26 Bizarre, Funny Fears From A to Z Reflections

The Complete List Of 26 Funny, Bizarre Fears From A to Z 

Ablutophobia - Barophobia - Cacophobia - Dishabiliophobia - Ergophobia - Frigophobia 

Gamophobia - Hedonophobia - Iatrophobia - Japanophobia - Kathisophobia - Lachanophobia

Musophobia - Novercaphobia - Oikophobia - Papaphobia - Quintaphobia

Ranidaphobia - Syngenesophobia - Teleophobia - Urophobia - Verbophobia - Wiccaphobia

Xerophobia - Your strangest fears are? - Zuesophobia

     There you have it.  26 days of bringing you new strange and funny alphabetical fears for the 2014 A to Z Challenge has come to a close and I made it again.  Today I am going to be reflecting on the process of creating my list and the experiences that I had during the A to Z Challenge this year.  Check out all the funny and weird fears from this years challenge with the links above to catch up if you missed any or just want to check them out again.

     As I implied earlier, this was my second year participating in the A to Z Challenge and unlike last year, this year I went with a theme.  Having now done it both ways I can tell you that at least for me, having a theme is the only way to go if you are going to try to do this challenge.  I just found that with that theme it gave you more structure to help making it through the challenge successfully all that much easier.  I also found that I had much more time for participating in visiting all the blogs and responding to my comments from the people good enough to visit me and leave me a comment.

     The thing about the challenge that was the same this year was all the other great bloggers who also participate in the A to Z Challenge.  I made a whole lot of new blogging friends just like I did last year, which is why I did it again in the first place, and why I will probably be back for next years A to Z.  If I do though, you can bet it will be with a theme.  I vow before you to never A to Z themeless again.  Hopefully you enjoyed my theme and laughed at all the funny ones I chose to write about and share here with you this year.  If you became a Laughing at Life 2 member during the challenge, welcome to the family.  If you have any suggestions for what my theme next year should be leave it below in the comments.  Thanks for stopping by and come back often soon.

     

Zuesophobia

The fear of God or Gods.

     I imagine that is is very hard to suffer from a case of Zuesophobia.  God is everywhere, and He knows everything so you could never hide under your bed to get away from God.  God knew you were going to hide under that bed before you did and He is already there waiting for you.  You couldn't even run away from God because, as I have already said, He is everywhere so, where would you run to?  You cannot even avoid God because he lives within you so, unless you can avoid yourself, you're are stuck in God's presence at all times.  On a side note, if you actually can avoid yourself shoot me some tips on your amazing skill of self avoidance in the comments below because this may be hard to believe but as awesome as I am, I still do tend to get on my nerves sometimes.

     I have covered some wild fears during this years A to Z challenge but I believe that Zuesophobia has got to be among the wierdest that we have explored here.  I feel like suffering from this fear would be awful even though I attempted to poke a little fun at it in the paragraph above.  God is love, and should be embraced, not feared.  I don't know the nature of this fear or understand it unless, zuesophobia is an Atheist only fear.  See that would make sense to me because atheists have many reasons to fear God.  I imagine the idea of passing on and finding out that they were wrong all along and now have to explain a lifetime of being just an all around basher of Christians and Godly people and religious institutions would be very frightening when you're explaining it all to your creator that you had spent your whole life denying.

     

     Well, we did it!  One more A to Z challenge in the bag!  Thank you to everyone who left your great comments and joined our Laughing at Life 2 family this year.  

Your strangest fears are?

What are you most afraid of that's kinda strange?

     From what I can find there are NO true phobias that start with the letter 'Y' because there are no Greek words that begin with the letter 'Y'.  So since there aren't any phobias at all for the letter 'Y' to choose from I figured that for today's post I could share some things that I am afraid of and hopefully you guys will comment below and share some of your fears.

     My biggest fear is of heights.  I don't have a small fear of heights, I am absolutely terrified of heights.  I can't even climb a ladder more than halfway because my legs just won't move anymore past a certain point.  So, if you want to hide junk food from me, you can't go wrong if you hide it up high.  I also don't like birds or any flying insect or animal for that matter flying around me.  One more thing that freaks me out just to make it an even three is mice.  I hate mice and will act like a complete and total sissy if one scurries across the floor.  I turn into a 12yr old girl in the presence of even the tiniest of mice.
     So there you have it.  I have shared three of my fears with you and now it's your turn.  Comment below and tell us about what things you are afraid of.  Thanks for stopping by and remember, come back often soon!

