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Posted: 3rd January 2003 21:39
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do you have any of the following?
arachnophobia- fear of spiders agoraphobia- fear of heights acousticaphobia- fear of noise amathophobia- fear of dust amaxophobia- fear of riding in the car autophobia- fear of oneself cathisophobia -fear of sitting chaetophobia- fear of hair hypengyophobia- fear of responsibility laliophobia- fear of speaking linonophobia- fear of string megalophobia- fear of large things metrophobia- fear of poetry papaphobia- fear of the Pope poloticophobia- fear of politics pteronophobia- fear of being tickled by feathers sophophobia- fear of learning triskadekaphobia- fear of the number 13 stygiophobia- fear of Hell uranophobia- fear of Heaven or maybe... phobophobia- fear of fear itself pantophobia- fear of EVERYTHING! or mayhap you're afraid of something else. care to share?  -------------------- "When I turn the page The corner bends into the perfect dog ear As if the words knew I'd need them again But at the time, I didn't see it." ~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear |
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Posted: 3rd January 2003 21:43
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I'm only slightly agoraphobic, but I'm getting over it. Not many other things scare me, except for maybe swarms of bees. It's really frightening to hear mega-uber-loud-buzzing approaching you.
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Posted: 3rd January 2003 22:35
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Posted: 3rd January 2003 22:53
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I dont really want to share but oh why not.I guess I have a fear of spiders.(arachnophobia).The thought of touching one disturbs me to no end.I also have a slight fear of hieghts (agoraphobia)Not a lot but still.
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Posted: 3rd January 2003 22:57
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Isn't agoraphobia the fear of unenclosed spaces, the opposite of claustrophobia?
Actually, yes it is. I know it is. I have a fear of heights and of spiders. I see I'm not alone. -------------------- "To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN? |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 00:26
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That's me.... Heights and Needles are my two fears. -------------------- "And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped” -Sir Bedevere the Wise |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 02:14
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Needles. Plain and simple.
I can handle being cut with a Bowie knife (which has happened once) but needles? No way. Ah well, what can ya do? |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 03:22
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you're absolutely right, R51. agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces. I misread it. The actual fear of heights is acrophobia as for me, i used to be deathly afraid of heights but i overcame it when i was about 11 or 12. currently, i have a classic case of thanaphobia: the fear of death or dying. i don't know when it started but it's driving me insane. sometimes i stay awake at night and wonder how much longer i actually have to live. it's insane -------------------- "When I turn the page The corner bends into the perfect dog ear As if the words knew I'd need them again But at the time, I didn't see it." ~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 03:50
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acrophobia, hypengyophobia, papaphobia,
uranophobia yep i think that about sums up the fact that im a lazy wuss -------------------- This one time I punched a bear in the forehead TO DEATH! I still have the scars on my chest. I am the manliest man that ever did man. League: Z3roHawk Steam: Zero_Hawk Wii U: Zero_Hawk FF14 - Goblin - Zero Hawk <Fiend> |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 04:43
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Arachnophobia. As some people in the chatroom may have noticed last year, when I would randomly freak out because I had seen one in the bathroom, the hallway, the kitchen, etc, and I'd have to be calmed down before I could get my superintendant to come over and lend me a vacuum, allowing me to say "oh while you're here, could you get that spider for me?"
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Posted: 4th January 2003 04:49
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Arachnophobia, first and foremost. I have a bad fear of spiders. Slight acrophobia, ask DF. Rollercoasters are fine, but I hate going up.
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Posted: 4th January 2003 04:54
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Yeah Joey had a hard time that day with the roller coasters.
Jlo forgot to mention his DF-phobia. Meaning he's scared of a certain friend named jason especially when he has a stick in hand and is smiling. Mwahahaha. One of my fears isn't really one of those listed, but I'm scared shitless of silence. When things get too quiet I get unreasonably nervous. -------------------- Okay, but there was a goat! |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 05:12
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I've got very few fears, as a matter of fact. Most of my friends think I'm perfectly crazy when it comes to taking risks involving their pet phobias, especially when it comes to height, which for some reason doesn't manage to affect me at all.
