What is your phobia?

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I have always had a love for cats and they have always known that I was a cat person.

my sis' cat always welcomes my patented jowl scratch

Doctors, dentists, airplanes, heights, getting blood drawn, people coming into my home and crowded places.

I have pathological demand avoidance, IOW demand phobia.

Wouldn't say i have a phobia of doctors, though dentists i am afraid of. Doctors i just hate because they think they're gods and know everything. Afraid of heights to a point, though i love rides that shoot ya up in the air, but absolutely shrink from the Ferris wheel. Don't think the heights are necessarily what get me but more the faulty engineering or old rusted out parts etc. Have a huge fear of bugs, the way they feel, the way they move and fly and buzz and crawl in orifices - my brother had to go to the Dr to get a democrat removed from his ear. Hate raw meat too, snakes, pretty much any creepy crawlies. Roomie says i need aversion therapy.

Fire.

difficult things.

Hmm. I have a few and there are days where certain ones bother me more. Clowns. Airplanes and airports. Rollercoasters and most motion rides. Being forced to do something I'm really anxious about. Roaches. Spiders. Germs (which I've gotten better about - I used to wash my hands so much as a child that they cracked and bled). Vomiting, hence the germ obsession.

getting dirty.

I have or have had the following phobias:

Acrophobia - heights
Dromophobia - crossing the street
Aerophobia - flying
Agoraphobia - open places
Cynophobia - dogs
Emetophobia - vomiting
Ergophobia - work
Gephyrophobia - bridges
Mysophobia - germs
Nosophobia - disease
Phagophobia - swallowing
Radiophobia - radiation
Toxiphobia - poisoning

And then there's pedophobia and ephebiphobia and Ameriphobia, but those are considered prejudices more than true phobias. I don't know why fears of certain animals are supposed to be true phobias then, since most dogs, cats, spiders, etc. are not dangerous or unfriendly.

barking, snarling, biting/snapping/growling/slavering dogs.