Were you afraid of as a child?

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   GDiBiaseposted 6 years ago

   Were you afraid of as a child?

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   DAWNEMARSposted 6 years ago

   I was afraid of all manner of things which now seem foolish. The classic: "thing in the wardrobe", "crocodiles under my bed" the usual stuff that seems funny now. Spooky tales or stories about monsters or ogres both fascinated and frightened me.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 6 years ago

   Spiders...and I'm still afraid of'em!!!

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   Olde Cashmereposted 6 years ago

   Clowns, oh my. When I first saw Stephen King's IT....horrified me beyond belief. I had nightmares for years about that dang clown.

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      Georgie Loweryposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      This. Also because my nickname is Georgie and when Pennywise says "sooner or later, they all float down here, Georgie," I kinda squirm a little.

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   duffsmomposted 6 years ago

   Oh so many things. I was afraid of everything, thunder, the phone ringing (very very young), being left alone, losing a parent, people peeking in the windows --the list goes on.
   
   Have outgrown these thankfully.

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   Unleashed Freedomposted 6 years ago

   my grand mum tried to scare me by making up ghost stories. especially so that i would not scale the high wall that separated our home from the next (abandoned one). but i did...i had to! i wanted to know who this ghost was even more than my fear of him/her. so i went)
   my grand mum didnt understand how i could do this even though i was scared.

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   peachpurpleposted 6 years ago

   cockroach ! When I was in primary school, I felt my anus very itchy. Kept scratching non stop and i had to stand still because it was our country's national anthem. Suddenly, a cockroach crawled down under my uniform. I was scared to death! I screamed and shrieked. of course, you know what happened next...

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      Sold Out to Jesusposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      I would have fainted!!!

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   Sage in a Cageposted 6 years ago

   Some of my more 'entertaining' fears as a child:
   - looking outside through windows when it was dark in case a monster would look back in at me
   - running up the hall stairs at full speed always convinced something was chasing me right behind me
   - pulling the plug out when I was lying in the bath because I was convinced it would trigger a whirpool which would somehow suck me down the plughole
   
   I can logic it all out in my head now as an adult but I still remember the emotion of pure fear that consumes us as kids sometimes.

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   Sold Out to Jesusposted 6 years ago

   The dark and unknown. Unfortunately, I still don't like the dark, heights, insects, fish, and the list could go on... *sigh*

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