Bizarre Phobias

I have this realy weird fear of being tickled. If you even just say you're gonna tickle me, i'll actually scream. I tremble and i run away. I've heard of the fear of being tickled by feathers, but being tickled at ALL makes me do these unusual things. Of course, since i scream, my riends ticle me all the time. IM GOING INSANE! at the end of every day my throat is actually coarse from screaming and i cover myself with mi hands as i walk to my dorm. I need help PRONTO! any ideas?

I actually have a friend who is afraid of baked beans, and another firned said she also knows someone who is afraid. It must be quite common! Anyone know a name for it?

I am an Omphalophobic. omphalophobia is the fear of bellybuttons.

I'm So Glad People Have Responded To My Post On Fear Of Dwarves And Midgets. It Is Both Comforting And Eye-Opening To See That I Am Not Alone. Hopefully One Day This Fear Will Be Further Studied And Become A Treatable Nuisance Of The Past. If There Is Anyone Else Who Has Any Information Concerning The Fear Of Dwarves..Please Share. It Would Be Greatly Appreciated.




Rene

I've always been afraid of midgets, too. It's totally irrational and embarrassing but I think that somehow they're contagious. There must be some evolutionary reason for this phobia.

(My mother cannot stand the site of a loose eyelash on someone's face.)

About the fear of Midgets:
I do not have this fear to the extent of a phobia, but my sister does. I remember once we were in Amsterdam in a clup, and really high on some mushroom and dancing like crazy, and she spotted a little person dancing in the floor, she freaked out into a bad trip and spent the rest of her days in the hotel room. She claims it is because of a B-movie she saw when she was 6 in which a group of midgets were lynching a nun. The name of the movie was translated "I don't want to be born" into Turkish.
I asked a psychiatrist friend of mine, and he said it might be related to a primal survival mechanism of "leaving the odd one out". That is, when facing a person with genetical abnormality, the brain urges one to stay away with the irrational fear that the abnormality can be contagious. We know that most cultures in ancient times killed babies that were born with bigger than usual heads, small or no limps or digits.

Ok..this subject was mentioned but I didnt see anyone with an actual chalk phobia. I am freaked out by chalk. It makes me feel like it will never get it off of me if I touch it. I won't even let my kids have sidewalk chalk. I almost quit a college algebra class because the teacher used the chalkboard. I was able to convince him to switch to the dry erase. Its not just the dryness-its the impending dread of that scratching noise too. OMG everyone thinks I'm crazy. I also HATE my elbows touched. WEird, huh?

I HAVE A FEAR OF WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR FIRST AT SCHOOL, IT BOTHERS ME SO MUCH! AND I ALSO HAVE A PHOBIA OF HEARING CERTAIN WORDS USED TWICE IN A ROW NEXT TO ANOTHER WORD USED TWICE IN A ROW.

I have a terrible phobia of the movie "The Ring" and "The Grudge". I didn't see the grudge, because the previews would give me panic attacks. I also have a phobia of soap...IF i use it (at home, I don't use it in public), I have to make several trips back to rinse off whatever was washed. Whenever I get into a situation where The Ring is involved (catching a glimpse of something on tv), i have what i think are convulsions, but i don't know what they are called, they are very physical (my stomach muscles contract up and i can't breathe at all) and almost always include some form of self-mutilation, usually hitting my head on a wall, with a shoe, whatever is near...thinking about someone getting soap on me can also induce these attack-things. PLEASE help I don't know what to do about the convulsion-like-episodes, and has anyone ever heard of a fear of soap or a specific movie?

Help.My son is in grade 6 and has thus paper phobia. He cannot touch paper especially after the shower. It seems to be getting worse. Can we fix this? Can we improve it? How can I help him? Is ther anyone who has got over this problem or found a way to improve the phobia.

Omg I'm so glad I found this site!! I have a massive phobia of wet toilet paper. I have no idea why and it sounds so stupid that I never tell anyone!!! I freak out when going in swimming pool toilets...wet toilet paper all over the floor just makes my skin crawl!!

