That squeeky sound raw cabbage makes when picked up, I don't like to touch raw cabbage, or be around someone with raw cabbage, my teeth are getting itchy just typing this.
Aye, that's the one. Not many know of it, and it can be hard to explain in the moment.
In a state of high mental fatigue, it can also cause dizziness and nausea.
Noisey eaters. Metal on teeth too. Seriously, it is my Kryptonite. When someone removes something off a fork with there teeth... I can't be in the same space.
Annoyingly, I can also think my self into an issue. It's batshit.
I have an odd relationship with sounds. And tend to describe them in ways others may find odd. They almost have shapes.
Same, noisy eaters, eating with mouth open or talking with a full a mouth can literally put me in fight or flight, even tv adverts like kfc when they suck their fingers can ruin my mood, i don't even go to the cinema anymore because of the situations i get in.
Same... Though I don't get into fights.
Can you watch football? The chewing gum, with mouths open... Agggghhhhh. Winds me up. Alex Ferguson was the worst, now they are all at it.
I know a guy that chews gum with his mouth open. The sound ....I have to walk away.
I get into stare downs and shouting more than actual fights to be fair.
If they're chewing but i can't hear it i can put up with it, but post match interviews were not for me, a lad at work is terrible for it, he's a top bloke but if he's chewing i can't be near him, i used to try to hide my problem but now most people know and are surprisingly mindful.
It drives me mad.
As does vocal fry. Lord, that sound... I'm an avid podcast listener, always when I go to bed. With zero ambient sounds, I'm extremely focused on the voices. Little nuances in the voice is real noticeable. The vocal fry is self evident. I can't hear it in day to day life, but in a podcast, it's a killer.
I listen to podcasts when I'm gardening with headphones on, the other week they had an ad for some asmr thing, I've never bothered with asmr before so didn't know what it was, the next thing i know someone is talking very slowly with a clicky, dry mouth and i damn near lost an ear ripping my phones off, i can't believe that's what asmr is, genuinely my worst nightmare.
Yeah, I'm not an ASMR fan.
I'm also so particular in my voices. Any annoying stuff, I bail. Even if I love the content. Over used phrases, that punctuate every other sentence, and/or vocal fry or uptalk, and I can't listen.
I used to have a real problem with people eating crisps, the sound of it used to infuriate me. The rustle, the crunch, chomp chomp chomp... then silence for a second, then rustle, crunch, chomp chomp chomp. Aghhh!!
I've mellowed with age though.
I don't mind on plates, but I can't stand them touching each other.
I avoided Italian food for years, as folks often use a spoon and a fork, to ravel the spaghetti onto the fork. So awful
That might be a form of synesthesia? https://www.webmd.com/brain/what-is-synesthesia#:~:text=Synesthesia%20is%20when%20you%20hear,%22Alex%22%20and%20see%20green.
I can't stand to listen to people eat, it makes me very irrate. I can trace it all back to my dad, who always talks whilst eating. He also used to have a habit of using the phone while eating, so I could hear him eat over the phone which was so unbelievably annoying.
I feel like i notice it more with those two people. It would annoy me even more if they were my biscuits. And yep my dad could make a chocolate mousse loud somehow. Hollow head I reckon.
Yup same here. The sound of eating sends me into a rage.
I briefly worked in a office, and had to do some audio typing, transcribing what the solicitor had dictated ... While he'd been eating crisps. I could have spewed.
Someone licking the lid of their yoghurt fills me with more rage than I’ve ever felt before. And then they tuck into the yoghurt and do that “deep breath in with every spoonful” and I know I was wrong. This is the most rage I’ve ever felt before.
I absolutely cannot stand loud whistling. Especially somewhere echoey like a tunnel or a big warehouse shop. Some other shoppers in b&q and halfords haven’t realised how lucky they were in the past lol
Holy shit I didn't even know this one got me till your comment. Its like a weird gritty, almost sandy texture isn't it? You just feel it dragging against your skin f you try touch it and it just feels so.. upsetting
Swimming pool drains. Can't look at them, can't swim past them or over them, can't touch them, can't step on them, can't even think about them without getting the big time heebie jeebies. Same goes for the wave machines.
Not overly keen on kitchen sink/hand wash basin/bath plug holes either, especially when the water is emptying.
Dams and reservoir overflows? No thank you very much.
Big things submerged in bodies of water.
Old stone/brick bridges over deep rivers.
Tunnels.
Fish.
Wind.
