Anyone have any phobias?

[Jodi]

I got one at Best Buy a couple years ago. It’s the director’s cut, so it has extras. It’s so cool! I need to watch that again… it’s been a while.

Try Amazon.com if you don’t have luck locally.

[Laurie]

I got my copy at Best Buy too, lol.

[Bob]

I can try and stop by there after work tomorrow

[Skigod377]

AsH wrote:

ok, this is probably one of the stranger phobias that you’ll hear about but I have Globophobia…the fear of Balloons. I actually have a panic attack if I’m near them and if someone thinks its funny and comes after me with one I’ll actually become combative just to get away.

MY babysitter has that fear! At first I thought she was kidding…Who is scared of a balloon, afterall? But she really is! I accidentally included balloons in a giftbag I gave her kids for their birthday 😳 She gave them back to me. Apparently, she can touch them when they are not inflated, but one they are blown up, they reeeeally bug her.

[Bob]

I had never heard of this fear

[Skigod377]

I had never heard of it till I met her. I think its the most unusual fear actually seen.

[Mimi]

That is a strange one…I’d never heard of it before.

[nessiemom]

purpledoggy wrote:

WindstoneCollector wrote:

I must have watched IT by Stephen King a million times…Best part Tim Curry ever played! 😆

OMG no the best part Tim Curry ever played was Darkness in Legend! I love that movie and my poor husband hates when I watch it.

I loved him in Legend, but I’d have to disagree… Cardinal Richelieu in the Three Musketeers.

[siberakh1]

SPark wrote:

lamortefille wrote:

Greater Basilisk wrote:

That’s why teachers should be authority figures, not clowns.

Oh, I agree. Too many of the teachers want to be the kids’ “buddies”. The ones that try to discipline the kids get too much resistance from the parents. Teachers have no real authority.

I wanted to be a teacher. I still love teaching, but the school system is starting to be broken. You can’t just teach, because you have to teach to the “core” and prep for standardized tests, and deal with politics and stupid parents that won’t parent and expect you to teach their kids everything while other parents don’t want you to teach them anything, it seems, and you’re supposed to stay in control of your class but you can’t dicipline them.

I decided I’d be better off sticking with volunteering if I want to teach.

That is what I’m afraid of when I eventually go to grad school for Education and German. I think I’m probably going to end up teaching college or adults (I’d either be teaching German, computers and maybe ESL). Kids are getting trained to take exams, but practical life skills seem to get overlooked (lots of parents don’t have time to teach them) and they have to be in 10 million activities. Whatever happened to just going out and playing kickball or make believe and being a kid? The smaller, very rural districts seem to know this part of life, which gives me hope.

Phobias… I’m with Nambroth. I like watching spiders and learning about them, but I don’t like it when they invade my personal space, especially the little hoppy/ninja like spiders, or the ones that descend down and land really flat. I had one hang down in front of my face while driving. I managed to pull over and run out of the car, hands flying. I want to hold my friend’s baby tarantulas though (the slow ones). I’m afraid of running into webs though, especially of big ones, like in Japan (the bird eaters *shudder*). Ticks make my skin crawl.

Heights I get anxiety attacks and stop breathing. I still get nervous on rollercoasters, but I just take deep breaths and really do enjoy them. If I scream, I can breath out and I’m ok. It’s when I don’t feel like I have a control if I fall that I freak. I just need to grow wings and I’ll be all set 😉

Some closed spaces make me tweak, cages, and things too closely around my neck or people grabbing my neck. Very large fires. A few other random things, but I don’t think they are really phobias.

[Ssthisto]

Wasps.
A wasp in a room makes me freeze if it’s far and I can’t make myself stay still if it’s near me.

Parasites that attach and CLING.
Even the WORD “leech” makes me cringe. So do ticks.

Being touched by strangers in crowds.
And it’s not just them-touching-me that is what I’m afraid of – it’s whether THIS is going to be one of those times when I lash out at someone for doing it. I don’t WANT to strike someone that doesn’t know that brushing against me when I’m already upset by being crowded is a sensory overload I can’t deal with; I tense up and tighten down, which makes me more stressed about being in the crowd…

I don’t get out much, and almost never if I’m not with at least one ‘safe’ person who can keep me from overstressing.

Certain textures can cause phobia-like reactions; I had a major problem before Christmas with the “Sizzle-Pak” brand crinkled packing paper shreds. Something about how it felt made my skin crawl worse than sticking my hand in a bag of mealworms.

Weirdly, I’m terrified of heights… but not of falling. I did a ropes course while on holiday. Climbing up the ladders was excruciating and I didn’t think I could do it – I think it was worse than actually walking across the beams because it was making me higher off the ground. Walking across the beams – and wires – was panicky. My brain was doing a litany of “this is too high, the ground is too far, your feet aren’t supposed to be on the ground when you’re up this high, you’re too high up, what are you doing climbing higher” even as I was telling myself “It’s a ropes course. You know the ropes can handle thousands of pounds of weight, you did the lifting tackle website with their safe load weights. The ladders aren’t going to kill you. You’re better than this.”

But once they got me up onto a one-foot-square platform on top of a very wobbly telephone pole and said “Jump for the trapeze” … I had NO trouble doing that. Never mind that I hadn’t experienced “My full weight hitting the end of the ropes to prove they can take it” or anything (lowering me to the ground from the beams was a slow thing where my weight gradually went onto the rope) – I just JUMPED as though I had wings. No fear at all, even knowing that if the rope broke I’d fall thirty feet.

I was always a bit like that doing the high dive at the YMCA – climbing up to the board was hard. Jumping off – that moment of flight – was easy.

[Pamela]

We were talking about fears today at work and a couple of us are scared of strangers getting into the back seat of the car. Myself and another person always check the back of the car to make sure no one is lurking! All those horror movies or cop shows where some one suddenly pops up behind the driver – shriek!

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