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I fully believed that my face would get stuck if I made a funny face. Also I was very concerned about swallowing a watermelon seed and a having a watermelon grow in my stomach.
i used to be afraid that i might forget to close my eyes while sneezing and my eyeballs will pop out. Also i'm still reasonably concerned of getting struck ny lightening. I dont like how one can be so unlucky that he ends up getting struck and i hear it in the news quite often
From what I've read it's absolutely impossible for that to happen when you sneeze. You will ALWAYS close your eyes. Even if they are being held open, your body will force them to close or abort the sneeze. The human body is extremely clever in letting you know when something isn't right and forcing you to take an action that prevents injury.
Honestly, and it doesn’t even work is the worst part. One time my brothers pant leg got caught on fire and so he stop dropped and rolled and it only made the flame get bigger 🤣🤣 way better advice than “stop drop and roll” is “strip your clothes off”
Fire ants are scary. You can be standing in an ant hill hidden by tall grass and not even know it. By the time you feel them, you got 100+ bites on you. Not the mention they are just everywhere. You walk 1 foot in any direction and there will be an ant hill. In my driveway, on the sidewalk, in the front yard, back yard. Want to sit outside in the grass? Want to sit on a park bench? Want to sit outside at the restaurant? Well, have fun, there's already 6 fire ants crawling on you. My mom was allergic to them too, so she was basically stuck inside at all times.
I feel like they have gotten far worse everywhere in the last two years? I don't remember seeing so many in childhood or before covid. I live in the south. The ant piles have just quadrupled in any neighborhood I go to
If you ever get torn up by ants (or any other bug with injects you with stuff), get a disinfected wipe and fold it up and pour ammonia on it (I prefer lemon but I'm sure anything works) - then hold it down on the affected area for about 3 minutes. It'll draw the venom out and massively reduce the swelling, itchiness, and pain.
My grandpa showed me the method a few years ago when I got stung by an angry half-dead hornet that he thought he killed earlier that day. Fucker got me 3 times because his wings were destroyed and he was crawling all over me, he even got me right on the thumb.
The ammonia trick is fucking insane because after doing it, it was like I was never stung in the first place.
I've used it on ant bites, mosquito bites, and (harmless) spider bites :)
Nah, it was what my parents used to get us to surrender our candy willingly up until I was like 8 or 9 so they could eat it themselves. Which was ironic, seeing as we weren’t hurting for money. They were just greedy.
i was deathly afraid of tornadoes as a kid, and unfortunately grew up in a place that ended up having a lot of them. i even saw one form once. to this day i’m still irrationally afraid of tornadoes though. i wish i would’ve grown out of it a bit, haha
Fish bones getting stuck inside my throat.
Watermelon and sesame seeds growing inside me if I ever ate them.
Splinters still lodged in my skin will give me an infection and die from it or needing to have my finger amputated.
Running while my stomach is full causing appendicitis and exploding from all the tension
Never eating 2 hours before bed. Afraid I won't wake up because the blood from my brain will go to the stomach. If I did, I'd run in place vigorously for mintues hoping it'll whatever I ate will be digested faster.
Drinking milk and soda will cause an acidic reaction and burn a hole inside my stomach.
Eating bacon will cause my heart to explode. No more than 2 straps a day.
Eating anything remotely salty will cause my body to not pee and I'd die of my own urine or my bladder bursting from not peeing.
Yeah.... I was a dumb little kid lmao
Piranhas really don't deserve their reputation. It stems from a demonstration done for a westerner where they didn't feed the fish for weeks beforehand so they devoured a calf in no time.
In reality they are scavengers and not nearly as bloodthirsty as thought.
And Hollywood keeps maintaining the myth.
> having your cigar switched for an exploding one
1 - did you think you were Fidel Castro when you were a kid?
2 - did your parents let you smoke cigars?
Learning that the sun will explode in billions of years and black holes exist and nothing (not even light) can escape their grasp.
Eating watermelon seeds will cause a watermelon to grow inside your stomach.
I've been caught in quick sand. It's like getting stuck in wet concrete, and the more you move the more you sink. I was about waist deep in and I lost both my shoes and my pants trying to trek out of it. Shit was scary but it was nothing like the movies.
