What Was Your Worst Childhood Fear?

actually, escalators freak me out for some reason too

not elevators thoiugh, its weird

when ever im on an escalator i feel the need to walk up it and just get off it

When I was young I was afraid we wouldn't have enough money to buy food. My father would gamble and drank away his paycheck before the weekend was over.

Then it was mustard sandwiches again.

MMMMMmmmm mustard sandwiches. :w:

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I went with my ex to the casino last month, and he took the escalator, and looked back at me smiling!
He knows I fear them! I stood there watching him go down it and froze up, almost about to have a panic attack but, this time I actually got on it!

I have no problems with elevators. unless it has glass windows!

It's a height fear!

I love rollercoasters too, just cant stand being stuck in mid air, or standing over a ledge!
I get dizzy, and feel like fainting!

For me it was when my Dad took me back to College at the end of my first semester, and beginning of my second semester.

We had gotten into an argument over me wanting to wear Bell-bottomed jeans.

He told me:

"We don't have to let you go back to College, you know".

It was a chilling feeling.

Though I had nearly full scholarships and work study, they still controlled me even at 18.

I sweated it out for the whole summer over that, let me tell you.

You did not want to fail to go to College and be stuck in a Midwest town in a menial job, probably still living at home and still being beat with the belt if you didn't walk the straight and narrow.

:w:

That's easy,

That a big tyrannosaurus rex was going to rampage my small town.

though sometimes it was my friend, sort of .

I am afraid of children...does that count?

Seriously though ... great posts everyone! Keep it up - the more the better.

Spiders and getting shots from the doctor.
And sometimes clowns.

I wanted to see what sort of response your thread would get before I replied.

My biggest fear as a child was that my neighbor would sexually abuse me over and over again, which he did, and got caught once in the act by my brother who did nothing about it.

My brother is a well known pornagrapher. Hmmm, I always wonder if the fact that he caught my neighbor abusing me, and did nothing about it, had something to do with his choice of career.

I wouldn't mind if either the brother or the neighbor died. No tears shed by me.

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It's very sad. I would supply links but that would not be proper here. My brother is a famous person, who started out by writing for "Rolling Stone" magazine, years ago. He also wrote for many newspapers in Chicago as a music critic and had a radio show. The people I have met, have been phenominal, but knowing what my brother does now for a living makes me puke after what happened in my life.

It screwed me up forever, I am convinced, to ever having normal life or relationship.

My childhood fear has carried over into adulthood.

[edit on 9-3-2008 by Enthralled Fan]

Well I guess my childhood fear is way different that others. I had a very strong fear my mom was going to die. She used drugs ever since I was 2 and so I would stay up all night laying next to her, to make sure she didnt stop breathing. Not something I should have been worrying about as 10 year old, but it scared me to death.

The cover to an album was my worse childhood fear.

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Gorilla
3.bp.blogspot.com...

Frightened the life out of me every time i saw it.

Originally posted by Jess_Undefined
I had a very strong fear my mom was going to die. She used drugs ever since I was 2 and so I would stay up all night laying next to her, to make sure she didnt stop breathing.

What in the heck might be my response to that? That is not just a true fear, but a clue that you might be very special in that you care so much. I stand and applaud. I pray for you that all is well.

My greatest fear are needles. The thought of getting a tetanus shot alarms me to no end.
Not a big fan of spiders, or millipedes, and I HATE sprickets. Especially sprickets. I've never had an insect 2+ inches long jump right at me. These things come right at you. Yeah I'll pick them up and crush them, but they are a bit disconcerting as they come right after you.

I guess my biggest childhood fear was that Pat would be my babysitter. She was 300 lbs, and man she smelled like onions. And when she took off her shoes....... My eyes watered.....

Oh and the fear that my grandmom would try to kiss every time her dentures fell out and she rinsed them out in her water glass........

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my greatest fear is things i cant control.

I dont know how to explain it but if i cant influence it or anything. i hate it.

thats all for me.

When I was about 5 or 6 I was standing in the kitchen eating an apple and after taking a bite I found a maggot looking back at me.

I screamed and threw the apple towards a corner and it rolled away behind something. I spent the rest of my childhood in fear of that part of the kitchen, convinced that the maggot was lurking around waiting for me.

It took until I was a grown up before I realised that my mother had probably found it within a day or so and cleaned it up.

Another thing was a big picture in my bedroom. It was of a little girl walking beside a river and the water was flowing over a rock - to me it looked like a lion. That used to scare me every night before I went to sleep.

And I'd been given a very old, hideous doll that I couldn't bear to look at even in daylight. I'd shoved it onto the top of my wardrobe and there it would be joining forces with the picture to terrify me.

Funnily enough, after we'd moved out of that house, my mother mentioned to me that she'd never liked my bedroom. She'd always felt as if there was 'something' in there.

Gaah! This post makes me wound like a right wimp - I'm brave now, honest