"Phobia's" and Asperger's

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Too many to list but manily human beings in general. I have to be holding my pet lizard when interacting or else I will have a panic attack.

there are lots of things that make me very uncomfortable like paper and matt paint (textures), fruits and flowers (can't even touch them) but my biggest phobia is butterfly. i want to die even typing the word. i freak out and cry everytime i see one.

I have a fear of gutters, or any type of hole covered on the side walk. I walk around them and my sister finds it odd.

High bridges with super structures at the apex. OR just narrow high bridges. It isn't so much heights, they bother me but to the degree NT's fear heights. There is a bridge on 301 at the border of MD and VA that almost sends me into a melt down, I have to have my wife drive over it when we go that way. I take a longer path to avoid some bridges. Most I can desensitize to, but that "Harry Nice" bridge makes me about have a heart attack.
The cable car at Santorini, Greece was the most scared of heights I have ever been in my life, it is the only time I have closed my eyes and just waited to die from the stroke I knew was incomming. My family didn't understand that I was so shaken by that that I couldn't enjoy the next few hours walking around the beautiful island, I just went inside myself and kind of followed them. If I ever go there again, I am just staying on the boat.

I don't understand it since I love flying in airplanes, even low altitude flying. It is something about being above the ground with something higher then me near me. Once I get above the tree tops, I love it. Totally illogical and something I spent years trying to desensitize. I took up mountain climbing (not rock climbing), discovered flying, went by myself and camped for a week at a time on a high mountain top and would walk over to the cliffs every day.

Snakes I am phobic of as well, but that is pretty common in all personality types. I tried to handle friends snakes to get over this but I am comfy that this is a "socially acceptable" phobia so I have come to terms with it.

I hate being scared, so when something gets me, I face it and fight it, I just haven't beaten the whole Harry Nice bridge thing. I hope the engineer of that span died pennyless and alone.

my phobia is of having too much stuff and I get overwhelmed and depressed by it. I just did another purge of all my stuff. Now I have my rubber totes of the stuff I can't justify getting rid of sitting out on my porch. And I don't want to move them back inside because everything is clean and empty. I am trying to figure out if I can just leave them out there permanently. except it will be too hot and some stuff like makeup will melt. It's a screen porch so nothing will get into it. I love empty rooms. The first morning I did it I felt so peaceful when I woke up and saw nothing but walls and floor in my field of vision.

I have to respond to my previous post (from 2007) about this problem. I might write a new discussion post, but I'll start here and see where it goes.

Is anyone else H O R R I F I E D by Kit Kat and KFC's use of crunching in their commercials?! Vlassic Pickles does it too.

I used to love Kit Kats, but since some "brilliant" marketing firm decided it'd be a great idea to show people who apparently have never eaten a Kit Kat how "crunchy" they are - I can't eat one now. Not because I can't stand myself eating it - but because I'm boycotting these insensitive people.

Now, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) has a new commercial out. OMG, I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw it!
A woman is riding the bus and the guy sitting next to her is jabbering on and on about something silly (I wear headphones on the bus to avoid those sticky situations) and then she glances over at the guy across the aisle from her. He's got a goofy grin on his face....and eating KFC crunchy something-or-other.

He offers her one.

Then the pain ensues.

She takes a bite and then we find out why he's grinning like a cheshire cat. They're only able to "hear" the grating, crunching, sound in their OWN heads (which the "brilliant marketing people" "AMPLIFY" so we understand just how "awesome" these stupid pieces of chicken are) - and so it blocks out all other sound.

NIGHTMARE!! !!

Marketing people are evil.

Emetophobia, or just illness in general scares the s**t out of me.
I've been to the doctors this morning and I should be getting some CBT or something to get rid of it, because it's been taking over my life recently even though I've had the phobia since I was pre-school age.

I'm so afraid of loud noises (buses, planes, buses "sneezing," balloons popping, sirens, fireworks, gunshots) that I avoid leaving the house. Not that some of them don't happen when I'm in the house too.

Also, talking on the phone.

I don't think I have a 'mouth noise' problem. But, no one in my family eats with their mouth open or anything. Also, I like the sound of kissing (if I'm involved) so I guess that rules me out.

I have a bit of a vomiting phobia. I always had a major problem with it, but recently I've had a couple things happen that have made me more immune to it. I still worry about it, though. I have prescription anti-nausea medications that I carry everywhere.

My biggest one is a roach phobia. I get worried just looking at a picture. I don't know that I could handle watching a video of them. I probably worry about them subconsciously. I keep my room excessively clean, won't leave food laying around, make sure the house is sprayed, I shake out things before I use them, don't leave anything wet laying around...I used to keep a nightlight so I could see one if I got up in the night plus they on't seem to like light. For a long time I slept with the TV on because they don't come out as quickly with sound, plus I couldn't hear anything that sounded like one moving around if I had the TV playing. It gets worse whenever I'm in a new place. I move in August, that's the only thing I'm dreading about college

I don't know about a link with AS and phobias, but there is a link between anxiety and phobias, and anxiety is a component of aspergers. I have generalized anxiety along with aspergers.

I hate bees wasps and hornets,afraid of heights and stepping from a ladder to another surface like off the ladder to a roof-and I also hate when people are talking they smack and lick their lips audibly.

I hate bees wasps and hornets,afraid of heights and stepping from a ladder to another surface like off the ladder to a roof-and I also hate when people are talking they smack and lick their lips audibly.

Whistling unfortunately gets to my inner core.
My father whistles and if he is around me I always have to remind him how it affects me.

There is then a discussion of how I should enjoy listening to people whistle because they are being happy.

I hate seeing strands of hair. It grosses me out so much. Whenever I see a strand of hair somewhere, like on my desk, I immediately brush it away. I don't know if that would be an actual phobia or just OCD, though.

I can't say that these things are quite phobias, but I really do get upset when someone makes a mouth noise, the sound of dishes clanging, when someone stands behind me and breathes down my neck, and the phone ringing. My only real phobias are a mild claustrophobia and a fear of snakes (one crawled on top of me when I was getting some sun one day at my house )

You are not experiencing a phobia really. This is a sensory issue. It is very common for people with ASDs to have difficulty processing sensory input. It may literally feel painful for you to hear things crunching. Sounds like crunching, as well as certain smells can really be painful to me.