I bet you all I have the weirdest phobia

[Mike in LA]

Alektorophobia, fear of chickens!

At the age of 4 I was pushed into a chicken pen by my cruel nanny. I was scared and wanted to get out. The chickens were scurrying by my feat and I was afraid of what was in the chicken coupe. Ever since then I have been completely unable to touch/get near birds and for a while I couldnt even look at pictures of chickens, especially roosters. Now I'm somewhat better but I would still rather die than go near a chicken.

[bjg]

HI

YOUR PHOBIA SOUNDS VERY SIMILIAR TO MINE IN SOME WAYS..ONLY MINE IS WITH TURTLES(IT GROSSES ME OUT TO JUST WRITE THE WORD) I DONT KNOW HOW MINE STARTED BUY I CAN NEVER REMEMBER NOT HAVING IT..I CANNOT LOOK AT A PICTURE OF A TURTLE WITHOUT A REACTION..SOMETIMES A SCREAM! I FEAR ALL REPTILES ..BUT TURTLES ARE THE WORST,THEN LIZARDS AND THEN SNAKES...I HAVE SEEN DRS FOR THIS PROBLEM EVEN BEEN ON MEDS..I SEE NO END IN SIGHT FOR IT..BUT HOPE YOU CONTINUE TO IMPROVE..

[Believeinyourdreams]

Wow! A fear of chickens and turtles! Those sound pretty awful. But everyone tells me that I have the strangest phobia. I don't know what it's called but I have an extreme fear of changing light bulbs. I can't even be in a room when someone is changing a light bulb and my dear hubby always rolls his eyes when I tell him that there is another light bulb he needs to replace.:love2

[timeman_1560]

Here's my really weird phobia: Ailanthus trees. You know, those ugly, smelly, fast growing trees that grow in empty lots. Those big, mutant-like leaves scare the crap out of me!

In case you don't know, here's the tree I'm talking about : [url="http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/esadocs/ailaalti.html"]http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/esadocs/ailaalti.html[/url]

[blahblahblah]

Those phobias are really strange. I think everything has to do with your childhoods.. I was just wondering though:
Mike, do you eat chicken?
And bjg, I love turtles.. where I live there is these little sea turtles on the beach.. they're so small cause I think they just hatched or whatever, and they're all over the beach. You'd DIE!
Well, I'd have to say I'm not afraid of really any animals to that point but I do jump when some insect is on me. OR if a bee wants to come in my car and I'm driving. (isn't that everyone's fear?)