unusual/irrational fears?

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Hi there!

Say, being on the spectrum, do you now or have you ever had some unusually strong or irrational fears about things that other people might not have been afraid of?

Thanks!

I did when I was in my 1st two relationships. I kept worrying that something bad would happen to them. I haven't had that problem in my current relationship cuz I got on anxiety & OCD medication.

When I was very young I used to be afraid that when I went upstairs, the front door would come off its hinges, come after me, and kill me. The door had a letterbox in it that looked to me like an angry mouth. I used to avoid putting my foot on the bottom tread of the stairs, because I felt that might somehow prevent the danger from happening. I'm glad to say I grew out of it after a year or two.

There's a certain song that I never sing even though I rather like it. Last time I sang it (in 1966), something quite bad happened to me.

When I was about 6-10 I used to think a monster was gonna get through the bath drain and lunge at me if I stayed in the bathroom for too long after pulling the bath plug.

I was also really scared of people walking behind me in the street because I thought they'd get a knife out and kill me. There also was a similar thing with people using lawnmowers.

Yes, even though I know it's not true, I have a fear that all of my hair is going to fall out. I have a copious amount of hair, and when I brush it, the amount that I lose is astonishing. Unfortunately, it makes my very defensive when people try to mess with my hair.

I don't eat new foods

I don't know why, but I still can't and I'm 25.

When I'm inside I worry of the building spontaneously collapsing. Like the floor falling through and the ceiling collapsing. At the moment I worry of someone tracing me online to my other online profiles or to my real life. I worry even more about the house randomly catching fire or about someone getting into our house. And... grass trimmers and lawn mowers and chain saws for some reason. Anything like that and any kind of saw. Don't want to be anywhere near those. And by near I mean within 10 metres. I had more when I was younger.

Edit: and phones. Phones absolutely terrify me. I have no idea why but I just can't seem to answer them.

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I'm VERY afraid of this. It scares me even to this day.

I don't think I'll be able to sleep....

Had lots of irrational fears like any normal neurotic.
However, the unusual ones have been fear of a certain handle, when I was four (it was eye-shaped) and pointed ovals as a generally scary shape, "unheimlich" (eyes, of course).
Today it is mostly claustrophobia. Elevators are no-go unless I´m with somebody. Some days I simply refuse to enter automatic doors. Those things were created by the guy downstairs on an angry day.

Haha, I had the same fear of creatures popping out of the toilet to bite me in the bum when I was child. A little advice, don't watch Stephen King movies when you're 4 years old.

I've had irrational fear of the dark, end of the world, even fearing that I would transform into a monster after getting dirt in my mouth. No joke!

Yeah, I think I can relate.

I used to almost subconsiously do this thing where I traced lines across a room that extended from the edge of any object, and if I was in the path of any of those lines then that was somehow bad. Also, this sounds really stupid but I used to believe that when I flushed the toilet there were these evil spirits that came out and I had to run out of the bathroom and get to some kind of safe place, something that wasn't in the same space of floor as the toilet, like a carpet or my bed, before it finished flushing. And if I tapped my left foot or hand or anything on an object, then I had to tap my right body part on the thing a certain number of times to balance it out. And I had to have my right leg crossed over my left and NOT the other way around. I would sometimes randomly think that there was someone out on the street, like the government or someone, watching me, or there were spirits pursuing me and I had to run from them. and a million other little things like this

I haven't caught myself doing this stuff as much lately, though

I have the same thing! If I touch lets say my left shoulder I feel the touch until I touch my left shoulder the same way to balance it.

If an attractive woman smiles at me, I get scared and look away. I don't know how to reciprocate. FML

I recently found out that if a woman smiles at me, she likes me. I always thought it meant that she is ridiculing me.

Know this too. Need for balancing things out - pure OCD

I may or may not be on spectrum.

But here are some of my fears from childhood:

Fear of the sun exploding (thanks to a planetarium presentation)

Fear of extraterrestrials to the point of having to sleep on my back and cover everything but my head (couldn't cover my head because then I might accidentally suffocate or poison myself with used air; aliens fear? Well, I was allowed to watch X-Files)

Being attached to a machine and shriveling up to death (as an adult I watched The Dark Crystal and realized that these images of these creatures in my head came from that movie)

Fear that buildings were made from certain people (I will refrain from saying what people because I don't want to trigger)

Fear of dying

Fear of aging suddenly and quickly

Fear that I would die and wouldn't know it (set off or made worse by a Twilight Zone episode)

Fear that the rusty dust from metal or the rusty paint powder from metal rails was blood

Fear of losing all my hair

Fear of hurting someone else

Fear of volcanos

Fear of damaging my body by exercising (only vaguely remember this)

Another when I was very young there was this elderly lady that I was scared of. I have this very clear memory of being like two or three maybe four in church and raising my dress above my head because it felt closed off and happy. I was in class with a bunch of running-around kids. This lady like rushed towards me and told me to put my dress down. She looked like an owl to me. I was shocked and didn't know I was doing something wrong and it felt like being hit. I don't know that I was even fully aware that I was lifting my dress up, just more conscious of the way it felt. I was afraid of her for years. And she always reminded me of an owl.