Xerophobia

The fear of dryness.

     Can you imagine taking a nice hot shower and being afraid to dry off?  I imagine that your clothes would be kind of hard to put on.  I also bet that wet hair would probably be pretty hard to deal with in the winter.  Then there is the problem of how do you avoid inevitably air drying?  How does a xerophobe manage to stay wet?  Do you carry a spray bottle at all times?  Or are xerophobes just constantly applying lotion?

     The answer to all of those questions is I don't know.  Throughout my list of bizarre fears from A to Z this one is one of the more weird ones that I have covered.  I have many more questions than answers on this one.  I suppose being afraid to be dry would have some benefits.  For example, one benefit to being afraid to be dry would be all the money you'd save on towels.  Towels are expensive.  Especially if you like a high thread count.  Plus just think of the money you would save on your electric bill never having to worry about drying your clothes.  Come to think of it, doing dishes would take half the time without all that pesky drying of the dishes.  So, while I may not understand being afraid to be dry if you are not a fish, it clearly has a few advantages.

Wiccaphobia

The fear of witches.

     I've read Hansel and Gretel so I kind of get this one.  That witch was scary for sure.  I know that I don't want to be fattened up on candy and then stuffed into an oven to be a feast for some mean old witch.  And don't think that I forgot what that witch did to Snow White either.  A witch giving you a delicious poisoned apple is a legitimate concern for someone to have.
     In defense of witches though there are some really good witches out there too like the good witch from The Wizard Of Oz.  She gave Dorothy those really cool shoes and taught all the oompa loompas those neat songs and dances.   Sabrina the teenage witch also seemed to be an all around pretty good witch.  I didn't trust her cat very much but she seemed to keep him in line most of the time.  So while I understand how witches could be scary there are also good ones too.

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Verbophobia

The fear of words.

     I cannot even imagine being afraid of words.  If you are a verbophobic person and your reading this I applaud your bravery and will keep it short because I know this is hard and scary for you.  I imagine going most places is hard for a verbophobe because words are literally everywhere.  I would imagine that it is fairly hard to avoid running into words in today's literate world.

     This is not only a fear that is hard for me to understand but, to me, it is also a very sad fear.  Imagine being too afraid to read a good book.  Plus, how would you ever know that stars are just like US unless you can read US magazine?  Also, I bet you'd get a lot of parking tickets because you would be too afraid to read those complicated parking rules signs.  One positive would be that McDonalds and other delicious fast food restaurants embrace this fear and allow you to order your fattening treats with just pictures and numbers.  And people think that McDonalds doesn't care.

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Urophobia

The fear of urine.

     I just might actually have this one, I don't really know for sure.  Tell you what, to find out why don't we talk it out a bit here and see what we learn.  Firstly, I know I do not like strange urine.  You know, like little spatter drops on a public bathroom toilet seat that you are either sitting down on and using or ruining your pants and all you have to clean the pee drops up with is that cheap thin single ply public restroom toilet paper.  That is really gross.
     I guess that someone with this fear probably doesn't use many public restrooms or is a hoverer.  Maybe they even scour hotel rooms with a blacklight to make sure there isn't any splatter.  You need a blacklight to really tell if the room is dangerous urine is sneaky.  From what I see though that's what it has to be because I couldn't see them having a problem with the act of urinating itself because you have to do that.  I even enjoy making my own brand new pee from time to time.

Teleophobia

The fear of definite plans.