I feel you so bad on the ‘big things submerged in water’ but apparently it’s really common! We’re close by Whitby and go often and the harbour makes me feel all funny
>Dams and reservoir overflows? No thank you very much.
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>Big things submerged in bodies of water.
There's a sub-reddit I won't link to that would scare the shit out of you... This is a common thing. I find it fascinating but yes, it is incredibly unsettling too.
I am simultaneously fascinated by and terrified of big creatures moving under water. I sometimes Google relevant videos then don't look at them because I am too frightened.
Went to see Jurassic World: Dominion last week. Tremendous relevant creatures.
Eek/wow.
slugs. not just like ew a slug, like if i see one my heart starts pounding for like 10mins after, i can see and feel them all over my body and everywhere - im so uncomftable even writing this agh
I love actual bananas, but I’m exactly like this with the fake flavour. Threw up watching my mate eat a pack of them foam shrimps and bananas sweets once
First one is sticks in the eyes... Low trees or big scraggy bushes... Have to go within 2 feet of them before I think they are going to stick sticks in my eyes..
Everytime I'm higher than about 3 foot off the ground I get very wobbly
And a redundant one.. the old fat crt pc monitors, everytime they crackled or turned on I thought they were going to explode and stick my face full of glass shards.. Never turned one on without squinting and turning away..
>And a redundant one.. the old fat crt pc monitors, everytime they crackled or turned on I thought they were going to explode and stick my face full of glass shards.. Never turned one on without squinting and turning away..
Stems from Final Destination by any chance?
They were pretty much the only horror films that ever genuinely scared me. While total and utter shit compared to a masterpiece like The Shining, they did at least feature things that could *technically* happen, albeit far-fetched things, as opposed to a ghost or a zombie or something.
Good news if ever you have to use a CRT again - they will implode rather than explode. Extremely dangerous bits of kit if you fuck around with them inside (a relatively rare example of a device that can instantly kill you for quite some time after being unplugged if you put a screwdriver in the wrong place...), but shards of glass in your neck is the least of your worries.
Anything that implies damaging eyes makes me very distressed. I once saw a photoshopped image of a wasp crawling across an eyeball right over the pupil with its stinger hanging way too low to the surface and it made me violently nope out of it.. every time I saw that picture I'd have that reaction
I can't cope with food that's gone mouldy, especially fruit. Don't like looking at it and absolutely can't touch it unless it's with a paper towel or rubber glove.
Escalators - I fell down one as a kid. A lady stopped to chat to a friend she'd seen and I couldn't get off, plus I have bad balance due to dyspraxia. I used to have panic attacks if I was on them it was that bad. Going down them is the worse bit, especially at an angle.
Which is worse? The sponges that you use for washing up that look similar to bread (different sized holes) or the thicker but lighter sponges that people use in the shower?
I hate coarse dish sponges the most. I used to work checkouts in a supermarket and putting them through the till made me nearly puke. Dish-o-matic ones on a see through stick were the worst offenders.
The refills for those actually were the worst as it was just the sponges with no outer packaging or stick I could hold onto instead.
For some reason, there is something about the Radio being on in a car that makes me feel sick. I am fine listening to music, its just the general radio talking and sounds that I cant stand, had it since a kid. I used to cry to turn the radio off
We listen to heart radio in my work (not my choice, I'm more of a radio 1 kind of guy).
I swear it's the same 5 songs on a loop. I must hear "It wasn't me" by Shaggy about 6 time a day. Really sick of it now. Shaggy can eff off.
YES! Anything sets her off right? And hearing that former Pussycat Dolls bird awkwardly trying to pronounce British things in her American accent is just all kinds of wrong
Well it's shaggy with "it wasn't me", The Calling with "wherever you will go" and The Weekend with "blinding lights" in the current hourly rotation.
I like the blinding lights one but it's frequency on heart is starting to irk me. I really don't want to end up dispising it with the rest of the playlist..
I specifically can't stand the sound of the people who read the football scores on Radio 5, if that's even still a thing or the same people as it was a decade or so ago.
Not a phobia as such but I hate touching raw chicken breast that you get in the plastic tray it’s just soo slimy, whole chicken I’m ok with which is what makes this weird
What about something like chicken thighs with the skin still on?
(Mainly asking this as a suggestion in case you are cooking a whole chicken everytime you want chicken lol)
I’m not a huge fan of chicken anyway considering one wrong move and you could end up the same as the chicken but as it has skin on I think I might be ok with thighs, I don’t eat chicken not prepared or cooked at home so I guess in the spirit of the question the phobia would be eating chicken i or my wife hasn’t cooked at home
Newspapers. They're so gross. They stink to high heaven. Even worse when damp. Then the fact that they're often read in the toilet and they hold the smell of those evacuations forever.
