[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Irrational childhood fears

[Iggy McSnurd]

Iggy here:

Well, as I have a pretty bad case of Panic Attack Disorder, my life is
pretty much filled with irrational fears to this day.

So far as my odd childhood fears were concerned, here are a few of the
biggies:

  Potato bugs (aka: Jeruselem crickets.)  Ugh.  Disghusting color, huge
gross eyes, look almost fleshy but not quite.  They were like the color of
infected skin.  The nasty things freak me out to this day... and finding one
crawling out of my shoe about 12 years ago is why I overturn my shoes and
tap them out before putting them on even now.

  Cockroaches... especially the big ones.  I live in the south now, so you
kinda have to get used to them, especially when you live in an apartment.
You can only control them, not get rid of them completely.  This fear hit me
when I saw the large, metallic and indestructable flesh eating roaches in
the George Peppard movie from the '70s... Thunder Alley, I think it was
called.  (It was a post-nuclear holocaust type movie.)

  the Hamburglar.  Yes, I was scared of that supposedly happy little
McDonald's character.  My older sister had told me about a nightmare she had
had about him, and I ended up having the same one... every night for two
weeks straight.  It was one where he was chasing me and my family around
trying to off us with a butcher knife.



  My big ones in this day and age are making sure that safety seals and such
are intact on foods, and I can't take capsules of any sort.  The other one
is having to wash my hands almost immediately after touching anything slimy,
sticky, greasy, or potentially covered in germs.  I can't even wait a few
minutes without getting stressed.  (Ah.. the joys of the compulsions that
come with panic attack disorder...  *yeesh*)


Iggy McSnurd
(Who would be a Ravenclaw if it weren't for the fact that he refuses to let
irrational fears ruin or rule his life... so he was placed in Gryffindor.
No wonder I like Neville so much... easy to identify with him.)