Things you were afraid of as a kid

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  • That Sesame Street skit where Cookie Monster ate the moon
  • Dogs
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  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    also dogs

    and like, a ton of other things

    but dogs were a big one
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    That bit in The Brave Little Toaster with the evil clown.

    That scene in Ghostbusters where Zuul possessed Dana and Venkmann doesn't have his proton pack.

    Slugs.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    i'm still afraid of dogs
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    i used to be super afraid of the teeth in chip's challenge
  • Heights.

    And those polyp things Ursula turned people into in The Little Mermaid.
  • Calica said:

    i'm still afraid of dogs

  • HIM scared the Hell out of me
  • Come to think of it I was scared of demons in general
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Harry Potter gave me the strength to overcome my fear of escalators.

    Specifically, I got impatient waiting for the elevator at a midnight release event for Order of the Phoenix and just started using the escalator at the bookstore.
  • kill living beings
    mirrors, darkness, asphyxiation
  • edited 2015-06-02 23:33:54
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    so besides dogs, and at different points but before entering my teens:

    Maleficent
    Chernabog
    heights
    large spiders
    mascot costumes and similar
    fire
    bees
    going to sleep, because of the nightmares
    maybugs
    kids at school
    covert sexual innuendo in children's entertainment (i'm not joking)
    cows
    masks
    loud noises
    being lost and alone
    stinging nettles
    clumps of ferns, because bad things could hide in them
    bad luck
    injury, even minor injury
    lightning
    somehow pooping my intestines out into the toilet
    ghosts and vampires
    the patriarchy
    sunburn
    dark rooms, and especially mirrors in dark rooms
    aliens
    rules being ignored, disobedience to authority in general
    spontaneous human combustion
    the concept of horror movies (imagined to be much scarier than they actually turned out to be)
    adults who were angry

    i was a wuss is what i'm saying

    kinda surprised not to be the only one who was scared of mirrors

    with hindsight it's odd that i was never particularly scared of demons, but i guess i figured they couldn't hurt you so long as you weren't a bad person . . . God was much scarier, albeit not when i was very young
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    oh and needles

    and being seen naked by a non-relative
  • I was also scared of pagans and BDSM enthusiasts

  • That Sesame Street skit where Cookie Monster ate the moon

    I don't blame you. For such a being to exist, so immense and so terrifying that even the moon is but sustenance for its needs...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i don't remember that but i was scared of when monsters on the muppets would eat other smaller muppets
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    the concept of horror movies (imagined to be much scarier than they actually turned out to be)

    Nah man, that's common.

    Like, as a kid you know that some things that aren't horror movies are scary, and also you don't know what the limits are, so you create vague ideas in your mind that are scarier than the thing itself.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    basically

    i think it was the idea that 'these movies scare adults' and keeping in mind that i was scared of Disney movies which i knew adults didn't find scary at all, which made me imagine that films that were *supposed* to be scary must involve some kind of unspeakable mentally-scarring horror

    also i think a bunch of my fears were common (spiders is pretty normal, i think?  and heights must be) and a bunch were probably not so common, like the fern thing; i just vomited up a whole list in the order that i remembered them
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    artificial plants were goddamn terrifying to me
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    now i think they're just wretched
  • I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Pinocchio (that bit where they turn the children into slave donkeys)
    Spiders
    The dark (still not fond of it, to be honest)

    Also, Tachyon, wrt fear of mascots - there is a girl in the trombone section here who is terrified of them :( It made basketball band stressful for her since the mascot tended to come over and chill with the band frequently and mess with us. She knows who is in the costume, too, but it doesn't help. Prolonged mascot exposure would have her break down in tears. :/
  • edited 2015-06-03 02:05:27
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    dogs, yeah
    the dark
    loud noises
    fire (still afraid of)
    heights (still afraid of)
    blood
    the dark
    most movies, not just horror ones
    heavy metal music (obviously got over this one)
    water/drowning
    the dark
    large/loud machinery (still really don't like)
    balloons
    the dark
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    also
    Tachyon said:

    so besides dogs, and at different points but before entering my teens:

    cows

    :(
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    they were big and they moved

    horses were even worse, but i didn't have to go near them so often
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i did get over the mascot thing pretty early, but i can still remember the nightmares

    i can't really imagine being scared of them now, but i think it's like masks - even if you know it's a person underneath, they still don't look human, and they're bigger than a person

    i dunno, sorry about trombone girl, erio, that's really unfortunate
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