What was your most irrational fear as a child?

[TonyB06]

Mine was that I would never learn how to tie a neck-tie before I left home. Therefore, I'd need to buy every tie I'd ever own before I left home so they'd all be knotted.....smh

[Sciencewoman]

That Bigfoot was real and would try to break into our house (my sister and I saw a TV special about Bigfoot and this was long before the current preponderance of pseudo-science "reality" shows, so we were pretty freaked out).

[candygirl200413]

Clowns, and anything that wears a costume (basically if I can't see your face I freak out)
But I never exactly grew out of this fear...

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by candygirl200413

Clowns, and anything that wears a costume (basically if I can't see your face I freak out)
But I never exactly grew out of this fear...

This. From clowns to Santas to mimes to those freaky Easter Bunnies - they all must die. And my mil insists on giving me a Santa ornament every year. May she never find my ebay account!

Never outgrew the fear of going blind, either. Having my mother become legally blind did not help.

[AXiD SmileyFace]

When I was a kid I was obsessed with everything that had to do with Barbie. One day when I was 6 my dad let me watch the movie Child's Play about the serial killer whose spirit inhabits a doll and goes to town killing people left and right. From then on I feared my dolls would come to life while I was sleeping and kill me. I used to rip every dolls head off and put the heads in one drawer and the bodies in another. I figured if they were going to kill me in my sleep they were gonna have to really work for it.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by AXiD SmileyFace

When I was a kid I was obsessed with everything that had to do with Barbie. One day when I was 6 my dad let me watch the movie Child's Play about the serial killer whose spirit inhabits a doll and goes to town killing people left and right. From then on I feared my dolls would come to life while I was sleeping and kill me. I used to rip every dolls head off and put the heads in one drawer and the bodies in another. I figured if they were going to kill me in my sleep they were gonna have to really work for it.

With all due respect, WTF was wrong with your dad?

[Sen's Revenge]

Clowns.
Swallowing my tongue.
And at age 12, going blind.

[33girl]

Being trapped in a car and going backwards down the hill on the main road by my house. I still get a little nervous if I have to back down a hill.

And when I was 8 we had this book in our class reading corner that had a picture of a troll/zombie monster in a graveyard. It totally freaked me out. I was convinced it was going to sneak into my room at night between the drapes and get me if there was any light shining through the 2 panels. I still make sure the drapes are completely shut.

And I'm not sure if this qualifies as a childhood fear, but as a teenager, I was terribly afraid The Bomb would drop and I'd die a virgin.

[StealthMode]

Being buried alive (when would that EVER happen?)

As a kid, I had muscle spasms in my fingers and toes as I fell asleep. After seeing Leprechaun and having the bejeezus scared out of me, I was convinced there was a leprechaun living under my pillow and the tugging feeling was him trying to eat my thumbs when I fell asleep. For weeks, I slept with no pillow or covers so that all my appendages would be where I could see them.

[carnation]

I would not step over even the simplest of grates because there was this cartoon back then that featured Andy Panda. He walked on one in a factory and it collapsed, pretty much sending him to hell.

[Xidelt]

My sixth grade teacher showed the class a movie about a girl who was horribly burned and disfigured in an electrical fire. (I have no idea what the curriculum connection was there....) I then developed a terrible fear of electrical outlets and fires. I would religiously check all of the outlets in my room every night before I went to bed. Thanks, Mrs. Crandall.

[OPhiAGinger]

I saw a show on tv with a woman in the "push" part of labor. After that, I was diligent about checking the toilet before flushing. I was terrified that I might inadvertently poop out a baby and then carelessly flush it away.

[OPhiAGinger]

I saw a show on tv with a woman in the "push" part of labor. After that, I was diligent about checking the toilet before flushing. I was terrified that I might inadvertently poop out a baby and then carelessly flush it away.

[cheerfulgreek]

As crazy as this is going to sound/read, I was afraid of wood ticks and parasitic worms when I was a kid. As I got older, I started to have a love/fascination for them. They're so amazing. I was also afraid of black holes and I thought Earth was going to get eaten by one. The things I was once afraid of, I am now fascinated by.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by OPhiAGinger

I saw a show on tv with a woman in the "push" part of labor. After that, I was diligent about checking the toilet before flushing. I was terrified that I might inadvertently poop out a baby and then carelessly flush it away.

Lol!