Weirdest phobias

[WeeAgnes]

What's the strangest phobia you have ever heard of, or come across?

I remember reading years ago that someone had a phobia of sprouting potatoes.

I wouldn't call it a phobia, but recently ive developed a thing about bananas. I used to eat one every day, but now i get grossed out even touching them (without the skin), or touching the peel of a banana that has been eaten. I can't even stand the smell of them. My 5 year old son loves them though, so I just have to grin and bare it

I can't stand touching a glass that has been washed in a dishwasher.
Also, kids who wear somewhat realistic tiger or butterfly makeup, the kind they get in kids parties. Gives me the creeps.

My phobias are people and outdoors.
Also its not a phobia but i dont like the day time very much bright days or summer time, i shall not will not go out.
Im a hikikomori to say the least.

Oh goodness, that wobbly bridge Anita Rani and her dad have just walked across on Race Across the World made me break out in cold sweat!

Earwigs.
i didn't go in my garden for three weeks as I saw one there.

Is it the fear of them popping ? My daughter is also afraid of balloons she says it's the anticipation of them popping cos she's also fine with the shiny helium ones.

I also really hate polystyrene to the point I will leave the room and let my husband deal with it if something comes packaged in it and won't come back til it's gone 😂 I think it's more of a sensory issue then a phobia though.

Holes, especially those that form in a structured cluster, mostly in nature (ie lotus flowers, beeswax etc)

it literally makes me itchy just to think about it

i had a phobia of driving for a few years. I worked damn hard to be able to drive again and am now pretty happy behind the wheel. Just get a bit nervous if im not sure where I’m going.

I remember a friend telling me about a behavioural support worker who came to her house to help friend’s dd who had a phobia of travelling in cars (there had been an accident on the family, so the fear was understandable).
Support worker was awful and patronising, triggering a self harm/meltdown episode in the child.

When she left she couldn’t walk through my friend’s front room as she spotted a balloon and had a phobia about them. My friend had to shut it in a cupboard so the woman could leave 😳🙄

I have a phobia of cooling towers. There’s something about their shape and hugeness that puts the fear into me. I have been known to drive the long way around a town just to avoid seeing them appear on the horizon as just a glimpse makes me feel very angsty.

trypophobia- fear of holes. Look it up. I heard someone was scared of crumpets and i thought how odd

Cotton wool here too!

Did you have Alice in Wonderland syndrome as a child? I wouldn’t say I have a phobia of out of proportion objects but they make me feel like the AiW feelings are getting close.

Damp used towels that are just left on the bed after use to fester (boyfriend does this all the time and its a real pet peeve of mine). Put in the laundry basket or heated towel rail!😫) Exhales😔. First world problems, I know. Sorry🥲.

I used to have a boyfriend that had a phobia of tea bags.

There's a lot of things we can't stand, not sure if full on phobias but these all set dd and my teeth on edge:
Celey - the stringy strands! The texture!
Microfibre cloths - catch on every mini bit of skin around the nails.
Silk - as above
Stairs with gaps/metal that you can see through
Dd only - mushrooms, beans, onions, bananas and anything with seeds (berries etc) and velvet

But is that because of the holes?

I was thinking the same. I used to have arachnophobia and I couldn’t even look at a picture of one. Even a picture made me scream/cry. A real one and I couldn’t walk past it and I would be hysterical. Much better now but I still struggle with large ones and I can’t have them on me.

My son also has a phobia of stickers. He says it’s because they curl up and go furry on the back.

Eggs. I love eating eggs, and I cook with them all types of ways except flabby, soggy poached eggs but I have the heebie jeebies when I see them in magazines or on the tv. Scotch eggs cut in half, poached eggs with yolk dribbling out of them, people eating hard boiled eggs like an apple, tv chefs cracking them in a bowl or horror of horrors once seeing Nigella cracking an egg into a curry, dirty cow. I also can't stand eyes and eyeballs and I think cracked eggs remind me of them. That advert with people with eyeballs for heads finished me off.

Oh god velvet, I literally shudder I uncontrollably at the thought of touching it.

My mum.has a fear of hot air balloons. Luckily for her there don't seem to be many about these days.

I've changed my username because this is outing to anyone that knows us. My sister has a phobia about velvet, she cannot be anywhere near it, proper phobia. She lived abroad when my DC were growing up so they had no idea. DC2 also has the same phobia about velvet. DC1 absolutely fine. I can't explain it, also velvet is quite a random thing to have a phobia about

i hate coming down stairs. To the point I will come down my own. Once. In the morning then go up at night and won’t come down till the next day.

You get the Random first class award. 😊