Your irrational fear.
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Any pressure to my inner arm terrifies me. I'm okay with pretty much any other body part. It was quite funny at hospital once, I got hooked up to an IV on the back of the hand with a big ol' needle and was totally fine. A small needle on my inner arm for a blood test had me literally vomiting in fear.
It can be very difficult to restrain me, as I will happily dislocate my shoulder to get my arms free of pressure.
As a side effect of this, I pretty much refuse to wear short sleeved clothing outside.
It can be very difficult to restrain me, as I will happily dislocate my shoulder to get my arms free of pressure.
As a side effect of this, I pretty much refuse to wear short sleeved clothing outside.
I can talk to people in person and I can text/IM no problem. But I'm terrified to speak to people over the phone. And I have no idea why but it freaks me the fuck out
Does intimacy count?
I'm an extremely logical rational person, the only spiders I fear are the ones I know can kill me round here (brown recluse and black widow) same thing with snakes, heights only bother my if my footing is poor. When it comes to women, I've been burned pretty bad a few times; so, I wouldn't call it irrational instead call it trauma induced fear. It's not like I hyperventilate or tense up around women, I just avoid where at all possible.
Oh and swarms flaming clown spiders, but that's just my rational fear of the irrational acting up.
I'm an extremely logical rational person, the only spiders I fear are the ones I know can kill me round here (brown recluse and black widow) same thing with snakes, heights only bother my if my footing is poor. When it comes to women, I've been burned pretty bad a few times; so, I wouldn't call it irrational instead call it trauma induced fear. It's not like I hyperventilate or tense up around women, I just avoid where at all possible.
Oh and swarms flaming clown spiders, but that's just my rational fear of the irrational acting up.
I can't walk past lawnmowers without covering my face because I always think that a stone or something will get caught in the blade and hit me in the eye. I don't even know how it started.
Mine is very similar. I don't like being tied, held down, or otherwise prevented from moving. Any time this happens I freak out, violently.TheYellowCellPhone said:
I know the source of this fear too. Several times, when I was very young (5-6yo) my older brother (11-12yo) tied me up with a jump rope and tossed into a very small linen closet for several hours. 'Cause he was an asshole.
I'm afraid that one day I'll wake up from a dream where I was running around in public bare-beam-and-butt-naked------ONLY TO FIND THAT IT WASN'T A DREAM, AFTER ALL!!!!
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OT: I do have one irrational fear: Every so often I think of some moment or situation (typically involving something that ONLY I would happen to remember) where I embarrassed myself, or that I look back on and cringe at the memory of, and worry that someone who was there will bring it up and embarrass me in front of others.
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OT: I do have one irrational fear: Every so often I think of some moment or situation (typically involving something that ONLY I would happen to remember) where I embarrassed myself, or that I look back on and cringe at the memory of, and worry that someone who was there will bring it up and embarrass me in front of others.
Not really irrational but, just any scary faces just looking me straight in the eye will make shit spew.
Never playing that game again. Nope nope nope.
Never playing that game again. Nope nope nope.
I actually have this one as well. It's not an intimidation type of fear where I'm scared of them causing harm to me.konor77 said:
I just have this unsubstantiated feeling that someone who's autistic, mentally ill, spergy, emotionally unstable or something along those lines will go crazy and do something destructive. Especially unsupervised (Internet is a good example)
Awkward people: I always fear encountering an awkward person or a group of awkward people in a social situation. I've also noticed awkward people tend to be pretty violent, a lot of mass killers are usually identified as awkward by people associated with them.
White Knights: I believe they are by far the scariest male archetype out there. These guys will do anything for female attention and place women on a pedestal as if they are not human.
My brother is the same. It's weird. I'm not scared of them, just that they're really delicate and I dont want to break their leg or something. D: And they're really pretty, how can you not like them? Moths aren't so pretty, so I can understand not liking them.Roroshi14 said:
Oh the terrifying story of why. I was four and went to a huge butterfly house with my cousin (who is also afraid) when a queen bird wing butterfly (over a foot in wingspan) flew into my face and scared me and her, she ran out and ditched me there for what seems like hours (probably not that long but hey I was 4).Burig said:
Hmm I don't really have an irrational fear, most of my fears are quite rational really, heights, snakes, maybe a little bit of claustrophobia? It would have to be a very small space I'm trapped in though. I do get the odd paranoia that I'm being watched by someone or something I can't see sometimes.
Two things, Ladders and large, tightly packed crowds of people. I don't have any fear of small spaces or heights in any other situation. I've stood on a ridge line as sharp as a knife, with a 100m drop to either side of me and been perfectly fine, and that same summer I went explring a local cave system, with gaps so small you actually had to let all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through, and never once did it bother me. But put me on a 1m ladder, and I'm holding on for dear life, put me in a room packed to capacity, and I start hyperventilating and frantically trying to find the nearest exit.
I can't really explain why these bother me so much, but they do, and it sucks somedays.
I can't really explain why these bother me so much, but they do, and it sucks somedays.
