For the first thirty minutes I really enjoyed it but it actually got very annoying for me not knowing where she was or what she was doing. Yesterday I was watching Melodifestivalen, the Swedish version of Eurovision Song Contest. I found it incredibly hard to keep focusing with the cat walking around my feet. Even more so when she jumped up in my lap. The third time she did it I actually gave her the chair and took another one. My father doesn't have any problems with her at all. I think I'm simply a control freak when it comes to animals. I want to know exactly where they are and what they do. When I play with my neighbours cats it goes just fine, but then I can quit it when I want to, meaning that I got full control of the situation.
I could simply say a strong no to Charlie, then she would stop. I did it when I was eating and when she woke me up this morning, meaning that she left, just as I wanted her to. But it feels so mean saying no to her all the time when I want to be alone. If I have a phobia of losing control? Well, if you make an overexaggeration I think you could call it that. But one thing is for sure, there are people with much stronger phobias. Some of the most common are
Claustrophobia: fear of enclosed spaces
Arachnophobia: fear of spiders
Acrophobia: fear of heights
Nyctophobia: fear of the dark
Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes
Now I'm going to list some of the weirdest and most fascinating ones I can find. I hope I wont offend anyone by these, if I do I apologise.
Ablutophobia: fear of washing and/or bathing
Alektorophobia: fear of chickens
Alliumphobia: fear of garlic (vampires)
Allodoxaphobia: fear of opinions (Kim Jong Un?)
Ambulophobia: fear of walking
Barophobia: fear of gravity
Chirophobia: fear of hands
Dendrophobia: fear of trees (Saruman?)
Dystychiphobia: fear of accidents (Common sense?)
Euphobia: fear of hearing good news
Hedonophobia: fear of feeling pleasure
Ideophobia: fear of ideas
Kathisophobia: fear of sitting down
Lachanophobia: fear of vegetables
Metrophobia: fear of poetry
Nomatophobia: fear of names (The Harry Potter universe?)
Novercaphobia: fear of your step-mother (Cinderella?)
Omphalophobia: fear of belly buttons
Philemaphobia: fear of kissing
Prosophobia: fear of progress
Scelerophobia: fear of bald men
Sesquipedalophobia: fear of long words (Whoever named this was cruel)
Soceraphobia: fear of your parents-in-law
Syngenesophobia: fear of relatives
Telephonophobia: fear of telephones
Vitricophobia: fear of your step-father
If you know some other interesting phobia, feel free to write it in the comments below.
For those of you who are Swedish: Here is a link to the paper that I'll write for, starting tomorrow.
https://www.facebook.com/HagerstenMalarhojden?fref=ts