Posted on 12/05/2015 11:38:53 AM PST by Graybeard58
1. Acrophobia (heights) 2. Arachnophobia (spiders) 3. Claustrophobia (enclosed spaces) 4. Ophidiophobia (snakes) 5. Thalassophobia (deep water) 6. Necrophobia (death) 7. Glossophobia (public speaking) 8. Coulrophobia (clowns) 9. Trypanophobia (needles) 10. Entomophobia (insects)
Other phobias ranked on the list are a bit more out of the ordinary. Trypophobia, the fear of objects with irregular patterns of holes, came in eleventh, while lepidopterophobia, the fear of butterflies, ranked 18th. Perhaps the most meta of phobias, phobophobia, the fear of being struck by your fear in a totally unsuitable moment, hits the list at number 26, and pediophobia, a fear of dolls that is just plain logical to children of the â80s who saw the movie Childâs Play at much too young an age, came in at number 28. Last on the list, at number 42, is the ironically multisyllabic fear of long words, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. (We did not make this up. hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is not only a real word, but also a truly delightful song.)
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1. Acrophobia (heights) 3. Claustrophobia (enclosed spaces) 5. Thalassophobia (deep water) 7. Glossophobia (public speaking)
Add to that, my real number 1. Birds, 2. Fire, 3. Crowds.
Obviously, I’m a mess.
I’m not afraid of heights. I’m not even afraid of falling. I’m afraid of hitting the ground.
Hoplophobia — fear of weapons, especially guns.
Far Side: Running around table wearing socks on a freshly waxed floor
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Do women still wax floors?
Necrophobia (death)
And yet they list the fear of death. If that’s irrational -—
As they say, it isn’t the fall, it’s the sudden stop.
I suffer from Islamomisia and homomisia. A revulsion, not fear of both.
I have a simalar issue with heights. In my youth, I ignorantly walked I-beams without fall protection, wet rubber boots and arms full of tools and all. No fear. I almost fell a couple times too. I was young and stupid for sure. Today, heights makes my knees weak and certain parts tingle. I can do 8 foot ladders and the roof. But I can’t get near an edge. I don’t think that qualifies as a phobia though.
Niether is Gunophobia.
Some fears are not irrational. In fact it would be irrational to not fear, in some cases.
I have a similar issue with heights.,,,I worked high steel as a kid, went Airborne and nowadays (I’m 65 yrs. old) I stand at the bar because a barstool is too high for me.
1. Acrophobia (heights)
Bothers me more now that I am older. When I was a 10 year old kid I fell 30 or 40 feet from a tree. No biggie. But now going over the Rt. 301 bridge across the Potomac river concerns me. Maybe because it’s a 2-lane undivided bridge and there are tractor trailers and low guard rails.
2. Arachnophobia (spiders)
Love spiders. Suddenly discovering a huge wolf spider inches in front of one’s face in the garage is invigorating.
3. Claustrophobia (enclosed spaces)
No problem. Space is limited, I’m small. I used to crawl through long storm drains as a kid, or hide in them.
4. Ophidiophobia (snakes)
Cool as long as I know what they are.
5. Thalassophobia (deep water)
Even a bathtub is dangerously deep. Seriously deep and cold water is a blessing.
6. Necrophobia (death)
As long as it’s someone else it doesn’t scare me.
7. Glossophobia (public speaking)
I hated it as a kid. But I became a salesman, so I got used to it. Sales bonuses helped.
8. Coulrophobia (clowns)
Obama freaks me out.
9. Trypanophobia (needles)
My wife sews. Found one in a bathroom towel and another on the carpet. Just a household hazard. As for medical needles, not a problem.
10. Entomophobia (insects)
Like ‘em. Or quite a few. Though getting bit by 30 mosquitoes in an evening isn’t my idea of fun. Arachnids like chiggers and ticks give me more problems than insects.
I worked construction and my friend, also my boss, thought it was hilarious to rock our scissor lift when we were 25 ft in the air, that was bad enough but 50 ft. up in a boom lift in steady wind was the last time I would go up over twenty.
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#s 3, 7 and 9.
I wigged out under a beach house in Newport beach California running wire and such I had to serpentine around various footings man my heart is racing just thinking about it it sucked being the thin dude on the jobsite oh yeah you could feel the waves crashing down there the wedge was running 15 to 20 feet that day
only if all the samichs are made on time
No, you obviously do not have irrational fears. Your health has affected how you observe reality. All of these fears, actually, are based on the human impulse of self-preservation.
Cacomorphobia:
Fear of Fat People (in my case, sitting on you)
Of course, I’m SKINNY!
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