Let me give you a list of other people who "love(d) America": David Duke, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Scott Roeder, Jim David Adkisson, Paul Jennings Hill, Steven L. Anderson, James Manning, Dylann Roof, Eric Rudolph. Feel free to Google any of them with whom you are not familiar.
@samiamco Hey! Well, I'm certainly no fan of Donald Trump, but personally, I'm afraid of logical fallacies, and you're REALLY terrifying me with that red herring :)
Yea in many cases scary people throughout history themselves aren't scary. It is scary that they are allowed to be put in a position of power and remain there.
In middleschool they showed us the movie "the Wave" that has definitely left an impression
So, with the benefit of hindsight: one Capitol riot, several shootings, attempted insurrection, hundreds of thousands of covid deaths, two impeachment trials, and some highly questionable ethics later, how's your ex doing? The fellow who took over does not seem like a vast improvement, but at least he is not instructing his countryfolk to inject bleach. Love from Europe (and trust me, we know all about despots here).
Here we are 5 years later and his successor is nothing short of the United States biggest nightmare, I guess you should have checked your hatred and used your noggin.
I was expecting clowns to feature! I'm glad homophobia wasn't there. It's not a phobia like flying or spiders, it just makes you an intolerant asshole.
I'd never heard of brontophobia. I would have guessed it is a fear of dinosaurs, but after thinking about it I remember the name brontosaurus means "thunder lizard". If I'd had another ten minutes I might have gotten it. :)
Agoraphobia isn't technically 'fear of open spaces'. It is 'fear of being trapped in a public places where escape is difficult or impossible without embarrassment'. But feel free to leave it as open spaces as it's what most people know it as. Just wanted to put it in the comments for people to see
Yes, but in some places, it is known as Myctophobia. I guess that form is more common in the US, and that's why it is that way in this quiz. But I too think that the answer should be Nyctophobia, even though both work.
How about Trypophobia (Fear of holes in your skin or having a beehive like structured skin)? Studies show that over 60% percent of the people has this phobia. Google if you doubt if you are one of them.
A lot of that is just gross-out pictures. True trypophobia is fear of otherwise ordinary things with holes. The lotus is a classic example. Not gory pictures of human skin and stuff.
I doubt this list comes anywhere close to reality. Not even gonna discuss the order. But some are definitely missing, rats/mice, snakes, dentist, bees/wasps, insects in general, clowns, dogs, blood. (I cant tell you the times I hear people about those things..basicly on a daily basis..)
I think there is a difference between common fear and phobias like those listed here. People who are afraid of spiders may shrink back if they see them, while people with arachnophobia go out of their way to avoid spiders, so much that it may affect their everyday lives.
Hard to believe more people are afraid of thunder than are afraid of dogs or needles. I personally have such an intense fear of the dentist that I have to get doped up before going. Don't know whether fear of dental work is in the top ten, but I suspect many people have it.
I'm surprised trypophobia (fear of small holes) isn't on here. There are a lot of people that have that fear (including some famous celebrities), including me haha
I tried to come up with what I thought people would say and thought surely...! And when I saw the answers like public speaking, I remembered that as a left-handed extrovert, my brain works a little differently. Yay...I guess?? LOL.
I'm surprised not many people have mentioned thalassophobia (fear of deep bodies of water and, by extension, drowning) yet. I thought that would be pretty common.
What's the term for the anxiety of not being able to pay for healthcare, or not wanting to leave your family in shedloads of medical debt so you just choose not to receive healthcare. Or the threat of bankruptcy (due to said medical debt).
Surely more common in the good 'ol USA than spider fear.
I wonder what the methodology on this is... were people just asked what they were most afraid of? Where they asked if they were afraid of a list of things? Is it only diagnoses in a clinical setting?
Or better yet, the fact that a large portion of the country are willing to support him no matter what is probably the scariest thing of all.
In middleschool they showed us the movie "the Wave" that has definitely left an impression
Lights up the skyline to show where you are.
Belonephobia: fear of sharp objects.
In my case... needles!
Great quiz!
...I do realise later I could've just put the start of the phobia, too, but I thought it wasn't there because closed spaces didn't work.
To be more constructive I think Aerophobia is more the fear of air or wind than the fear of flying (which is pretty close to Aviophobia).
Necrophobia, Arachnophobia, Myctophobia, Acrophobia, Aerophobia and Agoraphobia
Tried fear of:
clowns
drowning
dogs
gay people
being alone
germs
the number 13
home invasion
governmental overreach
aliens
I tried to come up with what I thought people would say and thought surely...! And when I saw the answers like public speaking, I remembered that as a left-handed extrovert, my brain works a little differently. Yay...I guess?? LOL.
Surely more common in the good 'ol USA than spider fear.