Strange fears as a kid.

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I had phobias of things I probably really should't be afraid of. Usualy just certian TV shows. Someone would say something and I would be afraid of it or anthing that resimbled it. They sure had some strange cartoons in the 90's. I think some of my obesssions were fear based. This cartoon was so popular at school I just couldn't get away from it. Any boy who had an anthropromoprhic mouse figurine was instantaly popular. And if they had the motorcycles they were even more popular. So to cope, I forced myself to become intrested in it. Heaven forbid I even get remotley intrested in anything because I just can't have a normal intrest. It automaticaly becomes an obesssion. So this cartoon was a new obsession for me. Lion King was still King though. I was no longer scared of it.

There was a game my mother brought home because it was on sale. I think it was the video game for the Robin Williams movie, "Toys". I don't know much about the movie or the video game tie-in but I think you were supposed to be running a toy factory. Everynow in then a pait of binoculiars/spy glasses shapped like an elephant would pop up. It was really a spy from a rival toy factory looking through them or something like that. And to distract him you were supposed to spray water on the eyes of the elephant shapped binocliars. My videogame addict brother makes a comment to his frind or one of my other video game addict brothers who isn't famiair with the game, "You're supposed to poke it's eyes out!" I had no problem with the game until he made that comment. I would always sit on the couch watching my brothers play video-games. I was fine until the little elephant head shaped thing would pop up and then I would have an anxiety attack. My mother swears she thought I was having a heart attack.


Years later my brother took my neice and I too see Stuart Little or the Toy Story sequel and one of the trailers for a new movie freaked me out so bad I told myself the next time I go to a theater I'm going to wait in the lobby and have my brother or parents come get me when the movie started. Do you know what movie that was? My all time favortite: Titan A.E.? I still don't know what it was that set me off. But then I was so anxious back then anything about it could have set me off. I suspect it had something to do with the heavy metal music in the background of the trailer. I wasn't a metal head back then (Kinda ironic Titan A.E. is what got me intrested into rock and metal music.) I also wasn't into space movies or space anything back then. (Titan A.E. is what got me into them too.) I had pretty much forgotton about it until once night when I was browsing channels really LATE and something caught my eye. The same movie that scared me so much. I disided to watch it and see what it was really like. I figured it would just be some dumb cartoon and a waste of animators efforts and that I would change the channel to something more intresting in the next five minnutes. It was the opposite of what I thought and I thought about what it might look like in theatures. I wanted to kick myself for being scared of it and missing everyting. Yes, there was Titan A.E. related merchindise but I missed it.

The fears I had were real and my mother would yell at me when she saw me in the courner shaking and told me that I had nothing to me afraid of because it wasn't real. After I had an ankiety attack she returned the game to the store and they refused to take it but she got really mad and FORCED them to take it.

Seeing things underwater. Like being underwater and seeing the underside of a boat.

As a kid I thought if you left your clothes in the dryer too long, they shrink into the size of Barbie clothes because that is what my mother told me when I was 5. So every time the dryer buzzed, I would open the door to turn it off. Then when I was seven, I got my sock all wet from a mud puddle so my teacher was drying it in the kitchen (we had a washer and dryer in there) and it buzzed and I got scared because they didn't take the sock out because I thought it was going to shrink. The teachers kept telling me it will not turn into a Barbie sock and I didn't beleive them. So while the teacher was reading us a story, I sat there the whole time fretting over my sock. Then when the teacher finally took it out, I saw it was the same size as it was before and figured out my mother was wrong.

I had fear of toilets as a young child because it had a hole in it and when you flushed it, everything went down so I thought I'd go down too if I fell in. Maybe that's why my mother couldn't potty train me. No matter how hard she tried, I wasn't succeeding in it so she put me back in diapers. Then when I was potty trained, I only wanted to use my potty chair, never the toilets. No matter how hard the day care teachers tried, I ended up wetting myself. They would not let me use the potty chair so I refused to go.

I used to be scared of the shadow above my bed my lamp left. It just creeped me out.

I used to be scared of having my hair washed.

I had fear of water going over my head. I had tubes in my ears so they hurt every time water got in them.


I also had a fear of :

Shots
Germs
Getting dirty
Getting sweaty
Balloon popping
Dogs

I was simply terrified of having to stand up and speak in class. I'd be okay with just giving a quick answer when called upon. I mean, I'd get a little jittery and sick feeling, but it lasted such a short time it was tolerable. In the fifth grade (age 10) was when we first had to start getting up and talking in front of the class, and that terrified me so much I would shake and not be able to speak at all. It was definitely more severe and debilitating than most people's public speaking fear, but I don't think it counts as a "weird" fear.

grown-ups and people i didn't know. (that meant people beyond my family.)

Same here I'd start crying. One time I asked the people from my group to help me, one of them was one of those Black girls who had a attitude, and insisted that she already took her turn while I was screaming and crying for her to help me. I'm sorry if that sounds racist, but she did happen to be Black, and have that attitude. Sometimes stereotypes are true. I don't see what pride has to do with a group of people who ask for acceptance on one hand, then act cruelly towards everyone around them while complaining they're the ones who are the victims. Seems more like a bullying mentality to me.

I was afraid of drills and fire alarms because of the sounds they made. In fact I even remember standing at the kitchen table when I was 4 because of once the smoke alarm went off.. and I refused to sit because I expected the smoke alarm to go off so I would be up to run immediately. I even remember my mother becoming annoyed with me. I also had a fear of foam (like in stuffed animals) and not sure what triggered that. I also had an extreme fear of vomit which.. by the way hasn't changed in one bit! As for everything else.. I overcame in time. But the emetophobia has stayed with me since, probably since I was a toddler.

Smoke alarms used to scare me as a kid. I remember my first fire drill and I remember how scary that was every time it went off, but then I got used to it so it wasn't as loud. But my mother told me all kids get scared when they have their first fire drill. But the difference is, they get used to it like I did vs autistics don't.


But the ones in my high school were loud.