i talked with a friend recently about fears. we discussed the usual ones, being afraid of the dark, spiders, heights, and so on. but what about the silly or unusual ones?
my friend is terrified of butterflies and i'm deathly scared of frogs.
now i'm curious. what are some of the funniest, weirdest, or most unexpected fears you've heard of? what are some of your own ''silly'' fears?
Cathedraphobia. I'm not sure how it works.ย
@ExMachina i had to look up what this was. not in a million years would i have guessed it! how very silly.
I always worry that people are trying to poison me! ๐
@SafeInSanity been there ๐ glad i don't have that going on in my head anymoreย
Egrets. We had this giant egret that roamed the neighborhood a few years back, it freaked me out every time I saw it... had a fascination with our yard because of COURSE. Even tried to eat our watering can, idk why. Thing was massive tho and every time it would strut around it gave me the heebie-jeebies :l Dunno why or how it came about. But my mom has the same fear with horses, despite never having any incidents regarding them. I guess sometimes we just freak out for no reason lmao
@reverie99ย i totally get it! there's something about unexpectedly huge animals that just feels a little unsettling
If I don't wash my hands twice before leaving a restroom, I imagine getting a major disease and dyingย
This thread might have some people with OCD in em haha. OCD makes you have irrational fears
As a person who has it, for me, I have to scrub my hands a specific way otherwise, I feel like I've got germ-ridden hands. Like I dunked my hand in a petri dish with a million of them swimming in it.ย
I think about the people who leave the restroom and don't wash their hands. Oh my god ๐ญ
I'm getting better at this though!
escalators. ESPECIALLY the ones that go down.ย My mortal enemy at the mall.
@GORGELLA valid! elevators too
dirt :/
my biggest, unusual fear is dog's barking ๐ญ ik it sounds weird but idk why it panics me so much probs why i'll never get a dog even tho i love them. Especially scary when it's nighttime and you start hearing dogs randomly make noise.
I have a really weird fear of Chicken Alfredo. I LOVE shrimp Alfredo, but I canโt stand chicken Alfredo. There was this one time we had flies in the house and one landed in my chicken Alfredo, and I was never able to look at it the same.
Idk if it's silly but it has been a huge fear of mine since I was a little kid of stepping on a dirty needles and contracting diseases.ย
Mannequins. Iโm always super hyper aware around them. I hate it.ย
@Naynoro you would hate the outlast trials
fishing hooks going under ones eyelid and dirty aids needles NYAN
my mom is extremely afraid of frogs, snakes, and turkeys. i think she's had bad encounters with all of them. as for me, i think my fear would be dying alone, but i know that's probably not considered silly.
I have a fear of vomit, always have, never really knew why. All I know is that I somehow acquired the fear when I was 4 or so. It was a lot worse when I was a kid though, back then I would panic if I knew someone around me was about to throw up.
As a kid I was also deathly afraid of buzzing noises. There was this time I went with my grandparents to the gas station, and in the store inside they were playing music, which had this slight buzzing noise coming out of them. I genuinely donโt get why that was so scary to me lol
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