Phobias I love

[Courtesy of Phobialist.com]

• Apeirophobia-fear of infinity
• Athazagoraphobia-fear of being forgotten or ignored or forgetting
• Automatonophobia-fear of ventriloquist’s dummies
• Cleithrophobia-fear of being locked in an enclosed place
• Coulrophobia-fear of clowns
• Gephyrophobia-fear of crossing bridges
• Macrophobia-fear of long waits.
• Merinthophobia-fear of being bound or tied up
• Mottephobia-fear of moths
• Pupaphobia-fear of puppets
• Selaphobia-fear of light flashes
• Taphephobia-fear of being buried alive
• Zemmiphobia-fear of the Great Mole Rat
• Aside from Zemmiphobia, a fear I’m confident most humans share (and if most humans fear the Great Mole Rat it cannot really be a phobia) my other phobias are all related to lack: lack of control, lack of power, lack of movement.

I have a phobia towards moths because the Moth is my personal metaphorical image of blind impulse and lack of direction and because when I was little a neighbor man told me that if the dust from the lawn moths got in my eyes I would go blind. Later his eldest son tied me to a carport post until I pied my pants so I have Merinthophobia too. Selaphobia isn’t really a phobia since I am actually incapacitated by flashing lights, but it is connected to a loss of control.

Neo-cartesian self-examination:Dislikes

Dislikes: Cake with whipped cream (and fruit?!) instead of shortening frosting, Sopranos, *Beets, Vacations, Diamonds, the word “Like”, Slugs, Sweating, Parties, Bananas and Coconut, Chick Flicks, Novels, My Own Humming, Cute Anthropomorphized Animal Figurines, Pine needles, Human Hair (even my own), Talking on the Phone, Custard-filled Donuts, Tulips and Daffodils, Burying Guinea Pigs (even dead ones), Egg Nog, Heart Pendants, Easter Basket Grass, Italic font, Ropey Spit, Peter Pan, Apple Pie, Blue Christmas Lights, English speakers on public transportation,...

#1 Dislike: when anyone except me makes totally unsubstantiated generalizations.

*My unqualified loathing of beets, I believe, is a result of the racial memory of my German ancestors forced to grow and harvest beets in Russia. The mere thought of borscht gives me the creeping shudders up my spine.

Neo-Cartesian self-examination: Likes

Likes: White cake with shortening frosting, Tenors, Lima Beans, Fly Fishing, Hip Waders, Adjectives and Adverbs, Colons and Semi-Colons, Footnotes, The Color Red, Prunes, Wikipedia, Football, Gratuitous Violence in Films, Books of Quotations, Biting, Coffee, Black Tea, Noodles and Beer, Velvet, Candy Corn, Criminal Forensics, Pork Rinds, Shiny Sparkly Things, Making Lists, the word “Lapis Lazuli”, Babies, Cozy English Village Murder Mysteries, Boldface Font, Ancient Stone, Feeling Sleepy, My Handwriting, The Smell of Patchouli, Capitalizing Nouns like the Germans do, ...

#1 Like: Making totally unsubstantiated generalizations.