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fluff What's your phobia?

It'sallgood View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:16 PM Post #1
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I seriously HATE having my photograph taken. I really do. I always have, even when I was young and pretty and didn't take too bac a picture, I hated being in pictures. I flatly refuse to ever Skype anyone. Not even my husband! He knows what I look like, so he can talk to me by phone without seeing me. As a result, sadly, we have almost no family pictures with all of us. I take plenty of husband and kids, but detest being in them myself. I avoid like the plague usually. And I suppose, as a result, they always look awful anyway. I have funny looks on my face, I look atrocious in them and even hb has to agreee, I am not by any stretch of anyones imagination one of those people who actually look "themselves" or even better in pictures!! So - what's your phobia? Rational or irrational?

Unatheowl View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:18 PM Post #2
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Genuine phobia? Spiders. Sorry, not very interesting.... I really really hate monkeys too though. And that other thing that emissary brought to my attention in the last phobia thread that I can't commit to this post. I'm sure someone will mention it. This post has been edited by Unatheowl: 26/12/2012, 03:27 PM

baddmammajamma View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:20 PM Post #3
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Snakes. I can't even look at pictures of them. To a lesser degree, I am extremely afraid of: * Clowns * Prop planes (legit fear, as we lost a family member in a crash) and * Those miniature corns. They freak me out.

skylark View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:23 PM Post #4
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I don't like chickens. Beady little eyes, and feathers and scaly feet, and the smell of their poo. Absolutely horrifying - I grew up with backyard chooks, and I cannot deal with them at all!

VintageEyes View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:23 PM Post #5
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The river. I hate the idea of DS falling in and not being able to see him in the yucky murky water. I make him wear a life jacket as soon as he is in sight of the water.

Ella Minnow Pea View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:25 PM Post #6
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Leeches. So you can imagine my joy the time I was bushwalking and we ended up brushing through some overhanging branches laden with leeches. It's a very long, hysterical story, but by the time they were all removed we'd counted about 20-30 each. Didn't help my phobia AT ALL.

Astrocyte View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:27 PM Post #7
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I have a phobia of bridges over water and just heights in general really. And I am also claustrophobic.

Frau Farbissina View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:28 PM Post #8
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vomit having children has made me face this

Lucretia Borgia View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:32 PM Post #9
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Cicadas ....they look alien ....they really freak me out......

snuffles View Member Profile	26/12/2012, 03:34 PM Post #10
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Stronger than ever.
I don't think I have any, or maybe I just haven't met my match yet.

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