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What body parts freak you out?

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Soubriquet · 19/01/2026 09:41

I can’t stand anything with teeth. If the kids have a wobbly tooth, or something wrong they have to visit the other parent because I get really squeamish around teeth. I don’t know why. Vomiting. Fine. Diarrhoea, gross but fine. Teeth? Nope!!!!

My dd is freaked out by eyes. She can’t stand anyone touching their own eyeballs and the idea of contacts is nightmare fuel for her

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goldenlockets · 19/01/2026 09:45

None.

Although I'd never choose chiropody as a job.

Soubriquet · 19/01/2026 09:53

goldenlockets · 19/01/2026 09:45

None.

Although I'd never choose chiropody as a job.

See even feet don’t really bother me. I mean I wouldn’t go out of my way to touch them, but if someone is bare foot, I have no problem (I knew someone who was so freaked out by feet, she had to wear socks all the time).

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MissCooCooMcgoo · 19/01/2026 10:00

None. How odd to be freaked out about body parts. We all have them.

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BananaramaDefence · 19/01/2026 10:02

Collar bone. Which is unfortunate as I often have to check them in my job!

Soubriquet · 19/01/2026 10:02

MissCooCooMcgoo · 19/01/2026 10:00

None. How odd to be freaked out about body parts. We all have them.

Didn’t say it made sense. Can’t help the visceral reaction.

I really do get eeeeee about it. It makes my spine stiffen and my eye twitch

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GasperyJacquesRoberts · 19/01/2026 10:08

I can get mildly freaked out by teeth as well. I've got some of my DCs' baby teeth in a little box somewhere but I really don't know why as just looking at them gives me a slight shiver. I was quite relieved when they grew up enough that I could stop playing Tooth Fairy.

dailyconniptions · 19/01/2026 10:10

The inside of people's mouths. Absolutely gross.

bettydavieseyes · 19/01/2026 10:11

Long fingernails or toenails. I like really short on anyone but especially me and my partner. Fingernails are gross, painted or otherwise.

Placetobreathe · 19/01/2026 10:15

I must say I'm particularly freaked out by noses.
Not only are noses just downright peculiar, and quite generally ugly - even on otherwise pleasing faces- they are downright disgusting. All the horrible stuff that cones out of them.
I feel physically sick if I see someone picking their nose. Or a nose running with mucus.

7238SM · 19/01/2026 10:16

The only thing that makes me feel ill, is when MIL lets her dogs lick between her toes and also lick blood from her body if she has scratched herself! 🤢

I get distracted and find it hard to concentrate on what someone is saying, if they have a squint, wonky, yellow or missing teeth, facial moles- especially if they have hair coming out from them. This is a me issue I realise.

Peass · 19/01/2026 10:17

Feet and bums.

FurForksSake · 19/01/2026 10:18

Bruised / black / damaged nails. Which was a problem when I got an x-ray request for crushed fingers / nail bed injury. However, kids find it hilarious when the staff tell them they won’t be looking at their finger, not to uncover their finger and just to put it under the cross hairs and stay still. Diffuses things some what.

ChicJoker · 19/01/2026 10:19

Sometimes when I actually think of the human body the whole thing freaks me out. It’s a weird design.

like, arms and legs are weird if you think about it; then there’s these 5 mini sticks on the end of each. Which then have their own little attachments and functions. Urgh.

belly buttons I hate.

people are weird really. Things we do such as having clothes for awake and clothes for sleep. And how we look such as various holes for various things.

mynameiscalypso · 19/01/2026 10:19

Tummy buttons. I hate them. Even thinking about it makes me clench up.

Mhhk · 19/01/2026 10:20

The big toe and only the big toe. I’m not sure why but if someone has bare feet and they lift their big toe it goes right through me and I can’t bare my own big toe being touched.

BearSoFair · 19/01/2026 10:23

Eyes themselves don't freak me out but any kind of eye injury or surgery involving eyes...big fat nope.

teaandtoastwouldbenice · 19/01/2026 10:28

Wobbly teeth, especially if they are touched, make me light headed. Now DC are older (and know it’s me) their tooth fairy money goes direct to their go Henry accounts, I tell them if teeth come out at school, she’ll add a bonus.

Soubriquet · 19/01/2026 10:35

teaandtoastwouldbenice · 19/01/2026 10:28

Wobbly teeth, especially if they are touched, make me light headed. Now DC are older (and know it’s me) their tooth fairy money goes direct to their go Henry accounts, I tell them if teeth come out at school, she’ll add a bonus.

God yes!!!! What is it about wobbly teeth that gives me the wobbles?!

The dc found it funny at first to wobble them in my face. They soon stopped though when I touched my eye in front of dd. Nothing bothers ds yet but he doesn’t do it either anymore.

I think all baby teeth are out now thank fuck

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Pandasarethebest · 19/01/2026 11:09

The same as others, belly button.

I quite liked it when pregnant as it just got stretched out.

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 19/01/2026 11:59

Snot. I can't stand visible snot. Poo, fine, wee, fine, vom, fine, blood, fine. Snot literally turns my stomach. I was a gentle but very thorough nose wiper when my kid was little.

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 19/01/2026 12:00

Not sure that snot is technically a body part 😬

Danikm151 · 19/01/2026 12:01

Belly buttons. They’re just weird!

smallsilvercloud · 19/01/2026 13:52

Humans/animals are gross and the body fluids that come out. I get pretty much freaked out by every part. could never of been a medical professional.

Empress13 · 19/01/2026 13:55

I absolutely cannot bear anyone touching my belly button it really makes me feel ill

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