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.

Mine too. I'd actually never heard of it before until I started experiencing it and looked it up. When I tell people, I'm not so sure it's that common as I always get a weird look.

I can't cope with spiral staircases. I feel such panic if I have to go up and down them.

Dd2 cannot stand stickers. At primary school she used to get visibly anxious if she was given a sticker for good work. She'd take them off immediately. She's got a few on her wardrobe but she feels ill at the thought of peeling them off.

You are not alone!

Cigarette butts and ashes.

i avoid stepping on or eating around them. 🤮

Waxworks. It's the uncanny valley thing I think. They aren't alive and they aren't dead but they look real.
I'm not scared of the ones of celebrities and I'm not scared of shop mannikins.
Also mummies I cannot look at. Skeletons are fine.

Used teabags & tea, especially milky tea! It makes me gag 🤢. Also, moths! Evil, horrid things!

Aroundthewaygirl same here.

Close up coral video, clusters, microscope views. Water weeds

Also The Snowman film fills me with dread & Oliver in the 1968 version, I just can't stand to watch him!

I have this too ! It’s got better as I have got older.

The thought of crumbs dust down the side or back of public seats, especially train seats. I can't lean back on a train journey. I perch on the front of the seat.

Walking on a bridge, terrified the bridge will collapse.
Looking at milk in a glass
Public toilets, I can't stand opening the doors that 100's of people have potentially touched, or touching the flusher or the taps to wash my hands. I obviously do but public toilets really bother me.

Touching fish, absolutely fucking terrified of it.

Believe its from my parents shoving my hand in the fish ponds at garden centres as a kid

Cleaning tomato ketchup off someone else's plate. Or even my own. Grim . Especially if it's mixed with egg .

Jacob Rees Mogg.
Although maybe that’s not weird.
His pretentious drawl makes me want to tear my skin off. I can’t listen to him at all. He gives me the creeps.

Not weird at all.
He's genuinely the worst.
Like a characture.

His kids also have the worst most pretentious names I've ever heard of in my life. Ridiculous.

Not sure if this fits the bill but I have toilet anxiety. A fear for needing the loo and not being anyone near one. I have overactive bladder OAB. The OAB/anxiety is getting worse as I age. I can barely go on a long car journey with friends - none of whom are aware of my issues - or participate in days out. Currently looking for an excuse to get out of a night out with friends where I'll have to potentially sit in the middle of a row of seats at an event. If I need to the loo then then whole row will have to get up for me.

Imagine having to shag him?!
No, mustn’t picture that or I will vomit.

Houses with two or more sets of staircases to the same floor. Seeing these on Rightmove makes my stomach flip with anxiety.

Three story houses are fine btw.

Heads on legs. A dog or toddler coming up to you and putting their head on your legs. It makes me xant to faint.

I'm scared of people wearing stilts. I'm also scared of masks.

I have a fairly strong stomach, but some years ago my DP introduced me to a series of short horror films which I can't for the life of me remember the name of.

One of them featured a weird dinner party and on the menu was a cheese partly produced by introducing maggots into it.

I had to stop watching and reached for a full 15 minutes. DP was baffled and so was I to be fair. Never had such a visceral reaction to anything in my life. Tried to describe it to a friend and just talking about it made me heave again.

I just googled to make sure it's a real thing and am feeling queasy just writing it down.

Weirdest thing ever.

Oh god fuck moths. Just absolutely, completely & utterly fuck moths.

Oh me too!!! Even reading your post has make me bork!!

Probably not weird but I have a massive phobia of having my blood pressure taken. So much so, I have no idea what it is.

@DistressedDamson Omg. I've never met anyone else with the same phobia.
Not sure if you are the same but I'm really bad with black toilet seats. I cannot use a toilet with a black seat. Even the thought of using a toilet with a black seat frightens me.

Viaducts. Victorian train stations.