Phobias - what are your unusual ones?

[1Pinkfluffyelephant]

I have never met anyone that has the same phobia as me and wondered if anyone else has any has the same or any other strange ones?
I’m terrified of any public toilet that you have to go through a door to get to (not the big bright open ones you get in large shopping centres) with grills in the ceilings and pipe work exposed or those ones with the cistern up high with the long chain. Things like drains in swimming pools and the grids that have the wave machines behind them at the deep end.
Not sure if these things are linked in anyway and no idea what made the phobia happen either.
What are yours?

Raisins - they are basically a mistake

I knew a student nurse that couldn't touch cotton wool.

Cotton wool. Make me feel sick the thought of squashing it with your fingers

Tight jumpers, polonecks or necklaces and a fear of not being able to get them off. Got stuck in a dress in a changing room once but had fear since little. I also have a very big head which is why I've had these difficulties!

Cutlery touching your teeth. Wrong wrong wrong.

Eating anything with a face.

I'm not a vegetarian, so eat (free range / organic) meat 2-3 days a week, however literally anything with a face, I can't eat.

Examples - Lindt chocolate bunnies for Easter - Nope, has a rabbit face.... Smiley faced potato cakes... Nope... eyes and a mouth.... Ginger bread men..... Nope.

One of my friends went to Bruges and bought me the most amazing 3D chocolate cat - must have cost her an absolute fortune. The idea of bashing its head in made me feel sick and I had to give it to my sister to eat on the promise she wouldn't eat it in front of me.

Sounds silly, but I feel really ill when there's something I'm suppose to eat that has a face in front of me....

Millipedes.

I'm from africa, not bothered at all by venomous snakes, spiders, scorpions. But harmless millipedes, urgh noo, stuff of nightmares.

Touching wet wool and blown up balloons. I had a bad experience with the lots of the latter being deliberately burst behind me as a child.

It’s so interesting to hear all these and I bet they are more common than we realise!

Stainless steel toilets

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4020298-My-weird-phobias-what-are-yours

My flatmate in halls had a phobia of scotch eggs

OP I literally have the same phobia. Will avoid using loos in restaurants/bars if they are like this. Ughhhhh

Pylons. Give me the willies. Have decided against buying houses in the past if pylons are visible from any window.

Red sauce. Can't even say the k word.

Fruit.

Peels, pips, stalks, stems... all the fruit leftovers. I physically cannot touch them. I saw a banana skin on the pavement on the way to school this morning and I had to cross the road.

Obviously can't eat any fruit as a result.

Yes to fruit left overs, especially banana skins and apple cores 🤢

@FluffyPersian
You can’t eat an inanimate item with a face but quite happy for a real animal with a face to die for you to eat? that’s fucked up🙄

1pences 2 pences and 5 pences
Or any foreign similar sized coins.
Can look at them but can’t touch them or I will be sick or wretch.

Houses with more than one set of staircases. Major fear.

My partner has a phobia about buttons. I can't wear anything with buttons without him getting the proper horrors

Beards. Absolutely awful. DH is trying to grow one presently rocking the Grizzly Adams look. It make me feel physically sick.

Polystyrene and cotton wool. *shudders...

Chalk!
I can't touch it or look at anyone else touching it.
I'm having to lick my teeth whilst writing this as it just makes my mouth feel weird

Those mechanical fish you can buy. I don't know why but I can't stand to be in the same room as them. Real fish I'm fine with.