Unusual triggers and phobias

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My phobia is fibrous materials. I thought it was b/c a parent threatened me with a wooden spoon as a child, but maybe it's simply sensory related. I avoid popsicle sticks, paper cups (non-waxed), paper straws, watermelon and some apples --- although I am now able to eat most apples. Certain paper textures (the between of smooth and rough).

If I am highly stressed, an emotional event in a book or TV show will trigger deja vu. I've read it's protective: oh, I've read/seen this before = feeling of assurance.

I have always hated putting cardboard or paper in my mouth. The sensation it gives makes me shudder.
McDonalds now use paper straws so I have kinda avoided calling in. Plastic is fine for me. But cardboard in my mouth makes me cringe.
Could this be a sensory issue?

Nope. Not with a wooden spoon.

I’ve been hit with many wooden spoons and some belts.

Triggers for me:

1. Not being taken seriously
2. Sort of the same as one, but being talked down to
3. Someone touching me when I’m not expecting it. When I was waiting in line at a grocery store, a cashier apparently needed to get by me and she grabbed me around the waist as a way to get my attention to walk by. Not cool.
4. Preachy, religious people
5. Loud noises


There are various other things I won’t go into here, but it sucks when they are unavoidable and come up regularly in the environment or conversation.

being called "fa***t." or "queer." or "liberal." or "snowflake." or "halfbreed." [or lots of other epithets] yelling. the sound of weapons. the sound of bees buzzing close by.

When lil dipshits act like I have to believe whatever the f**k they tell me, but they don't believe what I said.

Wrongful accusations

Overreaction to something I did

Loud noise

"Huh", "what"

"Can you", as if , if you, "can", you have to

"May I help you?", Like ass holes dragged my worthless corpse out of a burning building

Touching

Vomit, automatic toilets, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, germs, darkness, babies, children, crowds.

I get extremely anxious if I watch someone use a tool the wrong way or use an obviously wrong tool for the job. I feel rage building if it goes on too long.

^^^welcome to WP

The Police (music band)
Crinkle sounds
The colour orange
A certain shade of turquoise
Any combination of 12's and 9's
Doorbells
Postal Delivery
String Beans
Butter Knives
HR Puff n Stuff
Breathing in my ear
Motels
The Wizard of Oz flying monkeys
Falling through ice
Sunshine on snow
Peppermint
Agoraphobia
Helplessness
17th of February


These are just my "unusual" ones. I have many more that I'd consider less rare.

I'm wondering if people who have synaesthesia are more prone to phobia, because subconscious associations are made between concepts. For example, I fear 9's primarily because of their colour.

9's are a fleshy pinky salmon colour. Eeek. There are reasons why that colour bothers me and reasons why nines bother me, so put them together and it's a bad scene. Especially with 12's such as 12/09, 09/12, or clock times.

did you know that 9 is the biblical symbol representing satan?

What is your source for that?

Because nothing I found states that 9 represents Satan, just to show the first result I got :