Your weird phobia/ thing you just can't stand

[lacktheknack]

Raisins.

They are Satanic.

They exist specifically to bare their dry, wrinkly awfulness to the air and torture me. D:

 

[DementedSheep]

It's not a phobia, my actual phobias are pretty boring (being in open water) but I really can't stand the feel of velvet. Touching it makes my skin crawl. Although I guess fingernails falling off being the one type of gore I just can't deal with is also pretty strange.

When I was little I use to be utterly terrified of porcelain dolls. Unfortunately I was given a very expensive one and was to prideful to admit it scared me so locked it in drawer and had nightmares about it getting out and murdering me. I also use to be afraid of turning on the bath taps because of that scene from Ghostbusters.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I have this bizarre, strong aversion to making phone calls. I'm not sure it's a "phobia" precisely, since I don't get panic attacks or anything, and I can make a phone call if I really, really need to, but it still makes me incredibly uncomfortable. I'm not sure where this comes from or when it started, but it's there, and it's the main reason that I'm one of the few people in my age group who doesn't own or ever want to own a cell phone.

I'm pretty much the same way. I can make a phone call, if I have to. But I detest speaking on a phone. I get uncomfortable, I stutter, I trip over my words and my mind goes blank more times than I care to admit. I have a phone, but 97% of my use for it is texting, 2% for a game here or there and 1% for calling.

I don't particularly have many fears. I suppose my weirdest fear would be my Thalassophobia. I wouldn't classify myself severe enough for full-blown panic attacks, but you cannot and will not ever convince me to enter any large or open body of water, barring force.

 

[TakerFoxx]

There is an animal in the world, known as The Suriname Toad, I am in general, and animal lover, particularly reptiles and amphibians. The Suriname Toad however I hate, I am so utterly disgusted by this creature that human language does not have the capacity to adequately communicate how I feel. I literally have to fight the urge to vomit when I see this creature, it is the one and only animal on the planet that I want completely and utterly extinct as soon as possible.

You might have trypophobia, which is a fear of clusters of small holes, especially when they're in the skin. Suriname Toads are common triggers of this. I have it too, and that sort of stuff creeps me the hell out.

 

[AT God]

Honeycomb, or anything of a similar shape. Those little holes all close together really freak me out. I remember the first time I noticed this phobia, I was in elementary school and I was reading my Science book. In it, it explained how leaves had little pores on them called stoma, and the picture in it was so detailed I remember having like a stroke while reading it on my couch. I had this overwhelming urge to get a knife from the kitchen and stab the shit out of the picture because it bothered me so much. Ever since then things like that have really bothered me.

Also, can whoever checks and removes inappropriate ads from the escapist get rid of this disgusting picture? Its the one that appears in the dumb around the web section under videos and it went away but i noticed it again today and everytime it triggers this horrible feeling in me. It killed me to have to google search for it, and I wont embed it in the post but heres a link to it if you need a nice case of the creeps, really hate this advert.

[link]http://americanlivewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2153i0-532x400.jpg[/link]

 

[DragonStorm247]

Can't stand birds. Pigeons and seagulls are the worst, the rest just make me jumpy.

 

[Jeremy Skitz]

I used to get panic attacks from spiral staircases. XD I first found that out on a school trip, embarrassingly. However, I found when I was 18 that I was over it after a trip to oxford castle. That was weird. XD

 

[Ravage]

Spiders always terrified me. I guess because (from what I understand) every species of spider is venomous, excluding the daddy long-legs (which I can hold without fear and play with, done as a child of course). But I hear their fangs are too small to pierce our skin, and that they ARE venomous anyway.

Strangely enough I went to a local hibachi grill and had whole calamari, grilled. The whole thing! But for the life of me I can't eat an octopus ring, or a tentacle or any of that. Just bleh.

 

[Headsprouter]

Polystyrene/styrofoam drives me crazy. As does cotton...the noises...I spaz out just imagining it.

It isn't a phobia, but I can't stand the stuff. Any object that can make a high-pitched squeaky noise when torn or rubbed together.

 

[Branovices]

I don't mind snakes, spiders, slugs, or heights, fires, public speaking etc. No, no... the only terrible phobia I possess is for certain kinds of dolls. Some have claimed I have a fear of children and that's why the dolls bother me, but nope, I don't mind kids at all.

Except sometimes when I hear them running I think of a doll running.

