Any intense and very unusual 'phobias'?

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Hey, guys.

My friends and co-workers teased me relentlessly (in the most friendly of ways) on Thursday because of a very pronounced and incredibly strange 'phobia' of mine. I use the term phobia lightly, because I'm not even sure if I can describe it as a fear, but a complete aversion to this certain thing. What is it? INNER ELBOWS!

Yes, you heard me correctly. The thin stretch of skin in the middle of your arm, the counter part to the elbow. I'm almost certain that my 'phobia' of inner elbows stemmed from sensory sensitivity, because in the past, while having blood drawn, I could literally FEEL the blood being pulled though my vein and up into the needle. I'm not afraid of needles, or of blood (both common misconceptions because of this issue). Anyway, I get incredibly nauseous at the mere sight of someone with one of those bandages you get after getting blood drawn. Same thing happens if I see someone scratch or touch their inner elbow, not to mention someone touching MINE. I bring this up, because I knew my issue was bad, but didn't know just how bad until Thursday.

We were doing a blood drive at work. I had to ask someone a question who was in the room. I walked in and immediately saw someone with the bandage, then I saw my boss, on a stretcher, her arm being held by the nurse, and I knew what was about to happen. Intense heat immediately shot through my body, my stomach lurched, and I began to get foggy. I had to run out of there as fast as possible!

That's the strangest phobia. I also have a passenger seat phobia. I have no problem being in cars, but I have to be driving or be in the back seat. If I am in the front seat, I freak out once a minute. If I see brake lights ahead, I freak out. If I see a red light, I freak. If I see a sharp turn, I freak. If I think we are too close to the line, I freak. I am the worst passenger seat driver you'll ever meet. I know the issue, of course...CONTROL. I absolutely can't stand not having control in that situation...the same reason I am petrified of flying (well, I have a heights issue, also...but once we are above the clouds, the height issue is no longer a problem).

Anyway, any of you have intense phobias related to your Asperger's? (ie. sensory issues, control/routine issues, social issues, etc)

Sesame Street... scares the hell out of me!

I dunno, but I'm freaked out by lumpy surfaces. There's something so... creepy about them. So I look away.

I'm guessing it has something to do with crossed wires in my brain somewhere, giving me the impression of creepiness as random feedback along with lumpiness. There's certainly no rational reason I'd have that much of an aversion to a simple visual texture.

OP I can kind of relate. I'm sort of the same way with the underside of arms but not to the degree you are.

As for other phobias I have a phobia of doctors and heart-related things. Also, dogs and heartbeats.

oompa loompa's (from charlie and the chocolate factory - especially the original version) really creep me out....I get nauseous just imagining that creepy little song they sing....

in fact I now feel really gross now that I've thought of it....might need to go have another shower.....

I also hate people touching the back of my neck

My strongest phobia is on thunders/lightnings. It's their thunderous sounds, not the light/flash. I have phobias on any other explosive voices/sounds as well. Over-sensitivity in hearing.

I am terrified of bees.

I'm terrified of dark bathrooms. Specifically, that invisible scorpions will come and poison me to death while I'm in a dark bathroom. I'm not afraid of the dark in any other place, just the bathroom. I'm not afraid of scorpions in any other room, just the bathroom. I'm not afraid of invisible scorpions killing me in my bathroom in the light, just the dark. One time my boyfriend and I were fooling around, and he directed me to the bathroom and turned on the shower. We strip, get in, and he turned off the lights. Before this point I was lost in a world of lust, doing everything I promised the church I wouldn't do. The second he turned out the lights, all I could think about was a scorpion killing me. I screamed so much he thought I was dying.

When I was a young child I had a phobia of sitting or standing on anything with a complex pattern. If I saw a mat or a chair with a pattern on it I would start crying and gagging and if someone tried to make me sit on it I would run away. I also had a phobia of bits of cotton hanging from my clothes. Once again I would start gagging and I wouldn't stop until someone cut it off.
I have no idea why these things bothered me so much but because they are such strange phobias, it must have been an AS quirk.
Has anyone else had these phobias?

That makes us two.

Make that three, since I have a bad reaction to insect bites and stings. Not the immediately deadly anaphalactic shock but I do swell up very badly and get ill.

I also fear spiders.

Insects were one of my obsessions as a kid, I used to collect and study them until it became apparent that one too many bites/stings at a time could kill me. Now I fear them.

i have no phobias but i knew a girl (for a short amount of time) who had a phobia about snails.
it was unfortunate because i found it hilarious and i had to suppress my mirth when she told me.

i thought "do you not think you can outrun a snail?"

i dislike tarantulas because they can crawl in through a vent and suddenly scamper all over the place, and the hair on my neck (back of) raises in hackles until i capture them and remove them. they are so unpredictable that they make me very anxious. (i have had 2 of them over the past 3 years)

but snails? if i saw a snail proceeding across the ground toward me, i would not be terribly worried about unexpected surprises.


anyway, her phobia was based on the idea that they were "watching" her. she said that when she walked down the path to her house, she knew that there were many snails around, and some of them must be looking at her.

she felt a severe distress at the thought that such strange creatures could be taking her into their consciousness's.

i felt it was an almost psychotic phobia, and i told her that all i can think is that if i had an audience of snails every time i walked down a path, i would put on a show for them. being watched by snails is one step toward being watched by people.

she did not understand and i respect her true fear, but i could not accommodate it in my mind well.

I´m afraid of the dark. I can´t sleep in a pitch dark room. Probably a bit odd for a 48 year old....

Hmm... I have about 125 phobias altogether, but one of the weirder ones is Crane flies (daddy long legs). The way they just flit around and bump against you.... UGH UGH UGH!! !

There are a lot of strange things that creep me out like...
-Teeth i can't even stand people talking about their teeth i think that's the main bodily aversion i have it makes me nauseous if anyone talks about teeth. I'm terrified of when my 4 year old eventually starts loosing teeth!

-Talking about needles or some other injuries (not all) gives me physical sensations in my legs even if it's not about legs, i have to beg them to stop because it physically hurts my legs (it's sort of like that feeling when your leg goes to sleep, then when you move it it has that horrible jarring feeling... it's kind of like that) when people talk about these things.

-Vomiting, i believe this may be almost a phobia, i can handle the word used in a joking way but not in a serious way and i can't handle seeing it, hearing it or doing it.

-Meat in general but especially fat and bones in meat. I can handle it if it doesn't look recognizable, but not if i can recognize it and if it has obvious bodily parts in it (fat, veins, bones etc.)

-I'm very easily put off food. I can't talk about the food while, look too closely at the food or think too deeply about the food i'm eating it or i get put off and can no longer stand having it in my mouth.

There are other actual phobias and fears and anxieties but i don't really feel like going into them.

Oh yeah, I have this phobia too- big time!