# Post your silly fears here....

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-silly-fears-here/28732>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 9, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-silly-fears-here/28732 "2000-08-09T19:05:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![vandal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/858c86/32.png) [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-silly-fears-here/28732/41 "2000-08-10T18:41:35Z")

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I can’t have any pens or pencils pointing at me with their writing ends. Like, when I’m studying and I put my pen in the center of the book where the binding is, I always put it down so that the writing end is facing away from me.

I watched a lot of horror movies as a child, and too many times Freddy Krueger has been able to move things into people’s chests. But it ain’t gonna happen to me! I’m prepared.

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**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-silly-fears-here/28732/42 "2000-08-10T19:13:32Z")

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> \*Originally posted by purplebear \*  
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> As to the OP: hmmm… does Celibacophobia count? 😉 \*\*

Hmmmmmmmmmmm…PB, I’m sure there’re _lots_ of “gentlemen” on the boards who’d like to help youout with that! 😉

Oh, and dragonlady, never fear; I’ve got _gallons_ of the stuff! 😃

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**Author:** ![FarrisGoldstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f17d59/32.png) [@FarrisGoldstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarrisGoldstein)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-silly-fears-here/28732/43 "2000-08-10T19:24:08Z")

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No silly shit for me here, I have two phobias, and they are horrible:

Emetophobia - the fear of vomit/vomitting in any form.  
(I’m slowly getting over this, but nowhere near it)

This one I’ll probably never kick… I don’t know what the formal name is, but I have a deadly fear of being followed. I can’t walk up large, empty stairwells without turning around every other second.

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**Author:** ![inoci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/50afbb/32.png) [@inoci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inoci)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-silly-fears-here/28732/44 "2000-08-10T19:31:23Z")

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right there with you on the clowns thing john. freaky aren’t they. i’ve known them in person, in and out of costume, and i don’t know which is worse. there’s a whole clown subculture that hs strict rules and everything. it frightens me on so many levels.

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