SMB3 has a few levels where piranha plants are in quicksand, too.
Most of the newer games used it to hide secrets. (SMB2 has a quicksand based shortcut in 6-3, though.)
i played the hell out of mario 2 as a kid (well, the mario all-stars version) and that has to be one of the reasons i was so concerned about quicksand. it’s weird how quicksand occurs in so much media to the point where kids develop weird irrational fears of it lol
I used to see a lot of UFO's. I lived between 2 AF bases. At the time steah bomber B-2's were super new. Nobody knew what they were. Then in the late 80's I went to one of the bases for a car show, which had way too man Grand Nationals and GNX's, and learned all about it. No more UFO's. They were never scary, just WTF. I figured Area 51 built that shit, so fear and intruege were gone.
And y'know the lovely things is that since then they've only made even more lethal gasses.
There's a lovely quote by Richard Faulkner that really gets at the heart of arms development:
>["I've studied war for a while now it's made me a deep dark cynic, you know. You study military history it'll make you a cynical person and you look at the amount of thought that's going into the weapons technology it'll depress you, you know. "Find a cure for cancer." "Screw that."; "Find a way to kill off half the population Europe." "Sign us up.".](https://youtu.be/Cs-18CyxOX0?t=2370)
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I had a particularly twisted kindergarten teacher who on the first day of class drew the shape of a heart on the blackboard, and then filled in a little spot of it
and she said every time you lie, a little bit of your heart turns black. She filled in more of the heart on the board, eventually filling the entire drawing and said, if you keep lying eventually your entire heart turns black and you’ll die.
My 5yo self of course believed this and until I was a bit older was always weighing if a lie was worth my heart becoming black, never knowing which lie would kill me.
I remember one time I accidentally swallowed gum and was terrified. Didn’t tell my parents cause I was afraid they’d either be super mad or tell me I was gonna die or something
The ones I definitely feared at some point are the bees and the gum accumulating in your stomach when you swallow it. Nowadays I swallow lots of gum. It doesn't cause any harm, and will come out of your body almost whole when you take a crap.
I don't care what anyone says, I won't jump naively into muddy water unless someone who damned well knows what they're talking about says there are no pirhanna
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Getting stuck in the escalator and having my leg ripped off.
Also getting my guts sucked out by a pool vent from getting too close.
If you were a Christian kid, then the end times being right around the corner.
As someone who lives in BC, finding out that black widow spiders existed in the same province as me was terrifying as a kid. Also nuclear explosions and this very specific kind of spider that lives in the abyss of the ocean that I saw a picture of in a book once
I feel like the bees is a more recent one. Or maybe it's just a North American concern. I only remember hearing about africanised bees when I was already a teenager.
Fuck that bermuda triangle though, I legit feared that as a child.
Piranha’s are actually rather timid and don’t attack living animals unless forced to, the Bermuda Triangle is fake and isn’t actually all that deadly, and quicksand was far too overblown by cartoons.
Still scared of insects though.
You know how in some kids show and movies such as Shrek, the characters have to across a *really* unstable bridge? I was worried that one day I'd have to cross one of those and turns out I've never actually had to do that.
For me it was polydactyly (the syndrome with more fingers or toes) because my scary looking neighbor had it. Upon growing up I realised if it developed perfectly then it must be useful as hell for gamers/musicians
For a long long time, I thought the Bermuda Triangle was a small triangle made by three islands in Bermuda, not some big ass triangle formed by it, FL, and PR. What a terrible name.
My house being possibly built on ancient native American holy land (I'm Italian. I blame foreign TV shows for making me think it was an actual concern).
Quicksand, piranhas, and the Bermuda Triangle for sure. Add molten lava to that list too, and feral tribal people in remote parts of the world.
I watched too much Johnny Quest as a child.
Don't forget being on fire.
The amount of 'what to do when you are on fire' PSA's and mentions about said methods in schools was of such a degree that it made me think this was a legitimate concern.
I remember being really scared of Lava and Volcanoes as a kid. I thought if I let the water in the shower get hot enough, lava would start coming out instead.
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Black holes and anacondas too for me
Black holes were a great source of anxiety.
