I have a couple things that make me anxious. I'm not so much scared of heights as I am of falling; I can go up high stuff so long as there's a reasonable chance I'm not going to fall to my death. For this reason, I abhor those glass walls on the outside of buildings. I was super fine going up the Empire State Building until it came time to look out over the edge. Part of my fear is also that I don't wanna drop my trout over there. That would be frustrating.
I'm not a big fan of spiders/snakes when I don't know what kind they are, because I immediately assume hyper lethal and resign myself to immediate death. I've had super poisonous snakes and spiders in my house before but knowing what they were somehow numbed the fear :confused: I'm really not a fan of spiders after having them living in my smurfing pillows but that's a long story.
Really not a fan of driving. Makes me anxious because no matter how good a driver I am, all it takes is one other person to smurf up and I'm dead. Origins of this probably stem from the <5 inch near miss I had as a kid: out of control car+caravan almost tore through us. Fortunately, dad managed to drive us off a 2m almost vertical drop to, y'know, not get totally smurfed up. Cars generally make me awkward given that I watched a car drift off the road and tear through a group of people standing on the opposite side of an intersection while I was in the US. The guy who got hit somehow lived. At least I had plenty of booze on standby already.
A lot of things get me on edge but I'm not really keen on letting them become debilitating so I often challenge these fears.
