Saturdays Secret

Aeroacrophobia

Unofficially this is what I found on the web. But if you Wikipedia it, they say that there are many made up names, and many are unofficial. I do believe this is one of them. Now every time I would type in my symptoms I would get Agoraphobia — fear of open places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable. I just wanted the fear of wide open spaces.

I did get Aeroacrophobia because it was defined as the fear of high open places. Which is what my deal is. I don't have problems with crowds, or going out. I just HATE to be in wide open spaces. (Sorry Dixie Chicks)

Let me explain. I don't like to lay in the grass and look up at the big open sky. Gah, shudder... I will roll over! I can't handle it. The weird thing is there is a TOTAL difference on the situation. Let's say I am skydiving. Freakout moment. Nothing around me, but I am facing down, probably freak out like the normal person that just lept from a perfectly good plane. Riding in a place. No problem, I am confined.

That would be the key. Confinement. If I have a roof, umbrella, baseball hat, whatever. As long as I am covered to some degree, or I feel as if I am stable, then I have little or no fear of being sucked into space.

I really have a hard time when I go to bend over, if I am outside, and I can see the sky between my legs (yes this is more of a head up my ass position, but I am talking since I was a kid) Gives me the eibie jeibies, shudder, and all that good stuff.

Also I freaked out (so glad I found out when I got there) when I was on my honeymoon in the Myan Riveara. Um about 40 feet under water, I realized there was nothing above me, nothing around me but some sand and a few knee height plants (oh and a poisonish fish I spotted, but no Baracuda's!) so even though I am not afraid of water, I just don't like being in deep water (freak the fuck out, and don't even get me started on the motion sickness underwater...) so I read I have mild

Hydrophobia.

Speaking of water, I also HATE dark water. I WILL NOT walk in ankle deep water that I can not see in. But sometimes you gatta. Like when you go white water rafting with your husbands family in Oregon... but then I HAVE TO wear my aqua socks. NO OPTION. I just won't go. Call me a sissy, pansy, whatever. But I can't see it, I don't want to walk on it. Bllahhhaa.

Creepy shit. So what gives you the creeps and make you cry like a sissy?