what is your fear? and childlike fears

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Like those children that go sleep in their parents beds, I am afraid of sleeping by myself. I always sleep with my sister or grandmother. When I go to bed I am afraid of the dark so I leave the lights on. I am also very afraid of horror movies so I never ever watch any horror scene and run away from the room/house. I am 19 so when people see those fears they laugh at it.
So I was wondering, do other aspies also have "childlike" fears? Also, what are your fears? (I mean simple fears, not things like "I fear the other political party will win the elections" or other adult fears. I have those too but this is not the point of this topic)

I'm afraid of heights. if I'm at the top of even a few stairs with no railing, I sit down and scoot down on my posterior.

I face my fears. Sometimes it doesn't work very well. Heights is a big one. I have gone skydiving though. I cannot go and see someone at the hospital without getting pure white. I have fainted before. It is not really fear though. More like someone stealing my chi. I don't go.

i fear being alone in public like i could never go out alone at night also i have an irrational fear of being preyed upon i am so hyper vigilant i feel id more than likely maim or kill someone it i were to be mugged or attacked that fact also scares me

on a side not is it common for people with asd to think in that sort of way in dally life ?

I have an intense fear of heights. I also have a fear of machine guns and the possibility of another holocaust happening in America this time, the way the autism senators are talking. I'm also scared of the dark and I have a huge fear of rising sea levels that could engulf most of the cities on Earth.

I have a fear of Fire and getting burnt alive, I had a nightmare when I was younger about being caught in a burning building it was really scary.

My biggest fear is of losing myself. I don't know how to explain this to someone who has never experienced it, but sheer terror. I didn't even know I was experiencing this at various times, many times daily during my life. I knew I had fear but did not realize it was terror. The fear was kind of abstract to me even though I knew I was experiencing something. I was not in touch with the great dimension of it as I was too busy doing anything to alleviate it, and yet, because of moving away from it, stuck in the cycle. Was looking through some of my old messages today looking for the brain damage stuff and found this: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp5455998.html#5455998 . Also, I used to be very afraid of death until less than a year ago, but amazingly and quite miraculously finally worked through it by making intense efforts to face it, and I do not have that fear anymore, which is a wonderful feeling.

I think the thread I recently started, Autism And The Lost Plane, relates to this fear of losing myself and also to having special interests which is one thing that made me feel safe.. I thought the interest was me. Another thing is possessions, which definitely represented "me" to 'me.' The special interest angle I have come to begin understand about myself only very recently. I am in the process of being born into a world of wonderful freedom. It is a very incredible experience. A very slow process for me though. but one step at a time/

bees, apiphobia. if a bee comes along I go in the opposite direction poste-haste. if one lands on me I go "AAAAGHGHAGGH!! !" and shake it off violently and run. believe me, you don't wanna be in a car with me and a bee trapped inside.

For some reason it breaks my heart to read this thread. Linatet I hate that people would laugh at you for your fears. I am sorry that they would be so insensitive. I have very childlike fears too. it's weird though because I can't seem to identify them. I feel the fear but can't place my finger on what it is exactly. And I know that it is not just one thing. It's almost like the fear is not so concrete. Does anyone else feel like that? I get a very childlike separation anxiety with a relative that I am very close to. I also have irrational fears like I have hurt people when I have not. But it's very difficult for me to identify why I feel what I feel sometimes.

My worst fears (that I can easily identify) are:
- Spiders - but I learned to deal with them, I just catch them into a glass and let them free outside the house.
- Railroads - I always feel like the train is going to pop out from nowhere and run me down, even if the railroad is not used and really old.
- Vacuum cleaner - the sound makes me crazy. I escape from the room right after my cats do.
- Syringes (well... the needle is what scares me, not the syringe). - I get a panic attack when they try to give me a shot. My heart races like crazy and my whole body shakes so I need to use a lot of my self-control to sit still and let them do it. When I was a child I couldn't control myself and I was literally running all over the place and 3 people had to hold me to give me 1 shot. And I still was able to break the needle while trying to escape from them.

When I was a child I also used to be afraid of the sounds of my house. I had to fall asleep with a radio turned on next to my bed. But I got over it already.

I don't have any childlike fears. My fears are quite common in the general population. And so are a lot of the fears listed in this thread.

I just hope that a holocaust doesn't happen in England in my lifetime, I'm sorry but I really really cannot be tortured alive, I have an extremely low threshold for pain and extreme cold temperatures and hunger, I really cannot be thrown into a f*****g concentration camp and have all my NT family and friends just going on living normal lives, that will be so f*****g UNFAIR IT CANNOT HAPPEN NOW YOU GOT ME SCARED s**t.

I knew Autism was a bad thing, all this time I've been told to embrace having it and open up about it to everyone and everything, but f**k that no way, why would I if the whole world wants me dead for being on the spectrum????????????????????????????????????

I'm intensely afraid of tall buildings/high buildings. They evoke fear within me, particularly construction cranes. I want to run and hide whenever I see a construction crane. Sometimes I want to curl up and cry too.

I don't know if it's fear, but I have this powerful emotion if I am in an intense crowd and am being shoved and pushed in all directions, This usually leads to a meltdown but if it doesn't, I'm always left shaking and trembling afterwards.

having to perform for anybody. it makes me freeze often.

Fear of the concept of death, purpose of life and other stupid stuff that made my life a hell :s
I just wish i could turn of thinking when i am alone...
So yes being alone also scares me because of this
During day time i spend my time at crowded places and observe other people doing their things (it makes my mind at ease)
If anyone else has had this problem how did you cope with this? Reading books, internet, tvshows before sleeping helps me a bit but not always....

loss of any kind, and pain of any kind. sharp pokey things skewering my flesh. disability. losing my marbles. slow painful death with protracted disability, just like how my old man died. losing my senses. being a forlorn denizen of a nursing home, with just enough marbles left to know what I used to be and what I've lost, and how long I've got to be stuck there until the boatman comes and takes me away.