Were you a fearful child?

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I was! I was terrified of all sorts of things. I've got rid of most of my fears now but my social anxiety remains. What about you?

always was, always will be. im a regular chucky finster(the rugrats)

It’s difficult for me to make a complete catalogue of things that terrified me. I probably can’t remember all my fears. Some: I feared that, when I went to sleep some unspecified subject would eat my hands, so I always took care to keep them under my hips or something. Then I had read somewhere of metorites and abysses opening up in the hearth. So I was frightened by such a possibility.

In addition to Asperger's, I have full-blown OCD. I exhibited obsessive-compulsive symptoms at age three and panic attacks since 3 or 5, so yes, I was a fearful child. Anxiety has just always been a part of who I am- not a good thing...
-OddDuckNash99-

Not fearful of anything here.

Tim

I can't go out at night with out constantly looking over my shoulder. I was terriorized to the point where I am always scared that my neighborhood bully is going to come at me with a b-ball bat again -_-

Yes. I think maybe it was the sensory issues I had as a baby that contributed to me being a very frightened, nervous child.

Yes, I was afraid of lots of things both real and imaginary. My main fear as a kid was noise. If I had to go to a railway station I used to cover my ears to lessen the train noise. I'm not so bothered now but sudden noises make me jump out of my skin!
I was a generally anxious kid.

I was afraid of falling, which made it hard for me to do anything physical and made me stand out more from the other kids. I had & still have social anxiety. However, I didn't have some of the "normal" childhood fears like fear of the dark, at least not that I remember.

Sure I had a few fears but no more then the next person. I dont really fear much now - its more understood to be a 'I dont want to do this' type deal. I dont even fear death (no, I'm far from suicidal)

I was EXTREMELY terrified of people.

Now,if you mess with me or a loved one,I will gut you alive.


-SpaceCase

I wasn't fearful I don't think...I was cautious...

...not sure how to describe it...you didn't have to tell me not to play around the edge of the pond or not to run with a stick in my hand...if I took the car out at 16 I wasn't going to drag race my friends or take off to parts unknown...

For a long time my imagination terrified me. I couldn't shut out the images and ideas coming into my head. For instance, when I was really little, I saw an episode of Star Trek where one of the characters had to manually disengage a ship docked with a space station or everyone would die. Waking and asleep I felt like I was in that situation with the stress that accompanies it. I also couldn't shut out scary images. I saw a deformed face in some other movie and I couldn't close my eyes for weeks without seeing perfectly in my mind.

As a result I watched little TV and very few movies as a kid. Now I have a lot more control of my imagination and I can shut out disturbing thoughts and images with relative ease. I watch a lot of TV and movies now. I'm not really sure what changed to let this happen.

Any of you notice that fears diminish with age? Do any of you have (had) problems with your imagination like me?

Yes I was a very anxious child. I could never sleep, I was fearful of ghosts and the supernatural.

I was terrified of everything, and still am to some degree. My husband laughs about it all the time. Whenever I get very freaked out by something that's supposed to be "normal," he laughs and pats my head and says "my poor timid little sweetie."

A good example of this is that I was complaining that my back felt like it needed to crack, but wouldn't, and he offered to crack my back for me. He started walking towards me saying "come here" and I backed into a corner shaking my head. He finally coaxed me out of the corner and got me into position but I panicked and started yelling and kicking.

I watched a short movie about cranes and diggers behaving and fighting like dynosours. Didn't like seeing any machine on a building site.