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Phobias are often strange or irrational things. http://www.dictionary.com/ cites it as such:
pho·bi·a /ˈfoʊbiə/ Show Spelled[foh-bee-uh]I've had some issues with certain things in the past, that I cited as phobias, though I've never been sure if they are just deep-rooted aversions or indeed phobias?
noun
a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
This stemmed from a late-night conversation with a jolly bunch of revelling strangers on the Secretary express (aka, late train with rowdy drunk city of London workers). All very nice and friendly.
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| You're outta here my wooly friend! |
One of them has a phobia of cotton wool: her face and her voice as she described it showed she had a real issue with it. The others all laughed at her and called her a weirdo. I laughed at the idea but listened. I understood, I'm not keen on the creaky noise it makes when you pull it apart.
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| Evil foe, I shun ye! Get your shiny brown malevolence away from my presence |
Another guy had chocolate cake phobia, and he cited a childhood experience with it, having been very very ill with it that lead to that. Again, he was mocked, but I listened in, laughing at the appropriate places, but not mocking or joining in with the banter. He laughed at himself as well, but he was obviously not fond of it!
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| No balloons at the party (don't tell the girls that ribbon from the SWAG bag holds a menacing adversary on the end of it) |
I found it bizarre but didn't ever mock! I understood: I dislike the smell of balloons after my hand touches them! Likewise, rubber bands!
That's the thing- phobias are bizarre! That's part of what they are! It's funny to hear about them and have banter but I'd never knowingly mock someone!
What have I cited as mine:
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Mushrooms: Well, for years, I really had a deep-seated fear of mushrooms. To this day, I utterly LOATHE them! I even wrote an empassioned diatribe on this blog in reference to them here. Read it- you'll think I'm crazy, but I am earnest to the point of evangelistic in my hate of them! Missy and Nicole and recipients of comments left on their blogs when their food posts include mushrooms! Somehow, I can't keep my mouth shut!
Plasters: I have a really awful thing about plasters and have done since primary school! I would rather bleed all over the place than put an awful sticky beige square over an injury! They honestly make me shudder- the feel, the colour, the especially wrinkled effect on a non flat surface, especially those big awful ones they used to use on little boys' and girls' knees in the 80's. Urgh! It may have stemmed from an incident where a scab was accidently ripped off when wearing one as a child but I'm not sure of the exact incident. I couldn't bear scabby children when I was a little girl, those who always had plasters on them, it just worried me! Now, as a teacher, of course, I have to put this all aside, but I always regard them with a great inner feeling of distaste.
Sick: I cannot bear it and I know one or two other bloggers who feel the same. I learned how to control it so I would never be sick as a child and I have managed to sustain this mostly. I think it's a control thing- it's such an out of control thing to be doing. Maybe that's one of the reasons that I went off alcohol and never really bothered with it. It's just horrid horid horrid seeing it, and all the senses that go with it! I don't even want to go into more detail!
Maybe they are not really 'phobias', in the clinical sense, but they are certainly things that I try to avoid and have a strong aversion to and that's acceptable I think to think of them as such. What do you think?
Now it's your turn! Share your phobias or deep aversions. Come on, there's got to be some interesting phobias out there!!! What are your phobias or hates?
