Things that annoy you

[nightbeat]

Dear Mom,

Let me watch horror movies! Please! I'm sick of watching shows that are all, "Let's work it out and have fun! 8D". I want the watch Nightmare on Elm Street or whatever it's called! >.>

Please,
Fading

[Dee & Faulk]

._. I'm with you on this one. I have a wolf spider that lives in my room. He stays in his corner and avoids me and I just ignore that he's there. I used to try to get him to leave by taking down the web, but he just kept making new ones and since I can't bring myself to kill something that does more good than bad, I just got used to him being there. He's actually very beneficial to me. He eats most of the other little bugs that sneak into my room during the summer. =D

I very much hate when people say they have a phobia when it's just a distaste or lower grade fear. >> Unless it interferes with your everyday life and basically controls you, it's not a phobia. I have a phobia and it's very different from my simple fear of water. Fear =/= Phobia

I'm going to have to say something here... You do know right, that it is very much possible to fear spiders without that fear controlling your every day?

I don't see spiders every day. Winter time I usually am happy as a pig in [censored], because the only time I see a spider then is if I go into a old building or start digging around in the attic.

Summer time I almost don't dare go outside because I am extremely scared of any kid of bugs. Spiders are the worst though. Just the sight of a spider will make me want to scream and run away. I don't care that it is small and that it most probably won't do anything to me - it is there and I am terrified of it.

I can't just ignore a spider if I know it is somewhere. I just can't. Harmless or not, it is a spider, and I fear spiders like crazy. And no 'it is smaller than you' or 'it can't do you any harm' comments/logic will make this change. I simply fear spiders like crazy, and when I see one, my first instinct is to scream and run, and the second one is to KILL NOW.

I know it seems silly - I find my aunt's extreme fear of birds a little odd - but then I remember my own uncontrolled fear and then I understand.

I don't want to be afraid of spiders, or any other bugs. I just am. ._.

Like I said, that's a fear, not a phobia.
I have a phobia of sickness and it controls just about every decision I make. I can't share food, handle other people's money, hear a child cough or sneeze, be in close contact with others, or even type/read/hear the freaking 'v' word without having at the very least a minor panic attack. That is a phobia. I also have a fear, a fear of water. That doesn't effect me until I'm actually in a situation that deal with it witch is how I know it's not a phobia.
My dad has been a Psychologist for 35 years, don't fight me on this, I know what I'm talking about as I've had long conversations about my own fear issues with him. =P

Well, I assure you my fear of spiders is not a 'distaste' or a 'lower grade of fear'.

I have a low grade fear of darkness/not being able to see. There is that feeling of dislike and a small panic warning at the back of my mind, while I constantly try to cast glances over my shoulder.

A spider crawling over my foot will result in screaming, flailing, running, crying and itching and scratching myself all over for hours.

Phobia isn't the only "fear" one can't control. I've had this fear for better part of my life, no matter how hard I try it never goes away. I understand that you get annoyed when people who go 'eeeek!' when they see a bug call themselves phbic, but I again get annoyed when I say 'I fear spiders' and people start to tell me I can easily get over it because 'atleast you aren't phobic!'.
That's why I say I've got Aracnophobia - at least no one gets in my face and belittles my fear : /

[chirp.]

Dear Mom,

Let me watch horror movies! Please! I'm sick of watching shows that are all, "Let's work it out and have fun! 8D". I want the watch Nightmare on Elm Street or whatever it's called! >.>

Please,
Fading

I saw Aliens. Which is so not scary. xD

[Dark Skigh]

Many Many Many Things...

Like...

My Guinea Pig...
My Busy Life...
School...
Television...
People Who Show Off...
And
Scary Spiders...

[June Bug]

Well, I assure you my fear of spiders is not a 'distaste' or a 'lower grade of fear'.

I have a low grade fear of darkness/not being able to see. There is that feeling of dislike and a small panic warning at the back of my mind, while I constantly try to cast glances over my shoulder.

