It makes sense completely! Which is not to say that all we need to do is realise that the problem is in the connection. Sometimes we know full well that our brains are wired wrong and yet can't quite manage to re-wire them, unfortunately.

Wasps

Now you might think that's not much of a phobia and that any sensible person would want to avoid wasps. But it goes a bit further with me I think, I can't stay in the same room as one ( or in the vicinity if I'm outside ) How is it that they get into the house through the smallest gap in an open window and yet are incapable of finding their way out again through one that is thrown wide open ?

I feel so sorry for anyone that has irrational fears or phobias.  Don't have any myself - I'm like Janthefan - scared of nowt.  Tough as old boots.   My mother has got just about every phobia there is - clowns, mime artists, claustrophobia, agarophobia, dentists, lawyers, courts, - the list is endless.  It was a nightmare trying to find her somewhere to live.  She wouldn't have anything like a bungalow or ground floor flat because of her security and burglar/rapist phobia, but due to her "bad back" and falling-over phobia, she finds climbing even one flight of stairs very difficult and is of course  claustrophobic in lifts.  She's actually ended up on the top floor of a 6-floor block of flats because she decided she'd put up with the lift phobia to get the sea view.  Good job because otherwise there would be 96 stairs. 

Hey ho.

P.S.  Anyone afraid of heights should avoid Blackpool Pleasure Beach's tallest ride, the Pepsi Max "Big One".  At one time the highest ride in the UK although I don't know if that still applies.  I loved it and so did my sons when we went on, but we were the only ones in the entire family that were brave enough.  I also went with my co-office workers and there were maybe 6 of us out of 25 that braved it.

There is a sheer drop that gives you G-force like you wouldn't believe!  My long hair was vertical. We three threw our arms up in the air as we dropped because we were bolted firmly in.  It was really exhilarating.  

I cant bear sitting in the  back seat of a car between two other people.

Most people, one has noticed, would rather not sit in the middle but I am not sure whether they go and hot and panicky like I do.

I don't think I have any serious phobias, though plenty of dislikes. The nearest of these to phobia is an intense dislike of bells (electric, not church or musical) which must date back to school, and a fear of disobeying or not being in time. We had a martinet of a housekeeper who instilled fear into everyone in the mornings as we changed our shoes (we were always changing shoes), while she counted down. This probably accounts for my punctuality anxiety as well.

One of my aunts had a terrible bird/feather phobia, and I know two people with phobias, real ones, about fish.

Perhaps I should take another look at those things growing out where the chickens used to be...?

I've seemed to have missed out posting on this thread out altogether! 

Anyway, like some of you, I don't seem to have any phobias, although I am not fond of big spiders or rats and would go out of my way to be elseware if one was around!
My Dad is another who is terrified of snakes but i seem not to have inherited that as I handled one at a zoo when I was a child with no ill effects.

A former colleague of mine had a thing about cotton wool - she couldn't bear to handle it.  I just thought that was very strange.  I wonder what the proper name for a cottonwool-o-phobic is?