Did you share any of these 23 weird irrational fears as a child?
13.
One time I discovered my basement was flooding in a bad storm. My dad told me to go back to bed cuz he’d take care of it. I couldn’t sleep cuz I was afraid the house would fill with water and then someone would pour jello mix down the chimney and I die solidified in Jello.
— liam (@male_hawkeye) February 18, 2019
14.
That my sliding shower door would lock me in and it would fill up like a tank and my family would drown me 😐 https://t.co/wGwXov0LRs
— bigender disaster bunny (@PeonyWings) February 18, 2019
15.
I was convinced that there was a vampire living in my grandfather’s toilet who would get me if I was still in the bathroom when it finished flushing. He only lived in that toilet, though.
— Jen T. (@stuffjenlikes) February 17, 2019
16.
I would check under my bed every night for anacondas. And I definitely didn’t have a plan for if I had found one.
— Derek Lawrence (@derekjlawrence) February 17, 2019
17.
I was 7 in 1975 when I heard my parents discussing JAWS. I lived in New Mexico, hundreds of miles away from the ocean, but I was TERRIFIED a shark would somehow get into a swimming pool or, uh, swim up into my toilet. Shut up.
— Brian Jay Jones (@brianjayjones) February 18, 2019
18.
That I would accidentally eat a magnet and forks would pop out of the drawer & stick to me.
— Jax (@jackalackin) February 17, 2019
19.
I thought that if strangers overheard me saying “I’m thirsty,” they’d all spit in my mouth.
— Your Sarah (@sarahlindish) February 17, 2019
20.
Getting hit by a falling piano. I watched a lot of cartoons.
— Caroline T Patti (@carolinetpatti) February 17, 2019
21.
Big misunderstanding about fingerprints, I thought it meant a bit of me fell off every time I touched something, and that if I touched too many things I'd get smaller & smaller until I disappeared.
— Dr Jen Campion (@jenn2890) February 17, 2019
22.
I was scared that someone had invented invisible cars but I didn’t know about it yet so I couldn’t cross the street
— Gabe (@GabeCripe) February 17, 2019
23.
I was pretty sure I was a unicorn under a horrible spell. I was awkward and sickly as a kid and thought surely I was supposed to be magical.
Then I grew up. And I wish I’d been right. ❤️
— K “SetPearlsToStun” (@heyheykhay) February 17, 2019
One fear didn’t seem all that irrational. Have you seen the teeth on those things?
Six-year-old me was scared of the family rabbit, Jordy… but that didn’t stop me from crying when he died.
— Cailey Blair (@CaileyBlair) February 18, 2019
H/T: Dana Schwartz
