Phobias

[scheherazade_79]

OK, this another You-based question. Do any of you out there have any unusual phobias? Not the traditional things, like spiders, snakes, heights etc. but really idiosyncratic ones?

I have a phobia about gristle in sausages - finding a piece can ruin my entire meal. I also have a phobia about walking into a bathroom just after someone's taken a dump. Actually... give me spiders, snakes and heights any day!

 

[English Lady]

Used teabags.

Honestly. I cannot look at one without feeling very ill and the idea of touching one is...*shudder* totally repugnant.


*shudders*

 

[Guest]

I also have a phobia about walking into a bathroom just after someone's taken a dump.

Says the woman who shits turds big enough to cause a hazard to shipping in the Irish Sea.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Lol! That's funny, EL!

My flatmate once developed this phobia to eggs. She blamed it entirely on me, saying that I'd once served her an egg that wasn't cooked through, and it had given her a real phobia.

For a laugh one day, I bought a dozen eggs, drew faces on them, made them little hats out of felt and arms out of pipe-cleaners, and dotted them along the entire length of the street, leading right to our front door.

I thought she was just being silly about the egg-thing, but when she opened the front door she looked as white as a sheet and I felt terrible.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Cigarettes. I hate touching them. They feel unpleasant to me.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Says the woman who shits turds big enough to cause a hazard to shipping in the Irish Sea.

I was waiting for some smart arse to come up with that one! Should have known it would be you, Lou!

 

[scheherazade_79]

Cigarettes. I hate touching them. They feel unpleasant to me.

I love them! Don't you even like the smell of a new packet?

 

[Guest]

I was waiting for some smart arse to come up with that one! Should have known it would be you, Lou!

It seems I'm not the one with the smarting arse around here.

 

[neonlyte]

I cannot abide to eat in front of visitors at home, unless they have been invited for a meal. No problem in restaurants, but I'd rather clear the plate away than continue eating is someone called unexpected.

I suspect I'm just a greedy pig and don't want to share.

Lou's - Irish Sea Shipping alert had me PMS for about the fifth time today, I think the oxygen has left her head while she's been up that ladder. I find I can't abide sitting in a damp dressing gown

 

[elsol]

No phobias

I have very unnatural dislikes though... like unable to eat a soup that I can't see the bottom of the spoon.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[BlackShanglan]

I love them! Don't you even like the smell of a new packet?

No. I don't smoke, and have difficulties with smoke, so there's no appeal there. I suppose it's my distaste for smoke that has somehow transferred and sublimated to a dislike for the touch of cigarettes as well.

 

[Guest]

Lou's - Irish Sea Shipping alert had me PMS for about the fifth time today, I think the oxygen has left her head while she's been up that ladder. I find I can't abide sitting in a damp dressing gown

See! I knew it! You GIRL!

(You still wearing that? Does it smell? I like natural smells.)

 

[Liar]

I cannot abide to eat in front of visitors at home, unless they have been invited for a meal. No problem in restaurants, but I'd rather clear the plate away than continue eating is someone called unexpected.

Actually a quite common phobia. I'm like that too, and many with me. Especially in public. I see people pick up sandwiches, fruit or even lunch boxes from home and eat them on buses and trains, but I couldn't do that. I'll munch reasturants and cafes yes, or takeout food in a park in the summer. (And more reluctantly so if I'm alone.) But for some reasons, some things are off limits.

#L

 

[Just-Legal]

My phobia is the musical edition of War of the Worlds. No, I'm not joking. I'll give you an example.

My music teacher was doing a project on musicals. He said he'd chosen one I should appreciate. I was thinking Lloyd Webber. No. WotW. He put it on.

They found me half an hour later in the science block, sobbing my eyes out and shaking, physically shaking.

The real pissed off part? The next parent teacher conference, he tried to make a joke out of it to my parents, saying my reaction was a bit extreme to get out of school. My mother was inscenced. She's seen me with it, my sister's favourite trick was to play it, and she was so angry that he thought I was faking.

I don't know why. There are certain parts that make me feel physically sick. Its like... my fight or flight system goes into overdrive and my whole being is telling me to run, to get away, to just... GO!

 

[KharisLeaf82]

My Fear is idiotic...

I am 22 years old and I'm scared of the dark. . .Yes, that's sad. Go ahead and laugh...I either need someone with me or a night light.

*Kharis*

 

[Just-Legal]

I am 22 years old and I'm scared of the dark. . .Yes, that's sad. Go ahead and laugh...I either need someone with me or a night light.

*Kharis*

*huggles Kharis and hands over glow in the dark teddy*

 

[Guest]

no odd phobias here...
more OCD type of stuff tho im not OCD...or am i?
i have to have my coffee in a certain type of mug or my day is shot.
my car can be filled with garbage but my bed has to be pristine...
yeah...
nevermind... im pretty normal

 

[Evil Alpaca]

I've got phobiphobia. Quite aggrivating really.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I have soberphobia.

 

[ElizabethWest]

I have soberphobia.

*snicker*

 

[carsonshepherd]

That is the fear of not drinking enough.

Actually, for real, I have a phobia of grasshoppers and crickets. I also am disgusted by cigarette butts and won't touch them, but that's not a phobia. That's just nasty.

 

[oggbashan]

I have a phobia about eating in a restaurant on my own. I would rather go hungry or order a take-away meal to eat outside even if it is raining.

I'm perfectly OK if I have a companion.

Og

 

[matriarch]

my car can be filled with garbage but my bed has to be pristine...
yeah...

Oh, I'm soooo glad I'm not the only one.

The footwell behind the front passenger seat in my car is just a rubbish bin. Tissues, carrier bags, parking tickets, sweet/chocolate wrappers, crisp bags. Eventually I gather them all up into one of the carrier bags and dispose of them. I can't see it normally, so it doesn't bother me.

but....

I CANNOT sleep on a rucked sheet.........it HAS to be smooth and tightly stretched over the mattress, securely tucked in before I can even think of getting into bed. And the quilt cover has to be pulled out so that there are no wrinkles in it. I can drive myself crazy trying to push the creases out with my feet, until I eventually get out of bed and put it right.

I just can't do it.

Is that strange????

 

[SeaCat]

I am 22 years old and I'm scared of the dark. . .Yes, that's sad. Go ahead and laugh...I either need someone with me or a night light.

*Kharis*

Not a laughing matter my dear. A fear of the dark can be even more debilitating than Claustrophobia. I have seen it way too often to laugh about it.

Cat

 

[SeaCat]

I'm lucky in that I have no known Phobias. There are things I dislike immensly, and things which disgust me, but I haven't run into anything yet that so fills me with fear that I am unable to function.

Cat