I'm glad I'm not the only one out there with a strange quirk - i really dislike cardboard and some paper, especially newspapers. I don't class it as a phobia yet as if i really have to handle it i will grin and bare it. It's not all cardboard, just the unshiney shuff, like raw cardboard as i call it. I think it developed from working in a shoe shop and dealing with boxes all the time. I hate the feel on my hands especially after i have washed my hands. It makes my skin crawl. Sometimes i forget i'm carrying cardboard and i when i realise (soon after) i drop whatever im carrying. Pizza boxes is the worse and the sound of them opening, yuck. I've dropped one in the middle of the street before without realising. The sound of cardboad on cardboard makes my skin itch. Everyone finds it funny and not really serious so rub it in my face, scratch it ect.. I'm glad there is others out ther and a name for it Papyrophobia so i can prove to the sceptics that i'm not just strange!!

Right, so i have a fear of chalk, in school i couldnt even watch someone right with it, i cant stand the sound, it makes me spasm all over. one kid in my math class ate a piece just to gross me out, and i puked. yea its that bad, i cant touch it or anything, and somehow this also ties in with snow....you know like when its so cold that the snow crunches? i cant walk on it because of the feeling and sound. Also, grinding teeth....gyyyaaaahhhhhhhh! and when the dentist scrapes your teeth with that pointy thing!

not sure how but all of this ties together for me.

does anyone know what the name for any of those phobias is??? please!

Please, please tell me what the fear of achilles tendons is. I'm deathly afraid of them. I hate the word. It's hard to just type this. They physically hurt when I even hear the word. I've passed out in movies because of certain things happening. Please, please, please what the name?

Achilles tendonitis.


Sorry, sorry... had to be said. I couldn't help myself.

My mother has Arachibutyrophobia, the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of her mouth. Really. Well, at least she started out with Arachibutyrophobia, but now she just hates peanut butter, and when I say "hate," I mean HATE. She can barely stand to have it in the house. Heck, she can barely stand to have it in the same hemisphere.

About that achilles tendon fear of Dwayne's...well, you might try looking here: http://www.phobialist.com/

It's just a list (a very LONG list) of phobias, and it's indexed both alphabetically and by feared thing, so maybe you can find something there. I didn't see anything, but I didn't look very closely. And even if you don't find it, well, the lesson you learn from the phobia list is that it is, in a way, really normal to have irrational fears, it's just that people don't always agree on what those things ought to be.

i have a deathly fear of napkins. i hate the way the feel and when they rub together, i always use a towel to wipe my hands, or even my pants. i hate them especially when they get wet. sometimes i will throw up. also, i have a phobia of midgets. i feel like their diaphragms are being crushed since they are small. AH

i also have a fear of breaking that string under my tongue, it would hurt so bad! and i HATE when the fork scrapes on the plate.. also i hate when you scratch the top of the car ceiling with your nails GAHH i cannot even think about it. i think im the only person weird enough to have all these odd phobias.

i have a phobia of seaweed. if i see it i will gag.

:gulp: OMG!! chris from new york, i like so totally know what you mean!! whenever my hands are dry i just like put them in a fist and wait for them to sweat so that they aren't completely dry. and when my hands ARE dry, sometimes like in the mornings, when i feel paper or like any dry stuff i just have to suck in my lips and put my hands in fists until they aren't dry, like i said before. omg. does anyone know the name of this phobia? if so, please tell me.

:gulp: NEVERMIND!! i went to phobialist.com and i know the word for the fear of dryness! omg! it's Xerophobia. YAY! i have xerophobia. well not yay, but at least i know what it is

:gulp:OMG! abby in florida who posted her comment on fri. dec. 29, 2006 at 8:34 pm i guess, you're like SO totally right with that touching rocks or chalk or anything rough, your whole body tenses up. that like happens to me too! if it IS uncontrolled reflexes, that sucks, but it might be a phobia. anyone know the name?

:gulp:OMG! samantha that posted in this page, above me a little, that posted on fri. jun. 8, 2007 at 8:18 am i like so totally know what you mean with the fear of chalk and like the dentist scraping your teeth with that pointy thingy!! i can't stand it! the only things that i don't have similar to your comment are the snow crunching thing and the teeth grinding thing. i actually don't have a fear of those. but i like really understand your other fears! it might have to do with dryness or something, but i would also like to have all of my fears linked together cuz they are already kinda. and some of them, like the ones you listed, there aren't phobias for!! does anyone know the name of them?

