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1. Aerophobia- Fear of swallowing air
I� don�t understand how you can be afraid of swallowing air!
2. Anablephobia- Fear of looking up
Isn�t it supposed to be fear of looking DOWN when you�re on a high building? What would you be scared of though, the sky falling down?!
3. Bibliophobia- Fear of books
Ok, come on! Books are just paper!! And unless you have Papyrophobia you shouldn�t be scared of them!
4. Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors
I can understand this if you look in a mirror and not like what you see, but why would you be terrified of mirrors in general?! They just reflect light!
5. Chaetophobia- Fear of hair
So if someone has this, I take it they have no hair, eyebrows, eyelashes etc?
6. Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks
How would you know what time it was!! You�d be constantly late.
7. Dendrophobia- Fear of trees
All a tree can do is fall on you. Why would you be scared of it otherwise?!
8. Geliophobia- Fear of laughter
So�. you would always be frowning? Lighten up!
9. Graphophobia- Fear of writing
When I first saw this I thought it was going to be fear of drawing graphs, lol.
10. Heliophobia- Fear of the sun
So I take it you�d be nocturnal then ;)
11. Helmintophobia- Fear of being infested with worms
This is just plain strange
12. Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down
�these keep getting weirder
13. Logophobia- Fear of words
Ok then! Would you just totally freak out everytime someone spoke?
14. Melophobia- Fear of music
I really don�t understand how you can�t like music, let alone be scared of it!
15. Mottephobia- Fear of moths
Well, this I can understand. My geography teacher is afraid of butterflies/moths!
16. Nephophobia- Fear of clouds
Just WHY?!
17. Ophthalmophobia- Fear of opening one�s eyes
But you wouldn�t be able to see anything!! I� don�t understand this.
18. Papyrophobia- Fear of paper
I really don�t know what to say about this one�
19. Peladophobia- Fear of bald people
Lmfao� again, WHY!
20. Phobophobia- Fear of fear
My head hurts.
21. Pogonophobia- Fear of beards
HAHAHAHA� riiiiiiiiiiight.
22. Xanthophobia- Fear of the colour yellow
But yellow is a happy colour!
This article is purely in jest.