Hey Pandas, What’s A Fear You Have That Sounds Stupid But Has A Story Behind It?

My somewhat stupid one is, getting falsely accused of a crime and spending the rest of my life in prison. I’ve heard a lot of scary things about being in prison, and I’ve heard many cases of police chasing the wrong suspect because it’s easier than finding the right one. So, as irrational as it may seem, that’s my stupid fear.

I have this fear of uttering something weird or disturbing when getting a general anaesthesia.

The story behind this is that once, as I was getting prepared for surgery, the doctor gave me the anaesthesic and the assistant told me, "Ok, now you'll start muttering weird stuff, and then soon you'll be asleep"; to which I replied something like, "oh? Really, do people say really weird stuff?".
She reacted strangely, suddenly seemed embarrassed... wouldn't look at me anymore, just after some seconds softly said "yes"...
This was my second surgery in this place within less than a year (needed two sessions). So later at some point, I realised that maybe I had said something REALLY BAD the first time, and she remembered me???

(I have other fears related to anaesthesia because something actually went a bit wrong that time, so I guess I should fear for my life rather than worry about social embarrassment! But this idea of unwillingly saying something disturbing has somehow stuck with me ...I had several surgeries before that but I had never thought about this.)

Mine is loud noises. not super weird but it comes to form an unlikely occurrence, where I and my family had fireworks shot at us and it hit my dad. we all lived, OBVI, but it still terrifies me

Ants. I’m scared of ants.
This is a new one. I love backpacking and there was one day where we woke up and there were ants ALL over me. I came to learn that they had been crawling all over my face while I was sleeping. They were inside my clothes all day, they were in my bag, sleeping bag and even my shoes. I still shiver just thinking about it.

Mine is water slides.

My parents made me go down one (it was like a funnel?) in the pitch dark. It was terrifying

Right now fear of talking to my friends. I am going through some tough time. Don't want to bore them anymore with my sad state right now. But at the same time I have developed a new fear of losing them because I am not keeping in touch with them. Sounds stupid to me but not able to overcome it. Mind playing mind games. Sorry for the rant

Being murdered in my sleep.

Several of my family members were executed in their sleep by someone that they thought that they could trust when I was young. I was the one who found them.

I'm scared of glass windows. A bit over a year ago on my 13th birthday, my arm went through one and I got pretty seriously injured. I have permanent nerve damage and some pretty bad scarring, and now I'm scared of touching windows

Afraid of roaches, which ironically cured my arachnophobia.

When i moved from the chilly midwest to Texas at age 23, i saw my first roach, a giant water bug. It was fast, and it was flying…

It was like brown humming bird, from h__l , just levitating, and bumping into things with a thud sound. It moved towards me slowly, and the horror was intense. I now have a legit phobia of roaches, which actually has a name

When the bus is sitting at a red light in the middle of the train tracks. For crying out loud, leave that space in case a train comes.

A lot of my fears are my C-PTSD triggers. The bulk of them are. However I am also afraid of:

June Bugs - Just typing that out I shuddered. They're like little sticky imbeciles that should all be burned in the fires for all eternity.

Deep water I can't see the bottom of - This one is trickier and tired to a lake incident. One of my uncles took off not realizing I was in the water....well knowing the uncle he could have known but I'd like to believe he didn't do it on purpose.

Ladders - I've fallen off of too many of the dang things.

Sensation of falling - See above - plus I tried roller coasters or spinney rides but I have an imbalance in my ears so I get viciously nauseated and dizzy so fast.

Darkness Bc I might have a disease that’s known to cause blindness

Not a super strong fear, but falling in a cornfield. The first time I fell off a horse I was galloping full speed in a freshly harvested cornfield. Super spiky stocks were everywhere. I (being a naive 10-year old) had not tightened my cinch(part of the saddle that holds onto the horse's stomach) enough. I slid off the side of my horse (saddle and all) and landed on my knees in the spiky corn stalks at 35 mph. Still makes me cringe to this day.

I live in the States and I will never consent to a lie detector test. I will never willingly give a DNA sample. I won't spit in a tube to find out about my genealogy. The reason: I live in the States and there are too many ways this could break bad.

I am horrified of scraping my elbows and knees. I refuse to run on concrete or any surface that I could fall and scrape myself on.

Story: my brothers and I had just bought rollerblades for the first time. Their knee pads and stuff came in, but mine didn’t until later on. I strapped on my helmet and went skating anyway. My brothers really wanted to go downhill, I was wary but I didn’t want to be left behind so I did it. I started going really fast, my break wasn’t working, and there was a DEEP pond right in the way. I was going to grab my dad’s hand but I realized he was also on rollerblades and I would take us both down. My mom tried to push me in the grass so I wouldn’t get hurt, but I collided with my brother. I left a good puddle of blood on the sidewalk that day, and my knee has a cool scar.

Still terrified of bikes, rollerskates/blades etc

Cannibals. I kept having this reoccurring idea that while I was asleep, a group of starving cannibals would come in and eat me alive and they would tear out my vocal cords first so I couldn’t scream. They would use their teeth to tear my flesh and somehow they were under my bed, in my closest, etc. so my brother comes in in the morning to wake me up for school and he just sees my half eaten, bloodied, corpse on the bed. That’s my weird fear

geckos. i am totally terrified of them. i have waited eternities to go outdoors because one was near my door, and i didn’t want it to come inside. i scream when one’s within 3 feet of me. i’m not entirely sure why i’m so scared of them, but i think it’s because of when one got in my house and i saw it wriggle out of my light switch. that sight freaked me out. i also think another part of it is when i finally worked up the courage to go outside for a prolonged period of time and face the geckos after the previous traumatizing incident. all was well, but when i was going inside, i made the discovery that apparently, there was one in my freaking sliding door. hate them. geckos, not sliding doors.

I’m afraid of drunk people because I’ve heard stories about some of my alcoholic relatives that are now deceased. I just don’t like to be around places known for having drunks. I can deal with being around drunks I just prefer to avoid it and when I am near them I’m very cautious. It’s dumb but it’s the honest truth.

Drowning in the shower (I fell off a dock into a lake as a kid and almost unalived). I have a hard time putting my face into the spray, it's that bad.

I have a not-quite-irrational fear of bugs getting stuck in my hair. I know it sounds unlikely and weirdly specific, but several yeas ago I woke up in the middle of the night with a live cockroach literally stuck in my hair. It got free and ran away before I could do anything about it, but there's just something about going to brush your hair out of your face and feeling something squirming around that can seriously scar you.