Bizarre Phobias

I also have the fear of touching wet paper. Any kind of paper that is wet absolutely grosses me out and really disgusts me. I can though touch the paper if I have gloves on. My friends gave me the nickname hydopapryophobe for my fear because its the fear of water and paper combined.

I am terrified of spines! Everytime I think about it I get all tensed up and want to throw up. I don't know how it started, but just the sight of skinny people bending over and their spines showing through their skin gross me out. Just typing this is making me sick! Also, I don't like achilles tendons. The thought of them makes me sick and I always think they are going to snap and it makes me sick! Is this an awkward phobia, or do other people not like spines or achilles tendons either?

I have an odd fear of sheets. I cant bear the thought of them touching my skin or anything. Also I strongly dislike white pillowcases... anyone know the name of this?

When I was a kid, I had a fear touching scratchy towels, and scratchy material, and also people chewing on fabric, like kids at school chewing on their sweater sleeves, :ahhh: it used to make me want to scream and pull my hair out. Does anyone have any idea what that would be called?

I saw a pickle-phobe on Maury, and an online article says she's a real Sioux Falls waitress - but c'mon, pickles? Besides, a crew member walked right past her with a huge tray of pickles right after she ran screaming from the stage, and she didn't even flinch.
My b.f. freaks out if he sees anyone touch a Kleenex with wet hands.

does anybody know the name of a fear of foam or styrofoam?

I have a fear of midgets. I always dream that they are chasing me, in the hundreds. I think you could call the styrofoam fear "Styrophobia" or "Styrophomia", I don't know make something up.

I have a fear of computers too. Wait..ahhhhhhhhhh!

I know a person who had a fear of hair and shaves his head bald and well.... his whole body.
EVEN THE EYEBROWS. He looks really odd of course.

I am deathly afraid of little people. I have panic attacks when i am near one, to the exstrem of hypovenalating and crying. I cant move i ant to run away but cant! I really feel bad about it but can't help it. When i see them i have dreams about them chasing me for the next few days. when i see them on t.v. i have to jsut walk away or stop looking because i will get creeped out. I know i am not the only one who has a fear of them but yet i cant find out any info on my "condition" or whatever you want to call it. If anyone knows the name of the condition or have any advice let me know please! thanks

i seem to have a fear of scratching on a chalkboard. when ever i see one, my back shivers!
what should i do?

i also have a fear of spiders!
they make me fear like i'm about to through-up!
anyone have any sugestions?

im only fifteen,
but i have so many bizarre phobias.
first is styrofoam i cannot touch it.
its the grossest feeling, and makes a disgusting noise.
i also cant stand aluminum foil,
cotton balls, nail polish remover.
i cant stand when people look at my neck,
it makes me freak out, and yell.
and if they touch my knees, i cry.
because i think my kneecaps gonna shatter
into likea million pieces, or something
i cant stand when my hands are wet; and wrinkle up
and ever since i was real little. i would hold my hands in fists.
until they dried.
i dont like to touch paper, or yellow pencils.
its annoying, because everywhere i go,
im always asking for a different cup, or somehting.
my sister helps out.
she'll touch anything styrofoam for me.
and at restaurants she always takes my paper placemat away.
and the paper on straws and napkin holder-things.

eh; i cant stand that.
if anyone else shares these bizarre phobias, write back.

I can not STAND styrofoam....or cardboard...I can be around it, but at work they ask me to fold them up and carry the boxes and I just cant...

I also HATE the feeling of really anything on my feet except carpet and some fabrics. I cant stand felt on my feet, or hardwood floors or some other things, gives me chills....

lollypopguildophobia is the fear of midgets. They may be small but i can spot one in a crowded market and cross the road or turn down side streets to avoid crossing the path and having them look at me.I am a grown man nearly 40 and they reduce me to a wreck

Does anyone know what the name is for a fear of cardboard???

Here you go everyone: http://www.phobialist.com

ok well it's not really a fear of paper... it's a fear of paper scratching against itself, if that makes sense. whenever i hear the noise i can't stand it and i take the persons paper away. i get really anxious and really scared. if it goes on for too long i feel physically sick...


also, i can't stand someone ripping or rubbing something through styrofoam. or the squeakiness of it...

but the paper thing has been with me since i can remember...

I HATE COASTERS!!!! YES YES YES FOR THE WET PAPER THING WOW I AM NOT ALONE!!! and isn't it so so so so awful when like a waitress gives you a cup and SETS IN ON YOUR NAPKIN! i just want to strangle her! but not really don't worry. WOW! :D but yes coasters and wet paper!!! oh and overly large things like um a penny the size of a pool

i hate styrofoam more than anything in the world. If i see it my hands swear and i sometimes get anxiety attacks. It is everything about it.
Also if things are too soft or mooshy. i dont know. its wierd but i wasnt sure if anyone felt the same.

