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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: goofynina on July 06, 2006, 04:05:49 PM
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I remember watching Maury Povich one day and it was on Phobia's, now there were many that were the typical phobias, heights, snakes, spiders but there was this one lady who was afraid of heads of lettuce or cabbage...WTF?? but hey, that was HER phobia, (guess it takes all kinds) I on the other hand am afraid of Clowns and Mascots (anything in a mask or costume) I never used to be like that before, must've started about 10 years or so ago and it keeps getting worse. Do you know how embarrasing it is to be with the kids that are hiding from Chuck E. Cheese. (shivers) i just dont trust them, OK, so i have shared my phobias with you, What are you afraid of? Come on, share yours.........
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SNAKES! I had a run in with a rattler 3 and a half feet long when I was eighteen. He was crawling along and I almost stepped on him. I screamed, and must have jumped back 50 feet all at once. My friend's father was hiking with me and shot the rattler dead. We had been out looking for their puppy afraid a snake had gotten him. Pup came home safe, the snake was brought home and measured. Geez!
The other day I was walking into Walmart and a guy has his boa constrictor out and was standing near the door. I about freaked totally out. I ran into the store. A friend of mine had a ball python and her little girl would have it out. When ever I walked up to the door the snake had to be put away or I would not come into the house. Her girl thought it was a riot. She would meet me at the door with the snake in her hands.
My girls would scream and run whenever they saw a spider. One day a spider lofted itself from the rearview mirror in my car. I have never seen two people in a panic. I own a Transam. I have never seen two people get out of the car so fast. I thought I was going to lose them at 30 miles an hour while I pulled into a parking lot to get rid of the spider. I had my sister on the cell phone at the time and she heard all of the screaming from my back seat. I had to take the spider out of the car. My oldest daughter opened the dishwasher and a spider crawled out of it. She totally freaked out.
My classroom aide is terrified of feathers. She said she used to have to pluck chickens as a child.
Katherine
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I thought we are not suppose to say our worst fear out loud because then the devil will hear and use that against us one day. That's what my mom used to tell me. ;D
- Epoman
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Well my worst fears are already well known. I am claustrophobic. But I am not 100% claustrophobic. If I am in a closed in space, but the atmosphere is very pleasant, I can push my fear down, like travelling in a plane. I also have a kind of reverse claustrophobia. I cannot bear to be in a very large open field alone.
I also have fear of heights, but mainly in buildings.
My daughter (23) also has a fear of mascots, or people completely covered by a costume.
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I am now afraid of playing dominoes with Goofynina! She whupped my ass last night!
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Hah, hah, hah!!
Go, Nina! Go, Nina! Go, Nina!!
The REIGNING DOMINOES CHAMP OF IHATEDIALYSIS.COM!!!!
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I am now afraid of playing dominoes with Goofynina! She whupped my ass last night!
Have you asked a mod to update the domino thread with your yahoo games username?
- Epoman
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Yup, I sure did. If you check the dominoes section you will see I told you my gaming name at Yahoo games
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Yup, I sure did. If you check the dominoes section you will see I told you my gaming name at Yahoo games
Oh ok, I must have missed it. :) I will add your name to the list. 8) Hey by the way doesn't goofynina talk alot of shit when she plays dominoes. ;D
- Epoman
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NOOOOO GOOFYNINA DOESNT TALK ALOT OF SHIT WHEN I AM PLAYING, ONLY WHEN I (I MEAN SHE) WINS!!!!!! LOL,
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Yep, she sure does! But then we did get our butts kicked across the room and back!
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I get confused and dizzy in big crowds which is ironic considering I love big cities ( New York, Taipei, London, Paris whatever ..... I been to tons of huge cities )...
Well actually this happens mostly when I go to concerts and clubs where it's very dark.
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I am afraid of heights and people screwing with my mind .. :-[
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I don't like heights either. Rides that are like the Palm Springs Tramway take a lot of courage for me to go on them and someone to hold on to when I feel like screaming.
I hate crowds. Big ones at amusements parks are annoying to me and I hate to get in the middle of one. I try to stay out of the parade crowds at Disneyland. Once went to the Rose Parade. Too many people, I left early.
I am a little leery of getting stuck in an elevator. I have just a little claustrophobia and wonder if I would freak if I were stuck in one.
I also have to have my closet doors shut at night.
Katherine
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Poisonous snakes, heights, drowning, swimming in water that I can't see if there's things that are gonna get me (dark lake water hides gators, ocean water hides sharks, etc.). Those are the main ones.
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oh ya I am also afriad of drowning considering I don't know how to swim :( even tho I went for lessons ...
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I am afraid of strangling myself in my sleep with these damn tubes, lol...
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I´m afraid of crossing a bridge that crosses water. Also afraid of the IRS and black chickens. I don´t know why the IRS gives me the creeps but just the thought of taxes and the like makes my hair stand on end! When I have to drive across a bridge over water, I try to close my eyes and just steer! And have you ever looked a black chicken in the eye? They´re evil. >:D
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I am afraid of strangling myself in my sleep with these damn tubes, lol...
lol the cycler would wake you up long before that could ever happen >:D
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I´m afraid of crossing a bridge that crosses water. Also afraid of the IRS and black chickens. I don´t know why the IRS gives me the creeps but just the thought of taxes and the like makes my hair stand on end! When I have to drive across a bridge over water, I try to close my eyes and just steer! And have you ever looked a black chicken in the eye? They´re evil. >:D
Oh ya .. I have an odd fear .. escalators!
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you havent heard my hubby snore have you, lol, ::)
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I can't say I am afraid of anything, allthough when I first got diagnosed I was afraid of my wife having to deal with being alone If I died, I was afraid of her being in need, I was afraid of her suffering, In fact the first night I had haemo I was in hospital crying because she was sad at home, and she was at home crying because I was sick in hospital, soppy bunch arent we. ;D
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You guys are so damn cute, kind of remind me of me and my hubby. It's been 20 years for us and i still cant get rid of him, lol, nah, he aint going no where, lol...dammit (i have the key to the ball and chain) ;)
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I fear dying alone or needlessly.
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awwww (((Sandmansa))) That one broke my heart, We are here for you ::) ::) ::)
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I fear dying alone or needlessly.
Don't worry Sandman :) You are not alone :) I love you :)
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Well thanks. I try not to worry to much but you have to admit that this is a fairly common fear in most people, even if they are trying not to think about it. I love you to Angie.
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I think everyone is afraid of something. I mean, I never thought of myself as afraid of anything because I am not afraid of spiders and kill them for my mom and I have held a turantula spider before (a pet of a neighbour) and I held some kind of lizard before. Also since I can't swim you would think I would never get into a 13 foot pool but I did. Maybe I am just insane :P But after thinking long and hard I am actually afraid of quiet a few things! :-[ I keep adding on more ... I am also afraid of choking on huge pills like Renagel ..
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What am I afraid of? hmmm
I am afraid of the dark...
Not knowing what is out there, afraid of the unknown... the supernatural.. like i said all things unknown and they are usually in the dark.. or are they? they could be in your dreams? your subconscious? who knows??? scary eh?
