- Stinging insects such as honeybees, wasps, etc. (to me, they're all "bees"). This is more of a primordial phobia than a "fear". I'm not afraid of pain (i.e., being stung); I'm afraid of the subsequent ASPHYXIATING DEATH that such stings can bring about. That said, it's very unlikely that I'm any more allergic to stings than the average person. I just don't care to find out.
- Any creature with the potential to kill, such as venomous snakes, bears, etc.
- Spiders, particularly brown recluse spiders and dock spiders, but even harmless little garden spiders still give me the heebie jeebies.
- Going to sleep with a bug in the room. I always convince myself that it will crawl in my ears while I'm sleeping and die in there (probably due to the "Do you know why earwigs are called EARwigs...?" myth that used to go around in elementary school).
- Things I cannot see, but imagine to be there.
- Other people. I deeply, deeply internalized the concept of "stranger danger" while I was growing up.
- Looking stupid/being laughed at...
- ...and so, by extension, ever speaking if I'm in class.
- Heart attacks/cardiac arrest.
- Strokes (and, by extension, the associated migraine headaches that I occasionally suffer).
- Aneurysms.
- Childbirth.
- Flying.
- In spite of my fairly staunch atheism, I do fear the possibility of a wrathful god... 'cause boyyyyy, have I incurred it, if that wrath is actually real.
may 26 2012 ∞
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