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Welcome back to our four-week segment on our favorite phobias. Share your phobia stories in the comments! (Although if your phobia is severe and interferes with your life, you should and can get help. Email us if you don’t know where to start at weareedukatorz at gmail dot com and we’ll do our best).

Bibliophobia – Fear of books.

Knowledge is power, people. You can’t be prepared without it. But that’s why this column is here, safely on the interwebs, away from the scary library.

Bromidrophobia or Bromidrosiphobia – Fear of body smells.

Ablutophobics (this is a pop quiz!), you’re just driving the circle of fear. For shame!

Ebulliophobia – fear of bubbles.

I don’t really have any commentary on this one, it’s just pretty rad.

Lutraphobia – fear/dislike of otters.

Otters are adorable. How could you dislike otters?*

Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.

You’re not surviving long with this one. Unless you’re a vampire.

Technophobia – fear of technology.

I wonder if my somewhat obsessive fear of The Robot uprising falls into this category?

Andddddd last but not least:

Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.**

*Fish, however. That makes sense.

**I apologize for this series to any readers suffering from phobophobia. I promise it’s the last one, please come back to our website!

Welcome back to our four-week segment on our favorite phobias. Share your phobia stories in the comments! (Although if your phobia is severe and interferes with your life, you should and can get help. Email us if you don’t know where to start at weareedukatorz at gmail dot com and we’ll do our best).

Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances.

Someone fell asleep with flying toasters on as a child?

Sichuaphobia – fear of Chinese food.

Indian food, however, has no documented phobia that I know of.

Basiphobia – Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.

That sounds problematic.*

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.

I can understand a Christian developing this fear, but name is the important thing here. Awesome, awesome word.

Cherophobia – Fear of gaiety.

That’s just depressing. I mean, literally, that’s sad.

*But anything that reminds of Arrested Development makes the Edukatorz happy.

Last week we kicked off our four-week segment on our favorite phobias. Share your phobia stories in the comments! (Although if your phobia is severe and interferes with you, you should and can get help. Email us if you don’t know where to start at weareedukatorz at gmail dot com and we’ll do our best).

Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.*
I can attest that this one is legit. Shout out to Sam!

Turophobia – fear of cheese.
What is wrong with you people?!? You need to get over this. Cheese is one of the five best existent substances known to mankind.

Cathisophobia – Fear of sitting.
You people probably have an advantage when it comes to survival – more practice running?

Acousticophobia – fear of sound and voice.
Apparently this can include an active fear of sudden loud noises and objects that might emit them, like fire alarms, which I can sort of understand. But more interestingly, it can take the form of a fear of one’s own voice.

Batonophobia – Fear of plants.
There are some pretty scary plants out there.

Porphyrophobia – fear of the color purple.
But why specifically purple? People aren’t afraid of other colors? If someone feels like googling that, feel free to post in the comments… but I kind of like the mystery as is.

*Fun fact for sufferers of this disorder: you can get a shot to ward off vomit at the ER. I’m told it makes you feel super drunk, though (but maybe that’s a benefit?).

So you’ve probably read some of our (my) survivalist posts… or not, if you think we’re (I’m) just raving lunatics. Which is fair enough, so that got me thinking of all the different rational/irrational fears out there. At some point, a rational caution around, say, the edge of a cliff crosses that fine line into a true “fear of heights;” a phobia. So here’s part one of our favorite (ir)rational fears!

Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
If you suffer from this, please, we beg you, get to the nearest psychiatrist, for the sake of society.

Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish.
This is not funny! Fish are terrifying! Not at the aquarium, not on my plate, but in the ocean. Especially the warm ocean. Where there are poisonous fish. Like if they touch you, you could die. Think about it. Read the rest of this entry →