Nurvous of Heights/ladders climbing? is it an aspie 'thing'?

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I don't fear heights per se, but I am really clumsy and always afraid that I will fall. I have never fallen from a height, but I often trip over things.

I used to have a strong fear of heights. At the same time I liked hiking and climbing mountains. So I was forcing myself up and down rocky outcrops and across rock walls, usually trembling and crying of fear. Not only I had to battle the fear but also embarrassment if any onlookers were present ("I didn't know that men could be so frightened" - one of the comments I heard). But the sweet "I did it" feeling made me conquer more mountains. One day in my early 20s I hiked a place that was particularly difficult for someone with a fear of heights (traversing a vertical rock wall on metal supports fastened to the rock, with nothing but river below). The trauma was so intense that it flipped some switch in my head, and, as I discovered later that day, my fear of heights was gone. It has not bothered me since.

I am very afraid of heights. Can't even go near the window in a skyscraper observation platform for fear i'll fall.

Strangely, it wasn't always like that... as a little kid, age 6 or 7, I loved to climb trees, would go way up in the pines near our house. Nothing traumatic happened, I just changed.

btw... as a 3-4 year old i stepped into a yellowjacket nest, had to go to hospital. was thereafter allergic to them... but wasn't stung at all between ages 8 and 16, and during that 8-year hiatis my allergy went away.

The only heights I'm afraid of are stairs without hand rails, particularly gym bleachers. We were doing a run up and down the field house bleachers during a college phys ed class. I got to the top, looked down and froze when I saw how far down it was. I finally got the courage to go down but I still didn't feel safe without something to hold onto while going down.

I don't like ladders but if I'm not climbing heights (ex I am in a roller coaster) it is fine. I also don't like walking down stairs; I walk fast all the time save for going down stairs.

I have a phobia of heights, only I have T.S., not A.S.

Someone told me to imagine a spider on me all day and it didnt help.

Im not scared of heights in a plane.

Petrified. I don't even like standing on a chair, and I once had a panic attack on some stairs - they were really wide, with very few people (we were on tour, so there were about 40 of us straggling along) and I was in the middle. But I had a full-blown panic attack nonetheless; they weren't particularly high either. I've almost had panic attacks on the stairs at school too.

Sorry, but fears like heights are a normal human thing.

yeah, scared to death of heights. and being on a stepladder. get a kind of vertigo thing going.

but when i was a little kid i climbed trees like a monkey and it didn't bother me at all. i just came on when i hit my teens and fell off the roof.

duh.