To ask what are your odd phobias and fears?

[Pricklypear12]

I'll start:
-large bodies of water (hate swimming)
-those moving walkways at airports (?!)
-large taps/plug holes

@Butteredtoast55 there’s lots of us with submechanophobia. Weirdly, I do like to occasionally torture myself with images. Not sure ‘like’ is the right word actually.

I include submarines in my phobia, even though they technically are supposed to be there. I made the mistake of reading a Reddit thread and it was full of hideous huge things underwater. One of the worst for me is a crashed plane. The dark cockpit windows just unsettle me so much. I can’t even think about it.

I’m wondering if I have megalophobia too, like you, but I’m too twitchy to google it.

@Butteredtoast55 ok I googled it. I do have it. Yikes. I should not have done that. I actually jumped.

Homemade food that’s been brought to a second location.

Makes me want to projectile vomit. For some reason people at work keep bringing in their homemade cakes etc and piling on the pressure for everyone to try them. For the love of god leave me alone! I spent most of this afternoon like a member of the French Resistance trying to find ways to throw people’s cakes in the bin without them seeing.

Don’t even start me on people who sell homemade food at car boot sales - or worse, the perverts who buy them 🤮

Probably outing, but my very real phobia is misshapen vegetables and fruit. Am entirely aware it sounds odd but seriously, it' s a very very big thing for me. I need therapy.

The fast spin cycle of the washing machine.

Makes me jump as soon as it starts and I have to close my eyes and clench as I run by it to stand at the kitchen door... As if I'm preparing for a quick getaway

It genuinely fills me with fear

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Whatever that weird stringy bit is in raw egg whites

There are two chalaza in each egg, one at each end of the yolk, and they anchor the yolk to the shell.
whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/Chalazae.htm

Insects/animals where I can't see a face. My brain doesn't like it, it freezes. So I'm not scared of mice and rats as I can see their faces. But spiders etc I can't stand (although I wouldn't kill one) as I can't see an obvious face. Same with some animals.

Certain patterns and clusters un-nerve me too. & I hate the word cluster.
Large expanses of water. I'm fine if it's the sea but murky docks/rivers are menacing.

Don't like huge dolls & cuddly toys either, they're OK if they're small

People in costume (particularly if wearing masks) although I can manage Disney - it gives me the creeps but I am not too bad. I cross the road to avoid anyone else in costume and threw a sickie at work the day we had to wear fancy dress.

Also anything being in the kitchen sink when I'm having dye washed out of my hair over the sink - it has to be dry as well

And kissing, and hugging actually. I have told my grief counsellor I hate hugs and she still insists on hugging me ("only a short hug, dear"). Yuk.

carrie my nanna is scared of nuns. She's terrified they will lift their habits over her head and she will disappear!

Vomiting,gagging,heaving,etc. Gets worse as I get older and have bad health anxiety because of the vomit thing
Also tomato skins. No idea why

Cotton wool ,I actually got told off by a midwife after having my eldest ds because I wouldn't use it to clean him up when changing his nappy
Escalators, fell down one when I was about 3 terrified of them ever since my dc just laugh at me now
Looking through a window if it's dark outside ,the loft hatch but only if it's night-time and the top of the stairs in the flat I live in because it's on a corner again only at night-time

Ah yes, b*ttons for me too, since childhood, particularly white plastic ones. I don't even like saying the god awful word. Or the clacky noise they make when someone puts a cardigan down on a table top. Boak! Habberdashery in John Lewis makes me queasy. If I see a Pearly King or Queen on TV I shudder and heaven forbid I ever happen upon them in real life, I would run screaming like a banshee as if the apocalypse were upon the world.

Metal jeans ones are totally fine though. Go figure. Seeing that written down makes it all seem a bit extreme. But I know they're evil fuckers.

I used to work with somebody who had a phobia of cutlery. It made things very difficult for her and her family.

Moths here too. Butterfly's are fine. And crabs. The way they move sideways just makes me panic

Cobwebs, and clusters of holes.

Cotton wool, we don’t have it in the house.
Large bodies of water.
Claustrophobia, which isn’t unusual but I have it to the point that being hugged too hard can trigger a panic attack. Sometimes OH will wrap me up in the duvet when we are playing about, sometimes I’m fine, other times it makes me cry!

As a child I used to be terrified of sprouting potatoes. I felt as though they looked like a witch's nails (??). Used to make me scream and cry

Driving over bridges and railway tracks, I could burst into tears with panic going over a bridge and I will add miles onto a journey to avoid our local track.

@Anonymouse007 you too! Folk think I'm nuts when I mention it! I can't remember anything being a particular trigger but my mum says I was the same when I was little. How strange! And yes - big ones with their mouths agape at the supermarket or fish counter give me the jeebies. As do their weird fins. Everything about them gives me the fear!

Caterpillars - any variety 🐛

Large objects
Really small spaces

Disgusting banana strings!!!! 🤢🤢🤢

@MadisonAvenue I've never met anyone in RL or online with the same crazy phobia as me. I travel to London frequently and have crazy workarounds for the long tube up escalators. Same as you I feel like I'm falling backwards. Nobody can get there head around it as going down isn't a problem.

I've given up trying to beat it! It's been with me for a very long time.

Spiders, roundabouts, crabs and baked beans bring me out in a heart-racing cold sweat. I feel sick at the thought of touching microfibre cloths.