Best Posts: do you remember when you gave birth to your phobias?

  1. Immy
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    Immy yikes

    Jan 8, 2016
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    I remember when I got a fear of trypophobia @Tonshor posted in a thread
     
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  2. kidkuro
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    kidkuro local black man

    Jan 7, 2016
    Ever since that Minnesota bridge collapse back in 2007 I've had this fear of bridges. Gephyrophobia is what it's called. Actually surprised it is known enough to get a name. But anyway I start panicking whenever I am travelling on a bridge for an extended period of time. And when it's over water? :hovcry:

    Remember my vacation to Virginia Beach having to go take the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. s--- was a nightmare.
     
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  3. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Jan 7, 2016
    My phobia of birds happened because I was a little b---- and got startled when a baby chick was flapping about in the palm of my hands.

    I cannot shake this phobia ever since. :mjcry:
     
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  4. Ordinary Joel
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    Ordinary Joel Happiness begins when selfishness ends

    Jan 8, 2016
    A big f--- you is in order for @Tonshor. :comeon:
     
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  5. CODEiNE DEMON
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    CODEiNE DEMON One foot stuck in the tarpit of my ways

    Jan 8, 2016
    Sirens.

    When I was a kid and my parents would watch scary movies, they'd make me stay in my room, but naturally I'd have to come out to use the restroom and whatnot. The way our house is set up, the living room is connected to a hallway by the front door entrance, and my room was at the side of the hallway right next to the entrance, so I could see partially into the living room. One time while my parents were watching one of the Silent Hill movies, I pretended to go to the restroom and hid in the entryway, interested because I knew Silent Hill was a video game and it blew my mind that they made movie adaptations of that s---. So I happen to see one of the parts that isn't all that scary or tense, and when my parents go to bed later that night I ejected the dvd and took it in my room to watch on the PS2.

    So I'm like eight or nine and I'd never seen a scary movie before and our house itself still spooked tf outta me because we had just moved out of our apartment recently. I pop it in and start watching. Granted, Silent Hill isn't a particularly scary or good movie looking back on it, but at the time I was petrified. I remember all the freaky s--- would happen when the sirens went off in the movie, so I equated sirens with mind-bending horror.

    Lucky for young me, La Porte is essentially one big chemical plant with neighborhoods scattered between, and they do test runs every weekend (and have REAL accidents every now and then too.) So every weekend when I was out playing, around noon I'd f---ing dip and chill in my house because I thought some crazy s--- was gonna happen to me when those sirens started wailing.
     
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  6. rapmusik
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    Jan 8, 2016
    @Tonshor you b---- my hand legitimately aches now
     
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  7. Immy
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    Jan 8, 2016
    mate.. i legit feel sick rn, I didnt even know what that was but now Boy i got a new phobia
     
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  8. Mimi
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    Mimi the art of doing nothing

    Jan 8, 2016
    This but for spiders

    Oh god, trypophobic. Some things I'm okay with, like speakers... but even just typing about it now the thought of it is giving me the shivers and itches. uuuughghgh
     
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