I have a great fear of dwarves. It started out as just a fear of Oompla-Loompas (Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory). My fear than grew to dwarves in general. I can't find any information on it, so I guess it's more rare and unusual than I previoulsy thought. If anyone can help me find information about my fear of dwarves, it would be much appreciated.

I have a fear of touching wet hands and feet, I cannot go swimming as if anyone even brushed passed my hands or feet I would feel physically sick. I could not shake hands with someone who had just washed their hands, it's the sensation of wet wrinkled skin, if someone was to even talk about it I would get goose bumps and feel sick. I can touch wet skin if it is not hands or feet. I cannot even rub my own wet hands together or let my feet touch when they are wet. I know of one other person who suffers from this but do not know what it is called or how to get rid of this fear, does anyone know? it is something that has always affected my life.

One of my good freinds is terribly afraid of glue. He is completly terrified of it. we did a glue project in school once and his mom wrote him a note so he could be excused from gluing. he is not afaird of all things sticky just glue. He asked me to please find out what the fear of glue is called and if there is a real phobia of it. Thankyou so much.
-Hills

oh my god....i'm terrified of midgets. i never knew exactly HOW scared of them i was until a few weeks ago i was working (at dairy queen) and one came through the drive thru. i opened the window to take his money and then i realized he was a midget and my heart jsut stopped. i had to look away and i started freaking out but i didnt want to be rude, so i forced myself into taking the money out of his little :( hand...and ugh. as soon as i closed the window i was breathing really hard, my heart was beating so fast, my legs went numb, and my hands got all tingly....i told people about my weird fear and they were all laughing at me lol...i even almost started crying, it was pathetic...but i can't help it.
now the worst part was the midget was in a doctor's outfit!!! that's absolutely my worst fear now...once when i was telling my friend about it she was like, "what if he was a gynocologist?" i almost started crying, now tell me ANYONE who wouldn't be freaked out by that!! ugh....

haha wow somebody posted something about this back in January.. but I have a huge phobia of achilles tendons. I cannot stand to look at them or feel them. I hate how they look & I am always scared they are going to snap. I've been scared of them for a few years & all my friends know.. so when we all watched Hostel & his achilles tendons got cut & snapped or whatever.. I went crazy!! I could not think straight that whole night it grossed me out so bad!!!! Is that like a real phobia??

I've never found anyone with the same thing as me but I hope to oneday so I don't seem as insane! I have the biggest fear of napkins. When someone touches one I can feel my whole body tense up and I get goosebumps everywhere. When my family uses them at dinner I have to go eat in a seperate room. It's the noise they make when someone touches them..it's like the sound of death! Or when someone puts something ontop of a napkin...oh god.

I don't really have a phobia of this, but I can understand where people are coming from when they say they have a phobia of papers rubbing over each other.
Whenever I pick up an old book with dusty pages and they rub together my skin crawls.
It doesn't stop me reading the book... I just have to gather my thoughts briefly, so I don't count it as a phobia.

I'm terrified of stryofoam...if I see it, I'm fine few a few seconds, but I'm so scared its going to just start moving around from the littlest bit of wind and make that awful sound...so I ask people not to touch it around me, and of course they do...I end up screaming, running out of the room crying and I just blank out...not like pass out butnot being able to get myself to say anything or move...I'm dying to find the name for this....

I have a phobia of most dry things, when my hands are dry, and the feel of paper. Help

I have a fear of monkeys. I don't trust them. I also have a fear of foam parties. Neither of these have proper terms and I feel as though my fears are not being recognised. This in turn makes me anxious. Anxiety is a form of fear.It's a vicious circle...

i am afrid of midgets and thought i was the only one thank god there are more people out there that share the same feeling as i get sweaty hand ,cry ,run away i hate myself for it.

I WAS LOOKING FOR THE WORD FOR 'A FEAR OF MIDGETS!'

I WAS LOOKING FOR THE WORD FOR 'A FEAR OF MIDGETS!' I have a friend who is terrified of them and I was trying to locate the word for it. Good to see there are others so it is a legitimate phobia that deserves a legitimate lexical context.

I also have a phobia of fabric on teeth.

If i see anyone chewing on fabric, or tissue paper, I completely freak out, and it makes my teeth feel funny, and I salivate

it is happeing now just thinking about it!

I have a fear of carpet and wet dirty materials like rags, towels, t-shirts, mesh,etc. I can't look at these things or even thouch them. When I go to the movie theater I have a differcult time trying to sit beacause I wont sit on the seats. Does anyone know what kind of phobia this is?