     I wouldn't say that I am afraid of making definite plans but I would say that I'm really bad at it.  Honestly, I think it's because I possibly may even have a little bit of an aversion to it.  I like to keep it loose when I'm out in about or living in general.  I get it together for work and am professional but, in my free time, I like to do what I like as much as possible and, because of my OCD, plans are hard because I am easily distracted.  It just seems like a lot of the times that I make plans to do one thing I end up wishing I was doing something else.
     I'm not afraid to make plans though.  I will meet you at the library tomorrow at 3pm sharp with no problem.  I can even take you out for hotdogs and pizza saturday evening at 7 if you'd prefer.  I'll be on time too.  I will even pretend to be having a good time for as long as I can stand to.  See, like I said before, I have an aversion to making plans but, luckily for all the people who get to enjoy my company, I'm not scared to come to your kids birthday party on the 5th at 1:00 sharp either.  There are some people who are afraid to make a set plan though and to me, that is really a testament to how wild and strange the human brain is.  Plus, it opens up so many other questions such as, could a teleophobic person manage to get a job, could they even bake a potato, or make it to an important court date?  Sadly, we just may never know.  I would interview one to find out for sure but I just can't get any of them to schedule a time to sit down and talk.

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Syngenesophobia

The fear of relatives.

     This fear is one I think sadly that a lot of people can probably at least understand someone suffering from.  Family can be a funny thing because it's all just the luck of the draw what you end up with in your family.  It's just a wild genetic crapshoot who your family is and if you have any doubts, attend one family reunion.  It's amazing how so many people who share common DNA can also be so wildly different from one another.
     We all know that family member that if you were having company or a party you would be afraid of them finding out about it and showing up.  That's fear right there so we're all just a little syngenesophobic a little bit maybe.  I'm not scared of any of my relatives in particular though.  Most of them are normal, sweet, caring people.  I think that in a fight, I could take any of my relatives easy.  I never feel intimidated at all while I'm eating fried chicken at grandma's table so I guess I'm not all that syngenesophic.  It's very interesting thing to me that some people are afraid of their family though.  To those people I can only ask, how was your Easter weekend?

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Ranidaphobia

The fear of frogs

     This fear is dedicated to a follower of Laughing at Life 2's, my beautiful blogging pal, FK who happens to suffer from ranidaphobia and she had asked me when we did our theme reveals if I would be covering the fear of frogs in my list of bizarre alphabetical fears.  So here you go FK this is for you from me in front of everyone.  Enjoy..,  
     Yes, as FK already knows and I'm telling you right now, there is actually a fear of frogs.  Now, I can kinda get this one a little bit maybe since frogs are all warty, slimy and bug-eyed ugly, not to mention that they can jump like really super high.  That's the big thing that people tend to forget about frog is how amazing they are at jumping.  I bet that a frog could jump right into your soup from 5 yards away, easy.  But, despite that I just don't worry about frogs enough to say that I'm afraid of them but I could understand maybe avoiding them. But to be scared of something smaller than my shoe that is also way more afraid of my giant ass than I am of it's tiny green one is a little weird...
     Unless your a girl, like FK, then yeah I get it.  Because, well you know, yuck!

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Quintaphobia

The fear of the number 5

     I thought Q had me stuck but thanks to the madness of the human brain I will not have to let you down.  It seems that some people out there are afraid of the number five.  I just really think it is a testament to just how bizarre, and entertaining human behavior really is that there is people afraid of numbers and not just numbers, specific numbers.  There was even another Q phobia for the number 4.

     I think it really just is wild that the number 5, the fifth number that I ever learned, can be scary to someone.  Like just the thought that you could play them like a jack in the box just by simply counting to five.  Then Having to deal with knowing that you could never do it because it would be mean.  So then you just hope you will see a kid do it so that you can live the moment through their eyes.  Who are also loving being rude and blunt too.  Don't let kids fool you because they look all sweet and cute.  Kids know what they are doing when they are mean.  Kids can be vicious.  I was a kid and I know it's true.  So if you tried hard enough I'm sure you'd probably get to see a kid jack in the box a quintaphobe sometime.

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Papaphobia

The fear of the Pope

     I know right?  Like what is possibly even a little bit scary about the Pope?  His hat would cast a kind of scary shadow on a wall I guess but, is that scary enough to cause for fear of the Pope?  I just don't see it.  I mean the Pope is always old and frail, and sitting down, and seems to be half asleep most of the time.  How is that scary?  Wasps are scary, the Pope is just boring to me really.  One thing he isn't to me though is scary.
     Now it's hard to say what causes this fear because as we've discussed here before fears are illogical.  One of the ideas I have had on how the Pope could possibly be feared were that these people believe that he not only represents God here on Earth, and speaks for God but he also has magic powers and if angered will shower his sorcery down upon them.  Another one I came up with was that these people are just really fearful of Hell and wanna get to Heaven and they feel that he is the gatekeeper and cannot possibly be pleased enough with their lives and choices to allow them safe passage.