A spider crawling over my foot will result in screaming, flailing, running, crying and itching and scratching myself all over for hours.

Phobia isn't the only "fear" one can't control. I've had this fear for better part of my life, no matter how hard I try it never goes away. I understand that you get annoyed when people who go 'eeeek!' when they see a bug call themselves phbic, but I again get annoyed when I say 'I fear spiders' and people start to tell me I can easily get over it because 'atleast you aren't phobic!'.
That's why I say I've got Aracnophobia - at least no one gets in my face and belittles my fear : /

Nonono, I never said it was a 'low grade' I said a 'lower grade' as in, it's not a severe as a phobia, but that doesn't mean it's not a bad fear. You can have a bad fear of something without it being a phobia. :/

I also never singled your situation out as a fear rather than phobia as I don't know you and therefore have no idea how you act.

Also, 'getting over vs not being able to get over' a fear has nothing to do with phobias. People can be cured of their phobias and fears alike, it's how they effect you when you have them that makes them a phobia. ;3
Making you not want to be outside during the summer is most likely a sign of a phobia, btw. I was trying to not make it sound as though I was speaking about you specifically, but I guess I failed. XD

[A-train]

Well, I assure you my fear of spiders is not a 'distaste' or a 'lower grade of fear'.

I have a low grade fear of darkness/not being able to see. There is that feeling of dislike and a small panic warning at the back of my mind, while I constantly try to cast glances over my shoulder.

A spider crawling over my foot will result in screaming, flailing, running, crying and itching and scratching myself all over for hours.

Phobia isn't the only "fear" one can't control. I've had this fear for better part of my life, no matter how hard I try it never goes away. I understand that you get annoyed when people who go 'eeeek!' when they see a bug call themselves phbic, but I again get annoyed when I say 'I fear spiders' and people start to tell me I can easily get over it because 'atleast you aren't phobic!'.
That's why I say I've got Aracnophobia - at least no one gets in my face and belittles my fear : /

If it's so bad that you can't go outside because of your fear of seeing spiders, I'd say that's a phobia. Kam, you said that phobias control your life, and I'd say that if DR can't even go outside during the summer because of the fear of seeing spiders, then that is most definitely what I'd call a "phobia".

Annoyance? My laptop isn't working properly. CA Security Suite, please lemme go on the Internet properly without constantly glitching up on sites that require personal information just because a file in CA Parental Controls (WHICH I DON'T EVEN HAVE) glitched up or was "tampered with". You've done this before. I think you're the program that's constantly shitting up my computer. So start working properly plzkthnxbai.

[[Paradox]]

Dear Mom,

Let me watch horror movies! Please! I'm sick of watching shows that are all, "Let's work it out and have fun! 8D". I want the watch Nightmare on Elm Street or whatever it's called! >.>

Please,
Fading

I saw Aliens. Which is so not scary. xD

I dont find any "scary" movies scary... i laugh at them all XDDD

[chirp.]

Dear Mom,

Let me watch horror movies! Please! I'm sick of watching shows that are all, "Let's work it out and have fun! 8D". I want the watch Nightmare on Elm Street or whatever it's called! >.>

Please,
Fading

I saw Aliens. Which is so not scary. xD

I dont find any "scary" movies scary... i laugh at them all XDDD

Now Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull scared the crap outta me. I dislike skulls. o.o

[June Bug]

If it's so bad that you can't go outside because of your fear of seeing spiders, I'd say that's a phobia. :/ Kam, you said that phobias control your life, and I'd say that if DR can't even go outside during the summer because of the fear of seeing spiders, then that is most definitely what I'd call a "phobia".

Pokes post above yours. X3

I really hate my inability to explain things they way I think them. >_< This is why I fail English. -facepalm-

[A-train]

For some reason, when I posted that post, it didn't give me the "new reply has been made to this topic", so I didn't see it until just a few minutes ago, when I looked back. X.x;