 

[Chaos Marine]

Finger or toe nails being removed. Nothing, and I mean nothing, makes me cringe this hard. Long fingernails also do the same thing to me too

 

[Voulan]

Other than my big one of spiders, including dead ones, I also have a few things that make me suffer anxiety. Making or receiving phone calls, as already mentioned a few times in this thread, as well as touching wrists and eyes. Eyes especially, since I have this weird thing about pointed or sharp objects and feel like my eyes are being stabbed just by looking at them. Dead tree branches, corners of TVs, and the like can set me off. Hence I never wear eye makeup because I can't stand pointing a small pencil or brush at them. Apparently many people suffer the same issue, but there's no medical explanation as of yet as to why.

 

[Rip Van Rabbit]

Let me set the scene:

You just had a lovely evening with a new acquintance of yours. The conversation was great, you enjoyed one another's company and you can, y'know, feel that there is a certain level of mutual attraction. So after some light flirting, you invite her back to your place.

Going great right? Yes. Let's continue.

You take her coat, politely tell her to make herself at home while you pour another glass of wine for the both of you. You come back, you do a flirtatious little toast and before you can open your mouth to say anything, she suddenly puts the glass of wine down and stares at you.

Here's where it gets weird:

- A vagina erupts from her forehead and it smiles.
- Your life flashes before your eyes.
- Lobsters burst forth from her head vagina.
- The paint peels off the walls.
- She starts cackling maniacally.
- Your cat crawls out of her mouth (it was sleeping there)
- The evening is ruined.

I would hate it if that were to happen! It freaks me the hell out, so yeah, that's something I hope never happens to me. It's irrational, but that's the essence of a phobia isn't it? Irrational fear.

 

[Eeeee0000]

Also, can whoever checks and removes inappropriate ads from the escapist get rid of this disgusting picture? Its the one that appears in the dumb around the web section under videos and it went away but i noticed it again today and everytime it triggers this horrible feeling in me. It killed me to have to google search for it, and I wont embed it in the post but heres a link to it if you need a nice case of the creeps, really hate this advert.

[link]http://americanlivewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2153i0-532x400.jpg[/link]

what is that ad anyway? I've never seen it on here but I have seen it on cracked (one of those ads for websited that never take you to the actual article the picture comes from). It looks weird.

Mine is electric masts. They're just too big! Only scary when I'm really close to them and looking up, though, I tend to avoid that. And probably with the same basic idea: google earth. Especially when zooming in.

 

[mitchell271]

Water animals that aren't fish, bizarrely. I'm not scared of them, I think they're pretty neat, I just don't like being near them. I think it's because that for so long, they were just words on a screen and pictures in a book or a different screen.

I know my girlfriend hates feet for some reason. Like, complete aversion to them. No idea why.

 

[Mr Dizazta]

Roaches, old bandages, and chalkboards. The all make my skin crawl or want to vomit or both.

 

[Fishcactus]

There is an animal in the world, known as The Suriname Toad, I am in general, and animal lover, particularly reptiles and amphibians. The Suriname Toad however I hate, I am so utterly disgusted by this creature that human language does not have the capacity to adequately communicate how I feel. I literally have to fight the urge to vomit when I see this creature, it is the one and only animal on the planet that I want completely and utterly extinct as soon as possible.

You might have trypophobia, which is a fear of clusters of small holes, especially when they're in the skin. Suriname Toads are common triggers of this. I have it too, and that sort of stuff creeps me the hell out.

Yay, other people who understand my pain!

It sucks because I love going to museums and looking at natural history and zoology stuff, which is where you're more likely to find something to trigger it >.>

I just... *shudder*

 

[Strain42]

Balloons. I hate being near them. I hate the sounds they make, I hate the way they feel, look...I don't mind the metal ones as much, but yeah...balloons in general just freak me out.

I physically cringe if I'm too close to one.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Not a particularly uncommon one, but wasps - and by extension, any buzzing insect I can't immediately identify.

Flies, mosquitoes, earwigs, spiders, any other creepy-crawlies aren't a problem once I've identified them as "not wasps". Even bees - if I can tell that the thing flying around is a bee rather than a wasp, I might be a bit jumpy but I won't freak out like I would with the devilbugs.
Think it might be because bees only sting you if they really have to. Wasps sting you because fuck you.

Of course, logically this whole thing doesn't make a lot of sense - phobias, by definition, don't - and it annoys me that I can't help but freak out if I'm so much as in the same room as something so small and... well, not harmless, but definitely not deadly either.

I mean, I'm a chemist. You'd think I'd be more scared of concentrated acid or dimethylmercury or something.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Theme park mascots, clowns and pretty much anyone who made a choice to lead a costume heavy lifestyle.

I don't hate or fear them...but I don't trust them either.

For clarification I'm fine on Halloween or around the occasional cosplay enthusiast. But folks who just wake up every day and say "I'm gonna be a cartoon dog." just give me the willies.