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Hey Pandas, What Is Your Weirdest Phobia? (Closed)
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Hey Pandas, What Is Your Weirdest Phobia? (Closed)

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Mine is the quiet, I get the heebie-jeebies.

#1

Fear of Republicans aka Idiotophobia.
42points

#2

Thalassophobia. Being in water I cannot see the bottom of. I am OK if I am in a boat but there is no way I am swimming.
28points

#3

Coulrophobia brings on feelings of fear when you see clowns or clown images. It's a specific phobic disorder that causes anxiety, a racing heart, nausea and profuse sweating.
I don't have those reactions, but they make me very uncomfortable and I start imagining all the worst things - like they are serial killers or going to do something very bad to someone. Probably have watched too much TV in my life.
18points

#4

Musophobia. A fear of rats. I s**t my pants when there are any in my vicinity
14points

#5

Balloons... Globophobia
13points

#6

Postphobia. I'm scared of the mailbox. Sounds ridiculous, but it really isn’t. I used to have some lawsuits and even though they ended successfully, I'm still scared of mail.
11points

#7

Achluophobia or Nyktophobia is the fear of darkness. As long as I can clearly see everything I´m fine. But when it´s so dark somewhere that I began to have problems with my sight I started to feel anxious and I´m in need for light.
11points

#8

Trypophobia, including clusters of little things, like fish eggs.
And fish with missing eyes. A fish store in my city was selling piranhas with no eyes or one eye. It was so gross and creepy.
Fish just disturb me. We had a piranha and a coconut convict in the same tank living in harmony for a while. I guess my dumb ex wasn't feeding the piranha enough and started eating the coconut convict, but not entirely in one meal. The damn fish was still alive when it was just it's head, laying on the bottom of the tank, looking around and bopping it's mouth. Before it was eaten it laid eggs on a rock in the tank. My ex couldn't have shown it to me any creepier than he did. "uh.... I think that coconut convict was a female. Look at the rock...." "Ewwww" and the piranha ate the eggs, too.
11points

#9

I'm not exactly courageous, I have many regular phobias, but the weirdest fear that I have is a fear that I have no fear in very serious situations. It irks me to the point you won't believe. In short, the realization of the absence of fear in a situation provokes fear in me. But technically it's more of an anxiety thing, where there is no object of fear.
9points

#10

my sister is afraid of faces, specifically photographs or drawings. animal or human, doesn't matter. she'll move so she can't see them, or take them off the wall, or cover them somehow. it's a trip to watch her squirm if/when she can't avoid them. it also leads to a lot of lying on her part, since she doesn't want people to know she threw their photos and drawings away.
9points

#11

Cleithrophobia, fear of being trapped. Side effect of a trauma. You do not want to challenge my ability to leave, you will lose. Automatonophobia, fear of humanoid figures. Dolls, ventriloquist dummies, the closer it mimics humans (either in appearance, movement, or mannerism) the creepier it is. The Snuggle bear commercials from the 90s still haunts my dreams.
8points

#12

Losing control of my legs and yeeting myself over a banister
8points

#13

i am scared of walking in the dark
8points

#14

I don’t know what some of these are called so bear with me a I I can't be bothered to Google them.
Claustrophobia
Scared of quiet
Silence
Admitting my feelings (don’t know if it’s a real thing but whenever I go to say like I love you my brain just seizes up and I just end up not saying anything)
I have social anxiety I suppose that technically counts
Bridges
Public transport
Night time
Sleeping in the dark.
Yeah I am really paranoid. All these things make my anxiety go through the roof especially the dark and the quiet like both of those together make me so so paranoid
7points

#15

EASphobia. Instant panic when I hear Emergency Alert System tones...
7points

#16

I don't know if it counts as a phobia, it doesn't cause fear but instead a visceral disgust. I've only ever told two people about it in my life and they both used it against me. I told a kid in when we were both in the second grade (USA) and then I told my adult daughter about 5 years ago. Both thought it was hilarious and used it against me. My daughter claims to have forgotten, I won't be telling her again. Y'all here can't do anything though, so.... I cannot tolerate little pieces of paper or bits of garbage around me, on me, especially thrown at me! It makes my skin crawl. This applys to food containers too. If people leave garbage on their plates, inside their glasses, cups. I stay away from those people forever.
6points

#17

Globophobia. Specifically helium balloons. I think it stems from working at Chuck E Cheese as a teen and having to fill 500 a day off the tank, with at least 50 randomly popping. Every balloon was Russian Roulette.
6points

#18

I'm terrible afraid of roaches. It's not just disgust, seeing one really terrifies me. I love bugs in general, and even find rats and snakes kinda cute, but for some reason, roaches are one big NOPE!
6points

#19

Emetophobia - fear of vomiting/ gagging sounds.
5points

#20

1. Thanatophobia, fear of dying.
2. Arachnophobia, fear of spiders.
3.Nyctophobia, fear of the dark.
4.Agoraphobia, fear of large crowds.
...yeah
5points
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