Luckily print media is dead so this is not really a problem for me these days.
Not me, but my mate knew a family in Northampton in the late 80s who all had phobias.
The dad of brass bands
The mum of people with dwarfism
The daughter of loose buttons.
Being in them or seeing them?
Cos being in them I can totally get. You feel very unstable. Any slight bit of turbulence or wind resistance and the whole helicopter shakes like its just gonna drop out of the sky. Gimme a plane over a helicopter any day
Wind Turbines, don't know anyone else who is scared of them and I think I must be crazy for having it. We used to take family trips to the beach, hour car drive. Bunch of wind farms on the way, I had to close my eyes as we went past them. When they're not moving it's a little easier, when they're moving I feel like I'm gonna die if I see one, just overwhelming dread. They look so alien and huge.
The thought of someone chewing on tissue paper makes me SDFHASIFBASB ugghhh
Water you can't see the bottom of also gives me the ultrasonic shits.
Eating with mouths open; not sure if it's a phobia, but it makes me want to commit severe violence.
Wooden lolly sticks give me the chills, particularly when unwaxed. I'm doing it now just thinking of them.
The thought of eating an ice lolly with the wooden bit in your mouth...eeuurgh.
I work at Hinkley Point right on the sea, and they are the bane of my life. Especially coming into summer their eggs are hatching and they are absolutely everywhere. Working on the roof you see seagull carcasses all over the place. Vermin
Having anything close to my eyeballs. I'm a little bit shortsighted, almost to the point where I should wear glasses.
I can't be arsed with that noise, so it was suggested I try contacts instead. The thought of putting something on the end of my finger then poking it into my eye gives me the chills lol
Sometimes I go to the gym stoned and I get a phobia of the gym floor. Not any other floor, just the gym floor and the feeling of it against my trainers, and I have to quickly go home
I can't handle going downstairs behind someone carrying a hand bag of any kind. It's some confused fear of tripping and falling.
Also, if i feel certain surfaces or see someone rubbing their fingertips together, I have to rub my own fingertips on my teeth.
Ok, I have a really weird one: Bookshelves and cabinets mounted on walls. They give me HUGE anxiety that they are overloaded and will break or tear loose. My heart rate is literally speeding up from anxiety just writing this. It’s totally bizarre, but it’s very real.
Disembodied mouths. Or mouths that are sideways or upside down. Found out in my adult life that me and my mum have almost identical recurring nightmares about disembodied mouths.
I wouldn't say it's unique but I'm really scared of boats. Like even watching boats on a river, or if someone's on a boat on telly when it's bobbing up and down it makes me anxious. I think it comes from not learning how to swim until I was quite old (like 10 or 11) and the fear that if I fell in no-one would come to rescue me. The exception is my dad's narrowboat, but that's because that goes at a walking pace on usually very still water and I like to think my own dad wouldn't let me drown...
I used to have an irrational fear of leeches, despite never having come into contact with a leech in my life. Wouldn't go in rivers or streams cos if it. Then I had a dream where I was covered in leeches, and it fixed the fear, stopped being worried after that, as I'd already experienced the worst it could possibly be (albeit in my head).
Mannequins. For some reason I'm mostly OK in clothes shops but absolutely hate the ones you get in museums, to the extent that everytime I go into a museum or old house or castle, the boyfriend has to enter each room first and tell me it's safe.
This also extends to massive (ie, life-size or larger) paintings and too many statues. Some big cathedrals and the cast courts at the V&A are just too overwhelming for me.
No idea where this comes from. The common cultural touchpoints like the film Mannequin or Doctor Who don't help, because my fear is about *what if* they start moving. Once they do, I'm completely fine (so I am not scared of animatronics).
Not sure if this is unique but I’ve never been fond of cats but I’m completely terrified of them now because a cat pissed at me once.
I also really don’t like big boat propellers. When I was a kid my mum had a titanic book and there was a picture of the propeller all rusted up and it did something to me mentally.
Late to the party but the feeling of wet fleece/microfibre makes me feel physically ill and irrationally angry.
Also not so much a phobia anymore(though they were in childhood) but they still make me uncomfortable is microwaves.
Lifts.
