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when people are afraid of like super normal things for no reason i legitimately see it as an evolutionary failure. like what do you mean if you see a butterfly you’ll cry??
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Anonymous 9w

and not things that are genuinely harmful in some way like water or heights. i mean irrationally fears of harmless things.

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Anonymous 9w

A butterfly flew into my ear as a kid so Im terrified of them…

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Anonymous 9w

humans are just funny and weird like that. for some reason i have a visceral…not so much fear but discomfort when it comes to cotton stuffing specifically. like cotton balls are fine but cotton that is/was inside something and is visible or poking out of it (teddy bear, comforter, chair) makes my skin crawl

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Anonymous 9w

I’m afraid of heights cause trauma

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

i literally said i don’t mean fears of things that can genuinely cause you harm..?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

I’m just sharing

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

ok💀

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

Its cause i fell from a kids roller coaster and traumatized me

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 9w

i’ve largely become less afraid of balloons and them popping around me but when i was younger this used to be a huge fear of mine, too LOL. unlike the cotton one, where i have no clue where thst comes from, i know my fear of balloons popping was cause when i was younger i got a balloon and i was so happy with it but then it just unexpectedly popped for no discernible reason 😭 i guess it scared AND scarred me a bit

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

but that makes it a rational fear rather than irrational right?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 9w

this seems way more like a sensory aversion rather than a fear. but i guess fear could easily be developed through an aversion to something like the feeling of cotton stuffing or the loud noise a balloon popping makes

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

actually the more i think about it i feel like origin of the fear is rational, but the fear itself could still be considered irrational since there’s no real threat being posed. so i’m not too sure.

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