Barb
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Actually, I do sometimes worry about the unknown but I don't fear it.
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How can you be afraid of the unknown if you dont know what is known about the unknown, ya know??? ::)
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Is it getting deep in here, or what???
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*rolls up her pants* It sure looks that way,,,;)
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Get out the shovels, quick! We be needin' help soon!
But, seriously, I am afraid of June Bugs. Nasty little critters. My daughter thinks they are pretty bugs and will pick them up and put them outside. I cannot stand them when they whirrr past my head. Yucky! I always made my daughter get the bug out of the room. She would pick it up barehanded and walk by me to make sure I saw how pretty it was. I just quaked in my shoes. And this is the daughter who is deathly afraid of spiders. (I shall have to mail her a rubber tarantula!)
Katherine
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You guys are to funny.... LOL
The UNKNOWN ya know is like ummm unknown, and anything is possible, specially if you have a great imagination.. Like just watch the "EXORCIST" and have nightmares, and then you think your awake then ya say to yourself."no I am asleep, this is a nightmare." then something happens and poof you are frozen can't move. try to wake up and its a no go.. And when ya finally do wake up it is with a jump and your in a cold sweat. and you are afraid to go back to sleep cuz the nightmare was so scary? (gosh hope you understand that) lol Now was that real or not? could it have been? You just don't know.....
Barb / girlfriend
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Shhhhhhh, i heard Epoman's biggest fear is that Tito's Taco's goes out of business and turns into a carwash... for reals, ask him...BUT, you didnt hear it from me, k, our little secret, hehehe
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How can you be afraid of the unknown if you don't know what is known about the unknown, ya know??? ::)
People in general fear what they do not understand or know. This is not true in all cases, but in most.
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I'm afraid of Clowns, and Teletubbies.
I'm gonna have nightmares because of the babyface sun in the sky ARGH
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"There is nothing to fear, but fear itself" err I'm afraid Ive forgotten where I heard that
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FINALLY, Someone else who is afraid of clowns, THANK YOU... Thought i was in a class all by myself, and yes, although i can watch the teletubbies (with chills going down my spine) i dont like ANYTHING in costume, ya shoulda seen me when we went to go see the musical cats, yah, I was the scaredy cat, lol
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I'm afraid of Clowns, and Teletubbies.
I'm gonna have nightmares because of the babyface sun in the sky ARGH
>:D
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ARGH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I can never sleep again !!!!!!!!! STOP IT I close my eye's and still see the baby laughing :D
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I'm afraid of Clowns, and Teletubbies.
I'm gonna have nightmares because of the babyface sun in the sky ARGH
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ARGH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I can never sleep again !!!!!!!!! STOP IT I close my eye's and still see the baby laughing :D
Too cruel Epoman, I love it.
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Epomaaaan, what are you trying to do?? scare away our members?? Now that is not nice, funny, BUT NOT NICE :P you are too much amigo
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Give me snakes and spiders and yes, even clowns anyday...but don't even mention the creepy little gray rodents ~ managed to keep that little secret from my children until they were older and we were renting a farmhouse very near a cornfiels. The 'cat was out of the bag' so to speak, when they heard me shriek in an upstairs bedroom and found me standing on the bed... They had never witnessed their mother in such a position or state and I was not proud! I do know that they won't harm me, are just as scared of me as I of them, but the durn things are just so bloomin' FAST! EEEEKKKKKKK!!!!!
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Rerun :o When she reads my post on "Do you collect anything?"
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I remember my old cat use to bring me the mice he caught to show me what he found. Funny part was, they were still alive and kicking when he showed them to me. And to prove it was a real mouse and not a toy, he would let them go and they get up and try to run away. And as his reward, ( here is the gross part ) would kill it and eat half of it right in front of me, leaving the rest of it for me to dispose of. Mice and rats don't bother me at all. At least not until the corpses begin to rot and stink. :P
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I remember my old cat use to bring me the mice he caught to show me what he found. Funny part was, they were still alive and kicking when he showed them to me. And to prove it was a real mouse and not a toy, he would let them go and they get up and try to run away. And as his reward, ( here is the gross part ) would kill it and eat half of it right in front of me, leaving the rest of it for me to dispose of. Mice and rats don't bother me at all. At least not until the corpses begin to rot and stink. :P
ewwwwww!!!
I remember the whole reason I applied for subsidized housing when I had to go on PD was because I remember living in one apartment building where there were mice and cockroaches (I can't afford nice places) and we had these moucetraps that would catch them live and my roommate would shake the trap and dispose of the mouse into the toilet :o
We had such a bad mice problem that one night I woke up to find William sitting infront of the stove with a bb-gun cuz the mice were keeping him up at night in the stove. :-[
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Well, I haven't seen any mice or roaches here in a very long time. So that's always a good thing. ;)
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You know, this fear of clowns and mascots thing i have seems to be getting worse. We were invited to my nieces birthday and when i read the invitation and it said there is going to be a clown there i almost started hyperventilating (weird huh) Needless to say, the party was today and i did not go for that reason. Why would i go and put myself through such anxiety and discomfort when i can be at home, safe and sound and with all of you posting away ;) Can anyone give me ANY reason why people are afraid of clowns, i know it is very common, and it wasnt like i was afraid of them when i was younger cuz they didnt bother me at all, just as i got older, i guess i got wiser :P
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What is the cause of Clown Phobia?
Like all fears and phobias, clown phobia is created by the unconscious mind as a protective mechanism. At some point in your past, there was likely an event linking clowns and emotional trauma. Whilst the original catalyst may have been a real-life scare of some kind, the condition can also be triggered by myriad, benign events like movies, TV, or perhaps seeing someone else experience trauma.
But so long as the negative association is powerful enough, the unconscious mind thinks: "Ahh, this whole thing is very dangerous. How do I keep myself from getting in this kind of situation again? I know, I'll attach terrible feelings to clowns, that way I'll steer clear in future and so be safe." Just like that clown phobia is born. Attaching emotions to situations is one of the primary ways that humans learn. Sometimes we just get the wiring wrong.
The actual phobia manifests itself in different ways. Some sufferers experience it almost all the time, others just in response to direct stimuli. Everyone has their own unique formula for when and how to feel bad.
http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?SDID=809:1477
[edit] Causes of specific phobia
All information about the Causes of Specific Phobia (except NOTE) comes from the textbook (2006,) Essentials of Abnormal Psychology:Fourth Edition
Direct experience
This is where the object that a person is afraid of is experienced directly. For example if a person is afraid of snakes and he/she got bitten by that snake, then he/she has just experienced a direct experience
Experiencing a False Alarm
This is actually experiencing a false alarm just as having a panic attack in the presence of the frightening object
NOTE - False Alarm experiences can be the catalyst for object selection in seemingly illogical phobias. While fear of such objects appears illogical, the significance of the selected object is that it allows a person, prone to unpredictable anxiety attacks, the ability to make the attacks more controllable or predictable. One such example is a girl who was afraid of cotton balls. By assigning these as the cause of her attacks and conditioning herself to believe it, she was able to reduce the trigger for her anxiety to one set of avoidable objects.
