Nosy Thursday poll.... Any epic Phobias you want to talk about ?

[cbelt3]

A spider picture on the other side prompted this thought.

[NewtonMP2100]

....what about fear of being str8......??

[timg]

you forgot claustrophobia and you poll should allow more than one selection ...

[Thrift Store Scott]

I don't like spiders of the non-web weaving variety.

I have a healthy respect for snakes.

I don't want bugs on me.

I have mild vertigo but I can overcome it with continued exposure (When I'm on the 28th floor of a hotel the first hour or two is spent slowly working my way over to the window in small increments, but once I do get there I'm fine).

The closest thing I have to an actual "phobia", i.e. an irrational and unfounded fear with no logical explanation and an uncontrollable visceral reaction is black water: I don't want to be anywhere near it or even look at it, even in relatively small quantities. At the back of the paint booth at Coca-Cola was a water tank maybe 3' by 2' by 10' long that was a catch basin for a waterfall used to remove paint spray from the air and I hated having to go near that thing when it wasn't running.

[Bo]

Needles, they trigger vasovagal syncope in me. I literally fainted in the theater watching Pulp Fiction back in the day.

[Lew Zealand]

Heights. I could get up to about 8' off the ground climbing a tree while my brother would climb to the top and hang out there for hours to avoid my parents. They cut down those trees the following season.

[rz]

None really to speak of. I'm not crazy about spiders, but I don't have a phobia of them. My son, who is afraid of spiders and bugs of all sorts, is not afraid of daddy longleg spiders.

Snakes - I like them if they're non-poisonous. Not fond of roaches, but am not afraid of them. Not at all afraid of heights.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

My fear is announcing my personal fears in an online forum so they might be used against me.

[DinerDave]

I said bugs, but most anything creepy crawly. I watch too many bad Sy Fy movies where you never turn away from anything dead, cuz they are never really dead, they just get pissed and call their friends.

Maybe I should include ticks, as I had lyme disease 2 years ago, without even knowing I got bit. No tell tale signs, even my doctor saw nothing, the blood test revealed lyme

Dave

[steve...]

Height. Didn't bother me as a kid but it seems to have gotten worse as I age.

Tall buildings are OK but I could never live in a high rise with a balcony.