Anyone afraid of stairs and escalators?

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I prefer using an elevator.

Nope.

i will get afraid if the lift is made of glass, so it's like we are flying.. otherwise, i'm not.

Escalators are quite dangerous. There have been many cases of people getting their shoe laces caught in the mechanism and having their feet crushed between the steps.

I used to be a little scared of escalators just because of getting the timing of it.

No. I don't like it when there are many flights and stairs only because I'm somewhat lazy lol, but I certainly have no fear of stairs.
I like escalators.

I don't like elevators, and I can't stand to be in one along with people I don't know. It makes me uncomfortable.

I get a bit of a nervousness peak when I have to get off the escalator, because of getting the timing right, and I become a bit nervous too when I think too much about my movements when going up and down stairs; they seem so automatic that I'm not fully aware what I'm doing and even though that is pretty magical in a sense (woah body coordination!) it also makes me wonder what would happen if that automatism would suddenly stop and I would trip over, etc. Otherwise, I'm not afraid of them, no (just a chronic overthinker).

I'm afraid of the stupid people using them screwing around trying to be daredevils.

I also prefer to use the elevator. I have a very intense fear of escalators.

Not me, but even though I use elevators at my school, I sometimes fear that the elevator will unexpectedly stop and I'll get trapped inside, which in turn will start a claustrophobic fit in me.

I prefer travelators. They remind me of Gladiators

I'm not scared of moving stairways, and I've no problem with using them when I'm at the shopping centre. But I do feel a bit strange on them, as if I'm going to topple over as it's going up.
I prefer to use the lifts or ordinary stairs, though the latter can tire my feet out if they're long stairs.

I'm afraid of the escalators that go down. I fear losing my footing and falling down them. I usually take several seconds before I can step on them holding up those behind me. Oh well.

I have to wait until about three steps have gone past before I feel like it is safe to stand on, and the flat ones are scary because they make me feel like I'm going to slip over.

In 2015, I didn't know the shopping centre I went to was going to have an escalator, and when I was going to get on it, I looked down it and kept imagining myself falling, so then I got scared and didn't know what to do. I couldn't go on it, so I had to stand on the flat part in front of it, looking over the side with my hands over the rail, trying to breathe properly and stop shaking. My parents got on it first and hadn't noticed I still wasn't on. When my mum noticed, she tried walking back up it to get to me, but she fell (she was okay).

There were a few people behind me, but they were nice and helped me turn around so I could get away from it. I felt stupid and kept thinking of how weird they must have thought I was, so I started crying. I'm not sure if they noticed that, but I hope not. I had to sit on a seat next to it while my parents went to a shop, hoping I wouldn't see any of the people who helped me. I was annoyed at myself for the rest of the week.