Observing someone
This is where a person observed another person getting attacked by a snake. Therefore, he/she is afraid of the snake this way. That person is afraid that what had happened to that person could also happen to them
Being Told
This is where a person is told about the dangers of a snake. The warning is so great and frightening to the person, he/she develops a phobia because of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_phobia
Just did a little search and this is some of what was found. Hope it helps.
p.s. Some people say taking baby steps and confronting your fears is the way to overcoming them. I want to help so I found this guy! ;D
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this is what I'm afraid of....i really dint like to admit to this...I'm scared of bogey man....u know the thing under the bed....when i go to sleep..i have to have the covers tucked under my feet
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Gosh darnit George, LMFFAO, just when i was MAYBE, POSSIBLY beginning to understand and ready to start taking my "baby steps" you go and post that pic, just 'bout made me soil myself :o (yes, shit my pants) :-\
I wish i could recall any event that might make me feel this way but i just cant. What is weird is that even if i know the person in the clown suit, that doesnt matter, i still do not trust them. The same with mascots (which i know i have never had any bad encounters with them) my hairs stand on the back of my neck and my heart starts pounding, whats more embarrasing is when my 5 year old little great-niece tries to comfort me :P Now come on, who could be scared of Chuck E. Cheese?? ME THATS WHO, aye yi yi :(
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Very bad clown... John Wayne Gacy
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I ain't afraid of anything.
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not even having to start dialysis ???
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Sh(;) you got me there! :-[
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goofynina - What about Disney Characters?
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I ain't afraid of anything.
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goofynina - What about Disney Characters?
George, i dont know what Disney cartoons you see but i KNOW these arent them, and i am just not going to click on anymore links you put on the net, lol, i am going to have nightmares now, muchas gracias :P
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Let's try something else.....
:grouphug; :grouphug; :grouphug;
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Ohhhh, your soooo lucky, lol, even though i said i wasnt going to click on it, i did, Thank you George :2thumbsup; much much better :clap;
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THIS!
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Cockroaches!!!!!!!!!!!! omg i cant even look at this picture!!
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this is a no-brainer for me...
needles! I get so queasy when I look at them I can't even post a pic!! ::)
Just thinking about them almost makes me vomit! my stomach gets all jittery and my back gets all tense. I cry whenever the doc threatens me with iron shots.
Thank the Big Guy for PD!! If I ever need hemo, I'm screwed!!!!!!!!!!
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I cannot stand dark closed spaces. Such as basements.
I cannot tolerate crowds. They really make me uneasy.
Spiders, I hate them. Ugh.
I hate needles, but as long as I shut my eyes, I'm okay. I can even do myself for my epo shots.
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I can't put my face under water. I panic and my throat closes shut. Stupid reaction - but it's because I nearly drowned when I was little. We were at a college reunion weekend with all my mom's old college roomates. The kids were supposed to be splashing around at the edge of CMU's olympic sized swimming pool. I didn't know how to swim, but they put me in and told me just to hang on to the edge and kick. It worked fine until someone cannonballed over me and knocked loose my grip on the drain around the edge. I sank to the bottom and no one noticed - the adults were too busy talking to see what the kids were doing.
Guess I was too stubborn to die even then, though. When I realized no one was coming to get me, and I couldn't figure out how to get back up the slippery tile wall in front of me, I started across the corner of the pool to the ladder on the other side. I was partway up the ladder before I started to black out, but by then, one of the older kids had realized I was missing, and yanked me the rest of the way up.
Ever have that nightmare where you are falling? Instead of sky I dream I'm sliding past the little blue tiles from the sides of the pool I nearly drowned in.
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I can't put my face under water. I panic and my throat closes shut.
ME, TOO! When I was little, I started taking swimming lessons, and at one point, the instructor told us (we were in the shallow end of the pool) to sit on the bottom. I was really tiny, and some of the kids started splashing around, and I up-ended just when I had to take a breath. I can still remember the exact feeling, both physically and emotionally. Anyway, I breathed/slurped in a lot of water, and had to be hauled out, sputtering and when I could get my breath back, screaming bloody murder. I never went back in. My terror remained so bad that my old family physician, love his dear, deceased heart, actually wrote me a doctor's note to get out of the swimming class we were required to take in college!
If I absolultely have to, I can put my face under the shower for a split second, but I fixed my wall-mounted showerhead so that it hits at about neck height. When I see those ads on TV for shampoo, where the models are letting the water run directly on their faces, I have to look away!
Jbeany, I thought I was the only person in the world like this! My sister! :beer1;
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Jbeany, I thought I was the only person in the world like this! My sister! :beer1;
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Oddly enough, I can go swimming, even in a pool, and I like it - I just can't put my head under the water. I've even tried a snokel mask to keep the water off my face- no such luck! I don't stick my face under water in the shower, either!
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Hospitals. Dialysis centers.
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Jbeany, you're light years ahead of me - for me, a tub bath signifies GREAT D A N G E R ! :-[
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I on the other hand am afraid of Clowns and Mascots (anything in a mask or costume)
When I was about 4 years old, my mother took me to visit a friend of hers. Her friend's children were older than me and must have thought tormenting me was a good way to have fun.
They had found the head off one of those ventriloquist's dummies on the road, of all places, out in the bush (they lived out in the bush). So whilst mum and her friend sat in the kitchen having coffee, I was chased around the house with this darn dummy-head. No matter which room I tried to hide in, this head would appear around the edge of the doorway - the kids kept themselves hidden behind the door frame so it appeared that the head had a life of its own. They would have their hand up inside the thing, making the mouth flap at me. The horror was unbelievable, even though logic told me (even at that age) that the kids must be doing it and that the head couldn't be acting alone, I was still scared out of my wits.
I ended up running outside and hid in my mother's car where I wasn't found for quite some time! To this day, I HATE those darn ventriloquist dummies.
Other than that, I'm terrified of windy, hilly roads with drops off the side.
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I can't put my face under water. I panic and my throat closes shut. Stupid reaction - but it's because I nearly drowned when I was little. We were at a college reunion weekend with all my mom's old college roomates. The kids were supposed to be splashing around at the edge of CMU's olympic sized swimming pool. I didn't know how to swim, but they put me in and told me just to hang on to the edge and kick. It worked fine until someone cannonballed over me and knocked loose my grip on the drain around the edge. I sank to the bottom and no one noticed - the adults were too busy talking to see what the kids were doing.
Guess I was too stubborn to die even then, though. When I realized no one was coming to get me, and I couldn't figure out how to get back up the slippery tile wall in front of me, I started across the corner of the pool to the ladder on the other side. I was partway up the ladder before I started to black out, but by then, one of the older kids had realized I was missing, and yanked me the rest of the way up.
