What in life scared you as a child?

Hi Karen! I was also scared of losing my parents and I would think that they are elder to me and they will die before me (Thanks God, they are still alive and are with me, even when I myself have become father of two kids). I was also afraid of stray dogs and one with lots of hair on his head and face, where the face is completely hidden, if I happend to see a hairy dog, I'll clutch the hands of my mother very tightly and would request her to take me away from the dog.

Hi Karem, when I was small I overheard my parents talking about robbers breaking into houses and for some bizarre reason thought that they were going to arrive at the house, break in, and do something nasty to my teddy. So I started covering up teddy's face every night with a handkerchief thinking that would keep him safe from the robbers, completely illogical I know. You'l be pleased to hear thought that teddy has indeed survived until this very day.

What scared me the most are vampires and zombies, basically anything that eats human flesh or suck blood for that matter. I am scared of the dark too because that is the time the monsters come out. Thunder was also on my list. I thought before that God was angry to us because of so many bad people. Every time there's a thunder, i hide under the bed. I was also afraid of my mentally incapacitated neighbor. When i was a child, i thought he was a vampire and every time i see him, he scares the crap of me really. I wonder where he is now.

Hello my friend Most of the things you are talking about scare me now , as a child I must say my mom leaving me with other people she only did this when she went to give birth to my brother/sister and I can remember it like it was yesterday hated the fact that I had to stay with other people grrrrr was not sure if she was coming back I was a child didn't know how this whole child birth thing worked so one time I tried to jump out the window so I could go with her, yep thanks my friend I sure needed to think of this before going to sleep lol Smoochess goodnight my friend.

the dark. homeless people monsters scary movies strangers insects

Haha this is a fun discussion. Mine would be : Robbers breaking into the house The dark Getting lost in the supermarket [I done this numerous of times] Stray dogs Fluff [ When I was younger fluff freaked me out something awful. Just little bits of it freaked me out ]

Hi Karen, the things that scared me as a child were obviously losing my parents, thunderstorms! They used to scare the living daylights out of me, literally, especially at night, it was the flashes and waiting for that awful noise, I used to run into my parents room armed with a pillow blanket and teddy bear, I would make sure my dad didn't hear otherwise he'd send me back into my room. I used to make my father promise me that it wouldn't thunder that night, how daft is that, but I was only a child. I also had a fear of drowning as I couldn't swim.

losing my parents thunder storms tornadoes (I live in TX and have been in a few)

I don't really remember of being afraid of anything much when i was a child. About the only thing that comes to mind i was always that i would make my parents mad which i seemed to do right often especially after i got to be a teenager.

Hi Karen, Different discussion! Well, for me, Just like you, loosing my parents, who are my Mom and Grandmom. They should never die till i reach my life to the top position. Thats is my great expectation. Second, I should not die before reaching my aims or completing my duties in settling the family to a very good extent. Thats all Karen! Other than this, if you ask me, I would say My fear on these things whether it may don't happen too. But i am still being a positive thinker! Let me see how i am shaping my life. And sure, I fear thunderstorms too.. Oh my god.. They look like a devil to my eyes. But i love to watch it sitting inside the home! Have a nice time!

BOOGEY MAN!! Nothing frightened me more than the boogey man.. I never got a decent night of sleep till I grew up and found out it was just a story to scare us.. and I was always shivering at night and had to be tranquilized just to get some sleep I was also afraid of water.. still am.. can't swim at all as I would not even put my tiny toe in the pool!

hi karen, i was in the third grade then. suddenly, doctors and nurses came inside the classroom and the teacher closed the door and informed us that they were doctors and nurses and that will give us something to prevent us from being sick. that was how the explanation was said to us. then they started injecting baccine to students, and i was so scared because my mom was not there and they all had to catch me because i cried and ran with all my might around the classroom but in the end my teacher caught me. remembering that experience makes me smile always. ann

Dear Karen, Another interesting discussion...let me think :~ 1) snakes that enter the house during rainy days. 2) an angry bearded man who chase the kids for trespass into his farm. 3) an old uncle who like to pinch the children cheek. 4) a 'bogey man' that was told to scare the children ~ it seems he was oiled woth balck oiled all over his body and he likes to kidnap children. Due to his oily body, he can hadly be grabbed or caught 5) no transportation to go back home after a day out with mum in town. We have to be separated and going back on our own. 6) chased by hungry ducks or swans... Have fun and do keep in touch!

As a child I was scared of being suffocated because I always had a reoccurring dream of feeling something being put over my face. Now that I am an adult I still have the fear and it keeps me from swimming and pulling the covers over my head. I was also afraid of heights, but am now beginning to fight that fear by making myself participate in activities that involve heights.

I had nightmares about animals, butterflies, not sure what all. But I don't remember being particularly fearful as a child. Of punishment, maybe, but not much else.

The A bomb, we were even taught in class to duck and cover. Ideas that allowed us to be proactive instead of just scared. Of course now I know we would have been nothing but ash. I use to have night mares about this, I dreamed I was out in the open with nothing but cardboard boxes to hide in and the bomb was coming.

Hmm. I think I was really honestly scared of Aliens when I was growing up... I was scared that they would just enter our house and get me or my parents and bring us to wherever their home is.. LOL.. I don't remember any other thing I'm scared of when I was a kid.. just Aliens.. Hmm. now that I think about it.. I was a weird Kid..

There was only one thing I that I really got scared of when I was a child and it was ghosts. I believed in ghosts during my younger years that is why I was always scared to sleep alone by myself. I would always want someone with me in my room. I was scared to stare myself in the mirror because I knew then that someone might appear at the back of me then.

I am adopted and every time I did something wrong my adoptive mother used to yell at me about how I should be grateful and if I didn't behave they would send me back to the childrens home. Now as an adult, of course I know its highly unlikely that they would do that, and if theres a list of things NOT to say to your adopted kid, thats probably right up there with 'you're adopted because your mother thought you sucked!' so I know it was HER problem. But as a child, I didn't know - maybe that was what happened? Maybe there was some sort of deal adoptive parents have that you can send back kids that don't work properly?! So that was my biggest fear as a child, that some scary person was going to come and pick me up and take me away, and what would happen to me because that would be TWO sets of parents who didn't want me. I think a lot of fears later in life for me have their root in this, as I constantly was trying to be perfect for them.

Things of short stature. Chucky the killer doller, dolls in general, and midgets. I cried the first time I saw one. He was black so everyone in the store thought I was a 5 year old racist.