Are you afraid of Dogs? Have a thing about Rats? Faint when a black cat crosses your path? Suffer Arachnophobia? Would die if stuck in a lift? Lets discuss our fears and phobias! Whose with me?
I am personally beside myself when I see ants (enmasse) and Eels give me the creeps. A snake, spider, cocky or mouse would not faze me. I have been bitten by a red back (and was very ill) I have trodden on a snake, had a wild rat climb all over me in bed once and didn't know until I got up the next morning and saw the 'evidence'. I was around 15 when all of these things happened to me. It's a wonder I am as well balanced as I am...lol!

I think I only have three phobias:

1) Birds (because I just know they all want to peck my eyes out!)

2) Crowds/confined spaces (this is just your average claustrophobia- fear of not being able to breathe/suffocating/getting crushed, etc... nothing that unusual!)

3) Plumbing (Who the hell knows what that's about? Anything to do with taps/toilets/water if it's broken.... I just have this insane fear that suddenly the water is all going to come out of the wall/pipes and I'll drown. Perhaps I drowned in a past life??? That beer ad where the washing machine and the vacuum cleaner and the Kreepy Crawly all fight over the bottle of beer REALLY freaks me out!!!!)

I agree with you on the bird phobia meratcha!!
Don't know what it is about birds, but they scare the living daylights outta me when they fly overhead . .

I grew up with hundreds of birds and have always had them in my life. Even wild one's adopt me. Used to have a Mummy Magpie that used to walk into my 3rd floor apartment through balcony doorway and have a chat. The Daddy one was more timid but was still friendly. I think I have an affinity with birds.

I have two phobias - big brown moths and snakes.  I freak when there's one of those moths in the house (a husband and a long handled feather duster come in handy as does the vacuum cleaner) and am sure I'd do the "minute mile" in 25 seconds if I were to encounter a snake.

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Crowds/confined spaces (this is just your average claustrophobia- fear of not being able to breathe/suffocating/getting crushed, etc... nothing that unusual!)

Yeah... That is one of mine too. I don't like crowds.

I also have a fear of height over 10 feet if it is unsafe and I cannot hold on to something. I cannot walk on a plank over 5 feet high. I seem to loose my balance past that height.

Animals:
The only thing which worry me are snakes and funnel webs. For the simple reason that they usually catch you by surprise. And are not easy to deal with.

My cat probably saved me from a snake in 2000.
I was living in the bush and one morning, my cat wakes me up with its miaou. I look for him and cannot see him.
I call him and it miaou again.
I look under the bed and there he is.
My bed was against the wall and the cat was keeping an eye on a 6 foot red belly snake going back and forth against the wall.
I did get out of that bed pretty quickly and got the cat out of there as well.
Then I chased the snake out by rubbing the back of a broom on the floor. Snakes cannot hear but can sense vibrations.

quite a few things i cant stand now , yet never happened when i was younger. ?

definetly crowds ( be it, trains - packed queues in supermarket checkout - etc etc )
Confined spaces ( inside planes - as if flying was'nt gonna be bad enough for me, i get this    )

Heights - this is a relatively new one ( roughly last 15 years or so) , when i was alot younger, my thrill was actually    jumping off things for the hell of it , even had height jumping competitions, i look at what i use to do (same objects) ...and there's no way i would now.

(onto a differant height) going up top of rialto building in the city, just got out of lift looked out window , nearly puked and got light headed, got use to it after 5 minutes though

like AO  ...my cat too made me aware of a eastern brown (Pseudonaja textilis) in my kitchen when i was living in rural area...with the snake out of view, my cats focused facial expression said this was no moth ...( neck job - then freezer )  
then (same house)  my son told me one day there was a big lizard outside, ( he was 5 @ the time) , 1/2 paying attention at the time, i soon had a jolted thought    .. ended up being a whopping adult eastern brown as well ( rake & shovel )  

Wasps.
Can't go near em!
I scream if one comes near me. So bad when they come in a classroom, I'm like under the desk!
in german in yr 8 me and my friend had a wasps nest above our desks! :O

Any insect or arachnid freaks me out. I can deal with the REALLY small ants and other bugs too. I like butterflies though, although they still make me feel squeamish. The only insects I have the balls to touch are small ants and ladybugs.

Also can't stand those disgusting rodents.

I'm fine with birds though, as long as I know they won't peck my eyes out, I'm fine with them. And I wouldn't mind a cat crawling all over me, but I wouldn't allow any other animal to come anywhere near me. You never know that they're capable of.

Oh, and germs disgust me. Sometimes when I shake hands or touch certain objects, I can actually FEEL germs crawling all over my skin, and I need to get myself cleaned ASAP.

Lol!!
Specially smelly people!
Bus handles ergh!

Doaraphobia  

I'm afraid of heights.

how do you go picking strawberries on a ladder there norman

That's why I gotta buy them in the shop

Ohhhh! and air/gas filled balloons. The kind that shops use in promotions and children walk around with them attached to their wrists or babies are pushed around with the balloons attached to their prams. I dodge them like the plague. It the bursting that scares me, the chance that they will blow up and scare the life out of me. Had a bad experience once while driving the car and both my children had gas filled ones. One blew up, next to my ear, almost giving me heart failure and causing that ear to be deaf for the rest of the day. I stopped the car and asked the other child to relinquish their balloon so it wouldn't happen again.... we watched it float off into the wide blue yonder and I have not been the same since!