OH MY GOSH!! I am not the only one. As long as I can remember I can NOT touch paper with wet hands. I just can't. It grosses me out so bad I mean disgusts me. Any kid paper. I get the ebie jebies. My husband and friends this I am so strange. I am glad to know that others can relate. Is there a phobia name for it?

Well let's see ...
There's aibohphopia, the fear of palindromes. Then there's phobiaphobia, the fear of phobias; and what about phobiaphobiaphobiaphobia, which is the fear of unbounded recursion.

Ive got a fear of no I cant type it!The last one!!!!!

hello im 15 and i too have a fear of people touching my kneecaps too. My family and friends used to think it was weird or i was making it up or something , because i used to get really scared about it. Now that I know that Im not the only one with that phobia I thank you for i feel much beter about it now knowing Im not the only one who doesnt like there knees been touched.
Thank You XXX

so im pretty much deathly afraid of midgets for no reason. i will not watch Charlie & The Cholocate Factory. and i will turn and go the other way when i see one. i really feel horrible for it too. i also cannot stand when the dentist puts cotton or anything like it in my mouth. that is the worst feeling ever. oh and i hate when people put anything that is fabric like in their mouths and when little kids chew on their jacket strings. i get chills and i almost throw up. i'm pretty sure there aren't names for these phobias which makes them even worse. anyone on the same page as me?

HElp i am so scared of spiders everything about them creeps me out everytime I see one i want to scream and run away as fast as i can and for the record i'm a guy but damn it they could be anywhere with their webs and stuff i mean crawlin all over the place not that one spider bite will kill me but they're just to creepy anyone got any ideas

i'm so scared of spiders it's not funny everytime i see one i want to run out of the room screaming and someone else to kill it scoop it up and put in a river that will carry it a million miles away and i'm a guy i mean come on why me anyone else have any suggestions

oh MAN!! i totally get what you're saying about the dentist putting cotton stuff in your mouth. gyahhhh.. SO gross. i'm also absolutely TERRIFIED of being injected with something by a needle, as in getting vaccinated. i can handle having my blood drawn a bit better (even though i'm still getting stuck with a needle.. ughh!), but just.. that feeling of the substance being injected into your body.. AAAAAAAAGH. that's gotta be my worst fear ever. i can't even watch someone get a shot. i border on psychotic behaviour if i ever have to get one. crying, screaming, everything. seriously. it's pretty sad. ><

needless to say, i'll never have to worry about developing a heroin addiction. =^)

i'm 19, by the way. ><

woah i defianlty thought i was just weird but i have a fear of any type of wet paper.. especially napkins.. it completly groses me out and makes me sick

can anybody tell me if they too have a fear of the following and if possible whats the phobia name for it??? It would be a great help.

Wet paper, touching or even seeing it
licking paper/stamps or envelopes
wet wood (the thought of drying a wooden spoon makes me cringe!!)

Thanks

To Sarah in Canada: YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!! I was just telling someone about my insane fear of napkins and searched for it on the internet and found your post. I can't find anyone else with this fear and all of my friends and family think I am nuts! The sound of fingers rubbing on napkins makes my spine tingle and my skin crawl. Thank God there is ONE other person in the world that has the same phobia!

im agoraphobic...and I have a fear of pickles...I dont know what thats called though.

I HATE cardboard...the feel, the color, the sound it makes when you open a box (like scraping). I have no clue why, but I just can't stand it. Since I can be around it, I don't think it's a phobia (yet), but I try to avoid it when I can.

Yeah...random...

I have a horrible fear of midgets! I can't help it, and I know it's horrible and I'm the nightmare of politically correct people. I have been searching for the correct term forever. I really just freak out, it's not my fault, though, if I could control it, then I would. =[
Also, whenever I touch rocks, or chalk, or rough things, my whole body tenses up. I wouldn't call it a fear, it's just...uncontrolled reflexes. =[

I am a 30 year old man and when I see a midget I am mortified. I grew up very religious and in the Old Testament of the bible there are 2 references to giants. The bible clearly explains that giants were the offspring of humans who procreated with fallen angels. There is no proof of this ofcourse only faith, but it lends the question; are midgets also the product of some type of other worldly breeding gone bad. My fear of dwarfs is driven by a fear that they are not "all" human. I feel threatened by them and I feel that they all grow up knowing their true origin and even worse - when they're around me they sense that I know what they know. I am wondering if other peoples phobia is rooted in the same type of thought as mine.

What do you call the fear of paper rubbing together? I have it and it drives me crazy it's like my skin gets turned inside out!! HELP