Unusual/unique phobias?

Sniff* Sniff* Ewwww what is that smell? It smells of smelly whore.

I have an unusual phonics - fingerprints. They’re horrible and disgusting and gross. I told like people touching me though so it may have stemmed through that? Not sure. Do you have a unique or unusual phobia?


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Clusters of holes. Like those lotus plant seeds, idk why but I cry and am physically sick when I see them. Just oh god.
Planes as well. Absolutely petrified to get on one. Not even meds get me on.

when people eat loudly and with their mouth open it makes me want to vault myself over a cliff, physically cant listen to it. theres been times when ive hurt my ears by plunging my fingers into it and hightailing it out of the room bc someone was smacking their lips on beef or whatever

Do you guys understand the difference between a phobia and a “pet peeve”?

A phobia is an overwhelming and debilitating fear, it’s a type of anxiety disorder. It’s a horrible, terrifying thing to experience that shouldn’t be trivialised as an annoyance.

I know this wasn’t meant with disdain but please be mindful of language.

Ahh, so transphobic and homophobic mean "overwhelming and debilitating fear" of trans people and gay people, respectively? And rather than challenge bigots afflicted with these anxiety disorders, we should be holding their hands and telling them to think of rainbows? Clearly phobia has a much wider meaning than you're giving it credit.

Further, you don't even know the extent of these posters' aversions to the things mentioned. If someone can be phobic of bananas -- in the narrow sense you've given -- it must also be possible for someone to have a clinical phobia of loud chewing or people mispronouncing flaccid. So can you please be mindful of potentially dismissing people's phobias unnecessarily. Thank you!