Originally Posted by scary_dream (Post 11565)

I was at a friend's house today, and a girl who was ill accidentally vomited outside near the door on the grass and I wouldn't even come in... I walked all the way around to the back door. There was no way I was coming near it :S It freaked me out.

Originally Posted by FailedShapeshifter (Post 40494)

Hmmmmm....I've got a wierd one too. Ever since I was little, I've had an irrational fear of the pink elephants from Dumbo. Even if I hear the song I have to leave, I don't know why but I just can't handle it. But, I found out recently I'm not alone! My friend has the same phobia!8D
In fact, a bunch of people I know have weird phobias.

1. A friend of mine has a fear of Chalk. Just Chalk, touching, looking at it....he starts freaking out and gets increadibly moody for the rest of the day.

2. Two of my friends are deathly afraid of balloons. I was nearly stabbed for accidently popping one! (I'm kidding)

3. A boy in my class is terrified of peguins.....so we don't get to watch Happy Feet:sadbendy:

Sorry I was too lazy to look up the proper names for these phobias:D

Originally Posted by koosie (Post 40499)

I take it you mean Penguins? Hence Happy Feet...Yes?
That's an impressive set of phobias there. Fortunately all 3 things can be avoided to some degree unless by a tragic coincidence No.3's parents were Antarctic explorers or something.
Is there any treatment available for these phobias? I'd hate to go through my life without ballooons and penguins. I'm pretty ambivalent about chalk to be honest.

Originally Posted by scary_dream (Post 7570)

I know! I swatted a wasp with my shoe once and it was really scary because I got its upper body but not its lower body, and its lower body swung around and stung my shoe six times!

I wouldn't really say I have a phobia of them, though... just vomit. I can't even watch vomit-related movie scenes without making a jerk of myself in the theater. I almost started crying in the movie Hostel because some of those scenes are pretty intense for an emetophobe!

Originally Posted by Contemporary (Post 40592)

Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.

That is the weirdest one yet because:

Your fear is the fear of fears, but you are in fear of the fear of these fears.

Anyone got a headache?

Originally Posted by jekylljuice (Post 40595)

Well, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

Octophobia is certainly an interesting one, much more so than the vexingly rampant Triskaidekaphobia, which I've never understood myself. I think that 13 is quite a charming little number. For the record, I used locker number 13 when I did the Sydney Bridge climb three years ago, and I didn't go hurtling to my death (that poor locker just looked so lonely and left out, with all its surrounding companions taken :'( ).

I've always been bemused by those buildings which try not to acknowledge the existence of the number 13 but going straight from floor 12 to floor 14. Call it what you want, but you can't change the fact that it is actually the thirteenth floor you're walking on.