Places to Chat
Things that scared
Chatterbox: Down to Earth
Things that scared
Things that scared you when you were little and still scare you now:
I am still scared of the stupidest things!!!!! But the one that has stuck with me for so many years is really dumb: When I was 6 (or 7?), I watched Disney's Sleeping Beauty. There was this one scene where the witch's eyes were glowing in the fireplace and then disappeared. Since that VERY MOMENT, I have been scared of walking by the fireplace at night. Seriously, when I walk by it, it's a habit of mine to cover my eyes and get away from it as fast as I can. :P So, what are you scared of?
submitted by Mary Jo, age 14
(May 1, 2010 - 3:32 pm)
(May 1, 2010 - 3:32 pm)
Wow, you miss out, then, on adventure games that include battling Cgi spiders, legend of Zelda included. I used to be more nervous about these, but I've gotten better, and TV spiders aren't such a problem for me. It's just real spiders. it's just something freakish and unnatural about a creature having eight legs. If I see a real spider, and it starts walking, I wil get the creepy-crawlies.
What I do hate, in movies,video games, whatever, is skeletons. I could deal with the "zombies" from Pirates of the Carribean 2, but not the skeletons from Pirates of the Carribean 1.
(May 4, 2010 - 10:17 pm)
I tried switching my screen saver on my laptop from a pic of JP2 to Maleficent today (don't ask me why, it was a passing fancy), but it started to REALLY scare me because her face was lit up with this triumphantly sinister smile, and I was SO not going to look at that in the middle of the night while I'm posting a CB, so I switched it back to JP2. Wow. JP2 to Maleficent to JP2. Quite a difference :/
Whatchamacallit says "cgoe." Cargo? Go to bed? (Ha, that's probably it)
(May 3, 2010 - 8:35 pm)
Taking medicine! When I was little, my mom told me that if you took medicine when you weren't sick, you would get VERY sick. Somehow, I interpreted that as "medicine will make you VERY sick." I still don't like taking it, no matter how bad I feel.
(May 5, 2010 - 7:33 am)
Yes! Someone else who doesn't like taking medicine! I will flatly refuse it unless I feel like I'm about to die, the exception being when I was on antibiotics for my root canal/wisdom teeth removal, because after the agony of having first a gigantic filling and then an abscess I wasn't about to risk another infection...
I do like the taste of cough syrup, though. I can't understand why everyone hates it.
(May 5, 2010 - 11:46 am)
Haha, MANY things. I was a PARANOID child. First of all, yes, taking medicine. I would try to take it, but I would always puke! ALWAYS when I took medicine.
Next, people in costume. I would hide. I couldn't go near Chuckie Cheese, or Mickey Mouse or any characters in Disney World.
And lots more!
(May 6, 2010 - 2:39 pm)
I loved medicine! I would always exaggerate my fever and try to be as hot as possible so I could get cherry-flavored Tylenol. Also I loved Rhino Echinacea. (grape flavored)
But I did have a fear of swallowing capsules. I was afraid I would choke and didn't learn how to swallow them until rather recently. When I really was too little to swallow them my mom dumped them in applesauce, or on one or two occasions while I was in the bath she opened them and dumped them down my throat. That was horrible.
(May 6, 2010 - 10:42 pm)
*gasp* Do you mean I wasn't the only person who used to be scared of Chuckie Cheese? Yay!
Anyway, since this thread seems to be shifting towards past fears, here are some of mine.
Escalators. That is, I wasn't afraid of riding them (I did so easily) but I always had to jump over the botom part, because I thought that if you touched it, it would suck you in. I guess I just saw it happen to the stairs, so I assumed that something as small as me would be much easier. This also made me rather paranoid about falling. I made sure to hold on to the railing tight, at all times.
@ Emile: I was also frightened of vacuum cleaners. My mom always had to tell me when she was about to use one, and I would run to my room. I hated the loud noise it made (I never did like loud sounds; I have sensitive ears *is Emma-Jean Lazarus*, so they bother me much), and, similarly to my escalator fear, I thought it would suck me in if I came to close to it.
@ MJ: What's JP2?
@ ML: When I was very little, I had a fear similar to yours about the blankets & pink whale. You see, my bed was against a wall, and I always had to face the wall across from it, or else I'd get horrible nigtmares whose subjects showed very little similarity.
Also, I know I used to be aware of why you wrote Mary W. in the name box instead of Mary Liz, but now I've forgotten. Could you explain again, please?
