the comment box asks,

How about this question- Mom is starting an art project and wonders what people’s top 10 fears are. What are yours?

well, since you ask, the my top 10 (some rational, some not-so) would include:

vomit
growing old alone
mediocrity
old-lady baldness
having parties where no one shows up
food poisoning
cancer
authority figures
my luggage getting lost when i travel to foreign countries
swimming pool drains

to frame those in nice sterile, clinical (treatable?) terms, we turn to the phobia list:

emetophobia
gerascophobia & isolophobia
atychiphobia
phalacrophobia
sociophobia
toxicophobia
carcinophobia
sociophobia (another form)
and i managed to stump the experts with my fear of lost luggage and pool drains. yay, i’m unique!

and the winner of weirdest-fear-that-has-a-clinical-name is…

arachibutyrophobia – fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth

i dare you, comment box: what’s your fear list?