[WhiteRose1912]

Standing at the top of staircases, or ascending stairs without backs (where you can clearly see through to the ground below), has always made my stomach knot and my hands and feet sweat. It's gotten much worse with age. I'm near phobic of falling.

Playing or watching others play platformers, like the Mario Bros. series, is stressful and physically painful. My friends get a kick out of my reactions. (Probably funnier to witness than experience.) I don't think it caused quite as anxious a reaction when I was a kid, but I remember coming into the living room with a glass of milk and seeing my mom playing Super Mario World on my SNES. The next thing I knew, my parents were shouting in alarm at me--I was so transfixed by the possibility of Mario falling that I'd stopped paying attention to my glass and I was slowly pouring the milk onto the carpet, oblivious.