Ever have that nightmare where you are falling? Instead of sky I dream I'm sliding past the little blue tiles from the sides of the pool I nearly drowned in.
jbeany...I almost drowned when I was 3 years old. I was walking around our pool with my blankie wrapped around me. Dad was supposed to be watching me but I'm sure he got sidetracked by a Dodger game! Anyway, my 5 year old sister asked my dad, "Daddy, why is Debbie at the bottom of the pool?" Needless to say, he jumped in and saved me. He always took the credit for saving me, but I always give thanks to my big sis. (We've always been obnoxiously close!) Anyway, to this day I have dreams where I am tumbling in a barrel of water. I go over and over and over, like a somersault. And it's not just in my dreams. Sometimes I daydream it. Surprisingly though, I love swimming in a pool. Don't like the ocean cuz I don't like the black openess under me. But, I'm not afraid of water, at all!
Do you ever have "flashbacks" about your near drowning? I'd be interested to know.
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centipedes
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Yonanamama, I don't have any flashbacks - just that strange, recurring dream of sinking past tiles.
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I'm pretty badly claustrophobic, but yesterday I was proud of myself. I went into a "stardome" - a mini blow-up planetarium - with a friend's 6 year old, to show him the stars. There wasn't much room in there AND I had to crawl in through a small dark tunnel. I almost backed out of the tunnel straight away, but decided to push ahead, and I DID IT. I even sat through the entire show.
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That must have been hard to do. Good for you!
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Spiders are soooo creepy. Now I read this:
Doctor finds spiders in boy's ear
Sun May 6, 6:18 PM ET
These guys weren't exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear — "like Rice Krispies" — ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear — "like Rice Krispies."
Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.
When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.
Jesse was given the spiders — now both dead — as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.
"It was real interesting, 'cause, two spiders in my ear — what next?" Jesse said.
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ARGGHHHH!!!
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Spiders are soooo creepy. Now I read this:
Doctor finds spiders in boy's ear
Sun May 6, 6:18 PM ET
These guys weren't exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear — "like Rice Krispies" — ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.
"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.
One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear — "like Rice Krispies."
Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.
When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.
Jesse was given the spiders — now both dead — as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.
"It was real interesting, 'cause, two spiders in my ear — what next?" Jesse said.
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ARGGHHHH!!!
The nose. ;D
Good for you Cycobully. :thumbup;
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Ugh, I hate spiders. Fascinated with them - I have books, and I always like to check out live spiders in museums and things. But I hate them in my house.
Unfortunately, we have large numbers of wolf spiders around our neighbourhood, and some of them are as big as Huntsmans. Ugh.
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OMG karol! ! ! why did u have to put that pic up. i am deathly terrified of spiders.
when i was in elementary school there were these hills with big bushes and these huge spider webs in then. the spiders were big and black with like a yellow stripe on 'em. the neighborhood kids caught them in jars and threw them on me. even the smallest spider scares the crap out of me now. about 5 yrs ago i was at my grams house (in the country) and a wolf spider got inside. i killed it was a can of raid. my grams comes home, picks it up with a papertowel and chases me with it. i screamed like a little girl, ran and locked my self in my room. my grams was outside the door just laughing her head off. :D
now before i go to bed i have to check under the covers, under the pillow, in the pillow case, the walls, ceiling, under the bed and behind the headboard every single night. i even check my shoes and clothes before i put them on.
so yea, thats what im scared of!
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Maybe you should change that avatar then ;)
Though I'm not making fun of you, because I fully understand with the spider thing.
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I know someone who is also terrified of spiders. Someone once told him some horrible bs statistic about how many spiders we all swallow in a lifetime, because they are supposedly attracted to the moisture in our mouths, so they climb in while we are sleeping. They told him if he left a glass of water on the night stand, they would go there first. Now he absolutlely won't go to sleep without a full glass of water by his head. ;D
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I am really trying hard to ignore the spider stories. Ewww!
Bridges, I do not like the huge freeway interchanges. I can drive them if I go quickly and take a deep breath and pretend I am not on a high bridge. I almost jumped out of the car one day when the hubby thought he would turn onto the Coronado Bridge in Dan Diego. He did not understand the overriding fear I had of it. I have since been over the Coronado Bridge with my girls in the Trolley Tour they have in San Diego. It was a beautiful view and my girls were teasing me the entire time about the bridge, so I had to be brave and suck it up!
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There is an historic, tight, opening bridge in my state, which I have to drive over when travelling back to my home town. It is at a place called Paringa, for anyone familiar with South Australia, and it crosses the Murray River.
The speed limit is only 30 km, and I have no problem crossing it in a car. But I HATE crossing it on a bus. You're sitting up so high, and you can't see the little rails, you just look straight out into the water and it freaks me out.
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Hubby is scared of bumblebees and hornets. We were driving along one day with the windows own. Going about 80km/hr when a bumblebee struck his sunglases and fell down between his legs. He put the truck in neutral slammed on the brakes and jumped out. I had to move fast to get the truck stopped and pulled off the road. We've had hornets make nests in several places around our house. He usualy calls on me when it is time to destoy them because they get mad and chase you.
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A house we used to live in was just dreadful for scary pests.
It had all kinds of spiders, many of which I couldn't even identify, despite owning a few spider text books. Then we had a European wasp nest in the back garden, which my husband accidentally disturbed whilst gardening (got stung on the neck). then we had a bee hive in our tree in the front yard. Then the rats came......
It was a nice house but I'm glad I don't live there anymore!
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Moths
Especially the ones with the furry bodies and red eyes. I can't stay in the same room as a large moth. I have to get Rita to come and shift it,
Am I a man or a mouse?? But just the sound of hearing them flutter into the light shade Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh ???
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Fear of bridges is a pretty common phobia, kit. The Bridge Patrol at the Mackinac Bridge will drive your car across for you if you call from the booth at the end and ask for help. They would rather take the time to drive your car the 5 miles than have you freaking out in the middle.
If you are a passenger, you can stick you head out the window in the middle of the bridge and look straight down thru the ventilation grates and into the water! >:D
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Fear of b ridges is a pretty common phobia, kit. The Bridge Patrol at the Mackinac Bridge will drive your car across for you if you call from the booth at the end and ask for help. They would rather take the time to drive your car the 5 miles than have you freaking out in the middle.
If you are a passenger, you can stick you head out the window in the middle of the bridge and look straight down thru the ventilation grates and into the water! >:D
That was a really cool bridge to drive over. I loved being able to see through it into the water.
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In most cases, the magpie seems like a harmless bird BUT they are not!!! In large numbers, they can occasionally become aggressive, and in spring, they get territorial.
When they are nesting, magpies will fly close or even peck people on the back of the head, eye or face. They vicous little things and i hate them!!!
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In most cases, the magpie seems like a harmless bird BUT they are not!!! In large numbers, they can occasionally become aggressive, and in spring, they get territorial.
When they are nesting, magpies will fly close or even peck people on the back of the head, eye or face. They vicous little things and i hate them!!!
They are the living descendants of the dinosaurs so that might explain their aggressiveness. Have you ever been attacked by one?
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The only thing I have problems with is being physically confined by crowds or other people. I can't even sit in a middle or window seat on a plane. It gives me panic attacks. I'm guessing it has more to do with trust issues though. ::)
There are things I certainly dread, like hemo, but I can't think of anything I'm afraid of.
