Whats your weirdest phobia?

este

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Hi Everyone,
I'm currently starting a blog and after listening to a slightly odd bus conversation I was wondering if people would be able to give me their weirdest phobia/thing they can't stand. Don't worry I won't name and shame! It can be diabetes related or completely random, it's really up to you.
A few weird examples from me and friends:
The feel of dry towels
Literally anything to do with rats (pictures, cartoons, even the mention of them)
Mayonnaise
Sponges.
Help would be very much appreciated, no matter how weird :)
 
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Alanp35

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Cannot abide touching cottonwool - gives me the Heebie jeebies.




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Andy12345

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im ok with cotton wool unless its in my mouth (dentist buds count) or the thought of a wooly jumper in my mouth makes me go cold just thinking about it

busy tube trains are also a phobia ive recently realised, after getting on the tube for the first time in donkeys years, people touch you ewwww, lol i dont mean inappropriately, when your sitting they kind of spread out like you might if you knew them, i ended up scrunched in the middle trying not to be touched by strangers, sweating like pig lol

and dead things, for example i cant look at road kill but could happily cuddle them alive, i dont mind spiders at all, i can play with them but once they are dead eeeek! cant go near them, i have managed to avoid any of our cats and dogs being dead in my presence over the years, when my last cat died the wife rang me and told me i needed to come home, yeah right, i helped out by instructing her to put it in a sack and take it to the vets, also i go fishing alot for carp and hold them for photos etc no problem but a dead goldfish floating on my pond aaaargh cant bear it lol

edit: doctors, dsn and dieticians
 
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Indiana91

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Baked bean juice. I can't stand it touching me or other food on the plate. Beans have to go in a ramekin or something else so it can't contaminate!

Also can't stand the sound of metal on metal or knifes and forks scraping on a plate.

Indiana x


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Indiana91

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Also can't go near kids with wobbly teeth!

Indiana x


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lol thats not a phobia, that normal, who likes smelly toilets? lol


Nobody I expect but the thought makes me really sick and I would have to bleach my hands after using one.........:) I would rather hang on for hours than use a dirty smelly loo.
 
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Corduroy or velvet. Cannot touch them. Even if I think about touching them, I get shivers. Also, the thought of tin foil in my mouth is not good.

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I have spectacular meltdowns with needles, it's 7 years since anyone got any blood off me, that was with gas and air, I can only just cope with finger pricking, hence my diabetes team go mad if I don't test regularly


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Rubber animals. I am much better than when I was a child, when I wouldn't even go near a store that I suspect sold them. Just today I walked by some rubber snakes, etc. in Wilkinson's and it gave me a shiver. Hate 'em!
 

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Daddy Long Legs (crane fly).
I was playing as a kid and got one in my mouth spit it out and went in the house to clean my teeth there were legs stuck in my teeth. Eww.
Ever since then I freak out if one comes near me. I hate the way they just flit around. Oh just thinking of it leaves me cold.
 
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Would a weird one be, when having a long shower and your fingers go all soft (not sure what the term is actually called) But when they're soft and saggy, when they're like that and i touch a lid to shower gel or shampoo or something it makes me cringe alot
 

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Would a weird one be, when having a long shower and your fingers go all soft (not sure what the term is actually called) But when they're soft and saggy, when they're like that and i touch a lid to shower gel or shampoo or something it makes me cringe alot
I know exactly what you mean, and it makes me cringe too! Touching anything when you have pruney hands is horrid
 

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Wire wool - Brillo pads. Luckily don't need to use them these days but can't pick them up.
Pictures of or live open mouthed Cobras

Had a friend once, who screamed when birds came near - thought that they (and butterflies) were going to get tangled in their hair.