balloon phobia?

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MG wrote " Poor baloons.

I hate sudden bangs. Ooh. Working on bicycles. If a tyre explodes it leaves me petrified for days!"

I hate sudden bangs, too. The reason I do that, is because in the past, I'll leave them up for too long, and I just want things restored to normality. They start to smell weird, and deflate as the days/weeks go on, and it jst feels wrong to have them up beyond a certain time. Also, I have cats, and don't want them getting a fright if I take them down and let the balloons stay on the floor. They could easily pop them with their claws, and they are just a terrified as children on the spectrum of loud, unexpected noises. It's kinder for everyone if I remove them when I do ... .

When I was 7 I spent a week staying with my aunt, uncle and my cousins. I walked with one of my cousins to the village shop, which involved a three quarters of a mile walk along the farm track. We didn't have much money, so we couldn't buy much (Not that the village shop sold a lot), so we ended up buying a roll or two of caps each.
We decided to tear them into single caps and put them in the chicken pen with my aunties chickens. We found it amusing. The chickens had short memories... Peck peck BANG!
That evening, as it was summer, we went to bed and it was still daylight outside. We could still hear the caps going off.

About two weeks later my aunt and uncle and cousins came to visit and my aunt said to my mum "I don't know why but my chickens have stopped laying". It was years afterwards that I put the two events together as to why they were not laying.

Haha. Yes.

I'm not too fond of balloons but I tolerate them.

My mum on the other hand... we had balloons as kids from various celebrations and birthday parties. She couldn't stand them and made us keep them in our bedrooms until they deflated.

Someone brought up the point of how releasing masses of them into the air can be damaging to the environment. Especially to animals who eat them accidentally or on purpose and get them caught in their digestive tract. Not good.

I feel like I can't relate to other people on WP at all. All the things they hate or have sensory issues things are things I usually like. Such as chewing gum, the smell and taste of cinnamon, and balloons.

We just hate nothing in common.

I love balloons, I do have a fetish for them, but I have had meltdowns in the past when they’ve popped or when I see them somewhere, I would have put my hands on my ears and closed them to block out the noise, I still hate when they pop though, can’t stand it.

Facts: Balloons have an annoying noise when you rub them and loud explosion sound. In a movie, Joker uses large balloons to exterminate NTs.

Hypothesis: Spergs and autists may develop a fear of balloons and/or clowns due to one or more of these reasons. NTs may be less balloonphobic because their brains are less stimulated and/or they have less memory capacity and/or less fear response/fear chemicals.

Theory 1: Some percentage of gay male homosexuals may be due to balloonphobia. Female breasts and female butts resemble balloons. This could also explain why the political left seems to be more anti-gun, because balloons sound like guns.

Theory 2: Balloonphobia can be reduced or cured by giving earplugs to children and adults. When the balloon is exploded by the child or adult the balloon noise is drastically reduced to a comfortable volume, after a while the anxiety is gone.

my older brother and sister knew I was afraid of balloons even when I was just a toddler and would sneak up on me and pop them behind my back to startle me...to their never ending glee! Even as a young Mom I would leave the room if balloons were there.
and the pop-open dough...like "popin' fresh crescent rolls" or such still freak me out. Sometimes they pop open spontaneously.

I like Mylar Balloons but I can't stand latex balloons.

I've always liked balloons.