What is your strange phobia/fear?

[jonesyyy]

Following on from a thread where OP doesn't like wind turbines.

For me I can't stand walking past high buildings. I get so dizzy and frightened!

Almost passed out once as a child walking past Blackpool Tower..

Despite being a total foodie, I can get anxious about eating in restaurants because of the fear that a nearby diner will scrape their plate with their cutlery. I don't mind/get affected by the odd scrape but see when people drag their fork prong down over a plate or excessively scrape then my mouth goes all metallic-y and I just have to fight the urge to vom.

Heights
Spiders
Enclosed spaces tunnels etc
Toads

Sorry just realised you said strange.Toads are quite strange though

My DH is beyond squeamish about clothes hangers. He can just about tolerate hanging up/removing one item to/from a wardrobe but a pile of tangled, metal coat hangers would leave him in a cold sweat.

Apparently Kylie has the same phobia so that makes it ok 🙄

The idea of having to take someone’s pulse. Makes me go all weak at the knees. I panic as well when I’m standing up on a packed train as I think about what would happen if the floor fell through (why would it?!) - we’d all be dragged under. No idea why my mind leaps to this 😂

Volcanoes. I had reoccurring nightmares as a child. Saw a documentary about Mt St helens eruption at school and that totally freaked me.

@HappyLoneParentDay Here you go!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3636990-Why-am-I-scared-of-wind-turbines

Fish. Fucking hate the weird little buggers. They’re creepy and erratic and they stink. I won’t go in any body of water which might contain them. As for people who eat them . I really don’t know how they do it.

Fruit leftovers (banana skins, apple cores and pips, grape stalks, orange peels, peach stones..) really give me the heebies.

Going into my kitchen when it's dark. I have no blinds on them yet and I'm terrified someone will be looking back at me.

Other people's kitchen cloths/tea towels/dish cloths. I know mine are properly sanitised, disinfected and clean.

Mine is Glitter. I cannot buy a glittery birthday, christmas card etc. If I receive a card in the post, I have to carefully check to see if I can spot any glitter on it before fully opening. If it has glitter on it, someone else in the family has to remove it from the envelope and put it on the side for me. I can look at it, but just cannot bear to touch it, or get it on me.

@ghostyslovesheets & @jonesyyy
I am the same - so as above can't stand dry docks , anything with deep water and rusty metal - I can't explain it but I am with @ghostyslovesheets , the whole deep water and rusty metal thing is abhorrent to me. I hate looking at moss or rust on e.g. a lock. I don't know what it is , may be I don't want to fall in , but then I wouldn't. It is irrational, which pretty much describes a phobia. I once ( when a child ) went in a launch through a harbour in an African country where some of the ships had been pretty much abandoned for months and they were huge and towering and rusty. Perhaps that is where I got it from - but deep water & rust and metal and big machinery - just no no no . ( It is irrational - I live in a very small terraced house where no deep water or large ships or clanking chains are likely to appear - but I can't even think about it )

I have terrible cleithrophobia.

I'm very fussy about the locks on loo cubicles and getting in a lift is a nightmare.

Also not keen on superglue or even spider webs. Weirdly enough, spiders themselves are ok.

All mine are pretty common - creepie crawlies, the dark, heights and confined spaces. Just as well I am not Celebrity as I would not last 5 minutes in the jungle, lol. I have a friend who is terrified of escalators! The button one seems relatively common - what is the issue there? Genuine question

Crocodiles/Alligators/Komodo dragons
Saunas

^ one of those things is not like the other!

Certain buttons make me feel sick. I'm not scared of them, but big buttons are worse and buttons hanging by a thread make me retch.

Didn't realise the button phobia was so common

Big things that should be in the water being out or nearly out of the water. Like ship hulls on a dry dock or a model blue whale in a museum. Enormous cruise ships moored at neat little harbours make me shudder. Used to walk past the Cutty Sark on my way to work and could barely look at it.

I have ichthyophobia which is fear of fish, I thought it would be more common but no one has mentioned it. I can't even cope with Quorn fishfingers!

@TomHagenMakesMyBosomTremble
The thought of touching a pulse makes me feel nauseous too! And also heartbeats, as you say - if I'm resting with my head on my partners chest I have to move or I feel ill.

Grapes or raisins when they have just a little bit of a stalk in - if I pull the stalk out I feel sick until it's in the bin and off my fingers.

Things in mugs/glasses that shouldn't be there - for instance if someone puts their crisp packet into a glass at the pub, or throws some food from the table in a mug if they're clearing up.

A rogue hair like an eyelash on someone's cheek makes me feel a bit yuck. Or seeing a beard hair on a plate (I realise how bizarre all this sounds 😅)

Seeing a fake nail laying on the floor that had popped off someone's finger - just makes me think of germs..

Stinging nettles! Ick! Irational fear!

@AnneTwacky - no no spiders are not OK. Repeat after me.

So can anyone tell me why the button thing is ?

The sound of tape ripping off cardboard. Makes me nauseous.

Bare feet - especially the soles. Used to cringe when teaching PE at school. All those sweaty yellow feet. Urghh

Handling coins, door handles, dropping things off tall buildings - even worthless things like tissues