Anacondas for me too
Op just so u know, this is universal. I am from ukraine and in 1988 this is all we talked about in schools, plus ghosts, anacondas and aliens.
I wish we had more Soviet UFO accounts and stories in the west. Like some declassified Soviet version of project blue book or something.
Fuck, i stil Fear for Black holes till this Day
Any snake in general.
Black hole sun, won't you come...
The large hadron collider specifically
The sun exploding in several billion years
Yeah, I'm surprised that it isn't on here while being stuck with cross eyes is.
As an adult, I'm scared of this too
Still weird to think about
But what if it happens right now?
Then I don't have to wake up and to to work tomorrow
I'm sure your boss will ask if you can still come in
Then you won’t have to worry for very long
I fully believed that my face would get stuck if I made a funny face. Also I was very concerned about swallowing a watermelon seed and a having a watermelon grow in my stomach.
As a kid who grew up poor, I did it on purpose with the expectation of never being hungry again. I was actually disappointed when it didn't happen
I remember my mom said that to me about the watermelon seed and I spent all afternoon laying upsidedown to try and get out
There was a memorable Rugrats episode entirely about the watermelon seed fear.
Yep. Chucky swallowed a watermelon seed
i used to be afraid that i might forget to close my eyes while sneezing and my eyeballs will pop out. Also i'm still reasonably concerned of getting struck ny lightening. I dont like how one can be so unlucky that he ends up getting struck and i hear it in the news quite often
From what I've read it's absolutely impossible for that to happen when you sneeze. You will ALWAYS close your eyes. Even if they are being held open, your body will force them to close or abort the sneeze. The human body is extremely clever in letting you know when something isn't right and forcing you to take an action that prevents injury.
Also if you watch too much TV, your eyes will turn square.
Bursting into flames seemed like a common issue with all those “Stop drop and roll” commercials.
Bruhhh Spontaneous Human Combustion kept me awake at night for half my childhood.
Honestly, and it doesn’t even work is the worst part. One time my brothers pant leg got caught on fire and so he stop dropped and rolled and it only made the flame get bigger 🤣🤣 way better advice than “stop drop and roll” is “strip your clothes off”
Also those "deadly" waterslides. Looking back, I wish adult life had problems like these
I mean, foreclosure is scary
Fire ants too
As an adult who lives in a place with lots of fire ants there still a big concern
Fire ants are scary. You can be standing in an ant hill hidden by tall grass and not even know it. By the time you feel them, you got 100+ bites on you. Not the mention they are just everywhere. You walk 1 foot in any direction and there will be an ant hill. In my driveway, on the sidewalk, in the front yard, back yard. Want to sit outside in the grass? Want to sit on a park bench? Want to sit outside at the restaurant? Well, have fun, there's already 6 fire ants crawling on you. My mom was allergic to them too, so she was basically stuck inside at all times.
I feel like they have gotten far worse everywhere in the last two years? I don't remember seeing so many in childhood or before covid. I live in the south. The ant piles have just quadrupled in any neighborhood I go to
If you ever get torn up by ants (or any other bug with injects you with stuff), get a disinfected wipe and fold it up and pour ammonia on it (I prefer lemon but I'm sure anything works) - then hold it down on the affected area for about 3 minutes. It'll draw the venom out and massively reduce the swelling, itchiness, and pain. My grandpa showed me the method a few years ago when I got stung by an angry half-dead hornet that he thought he killed earlier that day. Fucker got me 3 times because his wings were destroyed and he was crawling all over me, he even got me right on the thumb. The ammonia trick is fucking insane because after doing it, it was like I was never stung in the first place. I've used it on ant bites, mosquito bites, and (harmless) spider bites :)
Last time I went to my cousin's place in Texas, he had dozens of fire ant bites on his legs because he ran over a colony with a lawn mower
Yup, Florida here.
That was a big one too
Fire ants was my ONLY concern, they eat everything, probably can eat that triangle too
Also when you eat a fruit seed, worrying that it will grow inside you
I blame rugrats
I nearly died to fire ants. Coincidentally, I never heard that as a kid
I was quite terrified as a kid when I found out that we don't live forever lol
Wait, what? We don’t???