I have had a rather odd aversion to cameras, however, although it developed into more of an irritation than a fear over time. For some reason, taking good pictures is really hard for me. I always manage to blink or frown at the last minute, no matter how hard I try not to. -------------------- "I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking." ~Dorothy L. Sayers "The truly remarkable thing about television is that it allows several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely." ~T.S. Eliot "Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality - in your own mind!" ~ Bruce Lee |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 06:32
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Same here, SM. I love freaking out my teammates by hanging off a 30 foot bridge we always run across. The only fear I can think of for me is public speaking. This may explain my C in communications class this semester   .Oh, and horses. I HATE horses. I love most animals, but I go out of my way to avoid horses. -------------------- Hip-Hop QOTW: "Yeah, where I'ma start it at, look I'ma part of that Downtown Philly where it's realer than a heart attack It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack Now it's a body caught every night on the Almanac" "Game Theory" The Roots |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 16:30
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I don't really have fear of heights, spiders, public speaking, or anything really. Although, I'm not saying I'm a daredevil or anything like that; I rely on intellect to tell me what is or isn't dangerouse.
The only thing that gets me really frietened is to see other people in trouble, like someone leaning to far over a rail at a high hieght. Some how I ended up with some sort of misplaced "protective mother" gene  .Well.... maybe I am afraid of one thing... If it flys and has a stinger, bring in the fly swatter. |
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Posted: 4th January 2003 22:50
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The one that stands out is poloticophobia for me. I can't trust politicians anymore. With War, terrible economy and everything else. All this stuff has basically turned me off watching TV. I can't trust the Bush Administration, Nor can I trust that nutcase Saddam Hussien as for the Aussie Prime Minister, he's a goose plain and simple.
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Posted: 5th January 2003 07:19
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Same with me. I used to be badly afraid of heights, but not so much now. And I know what you mean with death and all. I've sat in my bed thinking of how many different ways I could die, and what other people would say, and what my funeral would be like, and if I will make it through my years, etc. I've also thought about what I would do if certain friends died. My other fear would be being alone(in a permanent sense). I would hate not being surrounded by friends or family. -------------------- The clouds ran away, opened up the sky And one by one I watched every constellation die And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star I should've known, walked all the way home To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone -Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You" |
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Posted: 5th January 2003 08:44
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Hmm, I didn't think about a fear of public speaking. It doesn't bother me too much anymore because I kinda have a funny reputation at school where I do most of my speeches so if I'm just myself it's not all that bad...but the funny thing is that I LOVE cameras. That probably explains all the weird pictures I like to take of myself and other things with the digital camera (pervert and die).
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Posted: 5th January 2003 09:28
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I have the following:
Acrophobia: Fear of Heights Arachnophobia: Fear of Spiders Phobophobia: Fear of Fear Itself -------------------- Nine-hundred ninety-nine billion nine-hundered ninety-nine million nine-hundred ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall... |
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Posted: 5th January 2003 18:21
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Hi! Did you all miss me? Probably not, but no matter. On to the topic!
I have no problems with spiders, or any other arachnid for that matter, but I just can't stand cocroaches. I know most people don't like them, but I simply can't stand them. And it's not all roaches, either. I used to volunteer at my local children's museum, where I would sometimes handle insects, and the big jungle roaches never bothered me. It's the small house roaches that freak me out.  I also hate clowns...  -------------------- *END TRANSMISSION* |
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Posted: 5th January 2003 19:38
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Same thing here man, I almost have a breakdown when things get too quiet. I swear to whomever, there _was_ something in my house that night three years ago... I also have a fear of clowns, and mimes. I don't know why, they just give me the F*'in creaps. |
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Posted: 8th January 2003 01:08
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is there a fear of driving a beast of a car in the winter and slipping on black ice and crashing and dying in a horrible fiery death trap of scrap metal and a sheeted coat of ice on the asphalt? because if there is, that's what i have. just my luck... winter and ice on the roads now
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Posted: 8th January 2003 01:31
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We'll call that "chessyphobia". lol, jk EDIT: I see spiders and heights are the majority here. -------------------- Nine-hundred ninety-nine billion nine-hundered ninety-nine million nine-hundred ninety-nine thousand nine-hundred ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall... |
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Posted: 13th January 2003 23:32
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Spiders and heights. Is laliophobia the fear of speaking in public, or fear of speaking at all?
