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Hanners's's's's OCD/What are your phobias
tomart:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 21 Sep 2010, 18:42 --- bee nests (especially hornet paper nests).
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Wasp/hornet nests... As a kid on the farm, i got a few stings and once stumbled onto and disrupted a nest, whose occupants flowed right out and got me around the knee. That quick efficient liquid insect swarm flow still impresses gets me, if i see gnats or fruitflies swarm out of one little hole in a torrent... Or when my father would bring a smoking torch up to a vertical nest, watching them flow right down into the smoke was fascinating/horrifying.
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Ok, Carl and Tergon, you're right, I withdraw my story. But I'm still seriously creeped out by just thinking I'm close to an active nest.
zagraf:
Going through customs and immigration at the airport. Yes, this started many years before 9/11. No, it's never been because I was carrying, or otherwise doing, anything illegal. No, it's not fear of flying; once I'm through the gate, I'm all relaxed, and nothing whatsoever about the flight itself bothers me in the least. No, it's not a fear of authority figures in general (e.g. police officers). It's specifically the customs and immigration grunts. I had a bad early experience with one, even though I hadn't started out nervous; he was just being an asshole, and it's made me terrified of them ever since. I avoid flying because of it, and when I have to fly I make sure to take Valium or similar, enough in advance of arriving at the airport, so that I don't look or sound nervous. Works for me.
Moxie:
--- Quote from: Heliphyneau on 21 Sep 2010, 22:18 ---You mean House Centipedes, right? Unless you live somewhere tropical. Here's an explanatory link, but do NOT click it if you already know that this is the kind you mean -- there is a pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata Blarg.
I strongly dislike them as well, but ever since I found out that they eat other bugs, I have less of an urge to fumigate the entire house. I kind of take a "Enjoy whatever bug buffet you find as long as I never see you" approach to them. Fun fact: when you squish one of those things, the legs keep running, even when not attached to the body anymore.
*shudders*
By "fun," I apparently meant "horrific."
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I hate hate hate those things. The leg thing creeps me out to no end. Even knowing they eat other bugs, I want nothing to do with them. Any bug (or spider) I find in my house is dead. If they're outside, we're cool 'cause that's where they belong. But not in my house.
Other things I don't like/am afraid of: I hate being alone in my house at night. I hate horror/slasher/suspense movies. These things might be related.
jwhouk:
Mosquitoes.
What's worse, I work in the middle of a state forest.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: tomart on 22 Sep 2010, 15:51 ---As a kid on the farm, i got a few stings and once stumbled onto and disrupted a nest, whose occupants flowed right out and got me around the knee. That quick efficient liquid insect swarm flow still impresses gets me, if i see gnats or fruitflies swarm out of one little hole in a torrent... Or when my father would bring a smoking torch up to a vertical nest, watching them flow right down into the smoke was fascinating/horrifying.
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--- Quote from: zagraf on 22 Sep 2010, 18:18 ---...I had a bad early experience with one, even though I hadn't started out nervous; he was just being an asshole, and it's made me terrified of them ever since...
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OK, I just wanted to point out that, while early experiences can leave you with a conditioned negative response, and that's legitimte, it's not an actual phobia. Phobias are completely irrational, and usually not experience-based. My wife has a genuine snake phobia - can't even look at pictures of 'em. She will, if confronted with one, practically teleprt herself away from the area. Seems she's had this reaction since infancy, the first time she saw a snake she wasn't even a toddler, she was in a stroller and went hysterical immediately on sight. Never bitten, no bad experiences, just scared shitless of them.
Me, I got no phobias.
That I know of.
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