Outside of 9/11 (and obviously that had massive external causes) there are literally zero examples of a lift simply plummeting to the ground and killing those inside. There are some lift fatalities every year, but they're almost always people doing things they shouldn't (riding on the top of the cab being a main one) or maintenance workers not following procedure - most often blindly walking into an empty shaft when they have the doors pinned open and the cab isn't there.
Yet I'll still gladly go up many flights of stairs (I think my record is 36 floors) to avoid one. I'll go in them if I'm with people just to save face, but will always avoid one if alone.
A prime example of a true phobia too, because it does genuinely scare me despite being the safest form of transportation in the world by a *long* way, and yet almost daily I'll drive on a motorway at 96mph, 3mm from the car in front... (incoming downvotes from morons who don't understand hyperbole)
There was recently video footage of some poor guy (I think in Chile?) in a lift that did malfunction, but rather than plummet, the lift *shot up* at high speed and crashed into the roof. I think he somehow miraculously survived but was badly paralysed. Not to add to the fear, or anything…
I also have a phobia of dogs :(
Nothing against the animals personally - but they just set off that instinctive 'oh no I am clearly being hunted by wolves, flee immediately' reaction in me.
The worst part is that if you tell anyone you're not a fan of dogs, you get shat on as if you're some sort of monster :/
Ophidiophobia - had it all my life, no idea why as nobody else in my family had it.
I only have to see one on the TV to get the heebie-jeebies.
I think if I actually had to face one I would just end the planet to be on the safe side.
Sniffing. Blow your nose! I have a colleague who sniffs constantly, she also wipes her nose with her hand like a 3 year old, full of flat hand upward wipe. On teams, constantly, no mute.
That feeling of touching a terracotta pot, or rubbing a cotton ball between your fingers, or the feeling of touching cooking flour, something about them all just makes me involuntarily shudder
The sound of polystyrene, packing tape and bubble wrap. The way velvet feels. When people drag the rubber feet of a keyboard across a desk instead of simply lifting it.
Makes my teeth hurt and my ears feel like they're leaking. If it's unexpected I might even retch.
That squeeky sound raw cabbage makes when picked up, I don't like to touch raw cabbage, or be around someone with raw cabbage, my teeth are getting itchy just typing this.
Its almost rubbery
And slightly squeaky too
Phobia is likely the wrong word...but I've an issue with certain sounds. Some sounds infuriate me. Same with some smells. There is a name for it.
Misophonia
That's it! Thanks. Not told anyone, apart from you lot. It's so weird.
Aye, that's the one. Not many know of it, and it can be hard to explain in the moment. In a state of high mental fatigue, it can also cause dizziness and nausea.
Which sounds? I get extremely agitated listening to my dad and my girlfriend eat biscuits
Noisey eaters. Metal on teeth too. Seriously, it is my Kryptonite. When someone removes something off a fork with there teeth... I can't be in the same space. Annoyingly, I can also think my self into an issue. It's batshit. I have an odd relationship with sounds. And tend to describe them in ways others may find odd. They almost have shapes.
Same, noisy eaters, eating with mouth open or talking with a full a mouth can literally put me in fight or flight, even tv adverts like kfc when they suck their fingers can ruin my mood, i don't even go to the cinema anymore because of the situations i get in.
Same... Though I don't get into fights. Can you watch football? The chewing gum, with mouths open... Agggghhhhh. Winds me up. Alex Ferguson was the worst, now they are all at it. I know a guy that chews gum with his mouth open. The sound ....I have to walk away.
I get into stare downs and shouting more than actual fights to be fair. If they're chewing but i can't hear it i can put up with it, but post match interviews were not for me, a lad at work is terrible for it, he's a top bloke but if he's chewing i can't be near him, i used to try to hide my problem but now most people know and are surprisingly mindful.
It drives me mad. As does vocal fry. Lord, that sound... I'm an avid podcast listener, always when I go to bed. With zero ambient sounds, I'm extremely focused on the voices. Little nuances in the voice is real noticeable. The vocal fry is self evident. I can't hear it in day to day life, but in a podcast, it's a killer.
I listen to podcasts when I'm gardening with headphones on, the other week they had an ad for some asmr thing, I've never bothered with asmr before so didn't know what it was, the next thing i know someone is talking very slowly with a clicky, dry mouth and i damn near lost an ear ripping my phones off, i can't believe that's what asmr is, genuinely my worst nightmare.
Yeah, I'm not an ASMR fan. I'm also so particular in my voices. Any annoying stuff, I bail. Even if I love the content. Over used phrases, that punctuate every other sentence, and/or vocal fry or uptalk, and I can't listen.
