[ SECRET POST #3662 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3662 ⌋

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Comments

Childhood Trauma Thread

[nonnymouscawitz]

Because secret 4 reminded me of mine! How about it, F!S? Anyone else have that silly thing that happened in their childhood that made them irrationally afraid of something little?

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[morieris]

I found an onion ring in my fries as a child one Wednesday on our way to middle week church and I had a fear of them for about ten years afterward.

I love them now tbh

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[nonnymouscawitz]

I think everyone has a story like that! When I was 4 Burger king had both chicken (or was it cheese?) sticks and jalapeno sticks and they put the wrong one in my kids meal. My mom says it was the first and last time she ever yelled at someone in the service industry. Food is always worse when you are expecting it to be something else, even if it's a food you like.

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[(Anonymous)]

I drank milk a lot as a child, until one night I was at a restaurant and ordered milk and got spoiled milk. I never drank plain milk again after that, until I tried it once in my twenties (and was totally "meh" about it, so I didn't do it again). When I started school, I drank chocolate milk only.

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[philstar22]

My vertigo used to give me fear that the Earth was about to be sucked into a black hole or something when I was really young because the ground felt like it dropped from under me, and my child brain thought this meant I was feeling the Earth move.

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[nonnymouscawitz]

Children always have really curious ideas, don't they? I had a theory for a while that the earth moved because people were stepping on it. That sounds terrifying when you're little, though!

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[(Anonymous)]

I had really bad vertigo too as a kid (and still do). I remember going into the city for the first time with my dad and looking straight up at a skyscraper. I almost fell flat backwards on the ground, and couldn't understand what was happening to me.

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[(Anonymous)]

I was afraid of bathrooms/toilets (combo hit of IT and evil older brothers) and so as a child wouldn't always lock the door. This led to me being walked in on while on the toilet numerous occasions in numerous locations (my own fault really), but now it's lead to a fear of being walked in on in bathrooms so I can't use one unless it has strong locks. Like, mine had a regular knob lock but I installed a bolt lock so I can visually see it's actualfax locked. I get so nervous in bathrooms that don't have those types of locks. I don't trust the doorknob locks.

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[nonnymouscawitz]

You came full circle, then! It sucks how things can stick with you from when you're little, but at least this is something you could fix in your own home!

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[(Anonymous)]

I also have a fear of being walked in on in the toilet/bathroom/bedroom. Our downstairs toilet doesn't have a lock on it, so I have a wooden chock that I push under the door every time I'm in there. I remember as a teenager I used to get dressed directly behind my bedroom door, so I could slam it closed again if it opened.

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[ginainthekingsroad]

I got glasses when I was very little, 6 or 7. My parents stressed that I absolutely could not lose them or forget them somewhere, because I didn't wear them every waking minute at first-- I could play fine at home without them, but I had to be sure not to lose them at school. And yeah, that's just basic intro to glasses ownership.

But to this day, one of my biggest irrational fears is that I'll be doing something out far from home and I'll lose or break my glasses and be stranded without being able to see. I'm not afraid of heights, but when I'm looking out over a big height, I fear my glasses will fall off my face and disappear.

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[kaijinscendre]

Rocky Horror Picture Show. That movie freaked me out so much as a kid, I still don't want to watch it.

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[(Anonymous)]

I have a weird thing about people touching my eyes. I even have trouble touching my own - it took me years to wear mascara, and I won't wear contacts because the idea alone seems squicky. According to my dad, my eye thing came from a bad eye doctor appointment. (Which I do remember. The woman said "one more" and I was relieved, only she actually meant one more round of drops, not one more time in one eye, throwing me off again. Not sure what happened before that.)

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[(Anonymous)]

For years I had a terror of windows at night. Specifically from the inside, windows with no curtains across them looking out onto pitch black. Windows had to have the curtains closed at night or I'd freak out. I'm 90% sure this was because I turned a light on as a young kid and my sudden reflection on black glass scared the bejeezus out of me. I had this creeping conviction for years that windows out onto darkness had things lurking beyond them waiting to jump at me.

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[dani_phantasma]

I accidentally drank sprite instead of water when I was like...5 or something and I was turned off of sodas and carbonated drinks for ages.

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[(Anonymous)]

as a kid I nearly choked to death on a pineapple lifesaver until it managed to wedge sideways, allowing me to whistle-breathe through the hole until it melted/came loose

I didn't eat lifesavers for years

(and yes the irony of nearly dying because of a candy called lifesaver is not lost on me)

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[(Anonymous)]

I grew up hearing stories about La Llorona and became terrified of basically all bodies of water bigger than a bathtub. I'm actually still feel kinda scared whenever I'm near a river or lake, but mainly because I can't swim.