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In most cases, the magpie seems like a harmless bird BUT they are not!!! In large numbers, they can occasionally become aggressive, and in spring, they get territorial.
When they are nesting, magpies will fly close or even peck people on the back of the head, eye or face. They vicous little things and i hate them!!!
They are the living descendants of the dinosaurs so that might explain their aggressiveness. Have you ever been attacked by one?
Are you serious? wow never new that............... and YES those ugly birds always try to attack me when i go for my run.... they have never really made me bleed but they have come close to getting me.. sorry ppl but if i ever own a gun i know what i will do with it. >:D
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Maybe you should change that avatar then ;)
Though I'm not making fun of you, because I fully understand with the spider thing.
Ok, ok cycobully....maybe just a little bit of fear. ;) Maybe it should read; "Totally FREAKED"
Airplanes, HELL NO! ! ! I will not EVER get on a plane. I dont know why, but airplanes are a "no no" in my book. My mom was remarried a few yrs ago in Las Vegas and I didnt go because I was afraid to get on the plane. But a helicopter on the other hand; I think that would be fun. ???
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During mating season, I am TERRIFIED of magpies. The rest of the year, I quite like them. I put seed out on the front lawn and watch them come in to feed, because they sing nicely.
But a swooping magpie chills me to my core. My cousin got stitches in the back of his head once, from being swooped by a maggie.
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heights, bats, blackflies (well not afraid of blackflies...just hate them)
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In most cases, the magpie seems like a harmless bird BUT they are not!!! In large numbers, they can occasionally become aggressive, and in spring, they get territorial.
When they are nesting, magpies will fly close or even peck people on the back of the head, eye or face. They vicious little things and i hate them!!!
They are the living descendants of the dinosaurs so that might explain their aggressiveness. Have you ever been attacked by one?
Are you serious? wow never new that............... and YES those ugly birds always try to attack me when i go for my run.... they have never really made me bleed but they have come close to getting me.. sorry ppl but if i ever own a gun i know what i will do with it. >:D
We have red winged black birds here that dive bomb you if you get to close to their nests unfortunately the state of WI doesn't have a concelled carry law or those buggers would be in trouble. Boxman55 ;D
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I have little birds that have built a big nest on my classroom rafters. They dive bomb the kids in and out of the room when babies are inthenest. You should see the kids duck and wave their hands at these birds. They are afraid of the little birds!
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On the subject of swooping birds, I'm more scared of plovers than of magpies. Plovers have poison spurs on their wings. :(
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Well believe it or not the only thing i am afraid is dolls! When i was around 3 or 4 years old i went to a department store with my grandmother. I was always curious about everything. Well she had to go to the bathroom. She told me to wait outside the door. At that time we didn't worry about the weirdos we have today. So i saw a door and went in the door closed behind me and there i was in a room full of manakin body parts. I couldn't get the door open so i started to scream and cry. The manger and my grandmother came in. My grandmother of course talked to me and told me not to be scared. For some reason that fear has lasted. I know it is strange for a man of 51 to be afraid of dolls. When i was in Nashville i lived with a woman for three years. She was a doll collecter. One time i took a nap in one of the bedrooms in her condo. I walked in and there i was in a room full of dolls. She had those real old ones with teeth and eyes that rolled. I had to get rid of my fear. I fell asleep and woke up to hundreds of eyes looking at me. I'm still freaked when i see dolls!
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I don't like those dolls with the opening/closing eyes either, and whilst I'm not scared of them, I've always found doll collections somewhat eerie.
have you read The Tommyknockers by Stephen King? He does a creepy doll-collection scene.
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I am with Nina - I am terrified of clowns...but mine stems from reading the book "It" by Stephen King. That did me in. I am also afraid of ventriloquist dummies~shudder....
I am afraid of heights, really afraid. We drove up a mountain in NH and I was bawling my eyes out. Bridges over water do me in. I can't drive over it myself, I have panic attacks. Being a passenger is also very hard for me.
I hate bugs, especially cockroaches & spiders. I used to work in an office building that was partly in the Boston Harbor and there was a greasy spoon restaurant on the first floor. All perfect for Roaches. We used to be infested with those damn things. They used to drop from the ceiling in the bathrooms, OMG! Thankfully that never happened to me. I would have run out with my underwear around my legs!!!! I did have a few show up in my cubicle and I used to make my boss and co-workers take them out. I never wanted them to step on them (ugh the sound!) not only for the sound, but because their eggs could be in the carpet. UGH I am grossing myself out now.
Lastly, this is a very weird phobia. I hate the smell and touch of coins. Just the thought of it makes my stomach do flip flops. Oddly enough, Rob collects change in this big water bottle. If for some stupid reason he leaves it out, I pick it up with a napkin or just slide it into the garbage with an object. I hate the stuff!!!! Even worse is when people keep it in their hands and let it fester in there, ugh. OR when people put it in their mouths. BLEAH. Forget quarters at the bar, that is beyond nasty!
OK, I just really grossed myself out! :rofl;
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remember the troll dolls with the wild hair and and you would kinda spin them to make there hair even crazier, they had red lips that freaked me out well my grandma had like a million of them in the spare bedroom and one afternoon she put me down to nap and all those red lips were freaking me out so I bit them all off!!! When she came in and found all her trolls with no lips she almost fell over laughing. No troll will every mess with me again :boxing;
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I am also afraid of ventriloquist dummies~shudder....
If you haven't already, read my post on page 4 of this thread! Ventriloquist dummies were my first ever phobia.
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I am afraid of any kind of fast crawling things, but especially bugs. Not knowing where they are from one moment to the next terrifies me.
I am also afraid of embarrassing myself in public in anyway.
Chris
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I am also afraid of ventriloquist dummies~shudder....
If you haven't already, read my post on page 4 of this thread! Ventriloquist dummies were my first ever phobia.
When I read it I laughed cuz we had the same phobia.
Here's a good one. We picked Brendan (son we are in process of adopting) up yesterday for the weekend. He brought one of his books, from the Goosebumps series. It was about ventriliquist dummies!! OMG!!!! He asked me to read it while we were driving home and I was freaking out internally. Rob knows about this phobia and was chuckling because of the irony.
Then, Brendan said he would like to have one. I said now way Buddy, not while you live under our roofs. hahahaha :rofl;
Seriously though, how freaking ironic is that?
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Oh gosh, what are the odds?
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I am afraid of things like this:
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=17564416
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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lol omg...
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I am afraid of things like this:
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=17564416
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Are you trying to kill me??? :o
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ARGH!
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murder, mayhem and rollercoasters. also not to fond of downhill skiing, no breaks.
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I have one fear that I can think of. A lot of people when the see me in the middle of this will say, "He has a fear of Heights",but that is just not true. For me, it is a fear of falling.
Lets say I'm on the roof of a tall building (flat roof) and there is no raised edge or guardrail along the outer edge of the roof. I will have a very very hard time getting myself out to the edge of the roof to look over (I'm afraid my foot will slip off of the edge and I'll fall over).
