General Chat

how many can we come up with?

Autophobia - solitude

Agrophobia - open spaces Claustrophobia - enclosed spaces

Arachnaphobia - fear of spiders Hydrophobia - fear of water My own phobia since childhood I don't have a name for (fear of wires and pipes in dark spaces such as roof spaces, tube tunnels, or under car bonnets). Angela

cacophobia - ugliness

Francophobia - fear of France/French people Angela

I donot like knives or sword fightes since very little d'not know the name for it Val

Val aichmophobia is the fear of knives and pointed objects sorry Angela can't find a name for yours ;-))

Androphobia - fear of men Pogonophobia - fear of beards Cyclophobia - fear of bicycles (yes really, there is a stranger phobia than mine!) Angela

fear of snakes/worms

i have a fear of sand when i was small at school the fire bucket would make me sick lol the sand tray in class .......... if we went to beach my parents got a big blanket and i sat in the middle. weird i think im still like it i just go to stony beach. karen

Dawn the fear of snakes is ophidiphobia the fear of worms is scoleciphobia and the fear of Dawn is eosophobia (actually it the fear of the dawn) ;-)))

Thats why I don't have any friends they all have a phobia of me!!!!!!!!!!!! Just told hubby and he says definitely has a phobia of Dawn she scares him to death!!!!

sorry Dawn, nothing personal ;-))

Dawn, so you don't feel quite so bad, the fear of a certain name is onomatophobia,

Dee, don't worry no one else has ever come up with a name for it in over 30 years. Started when I was 3. For a long time I couldn't get in lifts, travel in the front seat of cars, go on the tube, etc. I still have a problem every time they remove a ceiling tile at work for maintenance. They have to relocate me. Last week they opened a hatch next to the door to the Ladies so they could do some work on the pipes. I had to cross my legs for the rest of the day and didn't dare to have any coffee. I also couldn't leave the building as the Ladies is next to the lifts. Building manager thinks I'm potty but its a very real phobia. Angela

Karen My daughter is funny about sand too. When she was tiny she would not allow her feet to touch sand on the beach or a sand tray - she would pull her legs up and scream. She will go on the beach now but only with shoes and socks on, and sits on a blanket. She won't play with sand in a sandray. Angela

Angela, that must be quite difficult, it is something that is hard to avoid, if maintenance needs to be done I guess you don't always get much warning

Snakes, particulary the poisoness ones. Years ago in India I was with some colleages having a walk round this village when we came across a snake charmer, he had cobras and some other types which I cant remember. I was persuaded to hold one of these 'things' by my companions on the premise that they had had their poison glands removed, I found out afterwards that they were all very poisonous and I'd been playing with them yuk!!!!!! B_____ds!!! Len

angela the feel of of sand on your feet or if you touched it would make me literally sick,i had to stay in doors when my hubby layed some slabs in the back garden lol ,i told him he had to sweep ever last grain away so i didnt get it on me,he thinks im mad. karen