I'm afraid of 24 out of 72 common fears

[lumy12]

The fear meme, stolen from everyone and their mom:

[ ] the dark
[ ] staying single forever
[x] being a parent
[x] giving birth
[x] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[ ] closed spaces
[ ] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[x] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants

Total so far: 4

[x] being touched
[x] fire
[x] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[x] the ocean
[x] failure
[x] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[ ] my boyfriend's/girlfriend's/spouse's dad
[ ] boyfriend's/girlfriend's/spouse's mom
[ ] rats
[x] jumping from high places
[ ] snow

Total so far: 11

[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[ ] crossing hanging bridges
[x] death
[ ] heaven
[x] being robbed
[x] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[ ] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[x] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes

Total so far: 15

[ ] hurricanes
[x] incurable diseases
[x] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[x] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[ ] being alone
[x] becoming blind
[x] becoming deaf
[x] growing up

Total so far: 21

[ ] creepy noises in the night
[x] bee stings
[ ] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] needles
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[x] throwing up
[x] falling in love
[ ] super secrets

Total: 24

... if you wish to post this in your journal, it's been requested that you title it "I'm afraid of _ out of 72 common fears"

If you get more than 30, I strongly recommend some counseling
If you get more than 20, you’re paranoid.
If you get 10-20, you are normal.
If you get 10 or fewer, you’re fearless.

They left off some major stuff or I would have scored higher!
Are people really afraid of all these things? I mean... silk? Can someone explain how that's scary?

Comments

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

nee-chan is the following:

Tocophobic- being a parent
Maieusiophobic- chidbirth
Philophobic- falling in love
Autosociophobic- being myself in public
Arachnophobic- spiders
Aphenphosmphobic- being touched
Pyrophobic- fire
Potamophobic- deep water
Thalassophobic- ocean
Atychiphobic- failure

There's more but this will do for now.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I should have known you would post something academic in response! You're going to expect me to remember all these, now, aren't you. Did you add them to my chart?

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

There's only ten.... Of course!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

FYI the "being touched" one is a little iffy. Sometimes I like it. Hugs from certain people are good. But they don't have "sex" up there so... yeah. Add that to the chart.

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Okay! Nee-chan is genophobic...

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Adding on!

Succederephobic- success
Catapedaphobic- jumping from high places
Necrophobic- death
Harpaxophobic- being robbed
Basiphobic- falling
Hypegiaphobic- responsibility
Pathophobic- incurable disease
Ichthyophobic- water creatures (i.e. sharks)
Peniaphobic- poverty
Scotomaphobic- being blind
Anacousticophobic- deafness
Gerontophobic- growing up
Cnidophobic- bee stings
Aeronausiphobic- throwing up

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

"Peniaphobic" sounds dirty. *snicker*

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

and you call me a perv!

[callita623.livejournal.com]

apparently i'm fearless????
then why do i worry about shit and i can't sleep at night.
they need to put global warming on that list.

[callita623.livejournal.com]

oh wait.. i saw another one.. stick me in the normal category.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

They left off quite a few big ones, methinks. But I guess those just aren't common enough? Heh.

Re: I gots 10...

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

No! Lots of fears not on here! What kind of common fear test is this anyway???

So you're normal. Go figure!

Re: I gots 10...

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Anuptaphobic- staying single
Bathmophobic- stairs and ladders
Arachnophobic- spiders
Ophidiophobic- snakes
Musophobic- rodents
Catapedaphobic- jumping from high places
Gephyrophobic- crossing hanging bridges
Harpaxophobic- being robbed
Anemophobic- tornadoes
Peniaphobic- poverty

Re: I gots 10...

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Mehehehe! Of course! If I didn't do it, then I would have let Wendy down!

Re: I gots 10...

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

She expects me to be all smart and snarky! I had to do it to fulfill her expectations!

Re: I gots 10...

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yes! And I expect you to say "I'm glad you didn't get buried by the tree people, Nee-chan!" (but on the other post, not here. Yeah.)

Re: I gots 10...

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

I will go to the other post and fulfill your expectations, nee-chan!

