What’s Your Fear? « freakgirl.com

30Jul/08Off

What’s Your Fear?

Charlie suggested in the comments of a previous post that we see just how many weird fears and neuroses we have here at freakgirl.com. Add yours in the comments. Mine are after the jump.

1. Going underwater in a car
2. Driving over a bridge (related to #1)
3. Being attacked by my treadmill
4. Heights
5. Getting puked on by a drunk guy at a concert
6. Raw chicken

I’m sure I’ll add more as I think of them.

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Kelly
July 30th, 2008 - 22:43

Dentists and any dental work. I am so afraid that I have to take medication to have any dental work done. I used to be that way with regular cleanings, but since having kids, I have forced myself to get over that fear. I am also kooky- fanatical about brushing, flossing, etc. When I go for cleanings, I am so tense in the chair, terrified that I haven’t brushed or flossed good enough since my last visit.

Also scared of a home invasion. Blame that on the media!
Maggie
July 30th, 2008 - 23:07

Freakgirl, that Entertainer thing on I <3 NY has got to be the most horrible thing I have ever witnessed. And even though that show is over, I’m still not safe from it…they clipped it on I Love Money!

I don’t have an eye squeamishness. I can touch my eyeball. I used to flip my eyelids inside out and scare the other children at school.

I’m scared of flying, too. I will do it, but I don’t like it. I feel so mortal when I step on a plane that I can barely handle it. And now that I know I can ask my doctor for meds before I fly, I will certainly do that! I haven’t actually flown anywhere in about 9 years now.

Kelly, I have never gotten over my fear and anxiety about the dentist. I have actually just gone back and gotten lots of work done, these last few weeks. Basically, I pay through the nose to be sedated by IV while I’m there. It’s the only way. Thank goodness, my kid has no issues with the dentist. He had a couple of cavities in his baby teeth, but has a perfectly healthy mouth now, no cavities in any of his adult teeth! I’m very proud of him. :D
Greater Czarina
July 30th, 2008 - 23:59

Good gravy, I don’t think you have enough blog space for me to list ‘em all. A lot are duplicates others have already mentioned (waves to fellow nutters):

Eye things – touching them, getting them examined, anything to do with going near my eyes. Freaks me right the fuck out, can’t wear contact lenses, can’t watch other people put ‘em in. Think it stems from needing eye surgery as a wee gal.

Gaps betweens stairs – used to have nightmares about falling through and getting stuck by my head with my body dangling. Still do sometimes

Getting on escalators, especially ones going down (waves to Janet).

Bees, wasps, stingy things – got stung by a hornet once and my arm swelled to the size of a telephone pole. And it hurt. A lot.

Balloons – specifically, balloon popping. Actually, expand that to any loud, sudden noises. Do not like.

Smacking lips/cracking gum – makes me stabbity.

And…that’s enough for one post. ;)
Bianca
July 31st, 2008 - 00:16

1. Bugs & Bees
2. Heights (and everything that goes with them – flying, roller coasters etc …)
3. Public Speaking
the other andrew
July 31st, 2008 - 01:12

Glass topped coffee tables – I always picture myself stumbling and falling through them. I don’t even like walking near them in furniture stores.
Chips O'Toole
July 31st, 2008 - 02:01

afraid of roller coasters – I have visions, I can see myself flying off instead of going through the turn…, afraid of bugs and crawly things in the dark. afraid of weird sounds in the night.

Did you know that fear of balloons is called Globophobia? Corner Gas did an episode with that a few years back.

Low heights. I’m okay really really high, but when the potential is for falling and getting really, really hurt, but not dying, that gets me. even ladders bug me, so putting up xmas lights is lots of fun for me.

public speaking is something I seek out. if anyone ever wants a solution for it, I might have some insights there.
Chips O'Toole
July 31st, 2008 - 02:29

oh, and having the backs of my hands exposed when I fall asleep. because of somethign my brother told me when I was a kid.
Bluebunny
July 31st, 2008 - 05:22

Most of mine have been mentioned, but they are:
1. Bugs of any kind, but especially spiders and house centipedes – I can’t even look at them on TV or in pictures
2. Clowns
3. Looking into mirrors in the dark (even if I am not thinking bloody mary, bloody mary)
4. Public speaking
5. That I will be away from home and there will be a fire in my house (or any such event) and the cats will be hurt
6. Bad things happening to any animal in general. I can watch all sorts of death or mayhem to people, but an animal gets hurt and I freak. I had to leave that stupud Glenn Close movie when she boiled the bunny.
7. Heights (or even having to walk down something steep)

I could go on, but those are the major ones. Brian has the feet issue – he can’t look at them or think about them. If I even brush them accidently when we are sleeping he jerks awake as if he has been electrocuted.
freakgirl
July 31st, 2008 - 07:55

Chips, I’m kind of dying to know what your brother told you about the backs of your hands.
GeekBoy
July 31st, 2008 - 08:33

Chips, does your solution to a fear of public speaking involve people in their underwear?
Chips O'Toole
July 31st, 2008 - 09:12

When I was VERY young, my brother told me that vampires don’t just bite your neck, they go for the backs of your hands. Because you can see the veins there, right? But even to this day, when falling asleep, I instinctively and irrationally cover the backs of my hands (though I don’t think I care about my neck, oddly). Because those vampires might go for me normally, that sheet draped across my hands is like lead to superman.

