Old Habits/Childish Fears

I still bite my nails.

I take paper (especially the kind that rip off the edges that came on tests) and fold them up.

I chew on my pens and paper.

I still tuck my feet under my blanket cause I'm scared that Freddy Krueger will claw me to death.

I won't sleep on my bed with any limbs hanging over the edge cause I still get scared a something is going to bite them.

And my bed is in the corner in the room with one side against the wall, and I refuse to sleep with my back facing the room cause I get nervous if I can't see the room.

So theres mine, what's yours?

[Godslayer Jillian]

I do almost the same at bed, but I face the corner so that if something kills me I won't know.

I also have to sleep with my stuffed panda, and now since St Valentines, also with the panda and heart-shaped cushion Ana gave me

[peeves]

I bite my nails, and I'm afriad of clowns

[Binkie]

If I'm on my stomach, I'll still sleep with my hand over my belly button cause I used to think someone would shove a long needle through the mattress and through my belly button.

[Godslayer Jillian]

I would tell you what scares me the most, but if I told you, there's no doubt someone would post a picture of him, and I would enter an epilleptic state if I saw it, hehe

I still have the childish fear of falling out of bed, even though it still happens occasionally, so I hug the wall and hope to whatever God I pray to that I won't end up on the floor.

An old habit... I doubt any of you have heard of it... is playing with my elbow, when I get really nervous or scared, my hand shoots up to my elbow and plays with the scar on it... Ok, It's my safety net... I do that and bite my nails...

Seriously... how much weirder can I get...?

*Prays Kevin doesn't read this anytime soon*

[KeltikAon]

I have to sleep facing the door. When I am nervous I twist my hair around my fingers. And I have an unreasonable fear of clowns.

I'm also afraid of Pennywise from It.

And if I hear the noise that that girl in "The Grudge" makes I start crying and screaming cause it really scares me.

[Blushing Heliophobe]

Hehehe.

I just now started making myself go to the bathroom in the dark - I never have been able to because of a amovie I saw when I was a kid. I always think a monster is going to come up out of the toilet and eat my butt.

I can't sleep with any limbs over the bed either.

I have to curl up my fist and cover my mouth with it. I'm not sure why, but it makes my face feel safer, probably from being accidentaly hit.

I have to have a door wide open, or shut, because I'm scared that it'll shut on it's own.

I am always afraid of being sneaked up on in the shower so I have a shower curtain with a strip of see-through clear plastic at eye level so I can see everything.

If I drop my toothbrush, I throw it away.

I still fold my towels the way my mom used to make me do it.

[wild spider]

terrified of crabs...

had a dream when i was really little that one attatched itself to my toe and i couldnt get it off and been terrified of them since.

maniquins also a big fear.

[Blushing Heliophobe]

Oh, Wild, you just reminded me -

I always think that as soon as I turn my back, mannequins are going to reach out and slap me.

Also, my grandma made me and my sisters touch the cold dead body of my grandfather when we were little. It scared me. I remember that he looked like he was sleeping, and now I think that the second you get close to a body, all of a sudden the eyes will open, it'll gasp for air, and grab you.

[wild spider]

well thats disturbing...

never seen a deadbodyup close. sawaguy get nearly decapitated

[Wise Child]

I used to eat paper when I was little. I still catch myself absent-mindedly tearing off little bits and going to put them in my mouth, in times of stress. I usually catch myself in time to remind myself that I am twenty-one years old and NOT a waste paper basket. But if I actually put it in my mouth, it's all over. Once I get the taste I just go nuts.

Yeah, I know... fruit loop. Sigh.

[Blushing Heliophobe]

Hahaha!!! We used to have paper-eating contests in the second grade. I ate enough to earn myself an awesome cafeteria cookie once, which I promptly threw up.

Thought I was the only one...

[Metatron]

I have an ungodly fear of sirens. I don't know why, but when I was younger, I'd always dream about the nuclear holocaust. Missile sirens scare me to death.

I still cry when Mufasa dies in the Lion King, and when he comes back, and when Simba reclaims the throne. I'm pathetic, I know.

[edible_eye]

i bite my nails. it's horrible. my fingers bleed often.

childhood fears? i do, every-so-often, spike a panic-filled heart while laying in bed and a limb dangles over the side.

the ocean - thanx to 'jaws'. my father brought me to see 'jaws' when i was 7, i believe and the next day, we went to jones beach on long island. i stood at the edge of the ocean, not allowing the water to so much as touch my toes. to this day, i can't get into the ocean past my thighs and if the water is murky - forget it.

crying - i cry every time murron gives young william wallace the thistle at his father's funeral in 'braveheart'.

i can't drive into new york without pronouncing the roadsign - 'nyack so nyack'. i say "nee-yack, so nee-yack", instead of pronouncing it correctly.