:gulp:OMG for the one i posted before [sorry for posting so many 😊] Chionophobia is the fear of snow! just to let you know, samantha

ey i have homophobia i am not scaired of gay people but the freak me out and make me very angry just know ing they are there makes me mad i dont even like gay girls and im a dude does any1 know how 2 help over come this i dont wanna hate gay people i just do oh and ps seaweed fear girl sea weed is an ingrediant in most tooth pastes lol

Omgosh i have this insane fear of styrofoam and its ALWAYS the packaging of gifts so im beginning to hate christmas and birthdays (though not phobias lol but i dont want them to come) Any time i see styrofoam i HAVE to walk away and if someone touches it im completely paralyzed. After they stop i feel the need to grind my teeth together and scratch my nails on a hard surface like jeans or plastic. Just typing this is making me grind my teeth. I don't even know if their is a name for that phobia and i guess its not the name so much that im concerned about but if anyone knows how to help it i would appreciate hearing from them.

i have a fear of midgets...i feel so bad but i cant help it! i told my boyfriend and he didnt believe me until one time at the casino there was a midget worker and i tryed so hard not to look but he made me and i cryed...i felt horrible. luckely the midget didnt see me.
can anyone relate????

i hate cardborad and lollypop sticks they make me cry, if some one put them on me i would screem
they make me feel sick, i can't stand them

I have a fear of glue. Does anyone know what this is called? I've checked the Phobia List website and it's not there, and using Search Engines comes up with nothing.

Thanks in advance. ;3

There's a woman in my office that has a phobia of cardboard. Why is that and what is the proper term for that?

Oh dear... I knew googling my napkin phobia would turn up *something*. I've been terrified of wet/crumpled napkins for as long as I can remember. If you wet a napkin and put it near me, I WILL scream, even in a restaurant. I can't stand to see people crumple up their napkins and throw them in their empty food boxes/drink containers; it makes me physically ill. I also hate when people use wet toilet paper to clean stuff... Like cuts. When I was little the grown-ups always used to clean my cut knees with wet toilet paper and it used to stick in the cut!! Or leave rolled up specks of toilet paper all over me!!!

I have a phobia i think thats what you would call it of my hands drying whehn i get out of the bath or shower or even when i have just washed them, i am unable to touch anything when i get out of the bath until i have plastered my hands in cream the thought of it makes me cringe!!! there is only one other person i know who has this and its my cousin! is this classed as a phobia?? Also we can not stand certain things on our hands susch as powder, chalk, dust dried clay or mud! HELP!!!!

Wow, someone feels the same as me. I absolutely HATE napkins. Touching them makes me shiver. And when you rub a nakins against itself. (I literally just got the goosebumps).

i have a fear of oompa loompas. now i dont have a fear of midgets or little people but even the song from the movie can put me on edge. i sweat when i hear about them or hear the song. what is this fear called?

Hi i can not stand the touch of carpets jeans or wool clothing, i also can not stand touching most things after i have washed my hands, it actually puts me off washing them, i also can not bear to go to sleep with out vaseline on my feet or cream because of the feeling of the bed sheets on my feet, so dry it awfulalso walking on carpets especially cord carpets, urgggh helllp

i have the fear of something touching or peircing the middle of my hands. weird, right? i hate it. if someone even holds out their hand and pokes their own palm i freak out. it's really uncomfortable for me.

I have a fear of touching paper when my hands are wet oreven a little damp... does anyone know what this is called? I really wanna know. I've looked just about everywhere there is to look and found nothing.

So I've been searching for this phobia and I can't find it anywhere. I have this fear of losing my fingernails. Even as I'm typing this I keep pressing my fingertips together as if to keep them in place. Nails on a chalkboard, digging into something with my nails or watching someone do it, scary movies with threats and removal of nails...you name it. freaks.me.out!!! Anyone feel the same or know the name?