As for the public speaking, I find the underwear or naked method doesn’t work, as it’s uncomfortable giving a presentation with an enormous erection. My solution is about acknowlegding the fear, then realizing the status position you are in, that people are there to listen to you, and you have the power, not them. (I am much longer winded on this matter). But I went from mr nervous to a improv and street performer pretty quickly, and teach university classes, given lectures, etc. and it worked for me.

oh, and I am totally paranoid about everything. is that a fear? I’m afraid to think so.
GeekBoy
July 31st, 2008 - 09:53

Chips, I wonder if your brother had ever gone to the hospital and had an I.V. by the time he told you that. Because I could see that putting such an idea into a kid’s head.
Jen in OH!
July 31st, 2008 - 10:32

I am afraid of basically everything. Everything from sharks to wasps to electrical fires to natural disasters to drowning (drowned at age 10 and needed CPR) to being shot (I’ve been shot AT, and found that extremely unpleasant) and on and on. The dark? Check. Scary strangers who want to hurt me? Check. People I admire thinking badly of me? Check-check-check. But the only things I let fears stop me from doing involve heights. No flying, no parachuting, no bungee jumping, no sight-seeing from the tops of extremely tall buildings. Other than that, I push through my fears. And push my friends toward the wasps while I flee in the opposite direction.
El Gato
July 31st, 2008 - 11:37

Greater Czarina on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 11:59 pm:

Eye things – touching them, getting them examined, anything to do with going near my eyes. Freaks me right the fuck out, can’t wear contact lenses, can’t watch other people put ‘em in. Think it stems from needing eye surgery as a wee gal.
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I’m kinda like that too. I tend to give optometrists a hard time with eydrops and I never even considered contacts. But I never thought of that as a phobia so much as an instinctive protective reflex.
Bianca
July 31st, 2008 - 12:14

House fire and fearing for my mom and dog in the there is another one of mine. There was one time, I called my house like 10 times and my mom didn’t pick up the house or her cell phone. I actually left while at my bf’s apt and was on my way to the car to go drive back home out of fear something happened. Then my mom called and I yelled at her for being asleep and not hearing the phone haha.
Michael
July 31st, 2008 - 13:52

Gosh, I can’t believe I was away from the internet yesterday and missed this. So fun!

“Being sucked under a semi” cracked me up. In both senses.

For me, I have a problem with loose buttons. It’s not an outright fear. I’ll call it an aversion. Why is it just THERE? Where did it come from? What is its agenda anyway?

I actually enjoy needles, GB. I like injections. (I feel strangely relieved after admitting that.)
Michael
July 31st, 2008 - 13:56

Oh, I have another one– not being able to read for whatever reason (blindness, dementia…I’ve run through many scenarios). It’s a valid fear, but not a likely occurrence, and I spend a lot of time thinking about it.
Michael
July 31st, 2008 - 16:13

Here’s a new one I just picked up a few minutes ago.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WO.....index.html

A stranger who repeatedly stabs me in the neck and then cuts off my head? Do not want.
Bianca
July 31st, 2008 - 16:22

That’s insane. How awful. No more bus rides for me.
Chips O'Toole
July 31st, 2008 - 17:16

GB, he never had an IV, until much later in life, either did I. What I find strange and funny about it is that it was something he said once, and didn’t even put much emphasis on it, and I don’t recall it getting to me for more than a night, but i still find myself reacting to it, all these many, many, many years later.
Chips O'Toole
July 31st, 2008 - 17:19

OH MY GOD.

That’s horrible. And they guy got on in my home town, too.

and I won’t even make jokes about murderous rage because of going to Winnipeg.
Susie
July 31st, 2008 - 19:56

FG, you are correct! Garbage disposals freak me out. I’m convinced I’m going to lose a finger. We don’t have one — I wouldn’t let Al put one in. Good memory! (Better than mine, obviously.)

I thought of another one but I lost it. Apparently, I should be afraid of SENILITY.
Susie
July 31st, 2008 - 19:59

Oh yeah! Public speaking. (It’s not as if anyone here mentioned THAT.) I’m a motormouth, but I loathe public speaking. Am not eloquent. Hardly, um, at all. Um.
Michael
August 1st, 2008 - 07:13

Meeting people in 3D that I’ve already pre-loved in 2D. I’m doing that today. Yikes!
freakgirl
August 1st, 2008 - 07:56

Have fun!
howtoeatacupcake
August 1st, 2008 - 12:04

OMG every time I drive over a bridge, I think “What if we crashed and went into the water. Would I be able to swim with my purse???”

Thanks for the goodluck/bday wishes. I got the job! I start training Monday at 7am!
freakgirl
August 1st, 2008 - 12:06

Congratulations!!! Yay!
Bianca
August 1st, 2008 - 17:02

Congrats Cassie!