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

I think I'd be classed as fearless. The force is with me

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Show-off!

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

Yeah sorry, thanks for the Jessica pick though :)

[amaelgreenleaf.livejournal.com]

I feel a little weirded out. I'm only scared of 5 things on those lists.... meep?

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Someone on my f-list had less. But if you think about it you can probably add to this list for yourself, right?

Nice to see you on LJ again, Mary!

[amaelgreenleaf.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh. You noticed I went missing?

I had to hide in the Dagobah system. I was being hunted by Sith Lords. ;)

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yes, dear. But you usually turn up sooner or later.

You're supposed to go to Tatooine, being an Obi-fangirl and all. Hee.

[amaelgreenleaf.livejournal.com]

Shhh! I really was on Tatooine having wildncrazy Jedi sex. I just say Dagobah to throw them off my scent. ;)

[bitter-moss.livejournal.com]

Well courage is all about being afraid, but suiting up anyway. It's not very brave to be a hero if you don't have fears to face is it? (I could phrase that better but i am le tired)

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Good point! (still not sure that would apply to me but it makes me feel more Gryff-like! lol)

[moowithme113.livejournal.com]

[x] the dark
[ ] staying single forever
[x] being a parent
[ ] giving birth
[x] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[ ] closed spaces
[x] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[x] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants

Total so far: 4

[x] being touched
[x] fire
[ ] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[ ] the ocean
[ ] failure
[x] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[ ] my boyfriend's/girlfriend's/spouse's dad
[ ] boyfriend's/girlfriend's/spouse's mom
[ ] rats
[x] jumping from high places
[ ] snow

Total so far: 8

[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[x] crossing hanging bridges
[x] death
[ ] heaven
[x] being robbed
[x] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] dolls
[ ] large crowds of people
[x] men
[ ] women
[x] having great responsibilities
[x] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes

Total so far: 15

[ ] hurricanes
[x] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[ ] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[ ] being alone
[ ] becoming blind
[ ] becoming deaf
[x] growing up

Total so far: 17

[x] creepy noises in the night
[x] bee stings
[ ] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] needles
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[ ] falling in love
[ ] super secrets

Total: 20

I think the only one that I have a SUPER super fear of is fire. I hate fire and anything hot.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

So you're ALMOST paranoid but not quite!

Fire is pretty darn scary. Cuz... OWW.

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

Achluophobic- darkness
Tocophobic- being a parent
Autosociophobic- being myself in public
Acrophobic- heights
Arachnophobia- spiders
Aphenphosmphobic- being touched
Pyrophobic- fire
Succederephobic- success
Catapedaphobic- jumping from high places
Gephyrophobic- crossing hanging bridges
Necrophobic- Death
Harpaxophobic- being robbed
Basophobic- falling
Androphobic- men
Hypegiaphobic- responsibility
Iatrophobic- doctors
Pathophobic- incurable disease
Gerontophobic- growing up
Scotophobic- noises in the dark
Cnidophobic- bee stings

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

You are such a nerd!

[darkp-hawk.livejournal.com]

I prefer OCD geek thank you very much!

[edenmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I got 27. I can't believe dinosaurs is a common fear. I've always felt like such a douche being scared of them. lol There's this exhibit at the St. Louis zoo that features like 16 life sized animitronic dinos, my mom wants to go and it makes me sick to my stomach thinking about it.

Though maybe that would be more a fear of incredibly large animitrons....hmmm.....

lol

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

I can totally understand why someone would be afraid of dinosaurs. They are scary-looking and menacing! And I still remember seeing Jurassic Park in the theatre, the first film that "my" theatre (where I used to work) showed in DIGITAL sound - so awesome! Now of course the sound systems are even better and people take it for granted, but it was such a big deal back in the day!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Is this the same theater where you were having sex while working the film projector? Or whatever it was you were doing up in that little room. Gives a whole new meaning to that image from Jurassic Park of the T-Rex closing in on the car and the text on the mirror "Objects are closer than they appear."

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

O_O You have a dirty mind, young lady! (no, really?)

