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I recently got over my fear of using a navigation system. People have been encouraging me to use them for years. I refused and used paper. Stupid and unsafe.
I watched the Uber driving a few times and decided to get a cell phone holder. I guess I was just ready. I have seen people use navigation devices before. Weird. Anyone wake up and get over a phobia?
I have several phobias that may be silly to other people (e.g. vomiting, highway driving, gynecologists) but they're very real to me and I haven't gotten over them.
That's interesting! I mean, I'm sorry you feel that way, but it is kinda interesting.
Are you saying you don't even like being around balloons because you fear them popping?
Yes, however I obviously can't always stay away from them like at New Year's Eve parties but I have hypersensitive hearing and hate being startled like when a balloon pops unexpectedly.
There's a huge difference between a full-blown phobia and Luddite-worthy skepticism.
Paper maps don't require batteries, a properly-functioning car, or a satellite signal in order to tell you something important. Even an outdated map can keep you from driving your car into a river unless you are completely daft...but that's another problem entirely.
I keep a road map atlas book in my car just for that reason.
It sure is. I didn't recognize the word "Trypophobia", but when I looked at the link, I recognized the problem. My adult daughter has the same thing. You ever look at the little round spores all over the back of fern leaves?
My kid is working on her doctorate, has lived in China, flew alone to Hong Kong in June to give a presentation in front of academics from all over the world, then went alone to a remote island in the Philippines for a week's vacation--but when she sees things like the spores on the back of a fern, she turns pale and starts hyperventilating. It's pretty weird, but it's real.
I have a phobia of standing at the edge of something, like a roof edge. My toes hurt as if I'm afraid of falling but if I grip tightly with my toes I won't fall. Even watching a movie with someone standing on an edge makes my toes hurt. Kind of weird, but there it is.
Yes, however I obviously can't always stay away from them like at New Year's Eve parties but I have hypersensitive hearing and hate being startled like when a balloon pops unexpectedly.
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It sure is. I didn't recognize the word "Trypophobia", but when I looked at the link, I recognized the problem. My adult daughter has the same thing. You ever look at the little round spores all over the back of fern leaves?
My kid is working on her doctorate, has lived in China, flew alone to Hong Kong in June to give a presentation in front of academics from all over the world, then went alone to a remote island in the Philippines for a week's vacation--but when she sees things like the spores on the back of a fern, she turns pale and starts hyperventilating. It's pretty weird, but it's real.
Yes, I didn't know it was "a thing" until a few years ago, but I knew I always had this severe aversion to stuff like that.
Anything that is round with a bunch of holes in the middle give me the creeps. There is a name for it but, I can't think of it. I can't look at a picture of a wasps nest without getting creeped out.
I don't like the open staircases, either. I always imagine walking down the stairs and someone grabbing my ankle and I go falling and tumbling down the stairs.
There's a phobia called "Arachibutyrophobia". It's the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. Here's a link explaining it: betterhelp.com/advice/phobias/arachibutyrophobia-when-food-causes-fear.
There's a phobia called "Arachibutyrophobia". It's the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. Here's a link explaining it: betterhelp.com/advice/phobias/arachibutyrophobia-when-food-causes-fear.
Are you just telling us that it exists or are you saying that you have it?
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