dark (although the dark itself to me is unsettling... don't like not being able to see.), driving very fast on the highway... "scary" creatures like rats or spiders... None of the typical fears. Just fears of really strange things... Like time / space being altered. I know how weird this sounds, but it's the best way I can explain!

Also I was a "high-strung" child. Whatever my mother meant by that when she said that I was one. Which was often enough.

I don't know if it's similar or not but I used to worry about the relationship of something really tiny to something really big like a dot in a room or the infinitessimal possibility of something being somewhere at a certain time.... It was very weird. I had a nightmare about a spidery thing that knew where I was in the whole universe and tracked me down just to terrify me and turned up at the front door of our house..........weird!! !! I had hideously terrifying nightmares all the time and had difficulty telling dreams from reality.

The only things I was really afraid of were dogs, bullies, and giant bugs that can hurt. Now I'm just scared of the bullies and bugs. Hey, would you want to get bitten or stung by one of those things?

As a child, I was deathly afraid of the dark. I slept with a night light until I was 14 years old. And now, even as an adult. I still go to sleep with the bathroom light on.

Fearful? Oh, goodness yes.

On one level I knew that there weren't really monsters under the bed, (I wasn't crazy) but that didn't stop me from being frightened of them.

I had a supercharged imagination.

My parents described me as fearless when i was a child, and to an extent it's true, i was never afraid of physical danger or harm (and have the scars to prove it) but i was definetly afraid of my imagination.
The dark was a big issue for me, i used to get nightmares, they weren't too often, but they were very vivid and realistic.
I was also afraid of putting my arms and legs off the mattress, i had this vision of a buzzsaw starting up and cutting them off.
I had patterned wallpaper in my room (never again) and i used to see faces and monsters in it, i developed strict rules about the monsters (and yes, i know they're not real) that istill adhere to today, such as the monsters can't get me after 6 am, which caused me to stay up all night watching out for them.
The only way i can sleep without a light on is if i am not alone, which is why my dog sleeps on my bed, this way the monsters can't get me.

When i was a kid i did fear some things but now not as much.