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Post by Kangaroo_Punch on Jul 4, 2011 23:39:21 GMT -5
This is a question I like to ask my friends, for whatever reason. I feel you can tell a lot about someone based on what scares them. And obviously, they don't necessarily have to be crippling fears. It could just be the three things that freak you out the most. For me...
1) Heights 2) Hospitals 3) Clowns
I'm not sure why I'm scared of heights or clowns. Can't draw either one to a specific event, though I'm sure there are explanations lodged deep in my head. I'm not "afraid" of clowns as such, but they just really make me uneasy. Probably irrational. My fear of heights has kept me off of rollercoasters my entire life, and I won't be caught on a high balcony, unless there's some sort of reinforced guardrail, or I'm roughly five feet away from the edge.
I very rarely visit people in the hospital unless it's a life-or-death situation. My parents, and my mother in particular, were in hospitals so much when I was growing up that I really don't like being inside them. Just a lot of sadness and fear going on.
Go ahead, kids. Let's learn more about each other.
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Post by triplethreatmark on Jul 4, 2011 23:49:17 GMT -5
Get ready for a story kids: Clowns - Like Kangaroo, now I'm not so much afraid, as much as made uneasy by them. *Warning* Story commencing: When I was a kid though, I was deathly afraid of them; can pinpoint it to a certain event when one of my mom's friends used to work at McDonald's back in the mid-90s. She thought it would be a good idea bringing half a cardboard cut out of Ronald McDonald to a 3 year old kid who at that point had never even seen a clown in person. So she shows up to our place one day and tells me to close my eyes. I'm thinkin', "Hey, maybe it's a Hot-wheels toy or something. I mean, she's given me Hot-Wheels before." So I'm standing there waiting and then she tells me to open my eyes. And when I do, BAM! She shoves the cut-out ridiculously close to my face, and I remember that the guy that they hired to play the nation-wide Ronald had a really creepy smile, so when I saw the cut-outs smile and face being so close to mine, I freaked the f*** out, opened my front door and ran down the street in fear until my mother chased me down. True story.
I have more fears, but I've but all my efforts in describer that one. Enjoy.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Jul 4, 2011 23:54:07 GMT -5
1: The *idea* of being dead. I'm not afraid to die. I've been stabbed and shot at. No big deal. But the *thought* of being dead scares the living shit out of me. The only sidebar for this is I'm afraid of dying by drowning.
2: Losing someone close to me. If my wife died before me, I would honestly kill myself because I couldn't handle it.
3: All of my secrets being exposed to those close to me and my subsequent being shunned because of it. Seriously, I have a very dark past and am ashamed of it. If people knew about it, it would horrify me.
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Post by RareTradU on Jul 4, 2011 23:57:19 GMT -5
I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I mean I don't like heights but I climb on ladders all the time. I ride roller coasters even though I freak out just looking at them in line. Spiders bug me but I don't run from them. I guess the only thing that really 'scares' me is death. I don't know why just seems so unpredictable. I've been around a lot of it. We have a big family and I've probably been to dozens of funerals in my life (father, grandfather, grandmother, grandfather, uncles, friends, etc.). Hard to describe.
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Post by Ghostorm on Jul 4, 2011 23:59:16 GMT -5
