Phobias!

I don't have any phobias as such.
There are some things I dislike intensely and try to avoid..... clutter and dirt, crowds, caves, elevators, fast-food places.... but if I happen to be in or near them, I don't freak out or anything like that.
And I have no fears of things. You know, like some people are totally freaked out by spiders. I don't actively fear anything really.
 
*polite snip*

They did, however, hang a nickname on me.

"SPIDERMAN"

This is just wonderful. I haven't laughed that hard in a while, THANK YOU. :D

Some of the more unusual phobias I've heard of:

Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother
 
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This is just wonderful. I haven't laughed that hard in a while, THANK YOU. :D

Some of the more unusual phobias I've heard of:

Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother

You are most welcome.

And I appreciate the polite snip, I think that is the first one of those I've ever had.
 

THIS IS IT! I HATE THIS GUY!:(

I am deathly afraid of poisonous snakes! If I know a snake is not poisonous I am not afraid. In fact I think they are fine and I will ignore them. But I'm scared to death of poisonous ones. I can't watch those tv shows where people fuck with them and catch them. I can't look at them in cages. I avoid lakes and places where there might be water moccasins. I walked up on a copperhead just coiled up on the sidewalk in front of my apartment and wanted to move. Thankfully my neighbor chopped it to bits with a machete. (Because in North Carolina your neighbors have machetes!!!!? - I don't even live in the country.)

Now there's a tv show currently airing about those idiot snake handling religious weirdos on this tv channel I watch a lot. (I think Discovery or NatGeo I forget). The commercial runs for it constantly. They keep showing this asshole getting bit by a water moccasin so I stopped watching that channel and now I miss my favorite shows.
 
Hey satindesire, you look like Barbarella!

To the point though, I used to have this irrational fear of underwater machines. Being near the underside of a ship or it's propellors gives me the wig....cables and pulleys underwater also does it. I remember getting the heebeejeebies on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney due to all the cables and rigging and lighting underwater. I could imagine falling in there and being endlessly chewed up by all those gears and pulleys. My screams bubbling quietly to the surface without notice. *shivers*

I used to imagine while swimming in canals near galveston that let out into the gulf that a submarine would surface under me and I'd be drawn into its wake and propulsion. No one would ever know.

As I've gotten older this fear is all but gone. I do still feel uneasy when I'm in close proximity to something like an operating dam. There is a small dam in east Austin that controls the flow of Lady Bird lake. I was on it and peered over the side at the mechanism half open. It's a smallish dam so you are really right there. I was light headed...I felt I was about to fall in, and this was just a few years ago.
I felt that feeling even stronger when I canoed up to the lowside of a dam one time....I felt it would open at any moment.

also these used to make me very uneasy as a kid ....

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I used to have pretty bad social phobia but I have pretty much gotten over that. I still have a fear of driving. I had a couple of close calls when I was younger and it put me off driving, plus I just found it stressful, and over time it built into a phobia. Avoidance leads to phobia. Remember that. If you're anxious about something you have to face it, or it will get worse and worse and may lead to a full on phobia like what happened to me. Ok there are buses but I'm very limited with the jobs I can go for and forget about dating.
 
I used to have pretty bad social phobia but I have pretty much gotten over that. I still have a fear of driving. I had a couple of close calls when I was younger and it put me off driving, plus I just found it stressful, and over time it built into a phobia. Avoidance leads to phobia. Remember that. If you're anxious about something you have to face it, or it will get worse and worse and may lead to a full on phobia like what happened to me. Ok there are buses but I'm very limited with the jobs I can go for and forget about dating.

Date a girl that drives. Tell her you can't drive because you'll be too busy fondling her body.

Granted the success rate on this line will be a tad low.

On the up side, anyone who accepts is pretty much a sure thing.

What have you got to lose?
 
Clowns and dolls have always been creepy to me.

And not sure if they're actually phobias, but I dislike crowds and icy surfaces.
 
I fear nothing to the level of phobia.

I don't like clowns, latex balloons creep me out. I won't swim in dark cedar water although I used to do that as a child all the time. I refuse to ride the ferris wheel, but I don't mind roller coasters.
 
GYMNOPHOBIA -- fear of being nude.

That's not one I think we'd find amongst the membership here, but I suppose it is possible.

First thing that came to my mind was "How do these people bathe?"

I wonder if that applies to the guys at the gym that won't use the urinals, have to go in the stalls.
 
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