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Anybody have any weird phobias?

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FuzzyScuzzbucket · 11/03/2015 21:54

There's a couple of things that freak me out. Sunflowers scare the bejesus out of me. Its like they are staring at me with a huge black eye... Also grass/flowers that grow above head height. Pampus grass makes me shudder. And when the moon is huge and orange. I can't stand to even look at it like that. It gives me the creeps

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Roomba · 12/03/2015 00:25

Swings. Well, not just swings but anything which swings around... very odd I know. If a lampshade gets knocked it freaks me out, I really, really struggle when my kids want pushing on the swings, and I almost fainted and felt sick when I was in a museum with ne of those Foucault's Pendulum things. No idea why!

SycamoreMum · 12/03/2015 01:54

Holes and I mean when theres lots of them together
Weird patterns - that old nivea advert with the thousands of people withering around had me and my mum screaming every time
Any larger than it should be - clouds, oceans, puddles, hot air balloons, sink holes, planes (I'm fine once I'm on them but just looking at one brings out serious anxiety)
Moths, butterflies, dragonflies - parents think its because I had a butterfly birthmark on my forehead as a baby........Hmm
Spiders - have been known to take a lighter and can of deodorant to a few
Mice - ever since I found one in my new settee!!!!!
Thats all I think. Don't know how I even function really. Sad Lol

ZombieZoo · 12/03/2015 02:38

Belly buttons and helium balloons going into the sky

happybunny2014 · 13/03/2015 01:37

Cotton wool and chalk. I find the texture of both horrid...

Only1scoop · 13/03/2015 01:59

Hearing people brush their teeth with a manual toothbrush....makes my hairs stand on end.

vienna1981 · 14/03/2015 19:11

I used to hate the feel of tights and bogroll when I was a child. I absolutely hated mannequins/dummies also; I'm still not that keen on them nowSad .

Staceyh24 · 13/04/2015 15:17

wet wipes, sponges, cotton wool. hate the feeling of them on my fingertips! makes my skin crawl and the hairs on my arms stand! total parent nightmare! Sad

MrsTattoo · 24/05/2015 04:26

I wont list the 3 or 4 I have incase I'm outed but my main one is water. I can just about have a bath without freaking out (most of the time). No swimming pools, hot tubs or beaches for me!

whitecandles · 24/05/2015 04:58

The feeling of tissues. Fucking hate them. I use wet wipes on my nose.

IWantMyPinkShirtBack · 24/05/2015 07:48

stickers, I hate them, my hair stands up on the back of my neck and arms everytime dd comes home from school with a sticker, I beg her not to put it on me but she thinks it's hilarious Grin all them little bits of muck and fluff and hair stuck to the back of them makes me boak. Blush

Jo2015 · 28/05/2015 17:52

Munching on tissues (!) & cotton wool (!). Call it weird cravings......

Theoldcauliflower · 28/05/2015 17:58

Worms! Ahhhh I can't even type the word without feeling all wierd! Angry

TheFillyjonk · 28/05/2015 18:01

Peas. I don't mind when they're mixed into a dish i.e. paella but when they're all rolling around on the plate I get squeamish in case one rolls off and I have to see a squashed one. Urgh.

travellinglighter · 28/05/2015 21:46

A girl in work is scared of Jaffa Cakes. I got told this but didn’t believe it until I witnessed her scream her head off in the presence of a Jaffa Cake. Weird

HelenF350 · 28/05/2015 21:49

Polystyrene! I hate the noise it makes when you run two bits together. It makes me feel physically sick. DP has to unpack all polystyrene packaged items and I have have to go into a different room and put my fingers in my ears! Blush

NinjaPanda34 · 28/05/2015 21:51

Polystyrene, the squeak of meringues...

ilovemargaretatwood8931 · 28/05/2015 22:09

Pylons!

There's something about the shape of them and the sheer size. And some 'designs' of pylon are much worse than others. They scare me a lot.

I get quite frightened passing them. If I had to actually walk very near one, that would send me into hysterics. I once went to view a flat very near a power station with my then DP. He was quite surprised at my strong fear of them- I had to walk holding onto him with my eyes shut at one point.

Hushabyelullaby · 28/06/2015 17:51

I have a fear of standing near a ship where the hull is exposed to show the bit that's normally below the water line. I actually get scared, it's the slimy seaweed, rust, barnacles, and sheer size of it.

Polystyrene, and equally meringue. If I'm sitting around people eating it, I have to put my fingers in my ears when they cut or bite into it.

Tripophobia too, only after I found out about it on here and looked it up.

My mum used to have a fear of jelly or anything jellified. If you even talked about it she would heave. She was generally funny about textures!

Jo4040 · 01/08/2015 17:54

Velvet. I can't even look at the stuff. When I had my DS somebody bought him a beautiful velvet suit. When they went I moved it by scooping it up with the bag and its still right at the back of his draws. I just can't face it.

munkisocks · 26/08/2015 11:25

Submacanophobia is my weirdest probably

readyforno2 · 03/11/2015 15:32

Yy to butterflies and moths they terrify me and my sister. When my ds was a baby we tried to overcome the fear and take him to the butterfly farm. Took us 15 minutes to psych ourselves up to actually walk through the door, we weren't even in there 3 seconds before a huge butterfly flew past looking like he wanted to kill us and we ran out screaming. Luckily, although they were laughing at us the staff gave us a refund.
Also I am scared of sheep.. Not that handy when you live in the middle of nowhere surrounded by sheep.
My other irrational fear is drains, can't walk over them and I feel all nervous when I see other people doing so.

TheLittleLion · 01/12/2015 22:02

Koko, I'm the same with looking outside when it's dark, it's definitely the thought of seeing someone on the other side. I used to have nightmares about it as a kid and through my teenage years.

I have a slight fear of stairs too (stairs that are too high/steep/big/don't have good enough banisters). I've always had nightmares about stairs and still do now.

I'm not sure its a phobia but my sister used to refuse to touch towels with wet hands which made for quite a problem with getting dry after having a bath when she was a kid. Now she just refuses to touch the dish scourers (I reckon its just a ploy to get out of doing the dishes though Wink

Redberrypie · 01/12/2015 22:08

Necks. I hate my own neck being touched, especially the front bit, I hate touching or seeing people touch their own necks, Adams apples make me feel sick (can't watch Ian Beale), the thought of touching a throat whilst someone speaks and it vibrates, is just beyond awful.

Just writing this is making me feel odd.

Perhaps I had my throat slit in a former life or something.

vodkaandregret · 02/12/2015 13:49

Licking wooden lolly sticks makes me cringe, as a child I remember being terrified of flushing the loo, it was the noise that scared me, I would flush and run like hell. I also have a kind of phobia about dropping my keys down a drain, whenever I have keys in my hand and go near a drain I have an overwhelming urge to throw them down there, have to hold on to them really tightly to stop myself from doing it.

P1nkP0ppy · 02/12/2015 13:56

Wooden lolly pop sticks or those with little ice cream tubs, open tread staircases, birds in enclosed spaces, ditto moths yet I can catch a butterfly to put it outside.
Hairy spiders, walking on grids, or those in pavements where they unload barrels or casks....

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