So, I was looking up phobia’s, and I found a Wikipedia page listing them, and here are my top 10 favorites:
1: Barophobia:
The fear of gravity. I’ve never met anyone afraid of gravity, or afraid of suddenly floating upward, but I did think this one was funny
2: Chronophobia:
The fear of time. Afraid of time? Never heard that. You can’t stop time!
3: Coulrophobia- Fear of Clowns
This one I’ve known, but I’ve never known the name… I can see how clowns could be scary to some people.
4: Cyberphobia:
The fear of technology. Probably most grandparents (not mine, of course).
5:Friggatriskaidekaphobia:
Fear of Friday the 13th. I can see that.
6: Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia:
Fear of the number 666, the number of the beast. I just love the long word.
7: Nomophobia:
Fear of no cell service. This just made me laugh so hard.
8: Sesquipedalophobia:
The fear of long words. What made me laugh for this one was how the word describing it is actually pretty long.
9: Acrophobia
The fear of heights. Did you know that was the name for it?
And finally, my favorite of all time:
10: Phobophobia
The fear of fear itself or the fear of developing a phobia. How can someone be afraid of fear? I can see someone being afraid of developing a phobia, in which case they already have, but the fear of being afraid? You can’t be afraid of being afraid, because you already are!
I hope you enjoyed my list of my favorite phobia’s, which also counts as my narration for school today, I just was thinking about phobia’s one day and found this on Wikipedia!
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