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Phobias-what freaks you out for no reason?!
Hi,
Have been away for a bit and missed BE so this might have been posted before so sorry if I'm repeating!
Anyway was thinking yesterday about phobias (think it was the NHS anti smoking advert I have to hide from!) as I really HATE clowns. No idea why or when it happened but can't bear them. Am dreading when lo grows up hope no one sends him cards with clowns or wants one for his party!
Knew a guy who hated buttons and the bigger the scarier??
Also know someone who hates small things-like hundreds and thousands or ants all at once together. He's no idea where it comes from but has always been like that!
So what about you? Anyone agree with me about those weirdy clowns? x
Have been away for a bit and missed BE so this might have been posted before so sorry if I'm repeating!
Anyway was thinking yesterday about phobias (think it was the NHS anti smoking advert I have to hide from!) as I really HATE clowns. No idea why or when it happened but can't bear them. Am dreading when lo grows up hope no one sends him cards with clowns or wants one for his party!
Knew a guy who hated buttons and the bigger the scarier??
Also know someone who hates small things-like hundreds and thousands or ants all at once together. He's no idea where it comes from but has always been like that!
So what about you? Anyone agree with me about those weirdy clowns? x
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clowns - cos i watched IT when i was very young
birds - cos i was swarmed by them in trafalgar square when i was very young
all bugs - cos my mum is so must have picked it up from her, also they are just creepy. I have even hoovered my shoes cos im afraid bugs will get in!
My only irrational fear (that i can think of) is sticky out belly buttons. They make me feel sick, even thinking about them now is freaking me out. i dont know why they freak me out. I was terrified my baby would have a sticky out belly buttton and was so glad when she didnt. I hated my belly button when i was pregnant.
Robots I understand too but still the clowns. Hope I don't pass it on to Alfie x
Thing is with phobias I guess they never make sense you just know how they make you feel. Glad I'm not the only one.x
also, (really wierd one) flour freaks me out. i cant use it to make a cake but i cant have it touch my skin and i cant be in the kitchen if its on a chopping board, when people use it to roll pastry etc. i dont know what it is about it but i cant take it. makes my back teeth so funny and my stomach turn. lol
karla
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Railway crossings - I think something must have happened to me in a past life on one - or its to do with a program about ghosts that has stuck in my mind - I shiver all when I go accross one in a car. (in the program - there was a crossing where aparently if you park on it then the car/van etc will move off it - they parked a dirt van accross it and then they could see lots of tiny hands which they said had pushed it.)
Flying - the first time I flew we flew through part of the 1989 hurricane, another time was a day after the concord crash, I flew out on the day that the plot to take down planes to america was foiled........I have to drug myself with phenagan to get myself on a plane now and have done for a while!
Loopy Loo with you on the flying thing the more I think about t the more uneasy I feel and I want to get off the plane there and then! We flew on hol the day witht the threats and we arrived and there were Police everywhere and we flew from a tiny airport so I knew somethin' was up. Glad I no idea till we arrived and we had all our family ringing asking if we were ok-every right to feel freaked out then! x
I hate nail files - the sound makes me shiver all over!
OH is terrifeid of clowns. Like someone else said this stems from watching 'IT' very young!!
I also hate it when im reading and my nail catches the paper. If i think about it now my hands feel all funny!
And hair and fluff, just makes me feel really sick, like cleaning hair brushes, and OH has to empty the hoover for me, That gives me gooose bumps!
Phew. . . I'm not the only one with the cotton wool thing! So gald I got this all of my chest-I am normal thanks ladies!!!x