if you are afraid, come out

[kaydeefalls]

I LOVE ABBIE MILLS SO MUCH OKAY. Also Jenny. This is what I took away from last night's "Sleepy Hollow". Anyway.

4. What are you afraid of?
Bees. For real. Bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets -- anything of that ilk. While it's mostly just a visceral fear, I can definitely also trace it to reading the children's book "A Taste of Blackberries" at a young age, and (spoiler alert) the description of that kid dying of anaphylactic shock after being stung absolutely terrified me. I knew my grandfather was allergic to bee stings, and knowing that those things can be hereditary, combined with reading in detail the effects of that allergy -- completely terrifying. I have to date never been stung, and I am still irrationally petrified of the things. Whenever they show up in visual media I tend to cringe and close my eyes and sometimes block my ears so I can't hear the buzzing. (By the way, the X-Files TOTALLY DID NOT HELP.) This is my one and only phobia.

Comments

[lilacsigil]

I'm impressed that you made it through X-Files with that particular phobia!

[kaydeefalls]

UGH HERRENVOLK UGH UGH UGH

[sentientcitizen]

Oh my goodness I was SO scared of bees after A Taste of Blackberries! Because I hadn't been stung ever, and so I developed this terror that I'd get stung for the first time and I die of allergies. Then I got stung for the first time and, ironically, am no longer scared.

[kaydeefalls]

I still have never been stung! Maybe that's why I'm still terrified. Because I still don't know for sure.