What irrational fear do you have?

Clowns have very recently began to scare me. Never as a kid they did but now after childhood, I've somehow started seeing how unsettling these fuckers can be.
 
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Stinging insects - bees, wasps, hornets, etc. that fucking buzzing noise just makes me shut down and freak out. Really pisses me off that the stinkbugs that occasionally get in the house make the exact same noise but are otherwise harmless, but until I see them it may as well be one of those barbbed-ass motherfuckers. One particular pissant of a wasp decided last year to try and build a nest in the driver's side mirror and WOULD NOT LEAVE - I fucking drove a dozen or so miles into another state before forcing it out of the window and driving off before it could get a chance to return, didn't do shit because IT STILL CAME BACK. Had to blast pure anti-wasp stuff into the cavity behind the mirror to exterminate the fucker, but it's done nothing to eliminate the husk of a hive still inside it (which I haven't bothered removing because I think it actually deters OTHER wasps from trying to make my life hell that way.)

I also am not a fan of spiders, though over time it's reduced somewhat - anything larger than a pea still freaks me the fuck out but I can kill anything smaller like Daddy Long Legs no problem.
 
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I can double and triple check before leaving but the dread of breaking down on the road still scares me. More than crashing, and I ride a motorcycle.
 
Upside-down roller coasters. I get the feeling I'll either fall out or my hair will get caught in something and cause my scalp to get torn off. (The latter is just an urban legend, but it certainly doesn't help either way.)
 
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R.A.E.L. said:
Upside-down roller coasters. I get the feeling I'll either fall out or my hair will get caught in something and cause my scalp to get torn off. (The latter is just an urban legend, but it certainly doesn't help either way.)
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Roller coasters in general look fucking terrifying
 
Uncanny Valley said:
Roller coasters in general look fucking terrifying
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Most are tbh. The smaller ones I can handle, but a few years ago I rode a tall wooden one - because my friend insisted - and god it was awful. It was the kind that takes a picture when you're on it, and in mine you can see me clenching my teeth, eyes shut, holding onto the bar for dear life, while my friend next to me looks like she's loving it. And having your stomach drop is just plain horrible, I hate any ride that makes you feel that way.
 
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I have virtually no fears; love heights, don't care about blood, share my house with spiders, leave all my doors unlocked when I live alone, only pretended to be scared of the dark so I could use my nightlight to read etc. There are some things I don't necessarily like (wasps, undercooked meat, rotten fruit, open water) and will make me nervous, but there is one thing I hate above all others.

Worms.

I fucking hate worms. To the point where if I am walking along the street and out of the corner of my eye I think I'm about to stand on one I will scream and jump a foot. Whenever there was a picture of one in my biology textbooks I'd cringe so hard I'd make a noise. I have a hamster so I sometimes feed him dried mealworms as a treat and I can't even stand those. I know they're dead but I'm convinced I can still see them moving, it's so bad I'll be jumpy for the next few hours after touching them. I get sleep paralysis and out of all the fucked up hallucinations I've had (hanging corpse talking to me, people in my house, dog tearing at my throat) the absolute worst was the one where my floor was covered in worms. I have no idea why I hate them so much it just kind of happened one day (:_(
 
Lightning
Cannot be outside if there's a storm. Just can't do it.
 
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polonium said:
Lightning
Cannot be outside if there's a storm. Just can't do it.
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Why?

I've had dogs that hid whimpering under a bed any time there was lightning, even though they'd charge at any human who they didn't like, including cops, mailmen, etc.
 
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Why?

I've had dogs that hid whimpering under a bed any time there was lightning, even though they'd charge at any human who they didn't like, including cops, mailmen, etc.
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Not really sure. Thunder doesn't bother me.
Did have a couple of close calls where there was a nearby strike while kayaking and stuff. Maybe from that
 
Bees or wasps. A couple of them stung me on the head as a child on a pool.

Also I had fear of spiders, but I overcame it later on.
 
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Scarabs crawling around inside my chest like that one scene in The Mummy
Moths
Open bodies of water
Getting assaulted by strangers in the street if I ever choose to transition and don't "look cis"
Sharp objects & needles
 
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Snakes and heights. Well, not all heights, just really shakey, unsteady ones. Like, I can go on roller coasters, but if I'm on a rope bridge, I freak out. And I HATE going up in church choir loft -- there's just something about being so near the ceiling the creeps me out. It's not that the floor isn't steady under me, it's that the ceiling is so close.

When I was a kid, I had a severe vomit phobia. (When I was ten, I got the stomach flu, and vomitted 9 times in 5 hours not. Not kidding). After that, I was seriously terrified at even the idea of throwing up. Ironically, it took getting sick again to cure it. (Realizing the fear of throwing up was worse than actually doing so)
 
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Elevators. I have this irrational fear that the cable will snap and the elevator will fall and kill me.

Used to be afraid of escalators as a kid but I got over that one. Go figure.
 
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Petronella said:
Elevators. I have this irrational fear that the cable will snap and the elevator will fall and kill me.

Used to be afraid of escalators as a kid but I got over that one. Go figure.
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Escalators are still kind of scary, there were a lot of deaths from them where I live
 
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When I go running in the hilly part of my neighborhood, I have a constant fear that when I go down one of the steeper slopes I'm going to stumble on some gravel that isn't even there, faceplant, and go sliding down the slope as all my face-skin gets shredded onto the asphalt.
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