Irrational childhood fears

[Cindy C.]

Tracy asked:

>What basically harmless things scared you as a child 
> (for example, a certain toy or household item)?  I remember being 
> frightened by:

Hmmm.  I'm rather ashamed to admit being quite frightened as a child
of anyone with a physical disability.  <cringe>  Sad, huh?

I haven't outgrown having irrational fears, though.  Currently, I am
squicked by:

Blood and most bodily fluids.

Those large sand crickets that lunge at me in the laundry room.

*All* stinging insects.



Cindy -- who does not think the stinging insects are more afraid of
her than she is of them