You make it sound so... dirty. *snicker* I'll have you know I was a VIRGIN when Jurassic Park came out, thank you very much!

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

You love me for my dirty mind. Sometimes it results in Anakin/Palpatine smut!!!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Rarely does it result in anything so glorious! But yes, your dirty mind fits in well around here. lol

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

I did say "sometimes," not "often!"

Oh, this is so easy, I'm gonna ace this.

[aaronisthebest.livejournal.com]

Check this out:

The fear meme, stolen from everyone and their mom:

[ ] the dark
[ ] the light
[ ] staying single forever
[ ] staying double forever
[ ] being a parent
[ ] being a parrot
[ ] giving birth
[ ] taking birth
[ ] being myself in front of others
[ ] being others in front of myself
[ ] open spaces
[ ] partly opened spaces
[ ] closed spaces
[ ] partly closed spaces
[ ] heights ladders.. not mountains
[ ] messed up grammar on lines in memes
[ ] dogs
[ ] ugly dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] ugly birds
[ ] fish
[ ] ugly fish
[ ] spiders
[ ] ugly spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants
[ ] trees or other bushes

Total so far: 0

[ ] being touched
[x] being touched by Michael Jackson
[ ] fire
[ ] "fire, fire, fire!" being said by Beavis
[ ] deep water
[ ] shallow water
[ ] snakes
[ ] ugly snakes
[ ] silk
[ ] seriously? silk?
[ ] the ocean
[ ] Billy Ocean
[ ] failure
[ ] successful failures
[ ] success cute you are afraid of both! silly
[ ] who said that?
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[ ] my boyfriend's/girlfriend's/spouse's dad
[ ] my boyfriend's girlfriend's spouse's uncle
[ ] boyfriend's/girlfriend's/spouse's mom
[ ] boyfriend's girlfriend's spouse's aunt's gardener
[ ] rats unless they are pets
[ ] pet rats
[ ] jumping from high places
[ ] jumping from low places
[ ] snow
[ ] freezing rain
Total so far: 1

[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[ ] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] hanging from crossing bridges
[ ] death
[ ] life
[ ] heaven
[ ] hell
[ ] being robbed since I was. it always haunts me.
[ ] psycho much?
[ ] falling
[ ] clowns
[ ] falling clowns
[ ] dolls
[ ] large crowds of people
[ ] large people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[ ] other
[ ] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] doctors, not including dentists
[ ] tornadoes
[ ] baby tornadoes

Total so far: 0

[ ] hurricanes
[ ] incurable diseases
[ ] curable diseases
[ ] sharks land shark... candy gram
[ ] San Jose Sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] 13 Fridays in a row
[ ] ghosts
[ ] really white people
[ ] poverty
[ ] being broke
[ ] Halloween
[ ] October 31s
[ ] school
[ ] schools of fish
[ ] trains
[x] Don Imus
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[ ] whole numbers
[ ] being alone
[ ] borrowing a loan
[ ] becoming blind
[ ] being blind
[ ] becoming deaf
[ ] being deaf
[ ] growing up

Total so far: 2

[ ] creepy noises in the night
[ ] what was that?
[ ] bee stings
[ ] spelling bees
[ ] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] dreams/goals
[ ] needles
[ ] haystacks
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] bloody dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] what the hell?
[ ] high speed
[ ] being high on speed
[ ] throwing up
[ ] falling in love
[ ] same thing?
[ ] super secrets
[ ] sucrets
Total: 2

Looks like I'm only afraid of Michael Jackson and Don Imus. To be fair, I woulda clicked the x next to 'chicks with mustaches', too.

I'm pretty fearless. Kids should all want to be like me when they grow up.

Re: Here's mine *smiles at you.*

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course, you're quite fearless, Hero With No Fear. Pffffft :P

Re: Here's mine *smiles at you.*

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Yay! (to the smile, not the mood) *pets*
I tried to respond to this last night for ages but my connection was crap. Glad it seems to be working today.

Re: Oh, this is so easy, I'm gonna ace this.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

You are a HUGE DORK. But you do get points for actually logging in to your LJ. Go you!

Remind me to yell at you about that Colbert guy.