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?

Caterpillars. I got covered in them once as a child and since then I shudder with disgust every time I see one.

Some of the common ones like lifts and tunnels etc but my weird one is road atlases! Those big ones you used to get years ago, they make me shudder looking at all the lines. I have absolutely no idea why!

Buttons 😳

Yes that’s same as me-If I can feel the moment it scares me out of it. And always when I’m most tired!

@harlacem0507 I went and looked at the hangars and I get it. There's a bigness about them that isn't right. I think I'd find the insides very disturbing.

Re frogs. I didn't think I had a problem with frogs. I lived in Maidenhead for a while and where I lived there was a couple of days in the spring/summer when thousands of tiny frogs would be everywhere and they were so cute. When I wasy tiny, you could fit three in a hand without them being crowded. They were sweet and adorable and the only thing I was scared of was squashing one underfoot.

Fast forward about five years and my cat brings a frog into the house. I nearly step on it on the stairs and then the terror began. It jumped down the stairs and it just kept jumping toward me and looking at me. I was screaming and crying and it was bloody ridiculous. I tried to catch it to get it out of the house in a bucket but it kept nearly touching me. I think it's ridiculous that I was so scared let alone anyone else thinking that. In the end it kept hitting it with a broom and I killed it and I still feel absolutely disgusted at myself because of that but the fear had taken over me. I think I'm fine with cute frogs but when they're big sized I can't be near them.

I also have a fear of stairs, specifically of falling down stairs but I've had to learn to live with that because stairs are everywhere and I walk up and down them every day to come in and out of my flat.

Moustaches.

Dick Strawbridge makes me heave.

I love Poiriot but I have to sort of side eye to watch.

I don't know what it is. They make me feel ill.

Count me in 😰

This reminded me of the sheer horror I've felt whenever I've seen brutalist architecture. It's like I'm in a Lovecraft novel...

Fellow buttons hater here! I’ve actually come across someone else before with the same thing. They make me feel sick! I have no clothes with plastic buttons.

"You are me. It's the compulsion to jump that scares me."

Oh, yes. L'appel du vide, call of the void. I've climbed up tall towers in castles and had to sit down, as I couldn't look over the sides. It's just as well they have railings or it would be all too easy to just lean over...

Yes buttons I throw any loose ones away.

Me too. I've mentioned this on a similar thread in the past. One thing that really bothered me was the old Sanex advert with all the swaying bodies. It was very 'holey' and made me incredibly anxious.

Anything enclosed or underground; wild horses wouldn't persuade me to travel by tube when in London. Also crowds; I'm 5'1" and hate being surrounded and enclosed by taller people. When I go skiing, I won't get in crowded cable cars even though they're the quickest way to get up to the slopes.

That’s so interesting, and weird. I’m sorry to hear why it affects you.

@SentFromMyiPhnoe Ladybirds is a mad one, what’s that about?

Bridges over water, especially wooden ones, or ones where you can see the water flowing underneath. Also piers. Hate the Millenium Bridge in London, and walking over Clifton Suspension Bridge was terrifying (why did I have a Brunel obsessed child?!)

Showers in new places. I have to really psyche myself up to having showers when I go on holiday. I don't know what it is. I have to go check them out loads of times first before I have one. I'm not keen on toilets either, or drinking water in new places. Something about water then!

Finger nails/toe nails. I can just about cut my own without throwing up. Ex used to have go cut the kids nails when they were small. Now they are older they can't do it anywhere near me. If I see one lying about I start heaving.

Fish flapping out of water, makes me feel sick, something v grotesque about it

Love to see so many others are the same about buttons!

I also hate with a passion:

Mushrooms, texture makes me 🤮 don't know if it's because I am ND.

Wasps, moths and my sheer fear crane fly aka daddy longlegs. Ughhhhh!!!! Also spiders.

Hangers, and bees + Run scully run = X files the movie

Tunnels, especially underwater ones. We always had to travel on the ferry to France as no way would i go on the Eurostar, the thought of it being flooded and trapped freaks me out.
when the little sub that went to the Titanic was thought to be on the bottom of the sea with the people crammed in that tiny space that they couldn't even stand up, I had nightmares every night about it, it haunted me.

Not scared exactly but don't like greasy hair on other people.

Eye contact with strangers when it's not intended.

Visiting Liverpool doesn't fill me with joy but don't have to do it very often.

More of a phobia than a general fear but cornflakes. I actually can't be in the same room as a bowl of cornflakes. I can't stand the smell. Can't stand seeing a soggy cornflake hanging down from a spoon. My DD asks for cornflakes when we do the food shopping and I just distract her and point her towards cheerios or weetabix instead 😭

Wind turbines and blood pressure cuffs

Fish 🫣absolutely terrified. Can’t even put my feet into the sea. Or be in a house with a goldfish.
I can get on a large ferry boat like the Stenaline ones but not on a smaller boat, afraid I might end up in the water.

Not too much to add, I'm scared of a lot!
Though I wanted to comment, I'm local and those hangars can be a bit foreboding. The whole area feels a bit off to me, but I don't travel down there anymore since one of DDs friends was involved in a fatal accident on the road in front of the hangars last year.

My son also hates buttons - it has a name - Kompounophobia . He specifically can not stand buttons with an outer ridge and holes in, where the thread goes through. He will tolerate the flat style ones where they are threaded on from the back - this is a problem with school uniform!!
He describes them as making him feel disgusted and sick - not a fear as in he feels scared.