To ask you what illogical thing freaks you out.

[cupidsgame]

I have an illogical fear of large empty swimming pools. It's totally irrational but I'd be too frightened to look at one let alone stand in it.

I like baked and mashed potatoes but I can't eat them because I'm petrified of getting a grey grainy bit. The thought makes me want to vomit.

Oh, and Cillian Murphy. He is terrifyingly doll-like. I'm typing this while listening to him in Peaky Blinders on another tab

Totally understand the empty swimming pool! I've seen Prime Suspect

I offered a woman I worked with a polo once. She said "no thanks, I have a phobia of them". I've never heard that before or since!!

An empty amusement park is scary, I just read about some kids who went on a roller coaster when the park was shut and managed to start it up. They went round a few times before they were caught. I'd find that petrifying.

Driving over bridges especially high ones when it's windy! I keep thinking a big gust of wind will blow me off!

What happened in Prime suspect Autumnchill?

In Prime Suspect, the bad guy gets a victim in the empty swimming pool and releases the dogs on him!

Trypophobia for me too and balloons. Also full nappies on babies. I also don't look in mirrors at night. Just in case. Having legs hanging out of the bed is a no no too. I won't go to a public loo and then go to my own toilet in case I pass germs on. I have to shower first and if I'm desperate and have to then toilet gets bleached.

My mum's friend is terrified of buttons..can't even say the word. Apparently it's an actual recognised phobia!

I've just face timed husband and realised another one. I always sit with my back to something as I am scared I'll see something behind me on my screen.

I think I watch too much TV

I can't bear animals dressed as (or moving like) humans or vice versa. Bears on their hind legs, lemurs walking on two legs...terrible. There was a recent trailer for a TV programme about people who like to dress up as dogs. Every time it came on I thought I'd throw up.

LastGirl, sorry that was badly written, I know yellow doesn't mean bad, what I should have said is "Yellow teeth, and I also hate bad teeth". Sorry.

Peas, can't touch them, look at them or be near anyone eating them without an escape route, even those Iceland bags that have them on the side I can't touch or be near

*this will probably out me if anyone I know is on here

Oh yes, an empty swimming pool gives me the creeps, the way it slopes down to the deep end...shudders, we viewed a house that had an outside empty swimming pool, I couldn't bring myself to look at it and I had visions of filing it in with concrete, I am terrified of deep water too.

One of my daughters has a phobia of buttons and but the little one is obsessed with them. She sure makes her older sister suffer. If she sees buttons she swoops on them and will insist she does them up, fiddles around with them etc whilst her older sister is cringing away hiding behind a blanket.

Electronic I'm the same! I don't have a side of the bed, it's just the one furthest from the door!

I won't have a doll in my bedroom, I'm frightened it might be like Chucky and attack me.

Rabbits. Ever since seeing Watership Down as a four year old.

Also despite their alleged cuteness they can be mean fuckers.

electronic if I'm in a restaurant and they have fish chips and peas on the menu i tell them I am allergic to peas to make sure one doesn't eve stray on to my plate

I once googled empty swimming pools just because the fear is so delicious and found a picture of a derelict old Pontins site which meant I discovered another illogical fear . Please will someone Google it and see if it creeps anyone else out .
The other thing is skin on warm milk or custard .
That is a fear too far - gives me a lump in my throat thinking about it . Which has now made me think of the word Belch which makes me want to throw up Aw Gaaad I shouldn't have started thinking about it

Another vote for space. I can't watch programmes about space or read about it. It totally freaks me out. There is something about how big it is and all this light years, black hole, Galaxy nonsense that my brain refuses to comprehend. It makes me go all weird.

Thank you so much for cheering me up. I have a very limited number of scary things.

I don't like heights, I don't like flying, but I know it is irrational and accept it.

I am frightened of clowns and kids entertainer
No hideous yewtree revelation, I just don't like them.
All the other fears are interesting, as they are genuine, but I don't have them.

Thank you for sharing

Allergic to work, you are a workshy lazy f*cker

Wheelchairs. Especially old rickety ones. They frighten me.