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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What do you call the fear of a President H.Clinton?
“My own phobia is paperwork. Filling out forms. Chartouraphobia.”
As a salesman, I had a real phobia about the expense report paperwork. I think it’s called “acountability”. :)
I was in class not too long back and we had to do introductions. I told the teacher I would rather be boiled alive than to speak in front of people. One on one, I’m fine. I used to be really shy. I’ve gotten over that to a great degree, but never my fear of public speaking. I guess I should try to conquer it sometime in my life. So I hear ya on rather chewing on glass than public speaking.
I don’t see that fear of deep water is irrational.
If you can’t swim, you drown.
That’s kind of a legitimate concern.
I’m not a fan of snakes, but not terribly phobic of them. I used to be more so when a child. I don’t mind spiders...I never kill them. Wouldn’t want one crawling on me, but okay to share my surroundings with them. I do have a fear of water. Not so much so that I couldn’t go swimming, but drowning frightens me. Heights frighten me, but I’ve gotten better over the years living in CO since 1975 and travelling to Utah many times. Still not a fan, but better. Public speaking would probably be my #1 fear on there.
I can do well one-on-one, too. I’ve considered taking public speaking classes, but I now that it would stress me out so much and I would fail. Not worth the effort or stress.
To me the fears that involve a legitimate danger to life and limb are not irrational.
Fear of heights qualifies in my book.
We have a thing here in Denver called Colorado Free University (not totally free...just a small amount of money for classes on a specific topic). I think they have public speaking type courses. I’ve considered it, but it truly is a huge fear of mine. I understand totally what you are saying. I admire so much people that can get up there and do it and especially those that can do it well. Some people have that gift innately. Some people can learn it.
And I fit into neither category. :) It’s fine though. I am better at communicating through the written word, and believe that I have a knack for it.
lol...I do better in that realm, too.
Imagine facing your greatest fear several times a day and always having the same nightmare of that fear every time you go to sleep. Would you sleep? Would you go out the door? That is a little bit of what it is like to have PTSD.
chiggers and ticks give me more problems than insects.
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I live and learn. I thought chiggers and tics were insects, so I looked it up, turns out the little pests have eight legs, not six.
My fear of being in the passenger seat while a teenaged boy drives is entirely rational.
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I’ve lived through that with 2 boys and 2 girls, I currently have a 15 year old son and 17 year old daughter to go.
One learns what “having knots in one’s stomach” really means.
Mobs are just crowds moving in the same direction, and not necessarily for a rational purpose.
I’ve trained four teen drivers and have six more to go. I may not live that long!
Clownophobia is quite common.
Lesser known is Glossophobia - fear of public speaking, or just fear of the tongue.
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DOCTOR: ..The tongue.. yes, the tongue.. or, in medical terms, the glossa. It’s a muscular organ.. Consists of two parts.. the body, and the root.. You see, it’s covered by this mucous membrane.. These little raised projections are the papillae, which give it that furry appearance. Very tactile..
(The Doctor is still holding her tongue)
ELAINE: Uh-huh.
Forgot the rest:
ELAINE: Well, I should get going.. (The Doctor leans in for a kiss. Elaine stops him) What are you doing?
DOCTOR: I was going to kiss you good night.
ELAINE: A kiss? With the tongue? The glossa with the bumps and the papillae? ..Yech, I don’t think so. (Leaves)
I recall being full boom up on a 110 ft. aerial ladder fully extended when a younger man in a 10 mph wind, enjoying the view and the sway (a lot more than the operator of the ladder truck, who was worried about ripping the bed out of the truck). It didn’t bother me. Now, I am more conscious of how far down it is...
I don’t mind spiders...I never kill them. Wouldn’t want one crawling on me, but okay to share my surroundings with them.
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It’s a good thing you don’t mind sharing your space with them. I’ve read that if you live in North America, you’re never more than 6 feet from a spider.
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