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My ex used to throw up and pass out if she even saw a photo of a spider. Even somebody saying the word spider was sometimes enough to make her lose consciousness. The risk of her dying as a result of her phobia was real. An extreme example but the main reason why I'm so careful about people's phobias!
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Easy way to end an argument.
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A former colleague's fear of birds was so extreme that his wife or extended family would have to ask restaurants to debone anything that resembled a bird and he couldn't go to carverys and the like. He made himself feel better about it by laughing about a friend of his who had a phobia of buttons.
The human brain is really odd.
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I learned that the hard way at 16 when a girl at school told me she had a fear of orange peel, I'd never heard of such a thing and didn't take it seriously and one day gave her a bit of peel from an orange I'd just finished eating, she had a full screaming panic attack and spent half an hour crying, felt such a cunt