MY name is Emily and my whole life I have had a fear of Fingernails and Toenails. Everytime something is wrong with nails I freak out and shivver up and go crazy. All my friends fell so bad for me cause almost everywhere i go somebody is biting their nails, or doing somehting abd to them.
I've looked the internet to see what the name is called but I can't find it.
I would really love it if you could help me.
I want to overcome this fear but I just can't. =[

i am afraid of things that are sticky. it is a recent development. i was always a little bothered by it, but i can remember a period of giving in to the fear. hearing about wet paper, styrofoam, dry skin...these things sound creepy too. i can empathize. here is what i think. i think that it is secretly and morbidly fun and fascinating to have these fears. i think that in my case, i gave in to mine. i could give into more as well. i want to understand if other people think the same way. i believe that there are probably some people who are truly helpless to their fears, but some of us....i think i am not the only one who can choose.

I have the biggest fear of memory foam. Like tempurpedic matresses make me want to cry and throw up. It's something about the way they smell and how its the exact concept of quicksand. Does anyone else feel this way about the stuff?

i get made fun of all the time becasue i have a big phobia of cotton balls people chase me around with them I HATE IT

Thank you Emily! So I'm alone on this. I'm not as sensitive about the nailbiting, but it does make me nervous and cautious. I keep looking a definition and I've spoken with a therapist about our fear and she was unfamiliar with it too. She's going to look into it and hopefully we'll have a better understanding of it :/

Wooden items, the feel of them is AWFUL, makes me cringe espically wood spoons and if they are wet, GROSS!!!! When a doctor tries to put that yukky wood tong in my mouth, watch out it's THROW UP time. I even passed this phobia down to my oldest son even!!!

Ok so i have ocd and theres many many things that i have to do and cant touch.
Styrofoam is one of them.I find it very discusting.
Getting my hands wet.
If i wash my hands or get them wet (both of them have to be)i cant touch anything else until i dry them.
If i do one thing to on of my hands i have to do the same with the other or the rest of my bodie.
Say i step on a rock with my left foot, i must do the same with my right.
I freak out when i step in water but mainly when im wearing sox.I immediately take them off my feet.
Most soft material bothers me.Like the roofing on the inside of a car bothers me just like the carpet.
Deep water and dark empty spaces freak me out.
i just cant be near it.
Im very scarred of hospitals,growing old and oddly twins.
Ive have to shower 2-4 times a day or i start scratching my skin because it feels dirty and diseased.
I must keep everything in my room or house in a perfect order and when i go out to the store or something im always fixing stuff and putting them in a straight line.
I cant stand paper and when it rubes up against another piece.
The last thing is open drawers or doors.
I find myself often closing them if i see them open.

i totally have an irrational fear of chalk as well! i have NO idea how it started, but it is ridiculous! (it is possible that "nails on a chalkboard" had something to do with it...) in order to not embarrass myself in front of my whole class, i have to tell my teacher that i'm allergic to it, so i won't be stuck having a panic attack at the front of the class o_o i REALLY wish i knew what this type of phobia is called, however...SOMEONE enlighten me, please!

I have a phobia of chalk too! The thought of it never getting off of me doesn't cross my mind or eating it like many others do but i am scared of the feel of it! The texture and the sound it makes on the chalk board is enough to get me cringing about it for the rest of the day. The worst part is i work with children so when ever they have chalks out i have to leave the room or look away and cover my ears!

I work in a restaurant, and a part of my job, is I have to roll silverware in napkins. I can't do it. I am absolutely repulsed when I touch napkins, chalk, cottonballs, or even if someone rubs a dry napkin on my skin. I get goosebumps!! Of course everyone makes fun of me, and chases me with said objects. But I think this "phobia" started with corduroy and velvet clothing when I was little. Is this called something? I know I'm not crazy...I've googled myself out, and this site was the best I could come up with.

I too have a fear of chalkboards, i have for years. I'm not sure what caused it. Just recently my teacher (eeeekk) scratched one and i had nightmares for several weeks, even when i took naps. It's gotten to the point where if a professor takes notes on a blackboard i usually have to leave the room. just the thought them makes me cringe.. the smell, the texture, and all of the terrible things you can do to them. I experience similar reactions like digging my nails into something soft or grinding my teeth. to a lesser extent i'm bothered by scratching or rubbing cardboard/paper... and the metal tabs/spouts on the top of a morton salt shakers that made that terrible shreik when you open them.. crazy? maybe. Alone? not anymore... lol.. thanks for listening.