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[rapier]

Thankfully I have no fear of heights, snakes, insects, blood + gore, or any of that stuff. But, apart from one or two social phobias..my main one is

Fear of beaurocracy, red tape.

i detest it with a passion, and go to great lengths to avoid official paperwork. i hate form filling, applying to gov.t depts, even applying for jobs puts me into a bind. i also get nervous and go into a cold sweat at immigration, and other similar circumstances. Which always leads to me being searched.

[OiGirl]

Left-hand turns.

[periwinkle]

God, there are some weird fears there. Heh- fear of the great mole rat- WTF? I'll have to google "great mole rat".

*Edit* I found this, but not any luck finding pictures:

I am deathly afraid of The Great Mole Rat.
Please do not make fun of my mental illness.
Everynight I pray to god it does not eat me.


Found this, too:


Of course, there��s nobody who can scare the shit out of us better and more consistently than we, ourselves can. I recently stumbled across this great little site, The Phobia List, and although far be it from me to make sport of somebody else��s hang-ups�� some hang-ups absolutely demand to be made fun of. Some others�� well, okay, if lightning hits me then it hits me, but some of this stuff just spawns too damned good a mental image to leave alone.

Allodoxaphobia: Fear of opinions. And here I thought everyone was just avoiding me because I was sporting a case of the lingering stinkies.

Ankylophobia: Fear of immobility of a joint. Source of the infamous ��60s ditty, ��Don��t Bogart That Joint (Pass It Over to Me)��.

Anthrophobia or Anthophobia: Fear of flowers. ��Okay! Okay! I��ll tell you what you want to know! Just put away the goddamned posies! You��re creepin�� my shit out here!��

Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Erm�� are we the mascot of the campus��s stoner fraternity? ��Here ya go, Blotter�� treats! Treats! aaaAAHYAH-HYAH-HYAHHH!!! Check it out man! He��s doin�� it man, he��s DOIN�� it!! He��s doin�� the TONGUE thing again!! HYAH-HYAH-HYAHHHhhhh�� uh�� what?��

Aulophobia: Fear of flutes. Somebody actually HAS this? Might we assume some sort of childhood Band Camp trauma in connection with this?

Cymophobia or Kymophobia: Fear of waves or wave like motions. I can see myself now, frantically petitioning the scientific community to declare once and for all that matter exists in a constant particle state.

Geniophobia: Fear of chins. Quentin Tarantino and Ruth Buzzi go on the Tonight Show, and you have a conniption fit. Now, I ask you��

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: Fear of long words. I shit you not, this is on the list!

Hylephobia: Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy. Huh? Materialism�� epilepsy�� materialism�� epilepsy�� See Nonsequiturphobia: The fear of utter incongruence.

Kathisophobia: Fear of sitting down. Y��know, I always knew that Old World work ethic would lead to trouble. And Kosovo actually surprised anyone?

Nephophobia: Fear of clouds. In this case, a picture is worth every word in the friggin�� book��


Which brings us to the gem of gems, the alpha-freak��

Zemmiphobia: Fear of the Great Mole Rat.

No, I didn��t dream this up on a crazed methamphetamine and Sterno jag. Zemmiphobia. It actually appears in virtually every list of phobias presently online. Nobody seems to know from whence it comes, nor does anyone know what the Great Mole Rat is in the first place. In short, this is the most brilliant pop-psychiatric phobia ever dreamed up! Not only is it weirdly vague enough to realistically apply to virtually anything, and dorky enough to be absolutely brimming with big-ticket kitsch value, but it even has a suitably legitimate-sounding name! ��Better make it a double on that Xanax scrip, Doc�� my Zemmiphobia is really dicking with me this month.��

Plus, at its most literal, it��s about a mysterious giant rodent that I��m quite sure no self-respecting Zemmiphobe has ever seen before. I��m picturing the Snuffleuppagus crossbred with a real tooth-gnasher of a subterranean varmint.

[periwinkle]

I found a photo of the naked mole rat! Should I change my avatar?

[ChimpumCallao]

[OiGirl]

[Gorgias]

Mirrors.