What's your phobia?

[Trendkill6]

Bears...

 

[Azraellod]

i don't really have any particular phobias, as i can rationalize most of my fears.

dogs, maybe? most people consider it irrational, but i cant see why. dogs are scary.

the only scary thing about small insects is the possibility that i might crush them while trying to put them outside - and i hate crushing small insects.

heights are just awesome

fear of thieves is rational - i have been stolen from many times
fear of losing my temper is rational - i lose my temper badly
fear of planes crashing into my house is rational - they are low flying and piloted by amateurs (i hate living near a private airfield)

i think that's about it...

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Bee's, Wasps, Hornets, any other stinging insect. I have no idea why. I have never been stung by one. I just flee for a few minutes as soon as I see or here anything like them.



Even if it's a bluebottle.

This. I have been stung 3 times by wasps. They are little fucking bastard they are! As soon as I hear any form of buzzing I run away with my head between my legs screaming. I hate them.

 

[chefassassin2]

Heights. Only way to face it is to convince myself I'm on a chairlift.
MaxTheReaper-no real reason, just irrational fear.
Mods-people who have pretty rockin' power scare me a bit.
Food poisoning-and I work in the foodservice industry. Figure that one out.

 

[Mozared]

Let me be the one to mention the classic cliché before somebody else does:

I suffer from 'hippopotomonstrosesquippediliophobia'. Also known as fear from long words.

 

[Strategia]

Vespidaphobia (made that up, no idea if it's real or not), phobia of wasps. I jump every time I hear something buzzing nearby and I don't know what it is, but it's only wasps that really frighten me (and they're mightily good at that). Even if it's another stinger, like a bee or a bumblebee, it's OK with me. (As a matter of fact, we've had an abundance of bumblebees in our garden for as long as I can remember, and recently a bee colony has made itself a home in an old wasp nest between the roof and the ceiling.)

I also have some acrophobia, I can barely stand straight up on a one-foot-high stool but I'm just fascinated with the view from inside a plane.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Phone calls...
Asking people things...

I used to be scared of dogs. But that's because one bit me when I was quite little.

 

[Bibliomancer]

Needles. I am terrified of needles and almost faint when I have to get a shot. In fact, I went to the doctor for a check up earlier this year and had to get a shot. Before they did that, they took my blood pressure and found that it was pretty low. After I had the shot and relaxed, they took it again and it was fine.

 

[0p3rati0n]

I used to be afraid of thunder storms and Tornados. I'm some what a scared of spiders. As long as they keep their distance I'm fine. I do have a phobia of The Haunted Mansion at Disney (don't as why plzzzzzzzzzzz).

 

[manaman]

Gerascophobia - not really an irrational fear of mine, but something I dread.
Claustrophobia - The only thing I have ever had nightmares about is an inescapable situation.

Some odd ball fears for everyone:

Trichophobia - Fear of seeing loose hairs on cloths or other surfaces
Taphophobia - Fear of being buaried alive
Spectrophobia - Fear of mirrors
Somniphobia - Fear of falling asleep/sleeping
Phasmophobia - Fear of ghosts
Tokophobia -Fear of childbirth
Pedophobia - Fear of children, those disgusting little balls of snot and evil
Pediophobia - Fear of dolls in the likeness of children
Paraskavedekatriaphobia - Afraid of Friday the 13th
Amaxophobia - Fear of ridding in a vehicle
Autophobia - Fear of being alone
Anthropophobia - Fear of company/ human contact
Scopophobia - Fear of being seen/noticed
Megalophobia - Fear of large objects
Gynophobia - Fear of women
Genophobia - Fear of having sexual intercourse
Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666
Nomophobia - Fear of being out of cell contact

And a few of the phobia names of others that listed their fears.

 

[Agrosmurf]

I'm deathly afraid of MaxtheReaper and his stunning skills in the art of argument.

 

[Beltom]

Ever since I got stung by a bee I've had an irrational fear of the buzzing noise flying insects make, since I don't know whether it's a bee or not.

 

[megamanenm]

umm phobia? try phobias a top five would be

Sharks, bees spiders, heights, and deep water... in no particular order

A bee spider? Damn wouldn't want to be near that thing.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

Pediophobia, those god damn porcelain dolls freak the shit out of me
Also manequinns :| Condemned:CO's fault

 

[spuddyt]

Poisonous things
Although i'm not sure if thats a phobia since its perfectly rational, I do think I am a little bit over nervous about them

 

[Bofus Teefus]

Your mom Wrong thread.

Scared of spiders. Grew up around black widows, and they are freaking nasty.

Also manequinns :| Condemned:CO's fault

Sega did an awesome job at scaring the piss out of me with them.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I have one fear that might be considered a phobia. I cannot stand having an insect touch me. I'm not afraid of insects, I don't feel any sort of fear upon looking at them... unless I think it might try to land on me. If Mr. Bug is touching me, Mr. Bug needs to go away or Mr. Bug goes splat.

I think I can track this fear down to when I was a child. I'd found an old toy car in my backyard, picked it up, and an earwig [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermaptera] crawled out. I dropped the car into a little kiddie pool (after which about twelve more of them crawled out, one by one, like some disgusting insectoid clown-car routine), but I never found the first one that crawled out, and I was convinced that it would crawl up my sweater and try to get into my ear.

I'm deathly afraid of MaxtheReaper and his stunning skills in the art of argument.

That's not a phobia, that's a legitimate survival instinct.

 

[Slayer_2]

Flamethrowerphobia. Yeah I made it up, but that'd be a pretty bad way to go

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Syringes. Had to have 4 of them stuck in both of my big toes for an operation. Hated it.