What things are you scared of that seems ridiculous to other people?

[harlacem0507]

Thought I would start a (hopefully) interesting thread on what fears people have that aren't your 'typical' fears most people get! So forget the dark, spiders and heights!

I have typical fears most people do, for example my biggest one would be bees/wasps but that's quite common, but this one is a strange one (or so other people say!)

I live in Bedfordshire and there are two hangers, called the cardington hangers/sheds that are used for various things, including film sets, and they absolutely terrify me. Google if you're interested, but you'll probably think what's the deal? I can't even explain it myself but having spoken to my partner I think it must be the size of them? I also don't like that they are so isolated and where I live, I'll drive round the corner and I won't see them until they are in my face and it honestly makes my heart race. I avoid them as much as I can. The worst time was when it was foggy and I couldn't see them when I normally would and I felt sick because I knew they were there but couldn't see them. Maybe I need help😂
So what's yours?

Yes, it's definitely more vertigo than acrophobia. It's not the height that's the issue per se. I thought I'd got better, then was clinging to a wall in a basilica in Budapest last year while my sister was pointing out the sights from a very narrow gallery. I was just thinking about how the fall would work. I left her to go up to the roof by herself.

Phone calls, I will do a LOT to avoid having to phone someone, especially someone I know (routine ones to book an appointment or similar aren't quite as bad).

Playing cards, really really don't like them and they make me feel anxious.

Slugs ugh ugh ugh I'm OK with (most) spiders and I even like snails. But I can't go near a slug and totally freak out if one is in the house or I accidentally touch one. But they're hardly any different from snails which I'm cool with, it's very weird.

Never drive in Coventry. The Ring Road is all joining/leaving. My mum was terrified of this when she visited there.

Mainly the usual shit: spiders, dogs, heights, edges, falling.

My unusual one is filling in forms.
Jury service. (Instant autistic meltdown)

Same! I do want to have a family someday, but the thought of being pregnant and then enduring childbirth puts me off. Even the thought of having e.g. an amniocentesis done makes me feel ill.

I don't think I could consider getting pregnant unless I could have an elective caesarean.

Dead bugs. Don’t mind live ones really, but dead ones make me want to rip off my own skin. The idea of their horrible legs dropping off… ugh. Two formative childhood experiences triggered this one – picking up what I thought was a piece of coloured paper but was actually a dead butterfly, and my brother throwing a dead dragonfly at me. Ugh.

Ostrich's and those drain things in reservoirs.

public speaking. I was so bad that I would have palpitations before saying my name in a meeting at work.

it’s got hugely better

weirdly no one has ever noticed and I’m considered very confident. If I have to do a large public speaking event I now take half a beta blocker which has been life changing

Trypophobia, I'm the same. Makes me physically sick 🤢

I have never wanted kids, but the thought of pregnancy makes me feel sick. When women go on about the baby kicking..... no thanks! I just think of something from the alien films..

Walking in the countryside. I would never, ever, voluntarily go for a country walk on my own.

Well, I'm currently a recovering agoraphobic, so...

Mirrors and food with holes in them like crumpets, strange things!

I’m not really scared of the usual things. I like spiders and mice and driving and pregnancy. I have huge sympathy with others that have fears as my own is so irrational

God, they were brutal. I wonder if they worked for the Darrens’ at my school. I’d never have gone near them but watching them at a young age definitely didn’t help my generally anxious disposition.
Anxiety is a very very effective teaching tool for people prone to anxiety (who probably don’t need teaching). Maybe the gung ho kids were completely unaffected.

The texture of blancmange has freaked me out from being a small kid, but luckily as an adult I have avoided it. But the wobbly wrongness. Ugh. See also semolina pudding. And the skin on rice pudding. Just no. I couldn't even look at it.

Cats although I'm getting better at tolerating them after therapy!

Fish. I will scream and run away even if on tv. Have been known to cry.

When I was younger, clowns. IT (Tim Curry as pennywise) came out when I was 10 and my oldest brother being a horror fan got it from Xtravision. The red hair and white face, I'd imagine seeing that in pitch darkness.

Height has always been an issue and can get queasy just from looking at images of people at the top of tall buildings. Strangely ok when it comes to people climbing (the amazing free solo climber Alex Honnold, or the French guy Alain Robert who climbs skyscrapers), possibiy as they have a grip so seem safer (even though they are one slip from death), but its people standing on top of buildings and looking down, get dizzy just at the thought of it.

Octopus and squid. Even if they're on someone's dinner plate - the tentacles and suckers terrify me!

@Arcticstorm mine is frogs too. I can't even look at pictures of them.

I hate slugs too. There's the slimy aspect and the way they move.

And goodness me, never read the horror book.called Slugs.... it's definitely not for people who hate them!

Birds - moths and anything that flaps
Swans and seagulls are my worst - can’t even cope with a pigeon

IBS sufferer here. Hate going anywhere with no loo in easy reach. I take Immodium as a preventative if I go for a walk or before a motorway trip.

Loads of regular fears but a few odd ones the metal strips in doorways? The screws? If they come loose? I feel it's going to strip the skin off feet? 🤢 makes me feel sick just thinking about it and it happened last night I felt so dizzy and sick screwing it down my kids were (gently because they have irrational fears too) teasing me about it me saying lift your feet LIFT YOUR FEET! something about cuts on feet that freak me out

Eye horror, if a book or film has something to do with eyes it's an instant no

Stepping on slugs barefoot 🤮

I googled those Cardington Hangars @OP. They are bloody terrifying!

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