[ SECRET POST #3004 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3004 ⌋

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Comments

Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

What are your fears, FS? Beyond the obvious 'something happening to my loved ones.' And when I say legitimate fears, I'm mean not things like lion attacks (unless you live near an area where there are wild lions, or are truly afraid of going to the zoo because you think a lion will escape and attack you), or being dropped in a pit of snakes, etc.

Mine is home invasion. Not something anyone wants to happen, but I feel like I spend way too much time thinking about it. And on a more paranoid level, I'm really afraid that some time I'll get called for jury duty and it will be a grisly murder case.

Re: Legitimate fears

[herpymcderp]

I thought about this for a while and realized I don't really have any. I'm not afraid of specific organisms or heights or flying or anything like that. I don't have fears of things that have a remote chance of happening, although I sure wouldn't like to contract HIV or rabies or other incurable diseases much.

I mean, I sort of fear death (at some points in my life it's worse than other points) and I guess that's somewhat legitimate... but ultimately I feel like that's a pretty useless fear to have which makes it feel less legitimate to me. Also the fact that most of the time it isn't an active fear.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

Being downstream of another SJW dogpile, and having it be worse than the last one. I'm only now coming out of the depression from the last one over two years ago, and I can't think what it will take to rebuild my career.

Re: Legitimate fears

[iceyred]

The only thing I can think of is my fear of spiders. Other than that, I'm with Herpy. There's just not much worth fearing.

Re: Legitimate fears

[mekkio]

I have phobia about heights. It's so bad that I can't even go on a high dive board at the pool. My body reacts too much and I lose all sense of balance and I collapse to my feet with me trembling like a leaf. I can't handle it.

Re: Legitimate fears

[dethtoll]

Fire.

If my house burned down, I would never, ever, ever be able to replace, well, anything. My life would be ruined.

Re: Legitimate fears

[meredith44]

Heights. I not only can't deal with them myself, but I have trouble watching others on heights. Like I hated bringing the kids I nannies for to the playground as they had no fear and I was just so paranoid watching them.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

carbon mono-oxide poisoning or drowning. Neither have happened to me or anyone I know but my mum let me watch the local news when I was young and they just sort of stuck with me.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

That I'm being followed.

Legit b/c well...I've had it happen both on foot and in the car before*.

*Different people, different places and unrelated...but still. Scary.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

Tornadoes. I'm not in a super tornado prone city and my apartment has a basement, but I travel a lot for work, usually by car, and stay in a lot of motels, so I feel vulnerable. Also, lots of people don't take tornados seriously enough, so I feel like I'd have a hard time getting someone to tell me where I coud go for shelter if I'm away from home and the weather us turning bad.

Being in a car accident that leaves me really, really severely disabled. I would most likely have to completely give up my career, which is a significant source of fulfillment and happiness for me. My real fear is that I'd be forever single and, if I'm too disabked to work at all, I'd become a huge burden on my parents, who are about to retire, and then what happens when they die? When people are on TV talking about their life-changing accidents, they're always saying things like "I could have never survived without the support of my wonderful husband/wife and kids!" You don't hear the stories about the people who didn't already have the spouse and kids. Like, what would my chances of obtaining a family be in that situation? It's hard to articulate, but there's a lot about the idea that is far more terrifying than merely the loss of mobility, etc.

Re: Legitimate fears

[loracarol]

Drowning

Deep, dark water (or at least, water deep enough that you can't see the bottom, even if it's not that deep really)

(I want to learn how to surf & scuba dive, and maybe work with whales, so that's why I'm counting it as legitimate. |D)

Re: Legitimate fears

[philstar22]

I'm terrified of flying. I know this is only semi-legit, but I still think it counts. It is actually less the possibility of crashing and more the combination of my height issues and my vertigo that makes every slight movement feel like the plane is flipping.

I'm also weirdly scared of dying in my sleep/while I'm unconcious. I know, much less painful way to know, but I have control issues, and to me knowledge is control. I need to know when it happens.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

Being raped.

Re: Legitimate fears

[shortysc22]

Mine is the fear of dying in my sleep and no one noticing for days. It's an irrational fear that came when I lived alone and wondered if anyone would notice me missing and if so, how long would it take?

Again, super irrational.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

Rabid raccoons. Home invasion--specifically, that I'll come home one night and somebody will already be inside the house.

And I have a morbid fear that I'll suddenly up and drink lysol like Charlotte Mew, or put Drano in my eyes like the guy in The Violent Bear It Away.

Re: Legitimate fears

[flipthefrog.livejournal.com]

-House fires
-Tornadoes
-to some extent, heights? Just being around them isn't a problem, but I can't even watch video of people bungee jumping or skydiving without going NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE.

Sometimes my brain gets weird about airplanes too but mostly I got over that.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

I'm religious...not so much that I shove my faith at others, but enough that I won't go near Ouija boards because they're portals to evil places. I'm afraid they will either suck me in or let something nasty out.

Please don't laugh. I really am afraid of those things. I once left a slumber party when I was a kid because they wanted to play with one and I was afraid whatever they let out would stay in the house and possess everybody while they slept.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

Earthquakes. Sometimes they jolt and they're done in five seconds. It's when they keep shaking that you wonder if it's going to get worse or if it's just a long little one.

I'm in California btw, right near the San Andreas fault.

Re: Legitimate fears

[quirkytizzy]

Accidents in the shower. I am goddamn PARANOID about those. Accidents in the shower claims lives.

Re: Legitimate fears

[cloud_riven]

-Being alone, so alone that if I were to end up in a hospital I have no one to visit, much less inform. I am a solitary person, but I'm not without friends or family I keep in touch with. If I were to lose them—maybe they die, maybe I'm a fucking jerk, maybe I cut ties—I don't know what I would do, but it's likely depressing and suicidal. This is the one I know is a bit irrational, because the obvious solution is to keep making new friends, maybe even start a family at some point. But if there's one thing I trust myself to do is to keep people at a distance and rarely trust them.

-Getting dementia. I'm terrified of losing my faculties and ability to think coherently, becoming so unrecognizable and pointless. Probably the one major thing my dad and I agree on, and it's that we'd rather be dead instead of becoming a burden to others.

Re: Legitimate fears

[caerbannog]

Yeah I guess someone breaking into house or stealing mail. Or that the dogs get out and get hit by a car or put in the pound.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

Having a seizure and wandering someplace that I don't know how to get out of. Or having a seizure, and in my limited insight getting hit by a car or falling and hurting myself.

Also getting hunted by coyote packs. This is happened to me at least once, to the point where they were in a hunting circle less than 10 feet from me, and started up an attack call. Needless to say, I've had dreams since of being hunted by wild dogs.

(Before anyone gets incredulous of the latter, have you seen eastern coyotes and coy dogs? Some of those fuckers get to be the size of German Shepherds. Trying having a hunting pack of German Shepherds attack you. Also I am unfortunately prey sized.)

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

I'm afraid I won't be conscious of it when I die. I want at least a split second to realize this moment is the sum total of my existence.

Re: Legitimate fears

[(Anonymous)]

Something happening to my mother, because she has to drive a lot now.

Re: Legitimate fears

[al28894]

I've thought about this from time to time, and I think I don't have a pretty legitimate fear of everything. I mean, I am afraid of heights and horror movies, but I also like to try skydiving and enjoyed Heinoustuck when it still ran.

I would say the closest thing I can be legit afraid of is having unwanted people (or things) at home when I'm alone. That really makes me paranoid.