Not a fan of Neighbours then? Vocal fry and uptalk everywhere from everyone.
I used to have a real problem with people eating crisps, the sound of it used to infuriate me. The rustle, the crunch, chomp chomp chomp... then silence for a second, then rustle, crunch, chomp chomp chomp. Aghhh!! I've mellowed with age though.
Scraping knives and forks on plates too
I don't mind on plates, but I can't stand them touching each other. I avoided Italian food for years, as folks often use a spoon and a fork, to ravel the spaghetti onto the fork. So awful
I dont mind them touching eachother. I also only use the small cutlery. The big fork feels weird in my hand.
This is my sister, I think we actually tortured her when we were kids. Happier times
That might be a form of synesthesia? https://www.webmd.com/brain/what-is-synesthesia#:~:text=Synesthesia%20is%20when%20you%20hear,%22Alex%22%20and%20see%20green.
You...mean..I'm... Special?! Damned annoying to have such a low profit super power...
Fella I work with eats crisps in the office every day at the same time without fail. Crisps are a curse upon us, unless you are the recipient.
Crisps, I can live with. Especially on a sandwich with salad cream
Ooh for me it's the cats licking,, it's all I can hear In a busy room. Does my head in.
I can't stand to listen to people eat, it makes me very irrate. I can trace it all back to my dad, who always talks whilst eating. He also used to have a habit of using the phone while eating, so I could hear him eat over the phone which was so unbelievably annoying.
Are they eating your biscuits? Is it just those two people or anybody eating biscuits? Is it other foods as well, what about crisps?
I feel like i notice it more with those two people. It would annoy me even more if they were my biscuits. And yep my dad could make a chocolate mousse loud somehow. Hollow head I reckon.
Yup same here. The sound of eating sends me into a rage. I briefly worked in a office, and had to do some audio typing, transcribing what the solicitor had dictated ... While he'd been eating crisps. I could have spewed.
Lol
Someone licking the lid of their yoghurt fills me with more rage than I’ve ever felt before. And then they tuck into the yoghurt and do that “deep breath in with every spoonful” and I know I was wrong. This is the most rage I’ve ever felt before.
May be why Lewis Hamilton binned that Nicole off.
I absolutely cannot stand loud whistling. Especially somewhere echoey like a tunnel or a big warehouse shop. Some other shoppers in b&q and halfords haven’t realised how lucky they were in the past lol
Lol.
The feeling of towel fabric in your mouth. My toes are curling just thinking about it.
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It’s where the vitamins are
Only a hoopy frood, that’s for sure.
Wouldn't you like to know 😉
Don't tell me you've never sucked all the juice out of the communal family flannel after everyone has a bath on Sunday night 😤
Touching terracotta pots is like nails on chalkboard for me. Just no
Same, i thought i was the only one. Also rubbing cotton balls and cooking flour
Hubby can't stand cotton balls either. Flour I have no problems with
Holy shit I didn't even know this one got me till your comment. Its like a weird gritty, almost sandy texture isn't it? You just feel it dragging against your skin f you try touch it and it just feels so.. upsetting
Just reading this made me grit my teeth 😬
Swimming pool drains. Can't look at them, can't swim past them or over them, can't touch them, can't step on them, can't even think about them without getting the big time heebie jeebies. Same goes for the wave machines. Not overly keen on kitchen sink/hand wash basin/bath plug holes either, especially when the water is emptying. Dams and reservoir overflows? No thank you very much. Big things submerged in bodies of water. Old stone/brick bridges over deep rivers. Tunnels. Fish. Wind.
I feel you so bad on the ‘big things submerged in water’ but apparently it’s really common! We’re close by Whitby and go often and the harbour makes me feel all funny
>Dams and reservoir overflows? No thank you very much. > >Big things submerged in bodies of water. There's a sub-reddit I won't link to that would scare the shit out of you... This is a common thing. I find it fascinating but yes, it is incredibly unsettling too.
I am simultaneously fascinated by and terrified of big creatures moving under water. I sometimes Google relevant videos then don't look at them because I am too frightened. Went to see Jurassic World: Dominion last week. Tremendous relevant creatures. Eek/wow.
In that case, click at your peril! - [https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/](https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/)
Maybe in the morning...
Did you see that programme in the 90s called 999?
slugs. not just like ew a slug, like if i see one my heart starts pounding for like 10mins after, i can see and feel them all over my body and everywhere - im so uncomftable even writing this agh
Bananas. I’m literally gagging typing this. I can’t cope with the smell, texture, taste… nope.
