Do you have any weird phobias?

[Lorddenning1]

I'm a fully grown adult and I can't stomach egg Yolks, I can only eat the white part, I'm not scared of them and can be around them but he thought of eating one makes me feel sick.
Sat eating my dinner (ready meal because I'm having a lazy day) got half way through it and started to gag and then I threw up a little bit, I was sweating and breathing harder!
Just looked at what's in it and it's spaghetti Carbonara , made with egg yolks!
It can't be mind over matter as I didn't know eggs were in it
I also I can cook eggs for people, I just can't eat them.
Anyone else have weird phobia type things or is it just me!

Balloons. It's not that unusual but A LOT of otherwise rational adults think it is hilarious to try to get me to touch balloons or wave them in my face. Apparently it's just me being childish

Pylons!

The brown bits of overripe bananas. They make me gag.

Your yolk thing isn't a phobia

A wet shower curtain sticking to me

@OneTC yeah phobia is probably isn't the right word to use, I can't explain it though as I have challenged myself to eat it and Iv been fine for a little while and then I get in my own egg and start to gag, the taste isn't that bad, it's the thought of eating it. That's what I always thought, it's mind over matter, but I still gagged today and I didn't even know there was eggs in it.

Get into my own head* not egg haha

I wouldn't describe this as a phobia either really but my non phobic phobia is wet cutlery

Mine is super common, insects, specifically beetles

I have autophobia, the fear of being alone, genuine crippling fear, we have to plan DH going for nights out based on me having a scare and not being able to move.
Also afraid of the dark.
If past lives exist then my last one ended when someone broke into my house while I was alone at night and murdered me, I'm sure of it.

Overripe fruits and soggy cereal make me feel sick too!

Wet tissue.

I’m terrified of fireworks. Have been my whole life, no idea why. Nov 5th and NYE are pretty much my least favourite 2 days of the year.

Using stainless steel toilets

Mushrooms growing wild in soggy grass give me the heebie geebies and I've no idea my stomach flips and everything

Tomato ketchup. Fully fledged phobia.

Also when lolly sticks (like the swizzles ones) go all wet and stringy, Bleurgh.

@Mrsjayy

Mushrooms growing wild in soggy grass give me the heebie geebies and I've no idea my stomach flips and everything

My 6 year old has this exact one too! She said it makes her feel like she has spikes?!

It sounds like the egg yoke thing is an allergy rather than a phobia.

Balloons for me too, just the fear of them popping though I dont mind seeing or touching them.
My weirder one is seeing patterns on skin so for example if you have been asleep leaning on something and when you wake up the pattern of it is on your skin. (10 times worse if its patterns with holes in) It literally gives me a cold shiver and makes me feel horrible. I'm pretty sure there isn't a name for that and I'm 100% a weirdo 🤣

Mushrooms growing wild in soggy grass give me the heebie geebies and I've no idea my stomach flips and everything

My 6 year old has this exact one too! She said it makes her feel like she has spikes?!

Yes her stomach will feel weird and the spikes is the only way to describe it bless her. Will she eat mushrooms I eat them fine its just the grass thing. Although I saw fungi on a tree once and was a bit sweaty 😅

Chewing gum. Slime. Play Doh.

I explain it by saying that I have some sensory issues.

@Mrsjayy does having an allergy make you sick, sweat and breath heavy. That's the only thing that happens to me, I don't break out in a rash etc

btw you should go and put the egg yolk in carbonara in the "things you should have known" thread

Crabs. I've never been near one (except to eat) in my life, but they scare the bejesus out of me.

Also I can't touch velvet without retching.

An intolerance can definitely make you like that yes and if you have been sick as a child even the sight can make you feel queasy( I think)

Balloons here too. And once at school someone thought it would be funny to put one on me when they found out I didn't like them, and guess what, it popped! So balloons dont like me either.

@D4rwin

Balloons. It's not that unusual but A LOT of otherwise rational adults think it is hilarious to try to get me to touch balloons or wave them in my face. Apparently it's just me being childish

Yep, balloons bring me out in a cold sweat. There was a ‘hilarious’ incident in a previous job where a colleague’s desk had been decorated for their birthday and the office joker kept miming bursting them with his pen while grinning at me. I got into such a panic I had to excuse myself before I burst into tears. He looked suitably embarrassed when I came back.

I can’t even touch them and I once got off a bus well before my stop because a woman got on with child in a buggy, who was squeezing a balloon 🤮