Fears - what everyday things are people scared of

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I’ll start - sounds stupid but I am scared of the top stair. As soon as I have started down the stairs I’m fine but it’s just that first step.

Small talk. Big talk.

Bit of megalophobia, too.

You wouldn’t have seen me for dust!!! Just the thought is making my skin crawl!

I had two or three hamsters as a child (one at a time). One of them bit me quite badly. They have razor-sharp teeth!

Oh no, apologies. Funny enough, DD was talking about The Globe last night, so that's why feathers were already on my mind.

Many elements of cooking, particularly frying in oil (fire risk) and using noisy appliances like blenders (feel like they will chop my fingers off). Cooking in front of others is a big fear too.

I am so much better than I used to be but I still find everyday cooking so stressful.

Heights, confined spaces, nasal piercings and wet tea bags- yuck!

Huge industrial pipes on inside walls
Baths or even swimming pools (shudder) filled to the brim

Toads and Spiders

Thank you for your kind words @BooneyBeautifuland @LSTMS30555. It means a lot.

Things submerged in deep water. Especially if it's partially submerged.

ships' hulls, oil rigs, the stilts on a pier etc

The grates at the deep end of the pool 😵

I’m with you on this one. When I started a new job I wanted to get to reception on ground from floor 2 but I accidentally pressed the B for Basement as it was the one at the bottom. When it opened it was pitch black it smelt like a cellar and I was bashing the door close so quick, I literally panicked. It was the feeling someone could’ve been stood in the dark right by the door and I wouldn’t know! 😩

Submechanophobia, I have it too

I have an autistic, non verbal nephew who will happily go up to great big dogs but is terrified of butterflies love him.

I often have unsettling dreams about huge volumes of water generally as well! Do you?

That reminds me, sharp knives. Last year I finally got round to treating myself to a very sharp, proper, chef's knife. I don't know why as I am too frightened to use it! I think DP has used it once, but otherwise it has just been sitting in its sheath in the kitchen drawer. It wasn't cheap either!

Birds.

Getting on them at the top for me. I have to let three steps go and get on 4, which was a challenge on the tube. If they are quiet I can do it as I’m approaching, but usually have to feel them go out under my foot.

Escalators! Me too. Especially ones in places like John Lewis where they look like they're just suspended in open air. I actually cannot get on them.

Except enclosed ones which I am mostly ok with.

Melon pips, and the pips inside red or green peppers. Something to do with the way they are hiding in there, masses of them all clustered together, ugh.
Also tops of vine tomatoes - because they look like dead spiders.

Cockroaches. I'm pretty much OK with any other animal, but they absolutely disgust me. I think it's the way they scuttle and are practically indestructible. Fortunately despite a lot of foreign travel I have only encountered a few small ones outdoors. But the thought of being in a room with one.... 🤮

Yes to the pepper seeds. Sometimes peppers have baby peppers growing inside them and they’re the worst.

Yes mainly me being scared of walking near the sea at night or a reservoir. I’m never in the water but too near if that makes sense.

Yes to all of these. The baby peppers within bigger ones give me the fear.
With the melon seeds, it's like hundreds and hundreds of little things spying on me - ridiculous I know.

Moths. I can cope with spiders and snakes but moths have me reduced to a gibbering wreck.