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Oikophobia

The fear of home

     This one is really odd unless your house is just a terrible place like the ones in after school or Lifetime channel movies.  If it is, that sucks and I am very sorry.  If you want to, go ahead and stick around because I'm gonna poke fun at being afraid of home for just a little bit.
     The place that I feel the most comfortable on Earth to some people is a scary thing.  The same place I sit on the couch and eat cupcakes in my underwear while I write blissfully relaxed and comfortable is scary to some.  This one blew me away so much because I just couldn't get it.
     All that made sense to me was that after school special or Lifetime movie stuff I was joking about earlier being the reason for this fear.  If that is it, I get it.  Having a real life monster at home is a scary thing.  Since I'm betting that those reasons have got to be the reasons for this fear existing since nothing else really makes sense it's hard to make light of it.  That is unless they have mice in their house because I am scared of mice too and that is funny.

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Novercaphobia

The fear of stepmothers

     I know a little about this subject at least because I, very much like the fairy tale and female version of me, Cinderella, also had an evil stepmother of my very own.  This, I gotta say from my own experience, is a legitimate fear that I can totally understand.  Having a Stepmother is a very strange thing for a child anyway but if you get yourself a twisted new evil step mommy childhood can be a really rough ride.
     Don't get me wrong, there are probably a ton of great step moms out there but my Dad didn't marry any of those.  He gave me two step mothers, and both of them were evil.  One liked to make me write like 500 sentences saying I'd lift or put down the toilet seat, like I'm Bart Simpson or something.  Then she took everything in our house one day while we were at school and pops was at work.  The second one would openly tell me how Dad would always believe her and I would lose often.  And she was always right too.  That is why step mothers are scary I think and why this fear exists.

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Musophobia

The fear of mice

     In the interest of full disclosure here, I am a full grown 6ft tall, large man, and have this fear.  I get real jumpy if I see a mouse run across the floor like they do right in the corner of your vision.  It creeps me out very much the way mice scurry about and I'd scream like a ten year old girl with a skinned knee if one scurried all crazy fast across the floor right now.  
     I don't know why I am afraid of mice.  It's not like it makes any real sense.  I mean, mice are tiny, it couldn't really ever hurt me even if it wanted to.  Mice are very dirty though and give off, at least to me, a super creepy gross don't let that filthy little thing ever touch me sort of vibe.  If I ever see one I am seriously a big baby about it.  I don't care who is around.  That is why i think I like being a cat owner so much because a cat will protect you against mice.  My cat does at least.  If a mouse should ever decide to show up she will handle that unfortunate mouse for me quickly no problem.  I've seen her do it with a quickness and in that moment when she fearlessly ended that mouse to save me she became my hero.
     So yes, I am afraid of mice for no good reason at all other than they are nasty little filth speed balls.  I don't understand it but, fears are mostly illogical so it doesn't really matter anyway.  Thanks for stopping by for part M of my 26 part series on fears that I am doing for this years A to Z Challenge.  Comment below and join us while your here, but seriously though, most importantly, come back often soon.

Lachanophobia

The fear of vegetables

     Otherwise known as every child's greatest fear.  My children's and my owns anyway.  Picky people like us, who special order each of our sandwiches in drive-thru's like McDonald's is Subway, that make you wait.  Those people I think are Lachanophobes.  At least a little bit.
     I like some vegetables though so I'm not a full blown lacanophobe because a true laconophobe would be terrified to drink V8 juice, and I happen to love it.  My kids don't, but I do.  My kids like black olives so, go figure right.  A person with true lachanophobia from what I've read fears consuming vegetables.  I do not know why really.  Germs, maybe?  Who knows, point is they are afraid of eating vegetables and I thought, well at least it's a manageable fear.  All you gotta do is just stay away from salad bars and produce sections.  Then you surround yourself with delicious meat and carbs.  And, in America, there are plenty of places with great meat and carbs.
     I get this fear a little too because I do special order at fast food joints.  When your a special orderer like me your first bite into your no onion double cheeseburger involves a little trust.  Especially if you hate onions as much as me because McDonalds loves to put on lots of onions almost as much as they love to forget you ordered no onions.  Onions must be really cheap for McD's to love them so much.  I can understand the lachanophobes strife as he/she tries to enjoy their plain meat, cheese, bread double cheeseburger from the fear that an unwanted pickle will be there screwing everything up for the whole experience.  McDonalds messes up special orders an awful lot.  It would be terrifying for a lachanophobe to bite into a special ordered McD's cheeseburger without lifting the bun to check for onions first.  But then a lacanophobe would never go in blind on a burger like that.

