I was talking to Storm about her phobia with horses and was very interested in her phobia, that I decided to make a thread about phobias
What's your phobia? How did you get it?
Those are the questions.
My phobia is heights. When I was in probably 4h grade, I was in a camp called K.O.D.A Camp, there was this 30 ft high tower that we were supposed to climb. I went up and I got about halfway when I decided to look down, my eyes were wide, I told the guy pulling on the rope to let me down. When I got to the bottom my body was shaking.
I went up and I got about halfway when I decided to look down, my eyes were wide, I told the guy pulling on the rope to let me down. When I got to the bottom my body was shaking.
That doesn't sound like a phobia to me. Most people get shaky the first few times they climb something tall (Source: Myself, and watching/teaching 50+ people how to rock climb/rappel/belay). Your story sounds to me like you just got a little scared and asked to be let down because you didn't trust yourself/the person belaying you entirely.
A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational fear which is debilitating. Acrophobia would be you utterly freaking out and refusing to go more than a few feet from the ground. It would be you avoiding any place where you gained a sense of being high up.
Ever gone on a roller coaster? A tall water slide? An airplane? A 5+ story building? What were your reactions to those?
-Spiders This used to be arachnophobia, but the fear has died down some. Every now and then I'll get a bit freaked out
-Drunk/high people (or in a state similar to them) I don't know what it is...but when someone is drunk or high, I become really uneasy and nervous around that person.
As R2 said, I hate horses. Unconditionally. Not mentioning that when I was little at some kid's birthday party, there were horses we were supposed to ride around on, and mine tried to kick me, and then emptied a load o' stinky horse crap onto my brand new shoes. Which were sandals. Also they're freaking scary. What's that phobia? *google* Equinophobia. ...no offense, Strop.
Fears: Bees, I hate them. With a passion. Every year for three years in a row I got stung on my birthday. The word bees encompasses all things that buzz in my ear and give me a heart attack. Also, when I'm trying to fall asleep, my imagination resurfaces and tries to give me a heart attack. (WHAT WAS THAT NOISE AAH) But those don't really count, because if you actually saw one in plain daylight [say, They Who Must Not Be Spoken Of from the village, or Steve from HetaOni] it'd be ridiclous. I'm not afraid of the dark, just what my imagination puts in it.
Oh my gosh, I HATE those. Haven't seen any in awhile though... plus wasps, yellow jackets, and praying mantis. Speaking of praying mantis... one time at my birthday,(probably last year) one of my uncles found one, he showed it to his brother and it jumped on his face and he screamed. Ahhhh... good times...
Reason I have a fear of mantis is not because one hurt me(never did) but the way they walk and their posture... creepy.
How can you hate praying manits? I remember at camp a couple years back we were on a 'Bug Hunt' in which the person that found the biggest bug won. We tromped around in the park before i went into some tall grass! A wild 4-inch mantis appears! StormWalker uses: "ERMAGERD A GIANT BUG I WILL PUT IT ON MY FACE!" Mantis uses: Meh, I don't care. I won the contest, too. Ah, good times...
I suppose I have a fair degree of agliophobia, atomosophobia, carcinophobia, dystychiphobia, obesophobia, panthophobia, paralipophobia, etc, but who doesn't? I don't take them to extremes, and doesn't a phobia need to be irrational?
-Thanatophobia Fear of being dead or dying
I don't have that as a fear, more of a "Well, that sucks, so I'll avoid it while I can", but not "anic-mode, never take any risk".
I think arachnophobia is horrible. And when I use the term, I don't mean it so much as a phobia as much as like homophobia: just people disliking spiders and other bugs.
But also people with legitimate phobias, just mostly not them. They fuel negative attitudes. Specifically that it is okay to harm or kill bugs because you find them scary. It's really not.
Phobias? Me? I know no fear. My brother is pretty messed up by bees though.
