I’m going to be talking about my fears. As most of us do, I have glossophobia. I do not enjoy or feel comfortable standing in front of a group of people who are all just staring at me and have to talk to them all for whatever given amount of time I have. I guess I have a light case of scopophobia as well in that case. It’s alright if someone glances or looks, but not if someone stare. It makes me feel all uncomfortable. Despite these fears I’m going to have to deal with it. I had to do six speeches last year and I got through them just fine, but I always signed up for the last person to go, that way not only do I go last but I also can procrastinate longer than others.
I also had a fear of needles but I got over them a few years ago. Lastly, centipedes and cockroaches. This fear is really situational. If I normally see one then I would have no problems, but if some random thing happened instead, I would be scared out of my mind. Three events left me kind of traumatized, and they all happened around the same time, 3 – 4 AM. The first two dealt with cockroaches. This one night I walked out into the kitchen because I was hungry and the lights were off obviously, I stepped on one in the dark and I jumped straight into the air from shock, now I take my sweet time tip toeing into the kitchen in case. Another was when one decided to jump off the kitchen counter at me out of nowhere which ended up killing itself when it landed in front of me. Lastly the centipede. I was on my computer and there’s a wall next to my on my right and the only light source was my LCD monitor. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a centipede crawl across the wall and it made me jump out of seat because I was not expecting that and the shadow from LCD monitor made it look larger than it actually was.
I’m really lazy and sleep all the time, but I’m not that messy though.