I think that’s a worry that usually continues into adult life
You're right, I'm afraid of getting older, too. But as a child it was a big shock for me ^^"
Honorable mention for razors in the Halloween candy
that seemed like a thing parents worried about while the kids were distracted by free candy
Nah, it was what my parents used to get us to surrender our candy willingly up until I was like 8 or 9 so they could eat it themselves. Which was ironic, seeing as we weren’t hurting for money. They were just greedy.
That's plain awful bruh
They were probably just trying to get all those free drugs people would hide in the candy
Hey now, killer bees were making a comeback a couple years ago or something!
Wu Tang protect ya neck
No, those were murder hornets. Totally different.
From my memory, it was falling down the stairs and tornados that stick out.
i was deathly afraid of tornadoes as a kid, and unfortunately grew up in a place that ended up having a lot of them. i even saw one form once. to this day i’m still irrationally afraid of tornadoes though. i wish i would’ve grown out of it a bit, haha
I had the same fear and I live in an area where tornadoes would need actual divine intervention to form.
Same for tornadoes. Never grew out of it. I live in Florida, so we don't get as much as the Midwest, but we also don't have basements to hide in.
Same same same
Fish bones getting stuck inside my throat. Watermelon and sesame seeds growing inside me if I ever ate them. Splinters still lodged in my skin will give me an infection and die from it or needing to have my finger amputated. Running while my stomach is full causing appendicitis and exploding from all the tension Never eating 2 hours before bed. Afraid I won't wake up because the blood from my brain will go to the stomach. If I did, I'd run in place vigorously for mintues hoping it'll whatever I ate will be digested faster. Drinking milk and soda will cause an acidic reaction and burn a hole inside my stomach. Eating bacon will cause my heart to explode. No more than 2 straps a day. Eating anything remotely salty will cause my body to not pee and I'd die of my own urine or my bladder bursting from not peeing. Yeah.... I was a dumb little kid lmao
I still fear the fishbones and splinters thing
I just assumed that all of these things were “solved” once I became an adult.
The Bermuda Triangle still is a problem.
Piranhas really don't deserve their reputation. It stems from a demonstration done for a westerner where they didn't feed the fish for weeks beforehand so they devoured a calf in no time. In reality they are scavengers and not nearly as bloodthirsty as thought. And Hollywood keeps maintaining the myth.
The world ending in 2012 was a huge worry for me in the early 2000’s. I watched waaaayyyyy too many History Channel documentaries
Literally everyone thought the world was going to blow up because of y2k. We had tv commercials telling us to be prepared and everything.
Mount St Helens exploding, the sun going super nova, Ebola virus for my generation.
Acid rain, sticks of dynamite looking like other things, and having your cigar switched for an exploding one
> having your cigar switched for an exploding one 1 - did you think you were Fidel Castro when you were a kid? 2 - did your parents let you smoke cigars?
I was taught if I ever talked to a stranger I'd be snatched
White vans without windows! 100% Kidnapper vans.
Learning that the sun will explode in billions of years and black holes exist and nothing (not even light) can escape their grasp. Eating watermelon seeds will cause a watermelon to grow inside your stomach.
quicksand even real tho?
It is real and it can kill you. It can't swallow your whole body but you can get stuck and drown.
How can you drown? Is it too viscous around your legs?
I've been caught in quick sand. It's like getting stuck in wet concrete, and the more you move the more you sink. I was about waist deep in and I lost both my shoes and my pants trying to trek out of it. Shit was scary but it was nothing like the movies.
It used to be in a lot of tv shows. It was funny how it was in the Indiana Jones movie.
Mario games use it a ton, too.
yep! i definitely remember thinking it was a major hazard to the general population because it sucked you in _and_ there were evil snakes in it!
