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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Tom on March 30, 2010, 08:29:10 PM
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Now, I know phobias are not things to be made fun of, especially if you are suffering from the phobia, but I have just been doing some research into phobias, as you do. I have come across these phobias, which made me chuckle (but not make fun of):
Luposlipaphobia - fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – fear of long words
Anatidaephobia – fear of being watched by a duck (love this one! ;D )
Taphophobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
Tomophobia :o – fear or anxiety of surgeries/surgical operations -- Not fear of me!
Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact
Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, or Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th
I've got a feeling some of them may not actually be real fears. But that has got me thinking. If you could name a phobia for something unusual, what would you name it? And what is it the fear of?
I've come up with Qwertyuiophobia - the fear of learning the alphabet in a different order! ..0 I'm sure you can come up with something better! ;D
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I loved the Luposlipophobia one.
My phobia (genuine) is waiting for buses in a strange town. It's allied to my phobia of not knowing which floor I'm on, when late for a meeting in a tall building.
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Malc, is it a long-standing phobia... ? ;D
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I learned "triskaidekaphobia" from the back of Beau Peep Book 13.
True story.
And people say that Beau Peep isn't educational...
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I learned "triskaidekaphobia" from the back of Beau Peep Book 13.
True story.
And people say that Beau Peep isn't educational...
Did you read it on a Frigga?