Oh, and I've another fear from my early days that never left: needles.
(May 7, 2010 - 7:03 pm)
@ Ima: I used to have to jump over the end of the escalators, too! First, it was because I was afraid I'd be sucked up be the "evil" mechanism, but later, it was because I found it fun. Imagine that.
~Leaf
(May 11, 2010 - 12:05 am)
I was a very shy child and I was afraid of most people, including my relatives. I was really afraid of my cousin and he'd have to turn his back if he wanted to be around me. If people were to visiting at my house, when they left, instead of hugging me, we did this thing we called, "bonko by." We gently touched heads, instead of embracing. Now looking back, it was hilarious. I was literally so shy, I hid behind my mom every time there was a *gasp* person. Then I started to go to my private, elementary school and I started to get better. Every Friday, we'd have an assembly, and almost every Friday, each class recited a poem. In front of the whole school. A very big deal for the super shy Leaf. Anyway, now all the teachers can't believe I'm not shy anymore and they're amazing at how much I'm improved. So I'm not shy, and afraid of strangers anymore.
Also, I was really afraid of walking down the hall, because I thought I'd be attacked my monsters. I'd have to ask my parents to walk down with me until they got really fed up. We'd get to the point where they'd watch me go down, which wasn't my first choice, but worked. It took me until I was maybe ten or eleven to get over that. I know, sad, but very true.
I also had dreams that would scare me. Such as the scary light in the guest room. So, in my dream, I walked into the guest room. Instead of just one light switch, there were many. There was a specific switch that my parents had told me never to touch. But of course, I was curious (isn't this where everyone gets into trouble??) and I flipped the switch. All of a sudden, these purple, green, black, and possibly blue lights were swirling around my head. It was really scary. I screamed for my dad really loud and he came running down the hall (yes the selfsame hall) and he was really, really worried. He waved his hands over my head and said my full name and birthdate. Then the lights stopped and I collapsed into my dad's arms relieved and crying. Then I woke up. For the next few months, I was afraid of turning on light switches. But now, of course, I'm over that.
I also had a vivd imagination as a child, and was always afraid someone would kidnap me and I would never see my parents again. I practiced pretending to be asleep and working out what I would do if someone grabbed me in the middle of the night. I also fantasized fires and big earthquakes, etc. and worried. Like you, Mary Liz, I found myself under the covers very frequently. But after awhile, I'd need fresh air and I'd have to emerge.
The only one of those that I'm currently afraid of is the kidnapping one, though I'm not really as bad as I was. Thanks for the thread Mary Jo, it's original and fun.
~Leaf
(May 7, 2010 - 7:43 pm)
@ Ima: NO you were not. I was TERRIFIED. HORRIFIED. And I don't know why! :)
(May 8, 2010 - 11:53 am)
Aaah! In the past few days I've walked by the fireplace at night, I'm even more freaked out because I've been talking about it....hmmm.....I'm going to try not to cover my eyes when I walk by this time. It'll be hard. @ Ima-JP2 is John Paul the second. You can google him. He's awesome! (but he died in 2005)
(May 8, 2010 - 10:29 am)
hm. irrational fears. well I have fear of pain. of course I can ussually bear it when its my own-its other peoples pain that scares me. i cringe. i feel this puking feeling in my stohmach. of course ive never puked cuz of that. if someone gets bumped...I worry about it more than they do. :/ whatever.
Vick says zcoe. that seems to have some meaning...
~~NDT~~
(May 8, 2010 - 12:57 pm)
@ MJ: Your computer background is JP2? *grin*
(May 8, 2010 - 7:51 pm)
@ Mary Liz-yeah, I've had him there for the longest time......maybe a year, I dunno. Every time I try to change the screensaver, I don't like it, and he always ends up back there. :)
(May 10, 2010 - 7:26 am)
I'm gonna have to agree with Tempest. Puking totally freaks me out. Once I was on a car trip with my five year old twin cousins Will and Drew. And then Will threw up. And it just so happened I was right in front of him. I was shaking the rest of the way home, hoping he wouldn't barf again.
And when I was really little, I was so scared of Swiper from Dora the Explorer, I wouldn't watch the show, and even though I'm 11, he still freaks me out a little. (I know that sounds really stupid but it's true)
And I love spiders. I promised my friend that I would never kill a spider because she used to have a pet tarantula. (But that isn't why I love spiders)
(May 9, 2010 - 11:07 am)