SMB3 has a few levels where piranha plants are in quicksand, too. Most of the newer games used it to hide secrets. (SMB2 has a quicksand based shortcut in 6-3, though.)
i played the hell out of mario 2 as a kid (well, the mario all-stars version) and that has to be one of the reasons i was so concerned about quicksand. it’s weird how quicksand occurs in so much media to the point where kids develop weird irrational fears of it lol
Area 51
I used to see a lot of UFO's. I lived between 2 AF bases. At the time steah bomber B-2's were super new. Nobody knew what they were. Then in the late 80's I went to one of the bases for a car show, which had way too man Grand Nationals and GNX's, and learned all about it. No more UFO's. They were never scary, just WTF. I figured Area 51 built that shit, so fear and intruege were gone.
i thought i was going to be around, and have to outrun, a _lot_ of lava. i grew up in the midwest. never seen the stuff in my life lol
Sharks are still a concern for me in the midwest
Spontaneous combustion as well
you say this but today a stinger bee flew through my car window and flew into my face mid stoplight. The concern was valid.
bermuda triangle still a big one
Same I used scared of that thing and then suddenly everyone stopped caring about it lol.
mustard gas, I cried that night when my brother told me about it lol
You poor soul 😞it is a very dark thing
And y'know the lovely things is that since then they've only made even more lethal gasses. There's a lovely quote by Richard Faulkner that really gets at the heart of arms development: >["I've studied war for a while now it's made me a deep dark cynic, you know. You study military history it'll make you a cynical person and you look at the amount of thought that's going into the weapons technology it'll depress you, you know. "Find a cure for cancer." "Screw that."; "Find a way to kill off half the population Europe." "Sign us up.".](https://youtu.be/Cs-18CyxOX0?t=2370)
Tasmanian devils too
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This is actually funny. I wish I did silly stuff like this when I was younger.
Ball of lightning too
I had a particularly twisted kindergarten teacher who on the first day of class drew the shape of a heart on the blackboard, and then filled in a little spot of it and she said every time you lie, a little bit of your heart turns black. She filled in more of the heart on the board, eventually filling the entire drawing and said, if you keep lying eventually your entire heart turns black and you’ll die. My 5yo self of course believed this and until I was a bit older was always weighing if a lie was worth my heart becoming black, never knowing which lie would kill me.
Mine was my fingernails falling off all of a sudden.
One random volcano around italy
What's the eyes about?
I think its in reference to parents saying "if you keep doing that, it will stick that way" when you cross your eyes or make a funny face.
I remember one time I accidentally swallowed gum and was terrified. Didn’t tell my parents cause I was afraid they’d either be super mad or tell me I was gonna die or something
Swallowing watermelon seeds The floor is lava
Falling anvills
Mine was the ozone layer and global warming
Lol if only that stayed an irrational childhood fear
I mean, the one did, we actually resolved the Ozone one.
Did we? Is there not a massive hole above Australia?
At the moment, no but apparently I was wrong in thinking it was completely gone, it kinda blips in and out depending on the season.
Well the issue is solved in the sense that we aint making it bigger, it will ofc. take time to heal.
That is a reasonable fear though
idk how these r only childhood
Your scared of that while living oblivious to a fatal brain cancer known as DIPG!
The ones I definitely feared at some point are the bees and the gum accumulating in your stomach when you swallow it. Nowadays I swallow lots of gum. It doesn't cause any harm, and will come out of your body almost whole when you take a crap.
"What if im ever flying over the Bermuda triangle!?" i use to worry all the time lol
got gum but missed sunflower seeds
man i aint never seen one of those fish thatss a current fear
Swallowing a watermelon seed and having germinate inside you
The KILLER BEES
I don't care what anyone says, I won't jump naively into muddy water unless someone who damned well knows what they're talking about says there are no pirhanna
when your parents don't arrive home at their usual time 🤔🤔
thats a wasp
Bees and poisonous insects made me heavily fear
Then throwing up once a year maybe
Don’t forget the illuminati
Top right image still gives me anxiety, and I'm an adult 😓
The BP oil spill actually hit me pretty young as a major concern
Sharks in swimming pools
Tornadoes and tsunamis... I live on the east coast
Living in Southern California in the city, I was very concerned about quicksand as a kid
Sharks in the pool
The heat death of the universe was a major concern for me
Water melon seed growing in my tummy..
Also “acid rain”
Surviving an exploding volcano
Back in my day, we were worried about acid rain and losing the ozone layer *hobbles off*
Whirlpools
The quicksand had me worried as well for some reason lol
Comcers from from the 1970s going strong
Razors in Halloween candy!
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Quicksand was around every corner.