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Kathisophobia

The fear of sitting down

     OK, sit down.  I'm going to talk to you about being scared to sit down.  If you didn't sit down because you are scared too please, continue reading anyway, we know that you are scared and we will not judge you here.  But yes, as awesome as what most of you that aren't too scared to do so are doing right now, sitting down really is scary to some.
     Maybe, if you lived in the movie Crank and if you stop to rest your heart will explode sitting down would be a scary thing to do but, I'm sitting right now and I gotta tell you, sitting down is a whole lot nicer than standing up, and I know what I'm talking about because I was standing up right before I sat down.  But despite it being so awesome, relaxing and clearly superior to standing in every way, some folks are just too afraid to sit.

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Japanophobia

The fear of the Japanese

     If you're not an allied soldier in WW2 you shouldn't be afraid of the Japanese.  The Japanese are an adorable and intelligent culture and they make really cool toys and electronics.  Now, for a WW2 soldier overseas I can imagine how scary the Japanese could have been.  But today, things have calmed down significantly since then and things between Us and Japan have improved dramatically.  Today Japan and the US have a mutual friendship.  They make us awesome toys and gadgets and in return we give them all of our money.  I think it's clear that things are working out beautifully too.  I have so many neat gadgets that I may never need to go outside ever again.  Just sit inside, play on my devices, eat and get all fat, lazy and easy to conquer.  There can't be possibly anything sinister about that relationship.
     However, don't get me wrong, Karate is scary stuff.  And, I don't know any karate, and I sure don't want to ever get roundhouse kicked in the mouth, so I can see why that would be a concern.  Plus people that can do math without a calculator are rare and, as we all know kind of super scary.  Plus, have you ever seen a Japanese horror film?  They are like super creepy times five.  Honestly, the more I think about it the more it starts to make sense but still, if you are a Japanophobe, stop it OK.

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Iatrophobia

The fear of doctors.

     Now, this one I totally get.  I don't fear them because of needles or invasive exams though.  No I fear doctors because, as everyone knows, doctors are time vampires.  A doctors visit has the potential to absorb your whole day.  You have a 1:00 appointment but that doesn't matter because in a doctors office the concept of time only applies to the patients.  Doctors went to medical school which gives them lordship over time and clocks.

     My kids were always really afraid of doctors when they were little but that's mostly because the doctors would whisper to us parents and then we'd snatch those tiny little people right up and let the doctor poke and prod them.  I would hate doctors too if I knew that if you took my feet off the ground I would be completely defenseless against needle assaults from practical strangers in white coats who could get my parents to turn on me so easily and help him stab me.

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Hedonophobia

The fear of feeling pleasure...

          I can just not remember the last time I ever even slightly dreaded feeling pleasure.  I can't even begin to imagine something pleasurable ever even being scary at all.  Which is really good for me because feeling pleasure has got to be one of my very favorite things.  But, for some people with hedonophobia, just the thought that something was going to feel really good would be scarier than 50 spiders.
     See, I have the opposite problem.  If something makes me feel good, or even just tastes really good, I wasn't as much of it as often as I can get get it.  I have always been that way.  That's why I'm chubby, have poor credit, and am divorced.  If something feels good I just get lost in it.  Then I develop Boraphobia, and I become terrified of whatever that it is that is making me feel amazing ever ending and having to go back to not feeling awesome anymore.
     A hedonaphobe though, Is terrified that his steak will be perfect, or that someone might brush his willy, and he'll enjoy himself.  I do not understand what is scary about feeling good but, I am not a hedonophobe.  A hedonophobe would totally understand.

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