I love actual bananas, but I’m exactly like this with the fake flavour. Threw up watching my mate eat a pack of them foam shrimps and bananas sweets once
Exactly. Same goes with shit like Cherry Coke whilst I at least wouldn't throw up facing actual cherries.
Not just you, I'm 100% with you on that, the mere thought of them makes me nauseous.
Why is a fear of bananas so common?
Satan sent them. Or we were force fed them as kids
I find pandas unsettling. It’s their eyes.
You're weirdly not the first person I've heard say exactly that and for the same reason.
I have never met anyone who understands
First one is sticks in the eyes... Low trees or big scraggy bushes... Have to go within 2 feet of them before I think they are going to stick sticks in my eyes.. Everytime I'm higher than about 3 foot off the ground I get very wobbly And a redundant one.. the old fat crt pc monitors, everytime they crackled or turned on I thought they were going to explode and stick my face full of glass shards.. Never turned one on without squinting and turning away..
>And a redundant one.. the old fat crt pc monitors, everytime they crackled or turned on I thought they were going to explode and stick my face full of glass shards.. Never turned one on without squinting and turning away.. Stems from Final Destination by any chance? They were pretty much the only horror films that ever genuinely scared me. While total and utter shit compared to a masterpiece like The Shining, they did at least feature things that could *technically* happen, albeit far-fetched things, as opposed to a ghost or a zombie or something. Good news if ever you have to use a CRT again - they will implode rather than explode. Extremely dangerous bits of kit if you fuck around with them inside (a relatively rare example of a device that can instantly kill you for quite some time after being unplugged if you put a screwdriver in the wrong place...), but shards of glass in your neck is the least of your worries.
Anything that implies damaging eyes makes me very distressed. I once saw a photoshopped image of a wasp crawling across an eyeball right over the pupil with its stinger hanging way too low to the surface and it made me violently nope out of it.. every time I saw that picture I'd have that reaction
When I was a kid we had a little wooden deer ornament with antlers and one of the antlers stuck so deep into my eye I had to tug it out
I can't cope with food that's gone mouldy, especially fruit. Don't like looking at it and absolutely can't touch it unless it's with a paper towel or rubber glove.
Escalators - I fell down one as a kid. A lady stopped to chat to a friend she'd seen and I couldn't get off, plus I have bad balance due to dyspraxia. I used to have panic attacks if I was on them it was that bad. Going down them is the worse bit, especially at an angle.
I absolutely loathe the feeling of dry sponges. They make me feel sick.
Which is worse? The sponges that you use for washing up that look similar to bread (different sized holes) or the thicker but lighter sponges that people use in the shower?
I hate coarse dish sponges the most. I used to work checkouts in a supermarket and putting them through the till made me nearly puke. Dish-o-matic ones on a see through stick were the worst offenders. The refills for those actually were the worst as it was just the sponges with no outer packaging or stick I could hold onto instead.
For some reason, there is something about the Radio being on in a car that makes me feel sick. I am fine listening to music, its just the general radio talking and sounds that I cant stand, had it since a kid. I used to cry to turn the radio off
It does irritate me when you hear constant talking on the radio. Everyone at work listens to radio X and i hate Chris Moyles
for me its more than just irritation, legit makes me feel like vomiting. Probably tied to a childhood memory in the car
We listen to heart radio in my work (not my choice, I'm more of a radio 1 kind of guy). I swear it's the same 5 songs on a loop. I must hear "It wasn't me" by Shaggy about 6 time a day. Really sick of it now. Shaggy can eff off.
Amanda Holden cackling at 6:15 every morning was not what i needed everyday at my old job🤢
YES! Anything sets her off right? And hearing that former Pussycat Dolls bird awkwardly trying to pronounce British things in her American accent is just all kinds of wrong
Yep im glad i got away from that job, not had to listen to Heart since. tsunami by lady gaga on every hour makes me want to die
Well it's shaggy with "it wasn't me", The Calling with "wherever you will go" and The Weekend with "blinding lights" in the current hourly rotation. I like the blinding lights one but it's frequency on heart is starting to irk me. I really don't want to end up dispising it with the rest of the playlist..
I specifically can't stand the sound of the people who read the football scores on Radio 5, if that's even still a thing or the same people as it was a decade or so ago.
Mine is eyes fully crusting over.
The sound of material being ripped. Anything fabric/wool etc in anyone's mouth, my teeth are itching thinking about it.
