Obsessions and Fears

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Hello, this may sound weird but does anyone have an abnormal fear? Something that most are not afraid of or stop being afraid of at a young age? Will you share the traumatizing experience that caused the fear? Has the fear become an obsession which you have you know every last detail about your fear with hopes to try to overcome it? Do you have any other obsessions that are not your fears but rather or hobbies or pleasures? My fear is with toilets. It is an obsession that I have to know every kind of toilet made in every country, all the different types of flushers, what they look like etc. My fear started because when I was placed on an automatic toilet at the mall when I was 2, the scanner went off and the force sucked me into the bowl. My other obsessions are playgrounds and music( classic rock). I feel like I need to know every band and every song from the 50's-80's as well as albums, single certifications etc. I also feel like I have to know every single kind of playground equipment and my dream is to one day build and design my own playground where I pick and choose the equipment. You know when you go to the park and you love the swings or the steering wheels and stuff and they don't have one and you just say oh well, that's okay, I'll play on the slide? That's not me. If I don't see every single toy I like to play on it angers me and I ramble on for hours about how if I designed my own playground, it would have one/some.

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I have abnormal fears and obsessions, but I've never been obsessed with something that I was afraid of.

My two biggest obsessions are Tim Burton movies and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I have been obsessed with Tim Burton movies since January of 2010 (though I enjoyed Nightmare Before Christmas and the animated version of Beetlejuice as a child), and MLP:FiM since November of 2011.

I have many abnormal fears, but choking is my biggest one. Being afraid of choking isn't an irrational fear, because it can kill you, but I'm the only person I've ever met in both real life and online who has a full-blown phobia of it. I gained my fear at age 3 from choking on a hard candy. After that, I was so afraid of it happening again that I stopped eating solid food for an entire year. My fear would later be reinforced many years later at the age of 9 when I choked on a hard candy almost to the point of blacking out. I had another choking incident as a teenager when I accidentally got half of a strawberry stuck in my throat. Just typing about these incidents in minute detail is causing me to have a panic attack.

Anyway, I am very careful about what I will or will not eat. The rule of thumb is that if I can't chew it up thoroughly enough (by my standards), I will not eat it. I won't eat crunchy foods (such as nut or chips/crisps), foods that won't breakup/dissolve in my mouth completely (such as steak and snap peas), or foods that are too slippery (such as M&Ms, strawberries and bananas).

I think my most abnormal fear is of those price check scan machines at wal-mart. The sound they make is extremely irritating and every time I have to use one I get very nervous, which turns to fear of them inducing a meltdown in public.

I have obsessions that come and go but they are all centered on the same themes: Art, musicals and certain book genres.