Reply #9: I had another fear as a child: open steps [View All]

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Not sure of the formal designation, but it's the style of step with no riser, so that each step is a separate platform. I was terrified that I would fall through, between one step and the next. I would make it about four or five steps up the staircase and then crumble into a ball. Stangely, I never feared falling over the side, under the railing, which was in retrospect a much more likely result.

Eventually the phobia just sort of vanished. Not sure when, but it was before I was eight or nine, I'd guess.