1. Morbidly obese women in spandex! 2. Walmart on the 1st of the month! 3. Heights..... god i hate heights!!!
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Post by Kangaroo_Punch on Jul 5, 2011 0:00:22 GMT -5
1: The *idea* of being dead. I'm not afraid to die. I've been stabbed and shot at. No big deal. But the *thought* of being dead scares the living s*** out of me. The only sidebar for this is I'm afraid of dying by drowning. 2: Losing someone close to me. If my wife died before me, I would honestly kill myself because I couldn't handle it. 3: All of my secrets being exposed to those close to me and my subsequent being shunned because of it. Seriously, I have a very dark past and am ashamed of it. If people knew about it, it would horrify me. Not to be morbid, and not to derail my own topic, but I've made a pact with myself that if I were to go deaf, I'd kill myself. Music is so crucial and important to me that if my hearing was irreparably damaged, it would be enough for me to cash in my chips. Just saying. That being said, I wouldn't say I'm afraid of going deaf. I mean, I am, but it's not a "fear" that I cope with on a somewhat regular basis.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jul 5, 2011 0:00:49 GMT -5
Clowns, bugs, heights.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2011 0:01:35 GMT -5
Debt Not using my Degree Being Alone
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Jul 5, 2011 0:02:03 GMT -5
1: The *idea* of being dead. I'm not afraid to die. I've been stabbed and shot at. No big deal. But the *thought* of being dead scares the living s*** out of me. The only sidebar for this is I'm afraid of dying by drowning. 2: Losing someone close to me. If my wife died before me, I would honestly kill myself because I couldn't handle it. 3: All of my secrets being exposed to those close to me and my subsequent being shunned because of it. Seriously, I have a very dark past and am ashamed of it. If people knew about it, it would horrify me. Not to be morbid, and not to derail my own topic, but I've made a pact with myself that if I were to go deaf, I'd kill myself. Music is so crucial and important to me that if my hearing was irreparably damaged, it would be enough for me to cash in my chips. Just saying. That being said, I wouldn't say I'm afraid of going deaf. I mean, I am, but it's not a "fear" that I cope with on a somewhat regular basis. I'm similar, but I wouldn't kill myself over being deaf. If I HAD to choose, I'd pick to be blind over deaf because I love music and not having sight is a good thing in some ways.
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Post by wwefan71080 on Jul 5, 2011 0:06:01 GMT -5
1heights 2the unknown 3high speed
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Post by unc40 on Jul 5, 2011 0:23:34 GMT -5
Bees - I got swarmed by a bees when I was a kid and have been terrified ever since.
Being Stranded - I feel helpless when I am stranded.
Heights - I had no problem with heights as a kid but as I have gotten older I have become more and more scared of heights.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Jul 5, 2011 0:25:55 GMT -5
Undead naked Three Stooges wanting to have their way with me
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jul 5, 2011 0:26:58 GMT -5
1. Everything 2. Everything else 3. More of everything
But seriously I do have a legit phobia that I was in therapy for years for, although it's gotten a bit less severe nowadays. Don't really feel like talking about what it is in particular though because my experience tends to be that people think it's "funny" to trigger my phobia when I tell them about it.
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Post by Kangaroo_Punch on Jul 5, 2011 0:28:29 GMT -5
Not to be morbid, and not to derail my own topic, but I've made a pact with myself that if I were to go deaf, I'd kill myself. Music is so crucial and important to me that if my hearing was irreparably damaged, it would be enough for me to cash in my chips. Just saying. That being said, I wouldn't say I'm afraid of going deaf. I mean, I am, but it's not a "fear" that I cope with on a somewhat regular basis. I'm similar, but I wouldn't kill myself over being deaf. If I HAD to choose, I'd pick to be blind over deaf because I love music and not having sight is a good thing in some ways. Same way, man. If I was blind, I'd just collect disability checks and listen to my iPod all way. If I were deaf, I'd spend every day sobbing. Dramatic, sure, but absolutely true.
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Post by Massive G on Jul 5, 2011 0:34:59 GMT -5
I am impossibly, irreversibly, irrationally terrified of birds. Its kind of embarrassing, actually. I hate them with every fiber of my being and would gladly kill all of them if I was able to from a position of power.
I don't have a second or third. Just birds. And I realize that is even more absurd than it sounds.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jul 5, 2011 0:35:40 GMT -5
Pogs.
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Post by Insomniac on Jul 5, 2011 0:36:13 GMT -5
Only two things scare me and one of them is nuclear war.
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Post by triplethreatmark on Jul 5, 2011 0:42:52 GMT -5
1. Everything 2. Everything else 3. More of everything But seriously I do have a legit phobia that I was in therapy for years for, although it's gotten a bit less severe nowadays. Don't really feel like talking about what it is in particular though because my experience tends to be that people think it's "funny" to trigger my phobia when I tell them about it. Was it pickles? It was pickles wasn't it?
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Post by woowoowoox on Jul 5, 2011 0:49:52 GMT -5
1. Bugs - mostly flying ones, but any really. I scream whenever I see one. 2. Heights - I get pretty freaked out if I'm up too high... which kind of brings me to my last one; 3. Pain - severe pain though, not just a paper cut or a stubbed toe or something.
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Post by Cam on Jul 5, 2011 0:50:33 GMT -5
1. Drowning 2. Being burned to death 3. Spiders
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