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Today’s question:
QUESTION: What are your phobias? (example: spiders, clowns, etc.)
Talk about it!
needles.
Trypanophobia
Phobias are irrational and illogical. That’s why it pains me to admit that I am phobic of riding a horse (I guess it’s losing control to an animal) and climbing under my house (fearing that an earthquake will shake the house off the foundation, squashing or trapping me).
Neither one makes any sense to me but I can’t overcome them. So I don’t ride horses or climb under the house.
I would love to declare victimhood status, and maybe even turn it into a virtue signal, but I have no phobias.,😢
The little ants with human faces from that episode of The Outer Limits called “The Zanti Misfits.”
Those little guys scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.
A monkey on the wing of an airplane in flight. That would be scary!
When I was a kid I had the Outer Limits board game. The Zanti Misfits where most disturbing.
Lol! 🤣
OMG! I remember that episode and it was scary as heck!
Yeah, me too.
Though, in fairness, if not for their rather small size, they would be literal monsters.
It doesn’t help that some are still dangerous, even in their small stature. Came across way too many black widows back when I helped my parents with any sort of landscaping projects. Always afraid that one might have found it’s way on/into my beard and I wouldn’t even realize it.
Milpitas
I have a phobia about being in Milpitas, passing through Milpitas or anything to do with Milpitas.
Lol! 🤣
Clowns. Watching Poltergeist in the early 80’s stuck with me, John Wayne Gacy then Tim Curry as Pennywise in IT didn’t help. I get the heebie jeebies any time I see them
Interesting question.
@april
Pennywise is the best clown (scariest) in my opinion.
Agreed! I love Tim Curry and he was so terrifying as Penniwise, but definitely added to my childhood fears especially him coming out of the drain in the locker room shower
@april
Agreed! 🙂
I don’t have any. A phobia is an irrational fear usually accompanied by anxiety, and my fears are rational.
I do not have any irrational fears, that I can think of. I’d rather not come too close to venomous snakes (no problem with nonvenomous), but enjoy watching from afar.
Either spiders 🕷 on a football field or quicksand.
MOTHS!! My mom used to turn out the lights on our back porch an hour before my little brother and I went out there to sleep on cots during the summer time.
I almost went off the side of the Benicia bridge in the 70’s when a huge moth started flitting around inside my little VW Bug. Yikes!
Disney/Disneyland fanatics…total weirdos.
Y E S!!! I guess they trying to recapture their childhood 🤷🏻♀️?
When I read the feelings of a spider it wants nothing to with us no need to fear 🙃
Worms and slugs on the ground after the rain, banana slugs, bee stings, Biggest fear is sharks – I cannot believe I actually snorkeled -as close to shore as humanly possible- in Maui this year
Bugs in drinks.
It only happened once (found a friggin worm in a bottle of tequila!), but that was enough to make me phobic about it for years now.