What were your (irrational) fears as a kid?

[roopoo]

<p>i. hate. bugs. </p>

<p>no, no, not the live ones, the dead ones. </p>

<p>which is really really <***?>, i know, but something about dead bugs and the way they’re on their backs with their multiple legs curled up in the air is just so…<shudder></shudder></p>

<p>to prove my point, there was a spider clinging on my chest today for who-knows-how long until one of my friends screamed like a girl and pointed it out. i merely blew it off. if the bug was dead, however, i probably would’ve screamed along with him.</p>

[enfieldacademy]

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I’ve come to terms with the idea of death. If life did not end, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy it, we would just gradually age, and become more and more brittle, hanging on to a single thread, completely miserable. When you do something, most of the time, your rationale is; because life is short. If life wasn’t short, you wouldn’t be motivated to get out of bed in the morning, there would be no point.

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<p>Our fight against aging doesn’t stop when we slow it down to a small rate. It stops when we can reverse it!. You don’t have to fear living a long time in a fragile state - that’s probably not how things would turn out.</p>

<p>There are billions of habitable planets to explore :p. I don’t think I would ever get bored of that. If humanity doesn’t mess itself up, and if the future is bright for us, than amazing things like that will be possible (at least you certainly won’t be working some kind of daily job on earth for centuries :p). Even if that’s not for you, the universe is huge, and there’s so many things to do, and so many things we don’t know - I’m sure you want to at least live until we figure out some of those things, or have scene enough of the future.</p>

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I think my biggest problem as a child was not entirely me, myself dying, but my Mother and Father. The idea had me so depressed, that I remember vividly a memory from when I was 4, I was at Macy’s with my Father, and he found some Christmas Sweaters, and he asked me to choose which one I thought was the nicest, and I couldn’t even pay attention to what the sweaters looked like, I just broke down crying right in the middle of the store.

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<p>ah okay. yeah, that’s kind of the point you made in the first post. I’m wondering - were you scared of them dieing because they wouldn’t be there for you, or were you scared because it was such a sad fact that one day they would die?</p>

<p>I often feared that bad things would happen to my mom, but not for her sake, for mine. It seems for you it was different.

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<p>My Father used to try and comfort me by saying that; “Oh, when you’re a little old lady, technology and medicine will have come so far that you’ll be able to live forever.” I used to believe him, but now I’m not so sure. I have a long ways to go before becoming an elder (I’m only 15), but I’m not that optimistic about medicine.

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<p>Well, he was probably mostly trying to comfort you then (he would probably think the same way as you now, but maybe not). Well, you’re our only 15, your optimism on things and views on death and everything still have a good chance to shift around, and so on, the more you learn, etc.</p>

[Aerobug]

<p>Wow I keep getting reminded of old fears from the past, haha. Blame my anxiety for these weird ones.</p>

<p>This is probably my weirdest fear, and I still have it too but I no longer make macaroni. But I used to eat macaroni on a fairly regular basis and I would microwave it, all that jazz. When I would take the bowl out of the microwave the noodles would be pointing straight up, and for some absolutely weird reason it made me nauseous and I would get cold sweats. I would have to leave the room and have someone stir the noodles back to normal for me. God, just thinking about it now makes me sick too. I have no idea why I feel this way about it. I think it may be a mild form of trypophobia, as small clusters of holes (such as honeycomb) bug me, too. I’m sure that this fear is one of the most bizarre so I try not to tell random people in real life about it.</p>

[enfieldacademy]

<p>ahaha that is so strange, but such a good example of an irrational fear :).</p>

<p>Wow tryptophobia is so interesting. It seems to be a real fear (as in a significant number of people have it) but to silly sounding and rare enough that it’s not taken seriously (hence why the wikipedia page of it keeps getting deleted).</p>

<p>Your account of your reaction to those noodles as a naive kid is probably an awesome example of it, just the kind of example that the people looking to validate it are probably looking for.</p>

[Lovelyplaymaker]

<p>I’m still terrified of bugs, especially spiders and bees and creepy crawly things.</p>

[stressedouttt]

<p>I really don’t understand not accepting death. then again, I never really consider the “ceasing to exist” bit x)</p>

<p>when I was little I used to believe that there was a green witch out to get me. yes, I was weird.</p>

[GregariousGatsby]

<p>When my parents drove on the interstate, I’d be afraid that my seatbelt would come off me, the car door would open, and I would fly out of a car going 70 MPH.</p>

<p>pretty scary stuff, if I do say so myself. lol.</p>

[TheASP]

<p>I was so afraid that technology would become so advanced that they’d recreate the man-eating dinosaurs from DNA like they did in Jurassic Park. That movie scarred me for a week, lol! I always had to close my closet door before I went to bed- just in cause there was a hungry T-Rex lurking inside. Ha ha!
Since when did T-Rexs fit in the closet?</p>