WEIRD PHOBIAS

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I want to hear them....not your run of the mill dentists, spiders, heights, clowns, etc

The weird ones...

KETCHUP...otherwise known as "Mortuusequusphobia"

Began with the crust that forms on the top of a bottle...absolutely turns my stomach. Don't particularly like crusts on anything (old hand creams, mayonnaise etc) but ketchup really tops them all. The smell, the sight. My husband kindly moves any bottles away from tables at cafes/restaurants 😂

Don't get me started on those sachets that have the potential to burst/explode if pressure were to be exerted on one!!

Do NOT Google Trypophobia

Wool, clowns & cotton wool 😬All three are evil

Water pipes. My sister traumatised me when I was small by locking me in a bathroom with a leaking high level WC (the one with the chain) in pitch black over night and I cannot cope with any water pipes, or large pipes like you'd find in multi-storey car parks. It's now getting to the point where DS will let me know if public loos are "safe" for me to go in, if we're at a pub etc.

I have many other issues due to her abusive and violent behaviour growing up, but that's the one that is still the most damaging.

Sheds
I cannot go in them they terrify me, we have two in the garden i will send the DC in but I cannot set foot in them.
Garages are OK if its clean or organised

@AuntTwacky it's the tube escalators that started it off. I was fine with shopping centre ones or the occasional airport. But the massive ones at Bank etc. I've had to sit down half way up them sometimes () out of sheer terror that I'm about to pass out.

Doesn't help that my other phobia (blood and injury) actually does make me pass out.

People on stilts

Wooden clothes pegs. Revolting.

Absolutely this, but I have never considered it a phobia before, but they are horrible, and I couldn't put one in my mouth.

Squeaky jumpers/ knitwear
sticky labels, they are high on my hit list for when I rule the world
clowns

the sea on physical maps or getting lost in the sea on google maps

Anything polystyrene, I'm not scared of it as such, but I won't touch it and don't like it near me. Just thinking about touching it/hearing it rubbing against something sends a shiver down my shoulders and spine (I didn't realise that happened until I've just thought about it!). Really, really don't like the stuff.

Squeaking balloons I avoid and kids with them oh don’t nightmare.

Mehalophobia. I cannot look unnaturally large objects straight on.

-Wind turbines (my fear increases 10 -
fold to things in the sea)
-Water wheels
-ships (close up)
-Larger that normal statues (don't think I'd ever visit the Statue of Liberty)
-ridiculously oversized satellite dishes (as if standard ones aren't big enough?)
Not sure if these fall under the same thing as well but also tornados, sinkholes and whirlpools

And then, linked to the sea thing, anything in the ocean that shouldn't be there, like sunken ships, a wall (once stayed in a house where a wall had fallen in and you could still see it. Refused to swim in the water lest even a toe brushed against it). The thought of lost cities under water terrifies me and I'd never go exploring.

Other people's feet.

The really bad ones in 90s Unsolved Mysteries still do it for me 😳

Going over to where my dog has had a poo and picking it up only to realise in horror that the poo feels stone cold and belongs to someone else's dog and my dogs own 'hot' poo which I have absolutely no qualms about picking up is three feet away.

Not sure what you would call the phobia of picking up another dogs stone cold poo is called but I have it and whilst it's only happened to me a few times it's made me feel sick!

Mould. I mean no-one likes mould. But if I pick up an orange or something and it is mouldy I will likely scream and throw it. Bread mould isn't so bad but not great.

However I used to work in a lab and I was fine with mould/fungus on a petri dish. Ditto fungus on wood outdoors.

@NippyWoowoo I’m with you on this. I’m particularly scared of the statues that come out of the water, like the giant hands in Venice.

Omg I won't even Google it 🫣

Oh! Everyone always says buttons on these threads and it makes me laugh because DS2 (age 3) hates buttons and won't wear any clothes that have them! He seems to be so completely freaked out by them. I of course respect this and buy him buttonless clothes but I would love to know what it is that makes them so creepy.

Me too. One of the worst phobias to have imo. You don't have the option not to confront it.

Nuns, and the gap between the train and the platform. The former because of the sadistic bastards that should never have been allowed anywhere near children . The latter, no idea. I'm fat so I'm never likely to fall down it!

Cotton wool

The gap at Tamworth station is a nightmare getting off it really is no I understand your fear.

The dark, even ag the age of nearly 60 I have to gave the hall light on and bedroom door partially open.

Also clusters of holes on skin, or clusters of bumps, spots, it's hard to explain , they make me go all wobbly and nauseous.