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 ’80s who saw the movie Child’s 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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Islaamaphobia is not on the list.
Homophobia and Islamophobia didn’t make the cut? What’s this world coming to? This list is “rasis”! Harumpf! Harumpf!
Well DUH! The article is about irrational fears.
Meh, I’m islamonauseous.
2. Depends on the spider.
3. I can’t stand small spaces.
7. Public speaking is absolutely terrible. I would rather chew glass every day until I die than do public speaking.
8. Clowns and mimes are sent from Hell to destroy us all.
10. Depends on the bug.
They could not put Islamophobia on the list, because they really are trying to get ya, so it is disqualified as a phobia, same as Obamaphobia. And if you are a Christian, Homophobia goes out the window.
Hard to do a decent poll in a PC world.
LOL! Yes, that’s true. Although fear of bugs, to me, is NOT irrational.
Obamaphobia: The distrust of EVERYTHING that eminates out of O’Venal’s mouth!
This condition is NOT an irrational fear, IT IS COMMON SENSE!
(This condition is closely related to Trudeauphobia in Kanada)
Let us not forget the irrational Transphobia.
With all the millions of transgenders running around now I’m guessing transvestite phobia is probably included in the generic “transphobia.”
GMTA
I have a daughter-in-law who cannot watch a spider on t.v. or even look at a spider without panicking.
I have found that as I got older I became claustrophobic, I had worked many times in very tight quarters inside and under buildings, but two years ago when they slid me into a small MRI unit I broke out in a sweat and had to hit the panic button. Likewise with heights, after suffering severe hearing loss I found my sense of balance affected to the point that even being up a six foot ladder difficult. Are these irrational fears? Like you, not to me.
Apeirophobia - The fear of infinity.
Hoplophobia. The pResident has it.
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