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Irrational fears?
I have a few..Thunder, Heights, Freakishly tall people (like 6'6 and taller. I hate it), and really deep water.
(as you can tell, I'm a wee bit bored and its thundering outside so its scaring me)
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Re: Irrational fears?
submarines.
(The things under water, not the sandwich.)
I fear that if you met me IRL you would judge me for marrying someone who's 6'6"
and I fear that people just judge me for no apparent reason. It's amusing because when I do find out that people talk about me behind my back or whatever, I shrug it off because now I know how they feel about me but what I fear is the not knowing.
If I met you and YH IRL, I would be very skeptical of him at first. I usually warm up to friends who have tall SOs but tall people scare me.
I was at the grocery store with my parents and this dude was crouched down looking on the bottom shelf. Then he stood up. He was 7 feet tall at least. I got scared for some reason (as a 20 year old woman). My dad laughed at me.
I'll make sure he's sitting down
The tallest twins in the world used to live next door to my grandpa, now only one lives there and the other moved out of state, got married, etc. 7' 6". They can reach all the way over the fence and pet my grandpa's Boston Terrier, hahaha
I'm unusually afraid of something bad happening to people I care about. Like, I work myself into a tizzy and cry if I don't hear from them when I think I should.
Also, my teeth falling out. Freaks me out.
This is not irrational. They barf on you when they land.
Sometimes, when I am driving, or stuck somewhere that is away from home (like class, when I had it) I have an irrational fear that my house is going to catch on fire. I used to make my mom go pick up my dog, when I lived close to her. Now, if I even think I smell smoke will driving home, I nearly have a panic attack.
That's creepy.
I can't be around my uncles because they're all 6'6.
I don't cry, and if you talked to me I wouldn't seem anxious, but if I don't hear from DH I randomly start freaking out and think about what I would do if he died and how I would handle people feeling bad for me and trying to talk to me at his funeral and whatnot.
Toenails
Babies
I cringed reading this.
Elevators. I HATE them I'm closterfobic though
I get antsy and uncomfortable around most cops. It's not really a fear, but even when I am perfectly sober and not breaking any laws, they still make me scared that I'm doing something to get their attention and I usually just try to avoid them at all costs.
I was giving H a backrub last night in bed and was sitting on the edge and he was like "Why aren't your feet on the ground?" I went "Monsters" and he almost died laughing
Definitely spiders!
ETA: Oh, and this isn't a fear per se, but I hate feet! DH's are disgusting and I hate them touching me. I could never ever give a pedicure b/c I would never want to touch other people's feet.
1. Getting burned. I actually make DH get things out of the oven for me, and if I have to get it myself, I double up on oven mitts. It's weird, but explainable. When I was 2 I smacked my hand onto the surface of a gas grill and burned it pretty badly, so I developed a fear of burning myself while cooking.
2. Sharp objects like large knives. I'm pretty much useless in the kitchen, lol.
3. Elevators and heights a little bit, but not so much.
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Seaweed
No so much the Plant, yes it is slimy and gross and weird feeling, I am afraid if what is living inside of the plant.
There is a river around where I live that people love to float down (I don't know why), but it is filled with water plants. I about had a panic attack floating downt this river in a tube with my butt sticking through the hole touching all of the water plants. *shivers* worst day of my life.
1) Even numbers. My OCD kicks in and they make me feel squicky and bad.
2) My teeth breaking and falling out. I have frequent dreams that I close my mouth, my teeth touch, and they just crumble and I have to spit them out into my hands. EW.
3) People/pets dying in their sleep. I used to periodically wake up B in the night when I was afraid he wasn't breathing. When we first lived together, he must have never gotten a good night of sleep. I lay there and try to watch for rising/falling of the chest, get real close to hear breathing... and if I don't I panick and freak out and shake the person awake. I must be annoying.
Vomit and snakes but I'm pretty sure those are full blown phobias for me.
Other fears: losing or breaking teeth (Lex, I have bad dreams about this all the time also!), eating seafood, someone running over my foot in a parking lot with their car, and I worry about something happening to my H a lot.
driving under underpasses on the freeway / through a tunnel then a earthquake will make it collapse and I will be trapped
stopping in front of a train track I always think the train will crash and take me out