Do You Have Any Phobias?

[THUNDER HANDS]

I'm afraid of heights and flying insects, specifically yellow jackets.

What gives you the willies?

[KG]

1. heights, spiders, and Magic Rat polls.

:)

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

2. Left turns with no green arrow.

Fifteen or so years ago a guy going too fast swerved around me as I had my nose out trying to make a left turn. He went up on the curb and hit a light pole.

[Shrek]

3. I'm afraid of polls

But as you can see, I am bravely confronting it.

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. way to go

I knew you had it in you. :D

[hippiechick]

4. being trapped with a limited supply of air

ie: car crash, plane crash, boat sinking ... water level rising ... air pocket decreasing ... no control ... must panic ... :scared:


:hippie:

[dofus]

6. Fire.

I'm terrified of being burned to death. I also have periodic dreams about drowning, but not quite as scared of that.

[Monte Carlo]

7. Large expanses of water scare me to death.

Like out in the middle of the ocean, or icebergs or shelves under water, or anything like that... scares the hell out of me. I can't even look at them in magazines like National Geographic.

I think that proves just how frightening 'Jaws' can be to a little kid. It scars them for life.

[nuxvomica]

8. My fear of heights is limited to buildings. Cliffs don't bother me

I have no idea why. :shrug:

[bif]

9. Heights, sort of

I don't mind being up 50 stories in a building. But have me go out on a balcony that high and I lose it. I have this fear that I'm going to jump. And being up on a cliff doesn't really effect me much, either.

[grannylib]

10. If it has eight legs and it ain't seafood, I hate it with a passion...

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. I'm suprised nobody has voted for public speaking

Which, according to statistics, is the largest fear of most Americans.

[NJCher]

12. public stuff--germs!

Having to use any kind of public thing, like a public phone. Or touch public doorknobs.


Cher

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

13. Speaking in public is my phobia :

But yet ask me why I study Political Science and hope to be a leader someday :eyes: . I took theatre classes to force myself to be opened to talking in public and it is helping . I would seriously find ways to get out of school whenever we had to present reports . Ask me to play my Clarinet in public , that I can do . But speak , I run .

[RebelOne]

14. Live crabs terrify me.

I like them dead on my plate, but am freaked out by live ones. Don't ask me why.

[dwckabal]

15. I'm not afraid of water

and I know how to swim, but I am afraid of drowning. Like I will probably never go white-water rafting. Funny thing is, I used to surf, and want to start again.

huh.

[Az]

16. I got two phobias(and a third semi joke one)

Dentists and needles. Sounds fairly typical. Basically the dentist has to gas me into oblivion for their own safety. Novicane has no to negative effect on me (it actually seems to focus the attention and pain). Kinda sensitive about things going in my mouth. Shrarp things are even worse.

Now throw into this volitale mix a dentist brought up on charges of having kidnapped, drugged, and sexually molested one of his patients. I have not been back to a dentist in almost two years now and my teeth are rotting out of my head. Phobias are nasty enough without real life monsters making them worse. Sheesh.

[SiobhanClancy]

17. Yellow jackets for me,too..also hornets,wasps and all of their kin

the mere sight of one makes my blood run cold.

[Kamika]

18. spiders

lol I have screamed in panic when I've seen spiders so someone would come kill it.

[Endangered Specie]

19. You should have put elevators on the poll

Lots of people are scared of lifts (not me, I ride them prob 6-12 times a day).

Ive discovered that once I figured out/read how something works, I am not afraid of it. Applied to cieling fans, lifts, airplanes, shower drains, etc...

[FDRrocks]

20. High places and small spaces..

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

21. Can I add that I don't wear anything Green ?

Nor do I like the colors green and orange side by side .

[SiobhanClancy]

24. Well,I won't wear anything orange...

for reasons that may ne obvious:)...or not.

[brainshrub]

22. Writing & 9 to 5 work

I want to be a writer so badly...but every sentence is like pulling teeth. My last essay took two weeks of two hours a day minimum.
I'm scared that people will see my writing and think I'm a fool. So I agonize over every comma, checking and re-checking is infinitely.

And I hate the idea of 9 to 5 jobs. Every day the same office, the same people, the same ass-kissing. I would go postal.

[THUNDER HANDS]

25. feel free to PM me with some of your work

I'll give you an impartial evaluation. :)

[progressiverealist]

23. Needles.

I faint every time I have blood drawn or get a shot.