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I have two: Flying and Heights.

Flying kind of feeds off the height factor, but I just cannot stand the lack of control. Whenever I have to fly somewhere, I visit a 'Afraid of Flying?' site and let it calm me down.

Heights is my big one though. Just last week, it hit me in me again. I was waiting on the 4th floor to visit my professor, and there was that a big hallway window on both sides of the hallway. I couldn't help myself, so I walk over and I noticed my steps becoming more like shuffles as I got closer. I don't think I got within 3 feet of the window.

So, how about everyone else? I apologize in advance for bringing up any bad memories.

I think my only phobia is extreme-claustraphobia. I'm not afraid of being in elevators or cars or any fairly small areas ... but being in something where I can't move my arms, or where I could get stuck scares the heck out of me. Like that big pipe escape in the movie "Shawshenk Redemption" ... I'd still be a prisoner.

Snakes and heights.

I have the same fear as you, if I am high up and there is a window or a ledge i'm like baby stepping over to look at it.

I remember one time when me and my buddy was around 12 he was like "hey you wanna go to Geauga Lake with me?" so we got there and he says "what ride you wanna ride first." I think he was pretty dissapointed when I told him I didn't ride rides and I was afraid of heights.

But I have forced myself to ride a few coasters before and they were a blast but it's extremely hard to get myslef on one. The climb is the worst, I break out in a sweat and every muscle in my body is clenched.

Idiots. Plain and Simple. The world would be a better place without 'em.

Carnies. Circus folk, small hands, smell like cabbage.

Spiders and clowns.

Both are pure evil.

Snakes...those guys can come out of anywhere!

Or Killer Clowns From Outer Space.

My biggest one is probably Lilapsophobia...and it's fantastic that it will be put into action tonight. The storms aren't due until after midnight, but I'm already trying to keep busy by cleaning and doing stuff to try to keep my mind off it.

http://weather.about.com/od/tornadoes/a/tornadosafety.htm

Perhaps on of the most feared weather anomalies is the tornado. The Unpredictability of a tornado produces terror in many families. Some people are so afraid it is a phobia called Lilapsophobia. Part of the anxiety is due to the development of a tornado from a seemingly normal thunderstorm producing their characteristic haphazard and crazy paths.

Tornadoes are one of natures most devastating storms, but they do not last long. The average length of a tornado is only five to thirty minutes, but the places they travel are often devastated.

My only phobia is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the fear of long words. I'm not actually afraid of long words i just think it is funny.

I die before the Browns win a Super Bowl.

whew.....


I knew I wasnt the only one!!

Don't like tight spaces. I hated having an MRI

I am scared of heights and smelly people

Maybe not a phobia....but i do dislike snakes.

When I see one I have a uncontrollable urge to chop them into quarters.

Getting a paper cut on my eyeball...

DawgM, Over 20 years ago, there were tornadoes that rocked a lot of SW Ohio, I see that's where your from. Any correlation?

No connection. My Mother started this by taking me to the basement during bad weather when I was a kid, and it stuck. I don't mind a thunderstorm or anything, but I'm not a fan of rotation in the clouds.

Living in Xenia w/o a basement doesn't help.

Flying, boogers and snot.
Flying for the obvious reasons. The lack of control and I don't like having a few minutes of knowing I am going to die when the plane crashes.

Boogers and snot make me want to puke. Boogers wiped on walls in public restrooms, people spitting loogies and I see them on the ground. My stomach starts turning.
One day on the way back home from a field trip in high school we rode back to school in the bed of our teachers truck. It had a top on it. My friends started a booger fight with each other. They were picking them and throwing them at each other. I thought I was gonna lose it right there. Gross!!!

Birds. I've been attacked on four different occasions by birds.

When I was very small my mother dressed me in my "Sunday best" for church and told me "don't go out & get dirty". So...of course I ventured out to the barnyard. I got too far from the house and was surrounded by three geese. They pinned me on the ground and jackhammered my skull with their bills ala Woody Woodpecker.

Three or four years later I was playing on the swingset and was at the top of the slide. Every time I'd try to slide down, our leghorn rooster would run to the bottom of the slide so I couldn't get off the slide. I'd have to put it in reverse & climb back to the top. After this went on for awhile I got tired of the game and decided to make a run for it...BTW, every time I tried to go down the ladder on the slide, he'd cut me off at the pass. Finally I slid to the bottom to make a run for it. He pecked the hell out of my legs (was wearing shorts).

My third encounter happened when I was playing baseball in the front yard. The ball went under a pine tree in the front yard. I climbed under the tree to get the ball and had my glasses shattered by the beak of an angry mother sparrow protecting her nest.

Finally..me and a buddy were riding our bikes down to the vegetable garden when a red-winged black bird flew down and blindsided me in the head knocking me off my bike.

My life has been "for the birds" so to speak.

Luposlipaphobia, its the fear of being chased by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. Thats mine. Spiders also, I dont do spiders.

Something about tornados and Xenia in the same sentence is very scarey!

Heights for me, although I'm fine if I'm safe.
I think falling to my death would be a horrible way to go. The 9-11 jumpers is the worst image of that day.
I have a recurring dream that I'm on top of a skyscraper that has a needle stick out of the roof, and I'm on a platform atop the needle and can't get off.

Heights...
which mad sitting on the top row of the upper deck, right against the fence overlooking the DawgPound at the Baltimore game that much more scary.

My buddy called me right before the long bomb to BE and I told him I was hanging out with God way up there cheering on the Browns... then the conversation got lost in a lot of screaming... could see the play develop real nice up there.

I can still picture my view from up there and get uneasy...couldn't sleep that night with the visuals.

Of course, it makes roller coasters so much more awesome.


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I honestly can't think of any.

I never got the whole "clown" phobia ... but I do know a couple of people with that one. Snakes and stuff I suppose I can understand ...... but most creatures will leave you alone if you leave them alone. I like heights .... and did roofing for a summer when I was younger. (Some of the finest views I ever saw were from that rooftop ...... with the neighbor girl sunbathing )

I dunno. I mean, stuff like having a gun stuck in my face once scared the hell outta me ... but that's a pretty rational fear.

If I had to find one phobia, I would choose ..... fear of stupid people. After all .... it's been often shown on reality TV and the news that Darwin was wrong ..... and the stupid often survive their own stupidity, even when others don't.

How is that nobody has put up "afraid of bridges" or water yet? i don't like bridges usually if they are longggggg and all u see is water when ur on it around u....that scares the crap out of me..

My phobia?

Jules pulling for the Indians.

Lachanophobia.

Fear of vegetables. All veggies suck.

It's not a phobia, as that is an irrational fear, but I have an acquired fear of heights.