Phobias........do you have them?

[Tyrion]

This may sound cliche.. but clowns. I've ALWAYS hated them.. and seeing the movie IT did not help at all..

[thisLIFE]

My phobias are:

Acrophobia - the fear of heights.

Agoraphobia - fear of a place or event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.

Aquaphobia, Hydrophobia — fear of water, specifically the morbid fear of drowning.

Katsaridaphobia - fear of cockroaches.

Gerascophobia - fear of growing old.


The most extreme phobia of mine is acrophobia. I get about 3 feet up off the ground, and I start feeling panic setting in. All the other phobias are very mild. Although Gerascophobia seems to be getting a little worse every year.

Katsaridaphobia isnt real!!!!
lol how can you be afraid of nasty cockroaches... disgusted ya but afraid??

cmon lol i have pretty bad arachnaphobia though. a couple times when i was a kid i had a spider camp out in my bed and just chew the hell out of my leg

Other than than... i cant think of much

[thisLIFE]

bees and wasps. When I was little, a bee crawled into my mouth and stung me on the inside of my lip so that's where that comes from.

I'm frightened of things that are just... creepy looking, like spiders, or most fungi, and many many plants. There is a giant succulent planted near where I live and I never walk on that side of the road. I have this awful fear that cacti and succulents will just suddenly inflate one day and they'll kill us all.

trypophobia is another one. It's that bad retching feeling you get when you look at things like this:

Ok i thought of another one i have!

[Tyrion]

I'm personally okay with spiders.. they eat things like mosquitoes which I loathe.. but the fact that one was eating your leg kinda creeps me out.. ...

[MisterTinkles]

bees and wasps. When I was little, a bee crawled into my mouth and stung me on the inside of my lip so that's where that comes from.

I'm frightened of things that are just... creepy looking, like spiders, or most fungi, and many many plants. There is a giant succulent planted near where I live and I never walk on that side of the road. I have this awful fear that cacti and succulents will just suddenly inflate one day and they'll kill us all.

trypophobia is another one. It's that bad retching feeling you get when you look at things like this:

WTF?

What the hell ARE those?????
Look like sponges to me.

[MisterTinkles]

Katsaridaphobia isnt real!!!!
lol how can you be afraid of nasty cockroaches... disgusted ya but afraid??

cmon lol i have pretty bad arachnaphobia though. a couple times when i was a kid i had a spider camp out in my bed and just chew the hell out of my leg

Other than than... i cant think of much

Well, when you've seen a Queen cockroach.....you would tend to be scared of them too.
It was about 4 inches around, 12 inches long, its head was the size of a nickel, and its antennae were at least 6 inches long!!! Scared the shit outta me....tried to spray it with bug spray and it FLEW AWAY!!!! I slammed my front door shut (it was on the front porch) and I locked the door, and didnt come out for a whole day!!

I supposed I should stipulate that its FLYING cockroaches I have a real problem with!.
OMG.....they start flying, I start screaming like a catholic school girl!!!! And I RRUUUUUN!!!

Im pretty much not afraid of any other bugs, except maybe giant centipedes.

[kokomoloko79]

Trypophobia . Some say it was created by the interwebs but I've been squicked out by it since I was a small child.

[Miles]

Trypophobia . Some say it was created by the interwebs but I've been squicked out by it since I was a small child.

I think it's just that it's hard to explain to people how a bunch of holes leads to squick, but now that it's out there on the internet folks are coming out of the woodwork with it. I think there is a biological basis for it rather than a learned cultural thing, since a number of potentially deadly diseases like smallpox result in the sort of patterns that get trypophobic reactions.

Ugh I'm getting itchy just thinking about it Dx

[MisterTinkles]

I think it's just that it's hard to explain to people how a bunch of holes leads to squick, but now that it's out there on the internet folks are coming out of the woodwork with it. I think there is a biological basis for it rather than a learned cultural thing, since a number of potentially deadly diseases like smallpox result in the sort of patterns that get trypophobic reactions.

Ugh I'm getting itchy just thinking about it Dx

I must find a new version of the dictionary....

"Squick"????



And how do you play "butt poker"????
LMAO

[thisLIFE]

Well, when you've seen a Queen cockroach.....you would tend to be scared of them too.
It was about 4 inches around, 12 inches long, its head was the size of a nickel, and its antennae were at least 6 inches long!!! Scared the shit outta me....tried to spray it with bug spray and it FLEW AWAY!!!! I slammed my front door shut (it was on the front porch) and I locked the door, and didnt come out for a whole day!!

I supposed I should stipulate that its FLYING cockroaches I have a real problem with!.
OMG.....they start flying, I start screaming like a catholic school girl!!!! And I RRUUUUUN!!!

Im pretty much not afraid of any other bugs, except maybe giant centipedes.

hahahaha woww i didnt think those existed where do you live???
maybe its justified now... maybe =)

Sound like rad roaches in fallout, you must of opened the door and been like VATS VATS VATS