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!

Dimpled end of a banana. Yikes.

@singingsoprano

I have Koumpounophobia -fear of buttons, especially small round cream/white ones.

I also have koumpounophobia. I've lived with it since I was a small child. I can't bear bloody b*^%#$s! (I can't even stand to see the written word.) They make me feel very nauseous, and I have been known to retch or vomit, especially when confronted with loose or lost ones - yuk 🤢 #shudders

I also have a thing about 'skin' from boiled milk. When I was a child, I remember that my DF momentarily left a pan of boiled milk on the hob. When I caught sight of the 'skin', I'm ashamed to say that I threw up - in the kitchen sink 🤮

Birds. Especially small ones. I can’t deal with any bird smaller than a chicken.
I once opted to stay in a room with a decomposing human corpse rather than face the loose canary in his sitting room.

I have a phobia of balloons. Really can't stand them!

Also lifts but I guess that's not that unusual.

As a child, escalators really scared me and even now I feel a bit jittery when getting on. I'm ok once on, it's just the getting on I struggle with. The London underground was....interesting!

Writing with pencils

@SilverOtter

Writing with pencils

Is that like Dancing With Wolves as per PP?

Octopi. I can't even look at a drawing of one, let alone a real photograph or video. I just can't look at them, I don't know why! I listened to a really interesting documentary about them, with my eyes firmly closed . Sham though, as they're very interesting and I'd love to watch what they can do. But there's no way!

I don't like underarm hair on me or anyone. Gross. Also I can eat cold prawns in a salad but not cooked ones in a hot dish. I couldn't even eat the rest of the dish if it had prawns. Mad.

Cotton wool, especially someone ripping it.

My palms were sweating just writing that.

Also rats.

Until I was perhaps 9 or 10 I would not eat apples unless cut up into pieces, because of a fear of apple pips.

Haven't rtft, so sorry if its been mentioned but important not to confuse a phobia with just disliking something.

I gag at wet teabags. My dh leaves them in the sink and has to move them or I cant go into the kitchen or I gag, It's very bizarre, they are wrinkled bags of grossness 🤢🤮

I have trypophobia....anything with lots of holes makes me feel sick. Especially those horrible looking plants or a certain kind of creature that has holes in its back for carrying its eggs 🤮

Bats send me batshit. Sinister little creatures. I've had a few close encounters and I was a gibbering wreck. Now with coronavirus I realise I was right all along.

@Boysarebackintown yeah I agree it's probably an intolerance thing, before today I would of said it was more mind over matter because if I'm determined I can try and force myself to eat some and after a few seconds I start to gag, it's worst when it's a runny egg, but even an over cooked one still makes me heave. I always thought it was because my dad when I was little served me a runny and a bit raw on the top, I thought this is where it came from, but today like I said I didn't even know it was in the food and I was actually sick 😢

@tulippa some body at work told they bought some duck eggs and I was nearly sick when they describe them as the same flavour as hen eggs but with a strong taste 🤢

Butterflies and moths ... fluttery bastards going unpredictably every which way. I get that whole body shiver and have to run away. I don't have any other phobias and can deal with lots of unpleasant stuff but a tiny butterfly ... no. DD tried to persuade me into a butterfly house at the zoo but I couldn't do it!

It’s not a phobia. But a fear of it happening. Everyday when I walk to collect my kids from school, I have this fear that a car driving past will throw up a stone which then hits one of my teeth and shatters it. It’s all I can think about on the walk to and from school.

@CharlotteRose90 see I can eat the white bit no problem, it's the York that turns my stomach, I cut the York out and give it to my OH, I just sit there with my fry up with egg whites lol

Wooden spoons. Horrid to touch and eating from them is horrific.

And my apologies, it's probably not a phobia I have, as I can Be around them and cook them but I can't eat them.
It's still interesting to read about people's actual phobias though.

@Finfintytint

Birds. Especially small ones. I can’t deal with any bird smaller than a chicken. I once opted to stay in a room with a decomposing human corpse rather than face the loose canary in his sitting room.

I'm bird phobic too. I fainted in an antique shop once, when I'd failed to notice a macaw on a perch in a gloomy corner. I was right by it when it squawked and flapped its wings right near me.

At one point, I thought I might have to give up driving because the urge to duck whenever a bird flew towards the windscreen was becoming overwhelming. Even stuffed birds used to freak me out. When we rented a holiday cottage that had a stuffed bird in a glass case on the window ledge, we had to shut the fucker in a cupboard because it freaked me out.

My GP referred me for CBT, which helped no end and I'm much better now. I still have to cross the road if there are pigeons on the pavement though.

Oddly, ducks don't bother me at all.

Teeth, my eldest has a tooth that’s wobbly, can’t bear him wobbling it in front of me.

Fingernails, if they’re long enough to show a white bit of nail they make me feel physically ill. I have to cut my partners nails on almost a daily basis.

Weirdly I don’t feel the same way about toenails.

Toilets for me. When I say terrified, I mean it. Throughout primary and high school I couldn’t flush them (my friend used to go in and flush for me 😂)

I used to fly back and forth between the UK and US every few weeks and I didn’t pee at the airports or on a plane once for a good few years - is literally hold it in from leaving my mums house to arriving at mine or vice versa.

My fear seems to be of them flooding but I have no idea where it stemmed from. I’m 36 now and I’ve sort of overcome it. I can use toilets pretty much anywhere (and flush haha) and a few months ago I even fixed the cistern on mine. I may have sobbed and hyperventilated throughout but I did it