Phobias
I've decided I'm dissatisfied with my phobias.
It might be fun to have a bizarre one; not that I want to acquire more than I already have, but...
I've got two major phobias--heights and hypodermic needles--which is to say I'm acrophobic, possibly bathophobic (fear of falling from heights), and trypanophobic. And that's not just saying I'm afraid of such things, those are my very real phobias.
And I've recently found that real caves make me fairly claustrophobic. I'm over my cynophobia, as dogs only make me anxious now, and am actively trying to avoid becoming aicmophobic (fear of sharp, pointy objects) or ochlophobic (fear of crowds), both of which currently make me very, very antsy. I'm borderline gephydrophobic, but that's only in conjuction with really high bridges, so it's possible that's actually just bathophobia, and not a fear of bridges themselves.
Regardless, those are rather common, standard phobias. It's estimated ~10% of all adults are trypanophobic, and that 5% are acrophobic (at least in the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia, I believe).
.......
I was thinking--if I've got at least 2 serious phobias, why couldn't one be silly? Like Anya (from Buffy's) phobia of bunnies (leporiphobia, not to be mixed up with the fear of lepers, which is leprophobia)? Apparently bunny phobia is very, very common--and one of the most infamous examples of someone who had it is Hitler.
mmhmm. That very evil, world-domination-intending, genocidal man responsible for the torture and slaughter of millions was apparently deathly and irrationally afraid of poofy little bunnies.
...*blink*...
My conviction in the ridiculous has just been restored.
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"It's just a bunny!" -Monty Python and the Holy Grail
It might be fun to have a bizarre one; not that I want to acquire more than I already have, but...
I've got two major phobias--heights and hypodermic needles--which is to say I'm acrophobic, possibly bathophobic (fear of falling from heights), and trypanophobic. And that's not just saying I'm afraid of such things, those are my very real phobias.
And I've recently found that real caves make me fairly claustrophobic. I'm over my cynophobia, as dogs only make me anxious now, and am actively trying to avoid becoming aicmophobic (fear of sharp, pointy objects) or ochlophobic (fear of crowds), both of which currently make me very, very antsy. I'm borderline gephydrophobic, but that's only in conjuction with really high bridges, so it's possible that's actually just bathophobia, and not a fear of bridges themselves.
Regardless, those are rather common, standard phobias. It's estimated ~10% of all adults are trypanophobic, and that 5% are acrophobic (at least in the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia, I believe).
.......
I was thinking--if I've got at least 2 serious phobias, why couldn't one be silly? Like Anya (from Buffy's) phobia of bunnies (leporiphobia, not to be mixed up with the fear of lepers, which is leprophobia)? Apparently bunny phobia is very, very common--and one of the most infamous examples of someone who had it is Hitler.
mmhmm. That very evil, world-domination-intending, genocidal man responsible for the torture and slaughter of millions was apparently deathly and irrationally afraid of poofy little bunnies.
...*blink*...
My conviction in the ridiculous has just been restored.
...............................
"It's just a bunny!" -Monty Python and the Holy Grail