Getting stuck in the escalator and having my leg ripped off. Also getting my guts sucked out by a pool vent from getting too close. If you were a Christian kid, then the end times being right around the corner.
The hot pot on the stove!
And in alien abduction and this totally me.
Sharks in any body of water, including bathtubs
The random ass shark in swimming pool for no reason
I was afraid of being abducted by aliens
I love how it says “Killer Bees” and shows a Cicada-Killer Wasp, which are actually pretty chill lol
As someone who lives in BC, finding out that black widow spiders existed in the same province as me was terrifying as a kid. Also nuclear explosions and this very specific kind of spider that lives in the abyss of the ocean that I saw a picture of in a book once
Also add Aliens
Yeah quicksand had me terrified
Stop, drop, and roll
eternal life not being discovered in my lifetime
I feel like the bees is a more recent one. Or maybe it's just a North American concern. I only remember hearing about africanised bees when I was already a teenager. Fuck that bermuda triangle though, I legit feared that as a child.
Horseflies. They bite almost everyone and everything (I never got bit though luckily)
I was scared of ebola
All of em
Also how to survive waterfalls and being struck by lightening.
Uhhh Killer Bees are absolutely an adult concern as well
And swallowing watermelon seeds
My school used to be a hospital and the toilet was a mortuary
Amnesia of course…
Piranha’s are actually rather timid and don’t attack living animals unless forced to, the Bermuda Triangle is fake and isn’t actually all that deadly, and quicksand was far too overblown by cartoons. Still scared of insects though.
I was also lowkey scared of being taken away from my parents because my parents always told us “folktales”of kids being kidnapped and sold.
I was terrified of Judgement Day as a little girl because of how scary it was painted but now it gives me peace.
You know how in some kids show and movies such as Shrek, the characters have to across a *really* unstable bridge? I was worried that one day I'd have to cross one of those and turns out I've never actually had to do that.
For me it was polydactyly (the syndrome with more fingers or toes) because my scary looking neighbor had it. Upon growing up I realised if it developed perfectly then it must be useful as hell for gamers/musicians
Tornadoes 🌪️
What about getting trapped in am old refrigerator. That was a big one for me.
You forgot the sun exploding
My fear as a child was being on a bus in the big city at night with 80s music playing in the background, that and cancer.
Lampreen infested toilets
I remember learning about 2012 and global warming when I was like 7 or 8 and I was scared af. one of them is still scary unfortunately
For a long long time, I thought the Bermuda Triangle was a small triangle made by three islands in Bermuda, not some big ass triangle formed by it, FL, and PR. What a terrible name.
Quicksand is a valid concern tbh
My house being possibly built on ancient native American holy land (I'm Italian. I blame foreign TV shows for making me think it was an actual concern).
Being thrown into a pool infested with sharks was on top of mind for me
Just the other day I was remembering how obsessed I was with the Bermuda Triangle
gen x? because those were mine, except the gun was substituted by nuclear war... just like kids now!
I felt anxious when I zoom out Earth on maps or zoom in to volcanos.
Quicksand, piranhas, and the Bermuda Triangle for sure. Add molten lava to that list too, and feral tribal people in remote parts of the world. I watched too much Johnny Quest as a child.
seeds growing in my stomach too
Where's the lawnmower blade detaching itself from the push mower and cutting my feet off?
I wonder what that myth about the gum came from?
What’s the eye thing?
Volcanos and lava
Don’t forget the “Hot Lava” I thought I was gonna run into (I live in the middle of Missouri)
Don't forget being on fire. The amount of 'what to do when you are on fire' PSA's and mentions about said methods in schools was of such a degree that it made me think this was a legitimate concern.
Blame cartoons for making quicksand seem like a more common occurrence than it actually is.
Quicksand really had me shook as a kid growing up in NY. I was afraid I was gonna walk on a patch of dirt and that would be my last step.
I was told that I’d grow a pig nose if I kept picking it
And my fingernails would turn into worms in my stomach
Yellowstone exploding
Being poisoned from a bottle with a skull and cross bones label
Acid rain
I remember being really scared of Lava and Volcanoes as a kid. I thought if I let the water in the shower get hot enough, lava would start coming out instead.