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What's your phobia?
#21
RE: What's your phobia?
I read a post a while back where the poster would NEVER drink anything brewed in a Keurig, because they had a "secret" chamber where water was stored. I gathered that this was a "germ" phobia but the poster wouldn't say if it had a name.
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#22
RE: What's your phobia?
A fear of heights isn' t a phobia.

Phobias are irrational fear of something.

Avoidance of danger is clearly rational.

..

A fear of clowns is irrational.


Unless the clown in question is John Wayne Gacy.




Tongue
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#23
RE: What's your phobia?
(January 5, 2019 at 7:38 am)onlinebiker Wrote: A fear of heights isn' t a phobia.

Phobias are irrational fear of something.

Avoidance of danger is clearly rational.

..

A fear of clowns is irrational.


Unless the Clown in question is John Wayne Gacy.




Tongue

When you freeze with fear and could literally be cut into pieces before you would move, that's a phobia.
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#24
RE: What's your phobia?
Heights and a severe fear of flying.
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#25
RE: What's your phobia?
(January 5, 2019 at 9:35 am)Brian37 Wrote: Heights and a severe fear of flying.
And hurricanes. Razz
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#26
RE: What's your phobia?
(January 5, 2019 at 7:40 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(January 5, 2019 at 7:38 am)onlinebiker Wrote: A fear of heights isn' t a phobia.

Phobias are irrational fear of something.

Avoidance of danger is clearly rational.

..

A fear of clowns is irrational.


Unless the Clown in question is John Wayne Gacy.




Tongue

When you freeze with fear and could literally be cut into pieces before you would move, that's a phobia.

Then I suppose I qualify.  I have been known to lose consciousness when in proximity to a horse, so cutting me to bits wouldn't be difficult.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#27
RE: What's your phobia?
(January 5, 2019 at 7:38 am)onlinebiker Wrote: A fear of heights isn' t a phobia.

Phobias are irrational fear of something.

Avoidance of danger is clearly rational.

..

A fear of clowns is irrational.


Unless the clown in question is John Wayne Gacy.




Tongue

Thinking about it, having a fear of heights is irrational when you take into account that we are on a tiny ball flying through space.
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#28
RE: What's your phobia?
You not afraid you'll fall off the edge?
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#29
RE: What's your phobia?
Heights (flying, specifically), and I also have a major case of trypophobia - an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, or bumps.

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Makes me want to simultaneously scream and vomit.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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#30
RE: What's your phobia?
(January 5, 2019 at 6:35 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Heights (flying, specifically), and I also have a major case of trypophobia -  an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, or bumps.  



Makes me want to simultaneously scream and vomit.

You're the second person I've met online who has that reaction.
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