Okay, I’ll admit it. I am not scared of buttons. However, there are people who do have this fear. Some can’t be around buttons for fear of them popping off and some just can’t wear them on clothing. I was listening to a radio show this morning and after they mentioned it, a lot of people called in that were afflicted with this phobia. Some of the people couldn’t be in the same room with a button.
As far as I go, I spend my time swept up with other phobias. I haven’t located a name for it yet. But I am beyond scared of having my mouth covered.
The fear is slightly outrageous and seems to be boundless. Anything over my mouth results in me jumping the sanity ship. I even freak out when my daughter jokingly puts her tiny, three year old hand over my mouth. When that happens, I can’t sit still and anxiety builds up in my chest. (I know if you don’t have kids you are thinking, ‘why is that girl putting her hand over her mother’s mouth?’. And well, I have no answer. That’s just how kids roll. Sometimes they want to put their tiny hands over your mouth. It happens.)
I can’t explain it. But having anything over my mouth simply terrorizes me. I can’t even wear masks.
Yeah, I just re-read that, and it sounds ridiculously dorky. Why would I want to wear a mask in the first place?
Does anyone besides me remember Kelly Ripa freaking out because Clay Aiken covered her mouth with his hand a while back? No? Well, I do, and I totally understood that, and not even because it was Clay Aiken and he’s attrocious. I would freak out if David Beckham covered my mouth with his hand. And I don’t mean the kind of freaking out that you’re thinking of, the dirty kind. I mean a genuine attack of fear and nausea.
To accompany the previous fear, because who can have just one (read:sarcasm), another phobia of mine is fear of having my arms confined and not be able to move them. Something about the thought of being unable to move or control my arms do to restriction of some sort is terrorizing. Once when I was a child, my older cousins thought it would be hilarious to tie my arms behind my back. And I nearly burst a lung screaming.
Basically, I’d much rather be covered with snakes and shoved in a dark room than ever have my mouth covered or be unable to move/use my arms.
But not that I think about it, I’d rather be scared of those things any day than be Allodoxaphobic (scared of opinions).
What about you? Do you have a totally irrational fear? Do you have a fear that is common? I’d love to hear about any of them. After all, I did go to school with a guy who was scared of mustard.
EDIT: I just hopped over to The Cheaty Monkey and she has a fabulous post up about celebrity phobias . Check it out also!
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