Things you are just unable to/just cant do and others think you’re being silly

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For example: I just can’t be a passenger in the back of a car. I wouldn’t even contemplate it if the car had no rear doors. The claustrophobia would send me into sheer panic.

Swim in the sea. I’m terrified of what might be beneath me eg jellyfish or whatever.

I do however love scuba diving, I think because I can see what’s around me.

Escalators, deep tube lines and open bridges give me panic attacks. I can just manage enclosed lifts but not open ones. It is getting worse with age.

I couldn’t walk up close to a big metal ship in dock. The sheer size would overwhelm me. My legs would go all cold.

I am autistic and phone speaking was a major nemesis for me. I used to write scripts to follow, with possible responses people might give and how I would respond to those.
It was time consuming but enabled me to get over my fear in time. I’m still not 100% comfortable and would never ring someone for a chat, but I can make appointments etc.

Im allergic to bee and wasp stings too, but you’re far more likely to be stung if you’re flapping about.

Yes, this was me.

I’m 40 next year and finally passed last year 🥴 2nd time lucky but had so many lessons over 8 years, I’ve lost count. I kept stopping & starting lessons, as I just couldn’t get the hang of it - then one day, something just clicked & it all made sense.

Edit: I still don’t particularly love it & you won’t ever find me on the motorway!

I cannot tell my left from right without really taking time to think, this is despite losing my left breast to a mastectomy 7 years ago. I genuinely have to touch my chest and think “ dead boob means left”.
Drives my DH potty.

I would genuinely rather walk around my town naked then get in the car and drive ( even though passed my test a few years back )

Swim in the sea.

This is mine too. I don't mind paddling in the sea, but swimming anywhere where I can't see what is beneath me fills me with absolute dread.

Also autistic and can't speak on phone or open letters.

Not in my experience. Every time I’ve been stung, it’s when I’ve not realised a wasp is there and they’ve landed on me and stung me. I’ve never been stung from flapping and legging it.

Swim.
Had my head pushed under the water, as a small child, by a swimming teacher of all people (it was the seventies, things were different then 🙄). I’ve had all sorts of well meaning, kind, gentle people try to teach me since then but the sheer terror sets in pretty rapidly. It’s probably my only regret tbh.

Yes! Me too!! Or tube slides at playgrounds, even when I was a child

Blow up balloons

I can’t do this either! When I try, some weird gland in my neck puffs up and freaks me out and I have to stop.

I can't go on a roller coaster or even a big wheel.

I also can't look down to the ground from a height.

I think it's PTSD from something that happened when I was younger.

No issues in a plane though, as my feet are firmly planted.

They are just temperamental bastards.

I can’t reliably catch something that is thrown to me. I might sometimes succeed but purely by fluke. My hand-eye coordination for catching is terrible.

I used to have exactly the same problem. Can remember having a panic attack in Primark because the escalator was so steep ,I couldn’t cross footbridges over busy roads stand on high balconies ,Iwould actually go dizzy and legs like jelly!
Interestingly I have got better in the last 10 years so I wonder if it was just life being stressful then .

Work out which is my side of the bed in a strange room.

Go on any fairground ride which goes round and round. I turn green.

Play a musical instrument. I have really poor hand eye coordination and a very poor ear for music and rhythm. I can't sing a note either. Come from a musical family so it was a disappointment!

Casually ignore wasps/ bees . Sorry I just run ! I have even stopped my car and jumped out when a wasp came in through the window…did I look to see if a car was likely to hit me ,I don’t think so ,I was so terrified!

Park, but my car will do it itself. It's a game changer, getting in spaces I never could.

Mine's go on any funfair/theme park ride full stop! I used to be an adrenaline junkie, then suddenly a few years ago I went on the big one at Blackpool (something I'd done many times before) and I'd never been so terrified in my life! Since then I've realised it extends to pretty much any ride 😂

Also, I can't whistle. I just can't