Weird, unusual phobias?

As the title says, does anyone have any weird or unusual phobias? I need some ideas for a story I'm writing. Maybe even post about some that you don't actually suffer through, but someone you know does. Or, you can make up one!

Okay, so post your weird phobias. I look forward to reading about them!

Thanks

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@berryyluv I have a phobia of ants.

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@LilGreenLeprachaun Oh interesting. What about them scares you?

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I'm frightened of salespeople. They intimidate and scare me.

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I'm scared of staplers. I know that makes me sound kinda weird, but when I was about 7 these bullies in my class used to shoot staples at me, so it's kinda understandable.

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@berryyluv The creepy, closeups of them give me the chills and just the fact that they could be anywhere

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I have phallophobia, the fear of an erect penis >___< I have some childhood issues that I went through that caused this, but we won't go to that x3.

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@Lamsy101 I was talked into stapling my fingers together when I was younger because a classmate of mine did it and he said it didn't hurt xDD needless to say my dad's boss forever thinks of me as a suicidal, strange child and never will that white stapler get rid of blood stains -u-

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i have ocd that leads to the phobia of food :P im scared of food that turns mushy when you chew it :P im a weired person i know.

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@berryyluv :: I don't suffer from it, but I find this phobia and it's name very ironic:

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia ......... The fear of long words. Irony: it IS a long word :)

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@fictionfanatic Haha yeah! I've heard that one before. It is very ironic, and whoever invented that word is kinda mean... lol

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@berryyluv :: lol, they are kinda mean for making that word!! :D

There's also Arachibutyrophobia : This is the irrational fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.... I find this one very odd... O.o

I think there's one for a fear a garden gnomes too... :)

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@fictionfanatic Haha garden gnomes?? Very interesting.. lol, but I have to admit I have a fear of dolls (which are kind of like gnomes) but you know those antique looking ones.. they're really creepy

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@berryyluv :: I know what you mean, they're extremely creepy!!..... I believe the fear of dolls is Pediophobia... O.o

Oh, and I think the fear of garden gnomes is "Gnomophobia"... But that's if it's classified as a real phobia :D

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@fictionfanatic Lol I guess you could make up your own phobia name anyway if you wanted to... I mean, if someone is scared of something, then it's a phobia haha

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@berryyluv :: Haha, yeah, you probably could :) .... It's still a phobia and all O.o

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oh i have a good one! it's kinda....weird in a weird way but i know someone whose afraid of phobia!!!!! she doesn't do anything at all in the day she just comes to school, goes home and thats it! she's scared that if she trie new things she might get a phobia of them.....!

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@fictionfanatic The fear of long words is simply sesquipidaliaphobia. Hippopatomonstro was added to it as a joke, its very intention being irony.

@berryyluv An interesting writing exercise would be to write about a character who is panophobic--that is, they're afraid of everything. It would be interesting to see how all these seemingly innocuous things were frightening to someone.

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@GradyRichards :: Ah, that makes much more sense then! :D Thanks for clarifying that up for me! :)

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@fictionfanatic You're welcome :)

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@GradyRichards Yes! That would be interesting... I, personally, have a lot of phobias so it probably wouldn't be too hard to write something like that.

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I have a phobia for possessed dolls and mannequins...I was once in Strawberry- a store. And they have mannequins everywhere- I was cursing that I ever went to the store. Plus, I had many dreams about possessed dolls-freaky dreams.

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I've phobia of worms...they scare me to death :O

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I have a fear of fire. I am absoloutly fine with wood burning in a fire place, but get me anywhere near a bunsen burner or gas oven and I freak out and sit as far away as possible. It has got to the point that in science I sat fasinated by the bit of burning magnesiun, but also tried not to freak at the bunsen burner. I think it is just fires fueld by gas that gets me.

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I have a phobia of hair, like when a stray one gets stuck on you in the shower. It reminds me of spider webs. Two points of irony to this: I have long hair and therefore a lot of stray hair, and I'm not afraid of spider webs.

The other phobia I have is of chalk. Just thinking about the texture makes me grind my teeth together and gives me shivers.

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