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squirvel  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your irrational fear?

Getting my eyes stabbed out/going blind.

No idea why, but any possible corner near my face freaks me the fuck out.





o11c  ·  3399 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's called "having good evolutionary instincts."

caeli  ·  3398 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Me too! Every time I have an optometrist appointment and they blow the puff of air into your eye I get really freaked out. I know it doesn't hurt and I know it doesn't get that close to my eye, but it doesn't help...

_refugee_  ·  3398 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It skeeves me out just to watch other people touch their own eyes.

The eye doctor told me I have special (sensitive) eyes, and I've always wondered if that is part of the reason I have such an intense fear of/sensitivity to eye contact and injuries. Also in kindergarten some kid did that trick where he flipped his eyelids inside out and the image has stayed with me, as one of terror, ever since.

squirvel  ·  3398 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My cousin had a weird eye infection once and would flip his puffy and pus-y eyelid out often to show people. Sufficient to say, that your comment just reminded me of something I thought I had successfully purge from my memory.