Does anyone else have irrational fears?

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I have very strong claustrophobia.

I was institutionalized nearly two years ago for two weeks and couldn't leave and since this day I have every day the fear that this could happen again. It's an anxiety-trauma thing with OCD-behaviour. But I had the claustrophobia even bevor that. I belive that my claustrophobia caused my symtpoms in that situation.

By some standards you could say I have irrational fears.

the dark
heights
small spaces
poisonous plants
deep water
criminals

Personally I call it survival instinct. I think of irrational fears as being afraid of floating away in open areas, drowning in the bathtub or toast poisoning, that sort of thing.

Fear of spiders. Fear of heights (it seems to be getting better though. When I was younger I couldn't even stand on a footstool to reach stuff without getting scared and panicky). Fear of wasps and bees. Fear of using telephones. Fear of the dark. Some other stuff too, but they're not as serious as the ones I've listed here.

Slugs, rats & earwigs terrify me

Talking on the phone.

People thinking of me as stupid.

Insects, telephone calls, broken plumbing, and abandoned buildings....

I asked that question because I'm not just talking about fears. Like, heights. Almost everyone I know has some fear of heights.

I mean the irrational ones. A fear of worms can be considered irrational, because when was the last time someone's gotten hurt because of a worm?

I also asked because Aspies tend to take fears MUCH farther than NT's. If an NT were afraid of bugs, like me, they would not take it as far as I do. They would be uncomfortable in the presence of a bug, and stay away from it. As for me: Last night I couldn't sleep because there was a tiny mosquito in my room. I had to find it and kill it before I could even get into bed. The NT version of this is an "out of sight, out of mind" approach.

Also, thanks for the replies, I appreciate it

The dark. I can't be in the dark, my mind goes crazy and I start seeing things and figures and hearing all sorts of things, also silence, I can't be in silence, as my mind also goes crazy.

Put the 2 together and I'll start making whinging whining moaning noises and probably start flapping and rocking.

I have to have the TV on when I sleep as it's noise, as well as a "nightlight". I've never slept without it on.

I don't like opening can's either, not cans of beans, but cans of fizzy drink. It takes me a while to open it and I squirm when I do it because I think it's going to explode like a bomb on me. I always avoid using cans where I can.

I know a lot of people who are afraid of spiders, and in the UK the general big black ones don't often bite yet most people are scared of them. I know a lot of women who would literally scream at a spider, and even worry that it's gone in their hair or on their back when it's still just on the floor or on the wall (I'm no exception!)

I have fears but they aren't irrational, they are all most for a reason that is either life-threatening or really not very nice to happen to you. Maybe snow is an irrational fear, but even then that comes from social phobia because of the fear of slipping on ice and causing attention drawn to me, (whether it's good or bad), which then stems from fear of humiliation. But fear of snow also comes from some sort of feelings of insecurity when being unable to see grass or concrete.

I am a little weird about my fear of heights.
I would love to go skydiving but am terrified of being on a tall ladder!

I'm kind of the same way. I ride roller coasters, I want to go to the Empire State Building (my mom says tickets are too expensive), I want to skydive, but when I help my dad out with something, I can't get up on the ladder

Death by choking.....

When I was a kid I had an irrational fear of spiders and the dark. I slept on the living room couch for nine months because there was a tiny spider in a corner of the window in my room and my mother refused to kill it.

I can't do a somersault or stand on my head because I'm afraid that my neck will snap.
I won't dive into a pool because I'm afraid that I'll hit my head on the bottom, no matter how deep it is. If someone were to point a gun at me and tell me to do a somersault or dive into a pool or else they'd shoot me, I'd be dead.

Not anymore, but as a preteen and teen, I did use to have a very serious fear of illnesses. It was a phobia.

I have a fear of slugs, whenever it rains, these slimy slugs start sliding out of the ground and when I see them, I scream "eww!" I just can't look at them, they scare me.

I also have emetophobia, fear of vomit. If I see vomit or someone else vomiting, I get nervous and my heart starts racing to the point where I feel like I'm going to have a panic attack.