Does anyone with Aspergers have a tendancy to be afraid of

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Toy Soldier has this on his profile:

Severe phobia:
Heights!

Also fear choking, and mildly claustrophobic.

Sylkat

I think irrational fears are irrational because your logical mind knows it's highly unlikely that the feared event can happen, but you still fear it pretty badly.

I fear that something awful might happen to my family (parents and siblings) - accidents or something. I sometimes get really distressed by that thought. I sometims have nightmares like that.

As someone mentioned, I fear ebola really badly, too, though, as someone else pointed out, it's almost impossible to get it in most other locations. I remember when there was a pandemic of some dangerous virus (bird flu, saas or something - I cannot remember what it was), there was a news report mentioning the possibility of the virus having spread in a new location through a button of a hotel elevator which had possibly been touched by an infected person. That really scared me and I don't even want to touch a doorhandle at work or any public place. I guess it's irrational, but I can't help it.

I tend to be a worry wart, and although it's about things that could happen or are inevitable eventually, at the times I worry about them they're not usually that likely at all. I would call that an irrational kind of fear.

But the term "irrational" can also have a positive meaning, such as the irrational side of us that is imaginative, artistic, intuitive. So I'd rather say they're unhelpful or unproductive fears.

I have always suffered from the irrational fear that everything goes the hard way. (Some things actually do, but not all.) Reasoning is of no help here, the fear stays. Everything fails, nothing works.

I'm afraid of most social interactions with anyone I haven't grown accustomed to, which is anyone I don't have frequent communication with. Introductions are the worst; I like to have friends do that for me. Talking in/to a group is pretty bad too. I'm much more afraid of men than women.

Other things: parasites, needles, knives, fire, people breaking my stuff, my dog getting run over (my road is usually only driven on by my family, the police, and three neighbors), pregnancy/labor, getting Alzheimer's or dementia, and anywhere I can't escape from easily.

That depends on what you mean by irrational.

I can't stand being picked up or turned upside down. I also jump about 5 inches backwards when I see an earthworm.

Not completely phobic here, but have a host of borderlines. Insects/worms, thunder, and large crowds. Probably some slight agoraphobia too, and a love/hate relationship with the unexpected.