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Posted: 28th January 2003 06:02
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I HATE spiders. they terrify me. i cant even think of one or see a picture without getting a chill down my back. remember that really really poorly crafted movie, arachnophobia with jeff daniels and john goodman? scared the hell outta me. yeah thats right, and thats gotta be one of the chessiest movies around. and that covers spiders.
theres another one. i dont have a fear of horses per se, other than that theyre stupid looking and smell like ass, but i have a crippling fear of going behind a horse and it deciding to kick me in the face. that must be unpleasant. -------------------- You watch the world exploding every single night Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death Hello to eternity and live for every breath Your time will come... |
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Posted: 28th January 2003 06:27
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I only have a fear of heights...I hate spiders, but I don't fear them, I just ignore them. SNAKES on the other hand...EWWWW
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Posted: 27th January 2005 04:33
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Please don't be angry at me for reviving this thread after 2 years but I thought it would be better than starting a new one that is exactly the same.
Anyway I suffer from Coulrophobia (the fear of clowns). I have feared them since I was 3 and I do to this day. |
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Posted: 27th January 2005 06:43
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I wouldn't be. I was suddenly reminded of an odd fear that I don't think I've mentioned yet. I'm scared of frogs. Had constant nightmares of 'em when I was a kid, and then my family moved to calavaras country, home of the jumping frog jubilee. I was forced to hear bullfrogs right out my window every night (which had to be kept open or I'd bake). To quote from a beautiful fanfic: fate was a Microsoft product back then.
I few years ago, I think I was twenty one, I saw a movie on tv called The Bear. This is a family flick along the lines of those old Disney nature movies from the sixties or so. Only this movie has a sequence involving a the titular bear having a nightmare about frogs. Twenty one folks and I only caught the last half minute or so of this nightmare sequence and I was short of breath and my spine was going apeshit. I unfortunately saw the whole thing when I was younger and I didn't sleep at all that night. Odd thing though. I'm not really afraid of the frogs. In fact I'd catch them all the time when I lived in the country. But the during the night, when they started croaking and I couldn't tell how far away they were.... :S That was the thing that always scared me pissless. That dambed croaking... This post has been edited by Narratorway on 28th January 2005 00:51 -------------------- |
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Posted: 27th January 2005 07:20
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I'm by no means tooting my own horn (and you'll find out why in a minute), but not a whole lot has ever really scared me. I kinda grew up as a morbidly ignorant tomboyish girl who'd gladly do things like stand and balance on a balcony rail five stories up just to say 'nah!' Yeah, I was pretty dumb. I always liked things like snakes and spiders for some reason, though.
Now, for what DOES scare me: Clowns  Ever since I was little it seemed like they had a vendetta against me. I'm like a clown magnet - I attract them somehow and it's downright terrifying. Those huge, honking noses and unicycles and tiny cars...*shudder* That's one of the few fears I'm not gonna even try to get over; why do something like that when I can just run for my life whenever Ringling Bros. comes by? I notice I'm not the only one who's horrified when they see those juggling freaks, so at least that makes it less embarrassing. And no offense to any clowns out there. You're just really, really creepy... However, just to add fuel to the fire, I've always had an irrational fear of balloons. Yeah, you read that right -- freakin' balloons. I don't mean the giant hot air variety, either. I'm talking about the small helium-filled ones. I honestly don't have a damn clue as to why, but I guess that's why it's irrational. All I know is from the first time I saw a balloon on a string, there was something about it that scared the crap outta me. After that I started popping every balloon I ever recieved, just to 'kill' it. I just get really uneasy around 'em. Stupid fear, I know. Even though clowns tend to carry around balloons, I'm almost positive that has nothing to do with it. -------------------- Words of Wisdom: If something can go wrong, it will. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong. - Murphy’s Law Boing! Zoom! - Mr. Saturn |
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Posted: 27th January 2005 08:33
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ARACHNAPHOBIA- AWESOME MOVIE.
Oh thats not what the topic was about?  http://www.phobialist.com/ All of the Above  Seriously. Dunno what its called or even classified as but Sitting or being really high up and looking up. I can look down or side to side but looking up makes my stomach revolt. Some form of Acrophobia I would imagine. Seriously. I'll squish all your spiders for you women. -------------------- If you've been mod-o-fied, It's an illusion, and you're in-between. Don't you be tarot-fied, It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean? ~Frank Zappa Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way |
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