However, if there is even the smallest raised edge around the edge of the roof (even 1 brick high) or there is the smallest type of guardrail, I'll be able to run right to the edge, look over, lean over and do other crazy stuff.
Therefore I think I have a fear of falling, and not a fear of heights. :)
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I am the same way! I am so afraid I'll fall off of a building when I'm looking off of a rail or out a big window.....crazy thing is, I used to be a flight attendant! Ironicly, I wasn't afraid when we were in the air.
Beth
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I have one fear that I can think of. A lot of people when the see me in the middle of this will say, "He has a fear of Heights",but that is just not true. For me, it is a fear of falling.
Lets say I'm on the roof of a tall building (flat roof) and there is no raised edge or guardrail along the outer edge of the roof. I will have a very very hard time getting myself out to the edge of the roof to look over (I'm afraid my foot will slip off of the edge and I'll fall over).
However, if there is even the smallest raised edge around the edge of the roof (even 1 brick high) or there is the smallest type of guardrail, I'll be able to run right to the edge, look over, lean over and do other crazy stuff.
Therefore I think I have a fear of falling, and not a fear of heights. :)
I am afraid of heights, because I might fall from them!
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I'm not afraid of falling I'm afraid of what will happen when I hit the ground...I wonder if it will hurt. I'm afraid of hurt. :urcrazy;
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I get scared poopless on a step ladder. :rofl;
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snakes get me every time.
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I am afraid of the dark -- always have been, always will be. I sleep with a light on. If something's going to get me in the middle of the night, I want to get a good look at it. I am also afraid of snakes -- any kind, any color, dead or alive.
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I have one fear that I can think of. A lot of people when the see me in the middle of this will say, "He has a fear of Heights",but that is just not true. For me, it is a fear of falling.
Lets say I'm on the roof of a tall building (flat roof) and there is no raised edge or guardrail along the outer edge of the roof. I will have a very very hard time getting myself out to the edge of the roof to look over (I'm afraid my foot will slip off of the edge and I'll fall over).
However, if there is even the smallest raised edge around the edge of the roof (even 1 brick high) or there is the smallest type of guardrail, I'll be able to run right to the edge, look over, lean over and do other crazy stuff.
Therefore I think I have a fear of falling, and not a fear of heights. :)
I am afraid of heights, because I might fall from them!
Aww, come on - falling can be fun! You just need a chute! Here's a pic of mine. . .
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Oh man, I could never do that!
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Jbeany you are completely nuts. No one should jump out of a perfectly good airplane. It is not the falling that hurts, it is the sudden stop at the end that is painful!
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I am also afraid of falling. I'm too scared to even get remotely close to the edge of the platform at the train station in case I fall onto the tracks.
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I am also afraid of falling. I'm too scared to even get remotely close to the edge of the platform at the train station in case I fall onto the tracks.
Thought it was only me who was that daft :rofl; this thread has made me feel a lot better :2thumbsup;. I can't get near the edge of anything or even look over into a stairwell, nothing like that. Another totally random fear I have is wasps, I can't be in the room with one, I can't even watch them on TV or look at a pic in a book. We had a huge European Wasp in the kitchen last summer, I just had to leave the outside doors and the windows open and shut myself in another room til it went (I have a glass kitchen inner door and kept peeping through that in case you wonder how I knew when it had gone. :)).
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My kids had the movie "Arachnophobia" on and I had to walk by the room with eyes closed, hands over ears and humming -- jeeez how can they watch that??
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never getting a kidney
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:( I can see how that can scare you.
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I have one fear that I can think of. A lot of people when the see me in the middle of this will say, "He has a fear of Heights",but that is just not true. For me, it is a fear of falling.
Lets say I'm on the roof of a tall building (flat roof) and there is no raised edge or guardrail along the outer edge of the roof. I will have a very very hard time getting myself out to the edge of the roof to look over (I'm afraid my foot will slip off of the edge and I'll fall over).
However, if there is even the smallest raised edge around the edge of the roof (even 1 brick high) or there is the smallest type of guardrail, I'll be able to run right to the edge, look over, lean over and do other crazy stuff.
Therefore I think I have a fear of falling, and not a fear of heights. :)
I used to think I had a fear of heights, until I just read this thread. I now realize it's a fear of falling. If there's a high wall, or something, I have no problem.
I'm terrified of spiders!!! Once, when I was younger, a fishing spider (a BIG, fuzzy, brown spider) dropped from our basement ceiling, right in front of my face! Yikes! I will run screaming from the room if I see a spider. Even pictures and toy ones freak me out. My husband thinks it's hilarious! I'm glad he's amused!
I've also developed a fear of clowns after seeing the movie Saw. Eeeshh...
I used to be afraid of flying. I would have anxiety attacks just walking into the airport. I quickly got over rhat fear when I realized I would never be able to go anywhere with my boyfriend at the time (now my husband!).
I'm afraid of math too. yes, math! I actually have anxiety attacks if I have to do anything involving math beyond basic adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing. Thankfully, it started after I graduated from college. But it is putting a damper on trying to take a math test for entrance to the community college I'm currently taking classes at!
Oh, yeah, and going out in public, going somewhere new or doing something I've never done before also causes me to have anxiety attacks sometimes too.
Yes, I'm a mess, and I have issues!
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I'm afraid that one day I'll be left to face this world alone. That thought absolutely terrifies me! :'(
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I'm afraid that one day I'll be left to face this world alone. That thought absolutely terrifies me! :'(
Oh, Petey :'(
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I definitely hate snakes! I hate being tickled. And I also hate being chased. I always sucked at the games where you had to be chased. I just give up or stay hidden until they called me out safely. Maybe that stems from the fact that I also hate to RUN!!!!!!!!!!
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Two of my kids went up in a glider in Colorado last weekend. They are much braver than I. I could barely watch when they did a loop!
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I was afraid of shots
then I had a female exam
I was afraid of female exams
then I had my tubes x-rayed
I was afraid of getting my tubes x-rayed
and then I had natural childbirth
I was afraid of natural childbirth
then I had a colon exam
I was afraid of colon exams
and then I started dialysis
and now I am afraid of dialysis
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snakes is what gets to me
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roaches
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UGH! Twirl, I hate those things. Did you know those suckers can fly? I was unaware of that until I moved here. Roaches do not fly in El Paso and they are tiny to the ones compared in the Houston area. The ones we have here can carry off a darn loaf of bread!
I am training one of the yorkies to be the Cockroach Hunter! He's getting pretty good.
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I hope your Yorkies are bigger than these roaches.
can I Yorkie set when they learn their jobs?
things are bigger in houston, unfortunately so are the bugs
I know they fly.
a friend in high school screamed when she saw one and it flew in her mouth
I keep my mouth shut(most of the time)
I never saw one roach the year I lived in San Antonio
a teacher, from up north, stepped on one in the teacher's lounge and I saw and heard it crunch
I threw up - right there in the lounge
I still get teased about that
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Lightning
Heights
Roaches
In that order.
