I’m terrified of cockroaches, probably well beyond the normal disgust, and growing up around flying ones didn’t help. I hate to even hear the name!
My first house was older and I’m guessing not well sealed. I had pest control on speed dial if I saw one, but thankfully they were few and far between, with a few exceptions. I once walked in to see one crawling on my toilet seat and I know it was wasteful but I could not bring myself to ever sit on it again. I used the guest bathroom until I finally broke down and replaced the seat. In my brain it was like it was forever one with the thing that shall not be named.
Same fear. I can't even handle seeing them after they've been killed.
My other irrational fear is flipping my head over to scrunch or blow dry it and hitting my head on a countertop. I will stand as far away from any surface that the cord will allow.
I also have a fear of getting a paper cut in my eye.
Flying off the freeway when driving on tall connectors.
I do it because I have to but I get sweaty palms every time. Completely irrational!
This plus also high bridges. I used to have to take the super high bridge over la out which was under construction. So lots of weird lane maneuvering plus the semis picking up cargo joining mid bridge. It got to the point is go miles out of my way to avoid it.
Post by basilosaurus on Sept 1, 2023 5:19:16 GMT -5
When I was in 2nd grade my teacher (you might remember he from washing my hair in the back sink and face because there was gel and sleep) drew in the chalkboard a stick figure hanging off a drawbridge.
Now this didn't affect me at the time. There were a shitton where I grew up and it was just normal to cross daily. But I had so many nightmares to this day about this. It takes many forms, and since they're nightmares I count it as irrational
Someone breaking into my (locked) house and stealing my babies while I sleep. They're 5 and 12 and the fear is less, but not completely gone.
In hindsight, I think I had some form of postpartum OCD, not PPA/PPD. It was really intense but totes fine according to every doctor I saw.
We lived in Somerville, MA until DS WAS 3 and everything was fine. Houses were practically on top of each other, very densely populated. When we moved to the suburbs, this became a big fear of mine. I started using the baby monitor again and I put his toy box and little bookshelf in front of the windows in his room and those little window alarms on the windows. It was like that until he was about 7.
Post by chickadee77 on Sept 1, 2023 8:19:35 GMT -5
Add me to the trypophobia pile. I think it's related: I can't look at things like swarms or groups of things (like multiple water droplets resting on a surface) without feeling ill.
Balloons. I've gotten better about them, but don't want them near me.
Flying off the freeway when driving on tall connectors.
I do it because I have to but I get sweaty palms every time. Completely irrational!
The 59 flyover?
ALL of them, lol! That one is a death trap though and I won’t do it. I mostly use the ones of Beltway 8 but why are they so high?! Especially by Memorial City. It’s just not necessary. The ones in Austin are even worse though!
White utility vans. The kind with no windows in the back. But only white, really. If it's another color I don't think about it that much but a white one? I won't park by it or walk by it. No way.
Your standard issue kidnapper van from my 80’s childhood. I still remember when I learned to drive being told to never park next to a vehicle you can’t see into. I still won’t to this day- no sliding doors that can open and pull me in when I enter/exit my vehicle.
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I’m ridiculously and irrationally afraid of anything that stings. Bees, wasps, hornets, all of them. Here’s the irrational part. I’ve never been stung (knock wood) so my body hasn’t had a chance to build up tolerance. I’m convinced that because of that, should I be stung, I could die from it. I know it’s irrational and yet…
Side note, I keep eyeing references to this and I have no idea what I missed. Even googling for news article I didn’t find anything that seemed unusual.
Honestly, I've seen all these points and none seem particularly shocking, unless you really want to read a lot into them.
"Government has UAPs" Of course the government has UFOs. Any country with any interest in counteracting espionage would collect unfamiliar flying things to learn about the capabilities of others.
"Government has recovered non-human biologics" Another of course. Every space shuttle we send up is full of non-human biologics - mold experiments, fruit fly experiments. Every international plane flight has pets, plants, a rouge fly or spider. We tried/almost sent bats to Japan during WWII. That plane was full of non human biologics. Almost all biology is non-human and it's everywhere.
The reporting process isn't transparent? What about espionage and counter espionage is?
People are silent about things that are stigmatized? Has anyone ever gone to high school or held a job?
Strange readings and sightings - this isn't new news.
I'm someone who believes not all life/evidence of life in the universe is on our planet nor sent out by humans. But that leaves so many things possible that are nothing like the "aliens" of everyone's fear. An asteroid with intergalactic mold spores? Sure, I'll buy it. "The government is hiding decades of evidence of aliens out joyriding and crashing into the earth? Not so much.