What's a fact about you that no one knows?

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I have a weird phobia of buttons and freak out every time I see one

Oh your mum’s button tin sounds amazing!!

I knew a girl in school (who went to sixth form and never college, so not the same one) with this phobia. Her parents had to adapt her clothes.

I have a phobia of Jack in the boxes

The buttons thing - I knew someone who also had it. They attributed it to a specific event that they thought had caused it, a horrible relative and an item of clothing that had lots of buttons on it. They said it was just excessive buttons on things that they couldn't cope with. I'm really curious about the 4 poster bed one. That gave me a funny feeling. I'm wondering whether there's a window during childhood when we're really primed to imprint fear onto objects.

My mum died when I was small and for a while I thought it was my fault because she was very tired (undiagnosed autoimmune thing) and I pestered her to get out of bed. I can still see her exhausted body making her way down the stairs in my mind. I was barely old enough for memories but I remember thinking it was very bad. It wasn't until years later that the feeling of guilt swam back up and I realised I had needed to connect it all up and put it right inside my mind, which probably makes no sense, but I'd pushed it quite far down and not updated it and realised I wasn't to blame.

This was my pregnancy craving, biting sponges , sucking water from them!

I'll echo that! My mother has a fabulous button collection. At one point she had some in a large demijon which acted as a door stop and sometimes they were tipped into a baking tray for us to play with them. If I ever need a button I tend to call her rather than go to a haberdashery. I also have button hoarding tendencies and a better sewing repair kit than anyone else I know (don't get me started on cotton 🤣)...

Mine is a phobia of holes. I feel anxious and nauseas at the sight.

It has a name which I can't remember and won't Google because if I do lots of pictures come up. It begins with a T.

I knew a girl in school (who went to sixth form and never college, so not the same one) with this phobia. Her parents had to adapt her clothes.
The girl I knew was similar, wouldn't wear clothes with buttons. Some class mates took a box of buttons, the type grandmas used to have, in to college to torment her - it was light hearted and she took it in good spirits, even though it was a bit mean.
It sounds more common than I thought, so probably different person.

Certain cutlery makes we want to vomit, I physically can't eat with it.

I don't believe in a God. My Muslim family would disown me if they knew

I had two abortions that absolutely no one else (other than the nurse each time) knows about. Not my husband, not my mum or any friends. One time I was 7 weeks pregnant, the other 6. It was fairly straightforward. It happened around 6 years ago (within the same year).

I'm sorry about your mum, Ikeabag.
I think your feelings are more common than (some) people realise. I know someone whose mother died following an exhausting illness and she can't stand people being obviously tired or 'taking to their bed' when unwell/pregnant/tired during the day/etc.

Cool way to potentially solve some unsolved crimes.....

It really was..It was in an old small, deep rectangular chocolate or toffee tin, with a Van Dyke {?} portrait on the front, of a man in a feathered hat, in dark green robes, the hinged lid revealed a literal jewelled sea of beautiful buttons that had been taken off old garments over the decades.Little porcelain ones with transfers glazed on, glass ones, tiny boot and shoe buttons.
The ''Waste not, Want not'' generation.

I’m the same.

Sorry to button haters but I love them!

I have several favourite button selling websites, going to Brighton soon where I know there is a fab haberdashery/ button shop (hope it's still there). I have a huge button tin. And books about buttons.

Ive transformed many items of clothing by adding better quality buttons.

Good buttons can be transformative.

It's my secret thing. 🤫

Trypophobia

I think the button phobia may be related to this.

Warning - do not google if holes make you feel ill

My, there's a lot of that going around! So am I!

Who knew buttons had such power?!

I’m a bit telepathic. I had one friend who I knew was about to ring me, seconds before the phone went etc. Unfortunately she died but communicated with me whilst in a coma ( before I knew what had happened)

I've never felt part of my family, the only one I say have feelings for is my younger sister. As a youngster I used to wish that I was actually adopted and my name was really Charlotte (Charlie).
Mum was never the huggy, kisses type etc with anyone but I found out when she was expecting me my dad had a one night stand which she found out about and I truly believe that caused us to have such a lacking relationship.
She died a while ago and I never felt sad or upset about it. But definitely feel short changed though.

Same.

Oh yes, Trypophobia.
I googled for you!
Absolutely understand why you daren't google, I'm like that with my phobias {Worms -intestinal} and vomit.

We had a cat when I was a kid that vomited roundworm under the kitchen table, it was one of the grossest things, and really scared me as a kid.

I do think as previous posters have said, that a lot of phobias have their genesis childhood.

A few things for me
1.I'm Bisexual
2.I changed my job months ago which was my dream job because it wasn't a fit for me and told noone
3.I'm lonely after my breakup last year but struggling to meet anyone new

@Georgeandzippyzoo @crazeekat me too!! I have baths or showers when I don't need them, purely so I can chew on a flannel