Here's another & it's a really scary one.
I'm afraid of choking specially when I'm eating alone, but the funny thing is I never think about it while I'm eating. I think about it when I'm not eating, like what would I do if it ever happened.
I know your supposed to throw yourself over the back of a chair, but will it really work???
Hope I never have to find out.
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and needles do not make me too happy
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I'm afraid of not being there if anything happens to my parents since I am so far away.
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being home alone (at night, mostly)
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Waking up alone at night can sometimes be tough. I keep a bottle of lorazepam close by just in case.
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Waking up alone at night can sometimes be tough. I keep a bottle of lorazepam close by just in case.
lorazepam? and are you afraid you will get sick and be alone------- do you have life alert---
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I am afraid of going to dialysis today and I just do not want to go
4:11 am and I am thinking
what excuse can I use to stay home and not go until Wed
I have put on no weight
so what would it hurt -
just this once
I have never skipped a treatment
well, once --- direaha and vomitting -- that is all
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Go to dialysis, silly woman. Your throwing up and diarrhea was your body's way of saying TOXINS aboard! GO! Or I will kick your ass! :Kit n Stik;
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it just helps me go back to sleep, especially if I wash it down with a sip of shine.
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and now I am afraid of pigmy rattlesnakes :'( :o :boxing; :banghead;
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it just helps me go back to sleep, especially if I wash it down with a sip of shine.
Flip do you make your own if so I sure would like to try it, I won't be afraid...Boxman
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Twirl, you did go to dialysis? Didn't you?
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yes and thank you for caring
that last hour is so hard to deal with
plus, I am getting unbearable headaches
glad you were not dinner for some shark
and you took no fluid from strangers
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I am scared of illness - not for me - but for people I love.
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Finding green squash and liver on my plate for dinner. UGGGH!
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I'm afraid of....
ummm.....
no....
crap...I better go think about this some more!
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I am scared of roller coasters but I think that maybe because I have seizures and the 1 and ONLY small roller coaster, I have been on, made me dizzy which is what an oncoming seizure to me, feels like. I use to think I was scared of dying but that has changed since being diagnosed with CKF and now I look at it, like we are ALL dying a little each day. I knew that we were all dying a little each day beforehand, but I guess things are made more "real" when you are diagnosed with something you KNOW could kill ya anyday, make sense? :urcrazy;
I am also scared of burning to death, to me, that would be a horrible, horrible way to die! Well, come to think of it.............I think most of my fears have to do WITH death, like I was just going to say I am also scared of drowning (because I did almost drown once)..............so see, the more I think of it, my fears have to do with ways of dying............strange huh? Then, I am one of the "lucky ones" to get CFK! :banghead; :rofl; Funny how life is sometimes, ain't it??!! :waiting;
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It feels odd to say this, even to me , but I can't think of anything I'm really afraid of. I used to get scared as a kid by certain situations but I did what I had to do and that was it. I'm not afraid of snakes or bugs or heights or clowns or foods (fools frighten me a bit mind you but not fear, fear) or death. Oh ya, I'm a little scared of bears because off past bad experiences in the bush but basically if I feel afraid I figure I'll just deal with it if something bad happens. I do have fears for others, like my donor, my nieces and nephews but for myself not really.
However I can think of many things that make me angry.
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snakes
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Rats!!! I have answered this question before. It is probably back on page
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being locked in a room could be a lift could be the size of a football pitch just being locked in.
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Oh yeah. I'm afraid of balloons near my face. I had one burst in my face when I was young that caused some damage. In general, I'm not crazy about rubber (plastic ?) balloons period. Give me one of those silver ones any day though!
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THis one was tough, but I finally thought of my fear...
When I was 3 I ran out to the car by myself, jumped in and kicked the car out of gear... It rolled backwards into another car (on a hill) Now if I am the passenger and you park me on a hill with my back on the lower side, I slide over and put my foot on the brake till you get back in the car, I can almost feel myself going backwards :o
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I am also have afraid of someone breaking into my home and raping me and then beating me to death.........I would rather them go ahead and just shoot me!
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TW...that's why my plan is always to shoot them!
Thanks for the reminder of my fear Kim...I am afraid of rolling over in a vehicle. I don't do well at off roading because if the vehicle starts to tip my toes curl. ACK! Gimme a FLAT surface to drive on!
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We all have our fears and things that wll just cause our heart to race. One of mine (and I have more than one) is snakes. Here is a picture of one I named "Gentleman Jim" since he "buzzed" with his tail to let me know he was about 6 inches from my paintbrush this morning. He is a hognose (So my husband tells me) and is about 40 inches from head to tail. I was painting a retaining wall and as I moved towards his spot, he let me know he was there. What a jolt my heart took!
What scares you?
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Awaiting lab results.
I am not afraid of heights, spiders, snakes or broccoli, but the one thing that will get my heart racing is awaiting lab results. Truly, I can't think of anything else.
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interseting, I was writing in my blog before I came here about stuff like that. I am scared of things I dont see first, like spiders and snakes, If I see them first or know that they are around I am cool but if they supprise me I am done.
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I'm afraid Frank is not going to survive all the surgeries, chemo & dialysis.
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Needles :o can't stand them that is how i got to be where i am to day on dialysis was afraid to go have blood work done cause of them needles put it off untill i got really sick. Then Doctor told me I had to start dialysis my worst fear come true still won't let them stil a needle in me at dialysis guess I am stuck with a chest cath
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Wind is a big fear of mine. I have a lot of dreams about tornadoes and things like that, even though they're not that common here.
I don't like crowds either, but I think that has something to do with my vision issues. I remember being in a mall, just as Santa Claus arrived. The empty space we had been in was suddenly filled with kids. I froze. I'm not even sure if I was breathing. I was with a friend who almost had to carry me out. Once we were outside, though, I was fine.
I also have an issue with the phone. I don't answer phones. Thank God for caller ID and voice mail. I'm worse with making phone calls. If I really need to make a call, and I can't get someone else to do it for me, it takes a while to psyche myself up to make the call
My mom doesn't like heights. I remember, we were at a hostel in Halifax for hospital patients, and we wer on the 8th floor, which was the top. I went over to the window to look out. It was open, but only about an inch or so. She grabbed me and pulled me back. She always makes me sit in the window seat when we fly.
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Hey thats my phobia! well of many...
I hate the unknown, u cant tell whats under that costume, its freaky to me. I hated going to Hometown Buffet when they had the Bee guy there, hed walk up to me, i could not even move, eeep
also have a fear of falling, very irrational fear of falling
and a fear of drains.... yes because i think i can get sucked down a drain?? doubtful, but scare the crap out of me...
and germs.
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I'm also afraid of being left.. not left behind, just left..
In my lifetime, I've had 6 friends, and the first two I made when we moved to PEI when I was 11. Before that, I was pretty much a loner. Of those 6, 2 have died, 2 have moved out west, 1 is elusive and only shows up when he wants something, and the last is pretty much the only one I have left. The 2 that died were friends I had in high school, and it's kind of weird, but with them gone I kind of feel like part of my history is gone too. On a good note, the other day, we found out that the killer of one (the other died of natural causes) has decided to drop his appeal and stay behind bars, but I'm digressing.