[Blushing Heliophobe]

The thing about Jaws is funny. I always expect to see Jaws come at me when I'm swimming in the deep end of the pool.

[Deviant Kitten]

Originally Posted by eyesofatragedy

I'm also afraid of Pennywise from It.

And if I hear the noise that that girl in "The Grudge" makes I start crying and screaming cause it really scares me.

Yup, both of those really scare me too!

I also twirl my hair round my fingers incessantly when I'm nervous (sometimes my finger gets stuck!)

At night I have to sleep with the duvet covering whichever ear isn't on the pillow (I sleep on my side). I think it's because I shared a room with my brother as a kid and he used to snore really loudly!!

I always say "see ya later kitty" to my cat before I leave him alone in the house - otherwise something bad might happen to him!

I'm a nutcase, I know...

[Deviant Kitten]

I forgot to say that I also sometimes catch myself chewing on bits of paper like I did when I was a child - I thought I was the only one, Wise Child and Blushing!!

By the way, Blushing, you remind me of the lovely Willow from Buffy in your avatar :-)

I try to never take the same route, that way if someone is trying to kill me—they’ll not easily chart my patterns and s n uff me out without some preparedness on my part.

Cars on the road. I have this weird phobia that some car out there holds a man with a gun that will shoot me if I cut him off, and I wonder if, right before he pulls the trigger, if I’ll have time to juke my vehicle into his and take him with me.

I have a general fear of spiders, so I hunt and kill them wherever they may hide.

A fear of crowds since it becomes difficult to size up everyone at the same time, sensory overload and all that, and I’ve ever been distrustful of the mob mentality.

Sometimes I get an uncontrollable fear late at night if I’m on the beach surf-fishing, and get the impression something wants to eat me as badly as I want to eat it. So I wade out further to see if anything bites.

A deep loathing for canary yellow. It doesn’t scare me, I just hate it.

Cats with six toes and Hemingway for letting them prosper.

Lucky Charms, because nothing should be magically delicious.


Bad habits.

Drinking alone would top the list, which kind of plays into my fear of crowds, plus I’m apt to wax philosophical whilst inebriated, and that’s just retarded, especially in the company of decent folk trying to have a good time.

I chew my nails. I chew and chew until they bleed.

I clip my toenails until they bleed. I pull out hunks of meat with nail, I should know better, but I just can’t stand the sight of my nails.

I pluck body hair; arms, goatee, nose, eyebrows, lashes.

I grind my teeth.

I like looking at my snot after I blow my honker.

Eh, there are more to be sure, but that’ll do for now ;}

[Deviant Kitten]

Originally Posted by TStone

I clip my toenails until they bleed. I pull out hunks of meat with nail, I should know better, but I just can’t stand the sight of my nails.

OUCH!!! *weeps for TStones mutilated toes*

My boyfriend bites his nails too (fingernails, that is!) and sometimes makes them sore. I tell him to leave them alone but it's a compulsion for him. Same as me and my constant hair-twiddling I suppose!

[Blushing Heliophobe]

Thanks, Deviant, that's a hell of a compliment.

Stone - I also 'pick' when I am extremely agitated. I'll just grab a pair of tweezers and go to town. Sometimes my eyebrows suffer for it and I can't stop.

Nervous disorder, maybe, if you do it when you're upset.

Lucky Charms are so good to eat. I eat them often. Out of mixing bowls, because a regular bowl is not large enough to contain their marshmallowy yumminess.

[edible_eye]

Originally Posted by TStone

Lucky Charms, because nothing should be magically delicious.

[IlGato_DiDiablo]

I'm one nervous person... Sometimes I like to bite my nails when I'm nervous...lately I just play with knives or any other sharp object and always end up slitting my fingers...No scars, except for a few, but it just feels funny...been doing it for a long time now!!

[Deviant Kitten]

You're welcome, Blushing, you priddy thang! :-)

I thought of a couple more while I was walking into town just now: Cars are seriously scary! When I see one coming towards me (even when I'm on the pavement/sidewalk) I often get a horrible feeling that it's going to run me over. Especially when I'm walking down a quiet country lane and a lone car comes zooming towards me - it nearly makes me crap myself! I'm paranoid that the driver might be a homicidal maniac looking for target practise...

Another vehicle related one is having to walk past building sites and roadworks where they're using those huge diggers - ever since I was little I've been worried that one will scoop me up! They always look like they've got minds of their own. Evil minds.

The vehicles of the world are out to get me, I say!! :-P