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AIBU Weird Phobias

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Campervanlife4me · 13/10/2019 12:21

What weird phobias do you have?
Mine is loose hairs touching me. If I have a hair down my top it drives me insane and I know straight away when there is one or if one touches me in the bath, I have to fish it out straight away. Even a stray hair attached to clothing and sometimes I have to physically stop myself from pulling them off other random people's clothing as that would probably be seen as beyond weird!!!! I hate them.I have long hair but they don't bother me while their still attached to my head! Just loose, stray ones attacking me. DH says I'm very weird. That is my only strange, compulsive thing though. What's yours?

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24hourshomeedderandcarer · 13/10/2019 22:21

not a phobia as such but facial hair,especially beard turn my stomach andmakes my skin crawl

i can not look at someone with one/any at all i littrelly start dry heaving

my 9 y old is petrified of mascots(full suited with heads are the worst) or any one dressed up in costumes ,he does have a number of disabilities though so we know its down to these and no we cant do Halloween at all and christmas is difficult as hes petrified of santa and as we are a non religious family(house full of atheists)its difficult to get decorations with out Jesus or santa on

we found this out at 4(non verbal at the time)when we went to a expensive disney land trip for 5 days and he went hysterical.christmas has been from birth

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Campervanlife4me · 14/10/2019 13:39

Pythone I completely understand the egg thing. I am a nightmare to fry eggs for. The white has to be completely cooked and the oil flicked over the top of the yolk to cook the bit off white on top, but the yolk has to be runny!!! Can't stand runny egg white!

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Campervanlife4me · 14/10/2019 13:40

So if you have Trypophobia, does that mean things like collanders as well?

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Kittenbittenmitten · 14/10/2019 13:41

Slugs.

ChrisPrattsFace · 14/10/2019 13:41

I used to petrified of peas.
If they came on our table at all I’d have a panic attack and vomit.

No longer scared, thank god. It was embarrassing!

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Campervanlife4me · 14/10/2019 13:42

Catsoncatnip it's the squeak that gets me too. You can't hear it but you just know it's there!!! It's making my teeth go now!!!!

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PablosHoney · 14/10/2019 13:44

How many of these are actual phobias and how many just dislikes

thebogwitchisback · 14/10/2019 14:36

@Campervanlife4me
I can cope with colanders, it's usually irregular holes that I can't see into. It's very hard to explain.
For people questioning about wether these are fears or phobias, trypophobia isn't classified as a phobia but it is a recognised mental disorder.
Seeing anything with irregular patterns of holes, even a close up of a harmless breakfast crumpet is enough to make me feel sick, dizzy and disoriented.
It's a horrible feeling especially if you happen upon an image unexpectedly.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 14/10/2019 15:08

Paper straws.

BiBiBirdie · 14/10/2019 15:14

Peas and baked beans.
Genuinely makes me want to vom everytime someone eats them. Even the thought of them makes me feel sick.
Even I know it's daft

lululu16 · 14/10/2019 20:08

@RedPurpleyBlue me too! so awful it takes over my life.. i have good phases and bad but it dawned on me the other day there isn't a day that goes by where i don't have any kind of worry about sick in my head! mainly other people being sick. so i feel ya..! on a CBT waiting list

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 14/10/2019 22:15

Wet cellophane.
The word figure but only when used in a ghost context

Rachie1973 · 14/10/2019 22:18

Clusters of holes. Trypophobic. Can be the oddest things that trigger me.

Nippybutsweet · 14/10/2019 22:47

Public swimming pools in general for me, I call them human soup! All the hair, dead skin and what not floating around. Gives me the boak just thinking about it.

Mrsfrumble · 14/10/2019 23:04

stopwining, I thought it was just me! Like you, it used to only be drained swimming pools that bothered me, and now it’s pools with no one in them too. I also share you horror at the thought of closed water parks. There are some urban exploration videos on YouTube of people going to abandoned pools and water parks that are like horror movies for me; compelling but also make me feel all cold and stomach-churny.

MrsBobBlackadder · 14/10/2019 23:44

@VioletCharlotte I also hate chip forks and can't bear to touch them! Horrible stupid wooden things that make me shudder Sad and lolly sticks are the same. Yuck!

Writersblock2 · 15/10/2019 20:51

Definitely have the paper straws/wooden forks thing. Ugh...cringing thinking about it.

I also can’t deal with those cheap foul containers you get on things like individual apple pies (Mr Kipling etc.). I have to look away and go LA LA LA very loudly if someone in the vicinity is removing one - the sound, the weird look of them with the sound. No. They can go do one. Confused

Writersblock2 · 15/10/2019 20:51

Foil not foul. But they are foul!

MeMeMeYou · 15/10/2019 21:05

Yoghurts - texture and seeing ppl eat them

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Campervanlife4me · 15/10/2019 22:35

@Awwlookatmybabyspider please please elaborate. The word figure? Do you mean when talking about a ghost?
Actually I've got a word that gives me the heebie jeebies. Flesh! As in raw human flesh. I must've watched a really bad horror movie at some time in my life!!!

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RickJames · 15/10/2019 23:13

I'm completely unphased by sick, spiders, cotton wool etc. I get quite dizzy and panicked about tomato sauce though, especially in a really large container. I feel like crying if I ever get any on my hand, I despise it.
My other nemesis is the larvae of May beetles. They live in the soil and grow up to 3" and resemble a horrible, pulsating, mushy prawn with a face. I have spewed in the garden a couple of times when digging up a really big one. Really upsetting and you can't even squish them as they are so waterfilled. Then the liquid would go everywhere (gag, boak). I would love to know a humane way to kill them as they kill everything, even large established trees.

Tunnocks34 · 15/10/2019 23:19

Not sure these are phobias but they make me feel squiffy.

  • cold tinned food you’d normally eat warm touching my fingers, so for example soup, baked beans etc
  • cutting raw chicken. Specifically chicken too I am fine with pork, fish...
  • peeling the meat nappy off a pack of mince meat.
  • cleaning dog poo of shoes.
Tunnocks34 · 15/10/2019 23:20

rickjames agree about tomato sauce. Someone tagged me in a video once of people eating it in large portions, like on spoons and it made me actually heave.

Mouikey · 15/10/2019 23:57

Uncooked, undercooked or runny egg yolk. It started that I didn’t like them but now has built into a kind of phobia. I certainly cannot watch someone popping a runny fried egg or eating dippy soldiers. I boil my eggs for 15-20 minutes sonitnis super hard. I can’t watch the M&S advert with them on all running down and looking like snot. I physically heave, tense up and get all clammy.

By far my biggest phobia is great white sharks. Sensible and generally reasonable until I say that I find it incredibly difficult to swim in a pool or windsurf on a reservoir or lake (as I did as a child). I’ve had this for as long as I can remember. I can have a bath (because somewhere my brain is slightly rational about it!), but they could be anywhere else in large areas of water. And they are cunning and will eat me!

AndromacheHelena · 16/10/2019 03:25

Mushrooms. I'm absolutely petrified of the little beggars.
Clowns, although that's fairly common.
Food where it shouldn't be. Like on tables in cafes or if my youngest ds has dropped something on the floor. Makes me heave.