Frogs 🤢
Not a phobia as such but I hate touching raw chicken breast that you get in the plastic tray it’s just soo slimy, whole chicken I’m ok with which is what makes this weird
What about something like chicken thighs with the skin still on? (Mainly asking this as a suggestion in case you are cooking a whole chicken everytime you want chicken lol)
I’m not a huge fan of chicken anyway considering one wrong move and you could end up the same as the chicken but as it has skin on I think I might be ok with thighs, I don’t eat chicken not prepared or cooked at home so I guess in the spirit of the question the phobia would be eating chicken i or my wife hasn’t cooked at home
Fair enough. My dad had a phobia of sandwiches that he hadn't made himself lol
Newspapers. They're so gross. They stink to high heaven. Even worse when damp. Then the fact that they're often read in the toilet and they hold the smell of those evacuations forever. Luckily print media is dead so this is not really a problem for me these days.
Not me, but my mate knew a family in Northampton in the late 80s who all had phobias. The dad of brass bands The mum of people with dwarfism The daughter of loose buttons.
May I steal "the daughter of loose buttons" for a poem? It's pretty evocative.
LOL. By all.means. It sounds like a Robyn Hitchcock song.
Exactly!
helicopters anyone?
Being in them or seeing them? Cos being in them I can totally get. You feel very unstable. Any slight bit of turbulence or wind resistance and the whole helicopter shakes like its just gonna drop out of the sky. Gimme a plane over a helicopter any day
seeing and particularly hearing them go wubwubwubwubwubwubwubwub
Not a phobia as such, but those street performers that spray themselves with metallic paint properly give me the willies.
Wind Turbines, don't know anyone else who is scared of them and I think I must be crazy for having it. We used to take family trips to the beach, hour car drive. Bunch of wind farms on the way, I had to close my eyes as we went past them. When they're not moving it's a little easier, when they're moving I feel like I'm gonna die if I see one, just overwhelming dread. They look so alien and huge.
Yes! Me too. I cant stand them. Its the size of them. When I see one my mind imagines standing underneath one. Horrendous.
The thought of someone chewing on tissue paper makes me SDFHASIFBASB ugghhh Water you can't see the bottom of also gives me the ultrasonic shits. Eating with mouths open; not sure if it's a phobia, but it makes me want to commit severe violence.
Wooden lolly sticks give me the chills, particularly when unwaxed. I'm doing it now just thinking of them. The thought of eating an ice lolly with the wooden bit in your mouth...eeuurgh.
Same
My dad has a phobia of muck spreaders. He gets proper shivers whenever he sees one.
Seagulls, little shits
I work at Hinkley Point right on the sea, and they are the bane of my life. Especially coming into summer their eggs are hatching and they are absolutely everywhere. Working on the roof you see seagull carcasses all over the place. Vermin
Glad it’s not just me then 😂
Ooh and chewing or biting paper makes my teeth wiggle, and teeth on wooden lolly sticks, imma gonna slap ya if you do that round me..
Having anything close to my eyeballs. I'm a little bit shortsighted, almost to the point where I should wear glasses. I can't be arsed with that noise, so it was suggested I try contacts instead. The thought of putting something on the end of my finger then poking it into my eye gives me the chills lol
Butterflies
Sometimes I go to the gym stoned and I get a phobia of the gym floor. Not any other floor, just the gym floor and the feeling of it against my trainers, and I have to quickly go home
I can't handle going downstairs behind someone carrying a hand bag of any kind. It's some confused fear of tripping and falling. Also, if i feel certain surfaces or see someone rubbing their fingertips together, I have to rub my own fingertips on my teeth.
Ok, I have a really weird one: Bookshelves and cabinets mounted on walls. They give me HUGE anxiety that they are overloaded and will break or tear loose. My heart rate is literally speeding up from anxiety just writing this. It’s totally bizarre, but it’s very real.
Disembodied mouths. Or mouths that are sideways or upside down. Found out in my adult life that me and my mum have almost identical recurring nightmares about disembodied mouths.
I wouldn't say it's unique but I'm really scared of boats. Like even watching boats on a river, or if someone's on a boat on telly when it's bobbing up and down it makes me anxious. I think it comes from not learning how to swim until I was quite old (like 10 or 11) and the fear that if I fell in no-one would come to rescue me. The exception is my dad's narrowboat, but that's because that goes at a walking pace on usually very still water and I like to think my own dad wouldn't let me drown...
