Strange Phobias

kingfisherblue

My daughter and I are Brownie and Rainbow guiders. This week there is an event that will have a clown. She is delighted to be in work so that she can avoid seeing him, as she is phobic about people dressed up in costumes.

When my son dresses up for World Book Day, he is going as a pirate - ordinary dark clothes and a few pirate accessories, so she won't be freaked out by him

Saturnalia

I hate centipedes and caterpillars too, but I think most people don't like either very much.

Pigeons when they fly close to you.

I can't go in a kitchen at night in the dark, I have to put the light on even if the hall light is on.

Music boxes & anything that plays tinkly lullabies make my blood run cold - ever noticed in TV & film how that music always precedes something horrific happening, usually to the child it belongs to? Why would you have one of those things in your house?!?

I don't like strangers' hair and it makes me feel sick when people start brushing & fiddling with their hair near to me in public. Especially when they pull a manky matted brush from the depths of their bag, use it then shove it back in the bag with no cover on it - how many levels of cross-contamination are there in that scenario?

fashionlover10

Balloons! They creep me out so much

peachyprice

fashionlover10 wrote: »

Balloons! They creep me out so much

OMG yes, especially when they burst, just the thought makes me shudder.

Melisandre_of_Asshai

Dunno if this would be classed as a phobia, but I cannot stand the smell of bleach. It makes me physically heave and I have been known to actually throw up on occasions if I catch a whiff of it. I live in a block of flats where the stairwell is bleached and I can't go out of the front door until the smell disappears. A place I used to work were cleaning the premises with bleach one day and the smell made me so physically sick they had to send me home.

I was also serving a customer in my old job and she had obviously been using bleach to clean as she smelt really strongly of it. I had to go and get one of the other girls to serve her.

I also hate when an airplane flies overhead to the point I actually freeze in my tracks. It freaks me out as I get this sense of impending doom coming over me. I have npo idea why. When I was a little girl I remember if a plane flew overhead I would run and hide.

fashionlover10

peachyprice wrote: »

OMG yes, especially when they burst, just the thought makes me shudder.

So glad it isn't just me! We had a massive stand of them in work at Valentines :eek:

littlerat

Vomit. Worse with human than animal.

I cannot bare people touching my feet, nor would I touch somebody else's. If you were bleeding to death from your foot, I'd leave you there.

I'm also another who won't eat or drink after anybody, not even family. Gross thinking about it.

Maggots. Shuddering typing that.

More major dislikes than phobias:
Clowns - or anyone in masks. Probably from watching too many CSI types programs.
When I was a child I apparently would scream if those people dressed as cartoon characters came up to me. Still creepy as hell. Don't really like anyone being disguised in that way - wigs and general makeup don't bother me, but masks do.

Not really sure where any of these come from.


My worst in a sense is cars with bikes on the roof - a few years ago (before I'd learned to drive) we were on the motorway and one came off the car in front, it was 50/50 which way it bounced and luckily, Dad swerved the opposite way (would've 100% hit us and probably come straight through the windscreen with us going 70MPH if he'd not swerved). I cannot drive a normal distance behind one now, if on the motorway or dual carriageway I hang back until it's safe to overtake. I actually consider that one understandable myself though!

I will even admit the 1st time I was driving and came up to one on a motorway my concentration went off all else on the road, though brother was with me and basically got me back thinking and I've never let 1 distract me again, they still scare the panties off me.

gunsandbanjos

busiscoming2 wrote: »

My DS has a phobia of Buttons, he has to wear a tie when it is necessary to wear a shirt so he can't see them. I know some types affect him more than others but can't remember which. He has always been like this and cannot find a reason.

I used to work with a lady with the same phobia. They made her feel sick, she couldn't touch them or have them touching her. Again no rational reason, she asked her parents if there had been any button related incidents in her childhood but they said no.

Saturnalia

Melisandre_of_Asshai wrote: »

Dunno if this would be classed as a phobia, but I cannot stand the smell of bleach. It makes me physically heave and I have been known to actually throw up on occasions if I catch a whiff of it. I live in a block of flats where the stairwell is bleached and I can't go out of the front door until the smell disappears. A place I used to work were cleaning the premises with bleach one day and the smell made me so physically sick they had to send me home.

I was also serving a customer in my old job and she had obviously been using bleach to clean as she smelt really strongly of it. I had to go and get one of the other girls to serve her.

Yuck, I hate the smell of bleach too, it makes me go green. Bananas do that too. I wouldn't call it a phobia though, just intense dislike!

As a kid I went to a holiday resort and they used some sort of cleaner or air freshener that had a sickly-sweet fruity smell. At the time I had an undiagnosed medical condition and was extremely ill during the holiday, and whenever I smell that smell I'm straight back there. (I've never worked out what the smell is but it turns up in kid's cheap sweets as well.)

splishsplash

I gag at the smell of bleach too, and like others, the sight or sound of someone gagging, vomiting, hawking, spitting or coughing with a really fruity cough makes me heave, and would make me puke if I couldn't run away, and I would run away because I'm actually a bit phobic about vomiting myself.

Cockroaches are my only true, irrational, pure unreasonable, panic-and-terror-inducing reaction phobia. They are the only things that cause me to put myself above my children. I actually knocked my three children physically out of my way, screaming and crying, to run away from one the last time we were on holiday (it moved, you see, and they run so bl**dy fast). I was very ashamed . But I would do the same again .