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"Phobias Anyone?"

Im scared of spiders. Really though. How pathetic is that? Ahhh well.
Its not my fault my house has the biggest spiders in the world living in it.

Anyhoo.
http://www.indianchild.com/phobias.htm

Find your Phobias and their scientific names and report back with your progress.

Spiders = Arachnophobia

Wet dreams = Oneirogmophobia

I'm done.
Yes I know you aint scared of nothing but you never know...

bathophobia

I hate washing, especially baths!

It's actually 'depth' which I suppose I can link to deep dark water. I hate deep water that you can't see the bottom of, you just don't know what's gonna be below you!

What else...

sophophobia - learning

And I'm scared of myself....

Philophobia

hehe, how can you be scared of love?!

Phronemophobia is the fear of thinking. Now don't get me wrong, but that word requires quite a bit of thinking so you can pronounce it properly doesn't it?

Bloody hell, no wonder you'd be scared of going to school, especially if you'd have to learn the correct phobia name, didaskaleinophobia!

I'm scared of being scared of something. - phobophobia
Fear of outer space took a lot of thinking didn't it?! - spacephobia

Spiders worry me greatly. If there a big fack off one in me room, it has to go before I go to sleep. I don't kill them, as I'd rather have them in my house than flies, but touching them is out of the question.

I was considering purchasing one of those big bird eating affairs in an effort to get rid of the phobia. hmmm

If I see a spider Im paranoid for about 3 days.

I, too, have a slight "fear" of spiders. Not the simple, tiny, harmless, fit-in-the-palm-of-your-hand ones; but whenever I see a big-off GIANT of a spider, I know it just has to go!

I remember when one of those was climbing down the wall from the ceiling as I was in the shower... Scared the heck of out me, when I noticed it, suddenly!! But, at least I got to drown it; around, and around, and around it went... :) But it didn't finally STAY down until the third or fourth attempt! Bloody things must have multiple lives or something - like cars... I flushed it down, and, a minute-later, it was crawling back up again!

I guess it's in the way they move or something... They don't walk "normally", like humans. It's more of a sinister, "Here's Johnny!!" kind of thing they do... :S


I'm have no "abnormal" phobias, though, I'm glad to say.
I do have a thing about really high heights, but I'm usually okay, so long as I have something to hold-on to. But it there's no bar or railing there, I just cannot look-down without it feeling like I'm starting to go-over...

Yeah, I'm the same. When they're big....they're bad.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- fear of long words

well i fear that word... well look at it

i have Arachnophobia

I'm scared of hard work, I'm a work-shy Fop.*

* = not actually true

I've also grown to "not like" cows, too.

Where I usually walk my dog, there used to be loads of them (before Foot and Mouth and all that). If I had to pass through a herd of them to get to the exit, the little ones would run to their parents, and then, all the big'uns would gang-up and start closing-in on me! One of them even got so-close, once, that he was sniffing my dog as we tried to walk briskly away!

They didn't stop until I got to the road - and the cattle-grid! :P :D

But, ever since incidents like that, where the nosey things just follow you all-the-way, I've never liked the idea of passing through a cow-filled field - even though I used to do it a lot when I was younger, and it was fine.


I've heard you should never run from a cow though, otherwise, they'll only chase you faster! :S :)

scared of cows? pffff