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Post by pennmom on Jun 6, 2021 14:13:52 GMT
What do you fear that people would consider irrational?
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Post by moni on Jun 6, 2021 20:21:24 GMT
When I was I child, my mother tried to keep me away from doing certain things by scaring me to death... like, if you stick your head out of the train window, the windy draft will disfigure your face, or if you stand in a cold water you will get urinary tract infection, if you listen to loud music you'll get ear infection... etc. I was always gullible, I believed everything my mom told me, so I grew up with these fears. I hate wind - I get sinus infection from it, I cannot stand in any water, not just cold without having the urge to run to pee, and every time I listen to music with headphone, my ear gets infected... and there are many of these. They all became so deeply seated in my beliefs, that they became phobias, and if I find myself that I cannot avoid them, I get literally sick. Parents should know, how badly they can alter a child's core beliefs which will be carried over their whole life, distorting normal activities to be considered dangerous.
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Post by pennmom on Jun 6, 2021 22:45:49 GMT
I just have an irrational fear of Wolf spiders, to me they are like fast-moving zombies and no one likes fast-moving zombies it's irrational! I can hold a tarantula (owned a couple of pet stores) I can hold a snake, pet rats are cool, mice don't bother me but if I see a wolf spider I'll mow anyone over who gets in my way
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Post by pennmom on Sept 29, 2021 11:53:24 GMT
MOVE TO ANOTHER HOUSE IT'S NOT WORTH IT DUDE!
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Post by charlene on Sept 29, 2021 21:14:40 GMT
Well, I know what I will have a nightmare about tonight!!!
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Post by SynthpopAddict on Sept 30, 2021 15:26:20 GMT
Falling. Not heights, but falling.
P.S. - That guy's pet tarantula escaped?
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Post by charlene on Sept 30, 2021 22:04:25 GMT
Another bug I always jump out of the way - usually through a window - are wetas. There are giant wetas in the South Island. In a place I used to rent, we were plagued by them. As they are a protected species, we aren't allowed to kill them. They aren't afraid of anything except fire. Ugly and prehistoric looking. YUCK
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Post by pennmom on Oct 5, 2021 16:57:22 GMT
Let's have some fun and post GIFs portraying irrational fears...the funnier the better!
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Post by joybelle on Oct 6, 2021 5:24:46 GMT
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Post by pennmom on Oct 6, 2021 14:11:00 GMT
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Post by pennmom on Oct 7, 2021 16:47:12 GMT
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Post by moni on Oct 17, 2021 5:19:41 GMT
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Post by pennmom on Oct 17, 2021 13:56:58 GMT
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Post by patches on Oct 20, 2021 16:15:46 GMT
I wouldn't say scared of, grosses me out is more like it, maybe startled a bit. That would be the 'Cave Cricket'. They come in all shapes, colors and sizes. They are basically blind except for seeing shadows. They are fast and when feeling threatened they jump at their attacker. It's not so easy to kill one of these things not only because they are fast but I hit one of them with a shoe and it looked flat liked I killed it but it was just stunned. Went to other room to get paper towel to throw it away and the darn thing was walking away when I got back, so gave it another 3 or 4 whacks this time, luckily it was still stunned enough to do so and I didn't look like the ragging idiot I usually do with chasing one of these things all around the house. The thing is when you see one in your house you know there are dozens more hiding out, especially if you have a basement or attic. The thing that freaks me out about 'Cave Crickets' is they are so fast and when you go to whack one before the shoe or what ever is half way to the floor it has jumped at you or on you, just gross.  |
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Post by pennmom on Nov 27, 2021 22:06:28 GMT
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Post by moni on Dec 13, 2021 14:52:59 GMT
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Post by joybelle on Dec 14, 2021 1:34:21 GMT
NOOOOOOOO!!!! moni ,spiders are not cute  !!! I recently had an event at my house where wasps got into the walls...and when their offspring hatched...EVERY SPIDER...ran..ran...ran..into my HOUSE!! They were coming from EVERYWHERE. It was a nightmare! My pic of 'my irrational fear'...came true!! We have now..two weeks later..reached another understanding of the territory boundries...and who lives in which spots . (I still dont enter a room without a full head scan...  )   |
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Post by sisinka on Dec 23, 2021 18:02:15 GMT
This thread is impossible to view normally, there are those nasty spiders everywhere.
The answer? Spiders!
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