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[(Anonymous)]

For a while when we were kids, my sisters and I developed this idea that the toilet had a monster in it that only came out at night. If you had to get up to pee at night, you had to leave the bathroom door wide open, turn the lights on, check the bowl before you sat down, pee really quickly, and then when you flushed the loo you had to leg it as fast as humanly possible because if you weren't safely back in bed before the flush finished the monster would get you.

Needless to say this did NOT make us popular with our parents, for a whole bunch of reasons including noise, screaming, lights on, lack of hand washing, and a string of random hysterics in the middle of the night. There was a whole deadly earnest sit-down-and-talk-it-through episode, and we did eventually let the idea go, but the habit of checking the bowl before peeing at night has lingered. And I admit to sometimes watching until the flush finishes to make sure no monsters come out.

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[soldatsasha]

I was FUCKING TERRIFIED of the Resident Evil box when I was 10-12ish. Not zombies or anything, I could handle playing the game just fine, the jewel case itself with the little manual. I honestly don't really remember why. I think it was lying around the house somewhere and I found it when I wasn't expecting it and had to nope out of the room after seeing the creepy fucker on the cover. And after that I stashed the case somewhere I would never had to look at it, and stored the disk with another game.

THIS FUCKER. RIGHT HERE.
http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/images/g/GrsAAOSwLF1X9CVu/s-l225.jpg

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[(Anonymous)]

I've told this story on here before, but clowns: When I was little I went to a birthday party and there were clowns. The birthday boy had on a paper crown that said KING FOR A DAY, and one of the clowns leaned in and said, in a low, menacing voice, "You ain't the king of dog shit, boy." then walked off. It was creepy af and put me off clowns for life.

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[ibbity]

When I was maybe 5, I read a National Geographic article about Herculaneum (the other town, besides Pompeii, that got destroyed by Vesuvius, only Herculaneum got hit first because it was closer, and got completely buried.) I spent the next several years scared of the possibility that a volcano would erupt near my house and bury/burn up everything I knew and loved. Another story I read later, which described how some farmer in (I think) Mexico randomly discovered a brand new volcano bursting up in his field, did not help.

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[mimi_sardinia]

I have always had a fear of heights, but as a kid I had a lot of trouble walking over bridges and pedestrian overpasses. This could be a problem during the couple of years I lived in Sydney when I was 7-8, because a lot of the small to medium train stations had overpasses to get onto the platforms.
I can recall having problems with bridges as late as 14-16 and walking over some of the bridges in my north NSW hometown.

I never actually had any accidents, but I was just terrified of the bridge/overpass collapsing while I was on it. Mostly now I'm fine, but I do have occasional problems with downwards escalators.

Another moderately traumatic event happened when I was around 18-20 - I went out to the beach with one of my neighbours and got caught out a bit far and couldn't get a grip on the sand. A nearby surfer helped me back into shallower waters. I really find the idea of swimming in the sea a bit worrisome since then.

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[(Anonymous)]

I used to run down hallways at night because shows like "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" used to make me scared that something would follow me down the hall and into my room. For some reason, I was always afraid whatever would get me would come from the hamper in my bathroom.

Also, public service announcements used to scare the shit out of me when I was a kid. Some of them are still kinda creepy even now.

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[(Anonymous)]

When I was 10-11ish, a game came out on the Mac called The Journeyman Project. It's a Myst-like sci-fi game, and my brother was the one playing it, I watched and enjoyed it a lot!

Two traumas: the first being that at one point, you're on a base on Mars, and after walking into a particular room, a robot comes out of the next room without warning and threatens to kill you. This sounds pretty innocuous, and in retrospect it's a lot goofier than it is scary, but at the time, holy shit, that robot fucked me up.

Second trauma: while still on Mars, you end up in a maze in the mines underground, where there isn't any climate control, so you have to wear an air mask. There is a rockin tune that plays down here. My brother had to go upstairs for some reason while we were in the maze, and he didn't pause the game so that the music would keep playing, but he didn't realize that the air in the mask would run out-- and that it was a completely voiced thing. In short: I listened to a man slowly suffocating. I was petrified.

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[kamino_neko]

I got heat stroke one day before stopping to eat...I wasn't able to eat soup for years afterward.