The one friend that I have left lives in New Jersey, so we're not close geographically, but (as far as I know anyway) we have no secrets. When things have gotten too much, we've always vented to each other. I'm afraid, though, that one day she's going to decide that I'm just too crazy and she'll disappear, and I'll be the same lonely person I was when I was a child. Sometimes I feel like she's already gone, or that she's keeping me at arms length, which goes along with the paranoid delusions that I mentioned in the pity party thread. I'm afraid to ask her about it, in case it pushes her away.
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Heights. I got stuck on the rim overlook of the Grand Canyon a few years go. I could not move.
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Heights. I got stuck on the rim overlook of the Grand Canyon a few years go. I could not move.
Just reading that makes my heart race... heights are scary! :P
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I had a fear of sticking a needle in my arm.
I conquered that earlier this week. :yahoo;
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I am most afraid of losing my husband. Without him I don't know if I could make it. He has been my lifeline thru this mess we call dialysis.
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I am fearful of heights and thunderstorms. I visited the Grand Canyon, it took me an hour to walk the glass bottom observation desk. I was totally awed at what I had seen. It took me about 15 minutes to get back on land.
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Needles and not living long enough to see my children all grown up...
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I don’t fear heights.
I grew up with people who loved climbing mountains and I joined them very early in my life.
The mountains are a very beautiful, the colours of the plants are unforgettable and the sight is breath-taking.
Climbing up a mountain & reaching its peak is just wonderful!
When I was a student, I took part in a discovery-tour south of Agadir/Morocco & we had to be careful about sand vipers.
I wore secure boots and sometimes I saw one of them. They moved very elegantly and it was fascinating to watch them.
I don’t mind spiders either, we had once one in our kitchen hiding behind the washing-machine
and every time the washing was spinning, the little spider came running
from behind the washing-machine, every time the same route. We affectionately called him “Charly”
& we thought he was quite eccentric. We have no idea what he lived on because we keep it very clean.
I am not very keen on needles, in case they are not clean, but I don’t fear them.
Coming to think of it, I don’t have any particular fears, except of “the big D”. I don’t fear the procedure because it is a life-saver.
What I do fear are the people who operate these D-machines. What makes them being nasty to vulnerable patients?
What makes them being interested in the job in the first place?
I mean, they surely must know how vulnerable and oversensitive patients are, so what is their angle?
I do hope they do not enjoy hurting fragile & vulnerable patients?
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I am a bit like Monk of TV fame. So many phobias. Dog would head the list. Confined spaces - especially lifts, total darkness and so forth. Manage to bluff way though most situations.
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dont know why i feel like admitting this, but now that ya mention 'him' ..lol............ im with MOnK as well .. Not the same stuff, but well, i got what he got so pick what ya will, i probably fear it.......loved that show! finally someone i could relate too..hhehe
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I don’t mind spiders either, we had once one in our kitchen hiding behind the washing-machine
and every time the washing was spinning, the little spider came running
from behind the washing-machine, every time the same route. We affectionately called him “Charly”
& we thought he was quite eccentric. We have no idea what he lived on because we keep it very clean.
That's the point. I prefer to see the spider than what it eats.
My policy is to allow one spider per room. If I see two, one goes for the chop.
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I am afraid of spiders because they go where they don't need to be. Coming in from the car one evening a few weeks ago, I walked through a web in our yard, I guess. A little later I felt something on my face, but assumed it was my hair because sometimes the curls tickle. I swept my hair aside and a spider flew off my hand. ARRRGGHHHH! That was the end of him/her. Then, for about 3 days afterward, I had the heebie jeebies and almost crashed my car when the air conditioning blew a strand of hair on my shoulder. I am hopeless.
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I don’t mind spiders either, we had once one in our kitchen hiding behind the washing-machine
and every time the washing was spinning, the little spider came running
from behind the washing-machine, every time the same route. We affectionately called him “Charly”
& we thought he was quite eccentric. We have no idea what he lived on because we keep it very clean.
wow i had a pet charlie as well, a spider, that lived in my clock, he stayed there like a good boy and never ventured out ffar, so we left each other alone. Small world, isnt it?
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For a couple weeks, I kept waking up with more bug bites, but only ever on my right hand. I finally figured out there was a spider hiding in the upper-right corner of my bed, where my right hand rested sometimes. It didn't bother me that he was there, but I didn't want to be bitten anymore, so I cleared out that corner. I also have a spider living in the top part of the tomato cage I placed around my leaning jalapeno plant. The plant takes up the lower part, and there's a nice big web taking up the upper part. I leave it alone in case it helps get rid of bugs that might chew up the plants. :beer1;
As for what I fear, well, I've probably already made that obvious. I'm afraid of people. Specifically, their judgement (or my harsh perception of their negative judgement) of me. It's completely irrational, but it's what I deal with. I think I'd rather be afraid of something silly, like chocolate. :rofl;
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ANd i fear what Restorer fears :-( It's sad because in my head i know it's irrational as well, but my heart and my physical reactions are not understanding that ..they fear anyway
wow,, did that make ANY sence :embarassed:
and as many times as i use that "embarassed" smilie, i fear i wont find it the next time i need to use it... yea! i got issues.
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I do not like clowns. The happier, the worse. Call it odd, i call it watching It as a child.
And scared mostly of losing my family.
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ANd i fear what Restorer fears :-( It's sad because in my head i know it's irrational as well, but my heart and my physical reactions are not understanding that ..they fear anyway
wow,, did that make ANY sence :embarassed:
and as many times as i use that "embarassed" smilie, i fear i wont find it the next time i need to use it... yea! i got issues.
I know that feeling.. I have what I call a paranoid voice in the back of my head. It tends to get me in trouble, as it tells me scenarios of how people who obviously care about me may have an alternative agenda. I always think that people are looking at me and judging, and some of that is because I'm quiet and shy around people I don't really know
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this was an oops
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"I know that feeling.. I have what I call a paranoid voice in the back of my head. It tends to get me in trouble, as it tells me scenarios of how people who obviously care about me may have an alternative agenda. I always think that people are looking at me and judging, and some of that is because I'm quiet and shy around people I don't really know"
ok this part is from me, boswife.. dont know what the heck im doing when it comes to quotes but.............................. ewe... and i have that too Riki...( the alternative agenda crap ::) ) One difference for me kind of, is that i fear seeing people i know, not strangers.. im way chatty with someone i dont know, vs someone i do.. just get all locked up....
EDITED: Fixed quote tag error- kitkatz, Moderator
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I need to know someone well to be chatty with them... unless I'm chatting online.. *L* it's easier online..
I surprised myself, when I met my best friend for the first time. We'd been talking online for about 6 months and I was really nervous to meet her. It was a little awkward at first, but after about 10 minutes, we were talking like we'd known each other for years.
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Paranormal activity 2
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snakes :sos;
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spiders
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spiders
Amen sister!! :o