Tell me a weird fear/phobia you have

[WhimsicalMoth]

I don't meal like bugs, heights, death ... I mean something strange.. unconventional.. something that might need a bit of explanation.

I'll go first -

Water towers ... the thought of them makes me shudder.

Swimming pools with no water in. Freaky.

Scaffold lorries. I'm terrified the poles are going to slide off and go through my windscreen. In fact I'm not a fan of driving behind any open loaded vehicles.

This fear was only made worse by a recent incident where someone had badly secured some plywood to the roof of their car. The wind caught it, a sheet snapped in half and landed on the road infront of me. Thankfully due to my fear I was driving some distance behind them !

I also don't like Swarms of insects or flocks of birds.

Wrinkly fingers/toes from water, mine or another persons, I can't deal with it at all. Could never be a hairdresser.

Bruised finger nails 🤢

Dead spiders (live ones too obviously) but dead ones are just as bad.

in fact, I’ve written about it on this forum before - that time someone added a photo which scared the shit out of me (although it was great to speak to someone who had the same thing-sue even had it worse and couldn’t deal with pipes anywhere but mine just the toilets, sometimes I have dreams where the cistern is really high and with all wonky pipes-even writing that is making me feel panicky 😱

All of these make a small amount of sense. I have no real aversion to anything in particular but I can where everyone here is coming from. Just a lot of ickiness about.

OMG - same!!

Little bits of paper ripped up on the floor. Didn't realise this was a thing for me until I had children.

The feeling of water running down my arms eg when after washing hands. I have a method that largely avoids this but when there is no towel or something it sometimes happens, and, argh!

Fruit that may be slightly soft and 'on the turn'. I rarely eat any fruit as a result.

Chair lifts - it’s my legs dangling in space

Worms. Especially after rainfall. They make me gag for some reason. I try to avoid looking at them.

Loose buttons. Blagh

So pleased it's not just me! There's an old indoor swimming pool that has closed down in our town and I have to cross to the other side of the road to walk past it just in case I look in through the window by accident!

Do we all have to Google?

@Uniqueusername1 same!!! See also apple cores and banana skins - again, rarely eat fruit as a result.

Also Morris Dancers - freak the shit out of me.

ok, take us out of our misery. Who is it?

Same! I literally thought I was the only one!

Me too.
Free buttons.
But also unnecessary buttons, like on socks or greetings cards.

Polystyrene drives me insane.
I shudder and it makes my teeth hurt.
That horrendous squeak.

I also like eating salt and vinegar crisps and ketchup but I CAN STAND THE SMELL if someone around me is eating them. Offensive.

Things underwater that shouldn’t be there. I remember on holiday in Spain when there was quite a bad storm and all the tables and parasols ended up in the pool. Absolutely freaked me out. I’m the same with boats submerged in shallow water

Lady birds and crabs.. I am terrified of crabs. I have swam with sea lions, sharks, stingrays and dolphins and not one bit scared.. throw a crab in and I would be out of there.

My husband has a terrible phobia of blood tests. Not the needle, but the fact that he’s been pricked and they might not be able to stop the bleeding.

He also has a weird thing about the toilet system … like he’s terrified when he has to check in there if there’s a problem with flush. He thinks it might start leaking water and it just won’t stop.

My phobias aren’t interesting like that - I have a fear of driving and public speech.

Oh apparently that is submechanophobia

Man-made stuff underwater. Think shipwrecks, statues etc.

Can't type his name, I genuinely feel really queasy now that I'm thinking about him, I might actually be sick if I type his name. Unfortunately not an exaggeration.

He stars in a film called Rush Hour, JC 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Literally no reason at all, I think he must have really screwed me over in a past life or something.