Poll of the Day > Did you have any irrational fears when you were a kid?

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For some reason I was afraid of chicken / turkey legs.

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Planes flying directly over my head, specifically the lower-flying ones (we lived near an airport so they were abundant). I'd have to hide beneath something, typically the eaves of roofs, to break the line of sight as they passed overhead.

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thought the loch ness monster lived in toilets and was going to bite me in the butt when i let my guard down

it was a very specific, very real fear i had

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Every time Id hear a loud plane overhead
id kinda think that it was gonna drop nukes and wed all be vaporized instantly

by the way does anyone remember how much louder just regular planes were back in the day? Its like theyve become way quieter but almost nobody has noticed

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My kindergarten teacher told me that you can die if you lose enough blood but didn't specify quantities and so every time I skinned my knee I thought I was gonna bleed out

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None that I can think of, all my fears were common fears, such as heights and death

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No! I ain't never been scared of nothing! I'm a Big Boy!

A ton? Not a lot I can think of offhand.

I was scared of pulling the plug out of the bathtub while I was still in the bathtub.


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Synthesizer music. It made me uncomfortable. Some of it still sorta does. I've never liked sloths either. Which is ironic because they are so easy to outrun.

The thought of a toilet clogging (or especially overflowing) was horrifying to me. Any time I took a huge shit I was genuinely worried it wasn't going to go down.

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Mead posted...

by the way does anyone remember how much louder just regular planes were back in the day? Its like theyve become way quieter but almost nobody has noticed

You know what? I do, never even thought about that, like before you didn't have to see an airplane, you heard its ass coming, but now it pretty much has to be low or you see it in the sky.

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Still afraid of heights. Except when Im standing in the back of our big GMC pickup, then for some reason Im not scared at all. I hate ladders and chairs though.

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Nope.


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I think I had normal fears and stuff most of the time. Though, one time, I did think there was a bear in my room, and thats why I was suppose to stay in my bed (top bunk)...
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Didn't want to be too close to riding lawn mowers as a kid.Metalsonic66 posted...

My kindergarten teacher told me that you can die if you lose enough blood but didn't specify quantities and so every time I skinned my knee I thought I was gonna bleed out

Along those same lines I remember being told you can't drink salt water or it will kill you. This was in reference to a survival at sea scenario in some book or movie. My dumb child brain took this to mean water with salt with it is poisonous, and drinking some will kill you.

Was afraid to go too close to a running lawn mower as a kid.
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Zareth posted...

Did you have any irrational fears when you were a kid?

Yes and I still do now. My fears:

• Heights
• Death
• Stepping stones

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I was afraid if i covered my face for too long my pores wouldn't be able to breathe and i'd die

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Hmm. Gotta say the fear of the grim reaper being late. I mean something that should have killed me but for some reason did not and now I am gonna suffer on the verge of death til either I get better or the grim reaper finishes snapping the necks on his animal crackers snack box and comes for me.

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I was afraid of a nuclear explosion because I lived near the Hanford nuclear site in WA and I saw that movie Terminator 2 and there was a book about nuclear war in the local library.

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Escalators

I fell on one once

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Ever since I was five watching Ninja Scroll, I thought someone would slit my throat. It was just horrifying to see.

To this day, I don't let anyone touch my throat in any capacity, even my kids. Like, I will wig the fuck out

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EvilMegas posted...

Ever since I was five watching Ninja Scroll, I thought someone would slit my throat. It was just horrifying to see.

To this day, I don't let anyone touch my throat in any capacity, even my kids. Like, I will wig the fuck out

dude, who the heck let a five year old watch that

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I watched a ton of scary movies when I was a kid. My older cousins would always sneak me in to see Jason and shit lol

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I was terrified of E.T.

His fingers are the reason I still don't like breakfast sausage

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EvilMegas posted...

Ever since I was five watching Ninja Scroll, I thought someone would slit my throat. It was just horrifying to see.

To this day, I don't let anyone touch my throat in any capacity, even my kids. Like, I will wig the fuck out

I dunno if thats your take away fear y yo u got off easy. Think about all the girls and the vampiric toungue scene

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Putting anything electrical anywhere near water. I think I saw a movie where someone dropped a toaster into a bath tub and even now I won't use the sink outlet to charge my phone.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Escalators

I fell on one once

Oh yeah I remember seeing a dramatization of a kid being caught in an escalator and it scared the shit out of me for a while

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wwinterj25 posted...

Yes and I still do now. My fears:
* Heights
* Death
* Stepping stones

I feel like those first 2 are pretty common and not really irrational

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Escalators

I fell on one once

I apologize for laughing out loud when I read this post

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It took forever!

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No.

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Of course, you shot out the womb a chakra master

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Zareth posted...

Of course, you shot out the womb a chakra master

Highly likely. But still, I've always been a positive person.

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Muscles posted...

I feel like those first 2 are pretty common and not really irrational

I was thinking the same exact thing.
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In retrospect, I think some of my "fears" may have actually been my autistic baby brain reacting poorly to certain stimuli. I was terrified of car wash tunnels as a kid, and putting my face underwater (even just under shower spray, no joke) would make me scream; I never really learned how to swim effectively because I never fully got over that. I think one of my sisters figured out that I was afraid of getting anything in my eyes, so I'd stuff a washcloth in front of my eyes whenever I had to wash my hair/face to stop the distress.

I was scared of heights and clowns (typical), but I loved movies like the Terminator and Aliens when I was teeny (fuck knows why my parents let me watch those movies... even let me watch Aeon Flux, wtf were they thinking?) and they didn't scare me; I told my parents I wanted to be a ternimator when I grew up. Darkness didn't really scare me, but I had hideous nightmares even as a very small child about people being murdered/our house being attacked.

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Oh, I also wouldn't watch live action movies until I turned 12 or something.

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Nope, can't say I had any or have any now

Fear itself

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