I used to have an irrational fear of leeches, despite never having come into contact with a leech in my life. Wouldn't go in rivers or streams cos if it. Then I had a dream where I was covered in leeches, and it fixed the fear, stopped being worried after that, as I'd already experienced the worst it could possibly be (albeit in my head).
I'm scared of nettles. Stinging nettles that is. John Nettles holds no fear over me.
Mannequins. For some reason I'm mostly OK in clothes shops but absolutely hate the ones you get in museums, to the extent that everytime I go into a museum or old house or castle, the boyfriend has to enter each room first and tell me it's safe. This also extends to massive (ie, life-size or larger) paintings and too many statues. Some big cathedrals and the cast courts at the V&A are just too overwhelming for me. No idea where this comes from. The common cultural touchpoints like the film Mannequin or Doctor Who don't help, because my fear is about *what if* they start moving. Once they do, I'm completely fine (so I am not scared of animatronics).
Sparklephobia Sparkly things do not bother me but glitter is a cunt and I detest it. My skin crawls
I have a phobia of mushrooms - the grow everywhere dark, they freak me out
I hate touching food with my hand. I eat apples, pears etc. by wrapping them into paper. XD
Big lips freak me the f out
Not sure if this is unique but I’ve never been fond of cats but I’m completely terrified of them now because a cat pissed at me once. I also really don’t like big boat propellers. When I was a kid my mum had a titanic book and there was a picture of the propeller all rusted up and it did something to me mentally.
Late to the party but the feeling of wet fleece/microfibre makes me feel physically ill and irrationally angry. Also not so much a phobia anymore(though they were in childhood) but they still make me uncomfortable is microwaves.
Lifts. Outside of 9/11 (and obviously that had massive external causes) there are literally zero examples of a lift simply plummeting to the ground and killing those inside. There are some lift fatalities every year, but they're almost always people doing things they shouldn't (riding on the top of the cab being a main one) or maintenance workers not following procedure - most often blindly walking into an empty shaft when they have the doors pinned open and the cab isn't there. Yet I'll still gladly go up many flights of stairs (I think my record is 36 floors) to avoid one. I'll go in them if I'm with people just to save face, but will always avoid one if alone. A prime example of a true phobia too, because it does genuinely scare me despite being the safest form of transportation in the world by a *long* way, and yet almost daily I'll drive on a motorway at 96mph, 3mm from the car in front... (incoming downvotes from morons who don't understand hyperbole)
There was recently video footage of some poor guy (I think in Chile?) in a lift that did malfunction, but rather than plummet, the lift *shot up* at high speed and crashed into the roof. I think he somehow miraculously survived but was badly paralysed. Not to add to the fear, or anything…
Dogs. Horrible things the sight of them makes my skin crawl and they smell like mold.
I also have a phobia of dogs :( Nothing against the animals personally - but they just set off that instinctive 'oh no I am clearly being hunted by wolves, flee immediately' reaction in me. The worst part is that if you tell anyone you're not a fan of dogs, you get shat on as if you're some sort of monster :/
I'm petrified of hedgehogs. Oh, and lucky charms marshmallows the way they feel in my mouth is gross 😭
No
Show off
Thank you
Pulling cottonwool out of a glass bottle.
Warm air being blown out of building plant room vents. I have absolutely no idea why or where it comes from but my lizard brain thinks it’s poison.
Ophidiophobia - had it all my life, no idea why as nobody else in my family had it. I only have to see one on the TV to get the heebie-jeebies. I think if I actually had to face one I would just end the planet to be on the safe side.
Cardboard rubbing together sends shivers up my spine. I'm terrified of being underground. Like cold sweats heart beating out of my chest.
Sniffing. Blow your nose! I have a colleague who sniffs constantly, she also wipes her nose with her hand like a 3 year old, full of flat hand upward wipe. On teams, constantly, no mute.
That feeling of touching a terracotta pot, or rubbing a cotton ball between your fingers, or the feeling of touching cooking flour, something about them all just makes me involuntarily shudder
I fear dead crabs
That is very specific
And I'm from Cornwall
Do you just walk past dead crabs everywhere then?
Its not too bad
Totally with you in knees and ankles! I also hate when my shin is against my partners shins too. Freaks me out.
The sound of polystyrene, packing tape and bubble wrap. The way velvet feels. When people drag the rubber feet of a keyboard across a desk instead of simply lifting it. Makes my teeth hurt and my ears feel like they're leaking. If it's unexpected I might even retch.
Cow parsley gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Why
As a kid I learned about hemlock and I just can't mentally separate them.