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2. 20 facts about you
3. Your favourite quote
4. What are you afraid of?
Hoooo, boy, is that ever a list. I am afraid of a lot of things. Some of them are rational but most of them really aren't.
Snakes. This is probably only the one that actually ranks as a phobia. This is wholly irrational, I have visceral "nopenopenopenopeNOPENOPE" reactions to pictures of snakes. Anything that moves like a snake triggers the flinch and panicky reactions. I used to be afraid of snakes under the bed in the dark and I spent a ghastly month being convinced that a toilet in my grandmother's house had a snake lurking behind the S-bend because it hissed.
I had nightmares about needing to use the toilet while a cobra was sitting in the bowl with the hood raised.
Heights. More accurately, I am afraid of edges. I am totally fine with flying and I am totally okay with being on a high floor in a building. Even strapped into a roller coaster, I can manage. What I am not okay with is being able to peer down into the abyss. If there is any chance that I could fall, I am petrified and may actually freeze in place until led away by kindly persons. I will also latch onto anything stable and back away as much as I can.
Social events. I get very talkative when I'm nervous. I live in eternal dread of the polite glazing of eyes and the 'oh, that's nice' moment. I don't do well if I don't know people or have something that I can have in common with them and my socializing skill is very limited. I don't like making people uncomfortable unless I have a very good reason to do so and when I'm nervous, I make people uncomfortable because I'm so uncomfortable.
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