"Phobia's" and Asperger's

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Not sure I have Aspergers or not (maybe).

But I don't like smacking noises / weird eating sounds especially when it's done almost with relish. Disgusting but I can live with it.

Scared stiff of wasps, bees.. (never encountered a hornet but i can imagine that'd be much worse) I generally run / move fast from them. Other flying insects too like dragonflies - I was randomly hit in the face by one once and it fell to the floor and died lol. That wasn't scary just more "where did it even come from" but I tend to keep my distance from flying/buzzing insects. Flies sometimes scare me because I think they're a wasp. Moths I don't like and they kinda startle me when they just appear and start buzzing round my hair (i think they are attracted to the wax/gel). So they bother me not so much scare me but I don't want them near me either. So if it flies and either buzzes or bothers me it scares me. No idea what you'd call that phobia, but I can control myself if I think I need to.

Heights I'm scared of, deep water as well (I fell in a pool as a small kid so it's kinda justified).

I was scared of lifts once because I was trapped in one as a kid but one day it came down to a choice - be practical and use the lift, or take the stairs and be tired plus putting up with people thinking I'm weird. So I started taking the lift

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Lately I become somewhat scared of bleech and detergents because my mum uses bleech and disinfectant everywhere. The bleech stings my eyes at times and smells weird and just seeing a cup that's been filled with bleech to remove stains puts me off using cups so I clean every cup more thoroughly and check for bleech first (as I don't believe bleech is harmless if it's not washed out the cup properly). I imagined I could taste bleech in a properly washed cup once (maybe I did?). As for disinfectant.. probably not so harmful just a case of "wait! what are you spraying everywhere?!", and flyspray (not phobic just dubios about it).. which my mum used to spray in the room with people in the room still (which is bad according to the instructions).

PS: Anyone have a problem with bleech stinging your eyes when it's been used a lot in a room / space?

Everyone has a phobia of something. How strange it may be has nothing to do with AS.

An unusual phobia can strike anyone. Having aspergers likely would increase the odds due to heightened sensory perception and the fact that an unusual phobia is caused by the brain mis-wiring together info when forming a conclusion on the object causing the phobia. Being a neurological malfunction, it only makes sense that an irrational phobia would more likely occur in a brain with a wiring variation from the norm. Ofcourse other things can increase the likelyhood of an unusual phobia such as trauma.
A phobia is defined as any fear that inhibits rather than aids survival.

Those of you who mentioned strong aversions to smacking/crunching/eating noises, take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia

I find such things mildly annoying, unless I'm in a really bad mood--then, I could strangle the person before they take another bite or slurp. (J/k...maybe.)

Still don't swim. I nearly drowned when I was 6, and never really got over it.

Don't drive either, but I'm more worried about causing an accident and hurting others than hurting myself...I know, weird. Trying to get over that one. I have a very bad time multi-tasking, so keeping track of everything that driving requires is really difficult--I find myself starting to panic just getting behind the wheel.

Going on the "loud noises" thing: smoke detectors with horns/buzzers. The one we had when I was growing up would often go off for no reason at all (steam from the bathroom near it, burnt toast, you get the idea). I dreaded walking under it (it was on the ceiling), or even seeing one in its box at a store. Where I'm living now, they just beep, and they don't malfunction, so I'm largely over that one.

I'd say that a lot are sensory-related. Those of you who mentioned insects and snakes--not that unusual in the general population, actually.

Pleasantly surprised to see that I'm not alone in my phobia of bees / wasps / hornets.

Wasps are my biggest issues, they seem to attack so many senses coming at you aggressively like an obnoxious salesperson (never liked them much either) it's the buzzing sound, the fact that i don't know where it's coming from sometime, the colour combination of black and yellow, the proximity and my perception of how one might feel.

gods I hate mouth noises, other eating noises and electrical sounds can be painful, but I have a special hatred for mouth noises. It took forever for me to convince the people around me that I really do find them that distressing. I always attributed it to sensory issues. They are painful and trigger feelings of annoyance, discomfort and sometimes anger, more than fear.

I have weird fears but they are not like tangible things. It's hard to describe. I think it's more fear of certain feelings.

Oh I also find crunching really really intolerable, as a sound smacking, very much too - the loudness of it - I can't stand to eat any crunchy food.

With popcorn in cinema I think neutrotypical people (though in a different way I guess) find that bad too. On Ricky Gervais Show Steve Merchant talks about it: 'that's a crime, why they're selling popcorn in cinemas, I don't understand why, why the noisiest food in the cinema? I don't understand why that's come about, really makes me angry'