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what gives?

people deathly afraid of spiders, needles, etc. what is the world coming to? what are your irrational fears and excuses?

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Is fear of heights irrational? Its not as much a fear now as it was when I was younger but there are times when I get nervous.

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Fear: Claustrophobia

Excuse: Mommy issues

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None. I have a lot of a rational fears--like heights. But thats what makes climbing, high places fun.

Also, I have a fear of dinosaurs. Not the ones in museums, real ones. If I saw a dinosaur, I'd be [censored] terrified. Not only could the thing possibly eat me, or at least step on me, it would shake my very foundations of understanding to the ground.

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I was thinking this same thing.

I don't have any irrational fears that I can think of.

Needles, snakes, spiders, heights, tight spaces, none of that bothers me.

It's very interesting psychology though.

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Is fear of heights irrational? Its not as much a fear now as it was when I was younger but there are times when I get nervous.

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it depends.. are you afraid when you are clearly in a safe situation, or are you hanging from a piece of dental floss from the outside of a skyscraper?

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I was thinking this same thing.

I don't have any irrational fears that I can think of.

Needles, snakes, spiders, heights, tight spaces, none of that bothers me.

It's very interesting psychology though.

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me neither that's why i thought to bring it up. i get afraid if i think i am in danger, that's it.

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Waiting in a dentist room and sitting in the chair before he/she starts. It's not the actual drilling and poking around he does, it's just the waiting and thinking "This could really really hurt..."

It all stems from getting my front tooth knocked out when I was younger, got it capped after 5 injections and 4 hours in the chair.

No other fears really.

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Anything thats smaller than a dime and can do this. Caution, it's not a pretty spider bite.

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there is a reason they r called phonbias