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What was the strangest fear you had as a child?

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Posted - September 13, 2016

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  • 44600

    Critisim...same as now.

      September 13, 2016 8:12 PM MDT
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  • 3375

    I was very young and had a fear of riding underneath overpasses in the family car.  I used to duck down onto the floor (in the days before people wore seatbelts) if we were approaching one.  I have no idea why I believed these things were going to suddenly tumble down on us.  

      September 13, 2016 9:58 PM MDT
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  • 1113
    Once I got snow up my nose, and I panicked thinking it would form a huge snowball inside my head and freeze me to death. I was about 5.
      September 13, 2016 10:37 PM MDT
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  • 2758

    Pressure vessels of any size or shape.  They scared the chit out of me! :-)

      September 13, 2016 11:38 PM MDT
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  • 2758

    So THAT'S what happened!

    Thank you for your honesty. :-)

      September 13, 2016 11:38 PM MDT
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  • 17592

    I hated dark and still do as far as true darkness.  I have night blindness anyway so when the lights are off I walk into walls.  I have nightlights throughout the house. 

    I thought snakes were under my bed at night.  I remember being awake and wetting the bed because I was too afraid to put my foot on the floor.  My mother didn't have patience about being afraid of the dark.  When my girls were little I would always ask if they wanted me to leave the light on and they would always so no.  That puzzled me for a long time. 

      September 14, 2016 12:05 AM MDT
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  • 99

    When I was ,oh four or so I joined a crowd in a neighbors yard everyone but me knew a big cement truck was going to deliver cement and as the truck backed closer and closer I ran in panic :P

    For at lest a few weeks after I ran into my backyard whenever a truck passed.....I wasn't going to be hoodwinked again!

      September 14, 2016 12:21 AM MDT
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  • 99

    Least,not lest and I think I'm now afraid of commas! :O

      September 14, 2016 12:25 AM MDT
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  • I had a waterbed when I was a kid, I sometimes thought Jaws might be in my bed!  LOL!

      September 14, 2016 7:09 PM MDT
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  • 1113
    Yes, I admit that I was frozen to death as a child, by inhaling a few flakes of snow. <_<;
      September 14, 2016 7:14 PM MDT
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  • 1113
    LOL xD
      September 14, 2016 7:15 PM MDT
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  • Awww

      September 14, 2016 7:18 PM MDT
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  • 3191

    That I would fail to hit the light switch as I jumped from the third step up from the basement floor and the bears that lived there in the dark would get me...I had five older brothers.  

      September 14, 2016 7:30 PM MDT
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  • "I had the fear that my planet was going to blow-up!"

      September 14, 2016 7:52 PM MDT
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  • 745

    When I went to bed at night and the lights were out I thought that my head turned into a monster's head and that I can only see it reflected on a mirror so I was afraid of mirrors only in the dark. yup >.<

      September 14, 2016 9:39 PM MDT
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  • Exactly!!  lol silly I know.

      September 14, 2016 9:55 PM MDT
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  • :-)

      September 14, 2016 9:56 PM MDT
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  • Ahh

      September 14, 2016 10:00 PM MDT
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  • 53502

    That no matter how hard I tried or how much I studied it, I thought that I would never understand grammar.

    ~

      September 14, 2016 10:21 PM MDT
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  • I can relate! We had crocodiles :-)
      September 15, 2016 6:41 AM MDT
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  • 3463

    Sharks in the swimming pool. I always checked first before getting in.

      September 15, 2016 11:13 AM MDT
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  • The oddest one was that the clothes in the closet could come alive and get me. In fact, I had frequent nightmares about it, and would get nervous if a closet door was not properly closed.

      September 15, 2016 2:36 PM MDT
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  • 3191

    Ha ha ha!

      September 16, 2016 5:48 AM MDT
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