The Phobia list is 10 years old! Happy birthday! Fredd – its father – states: ‘It was actually on the pre- World Wide Web internet for a couple of years before the www came into existence.’ (Does Gopher really count for ‘internet’? Nah – let’s have a party!)
So, if you are a normal hypochondriac like me, this may come in handy, when you do not know exactly WHY you are hyperventilating. Spare the last oxygen to crawl to your Phobia-poster and you will at least not die unknowingly. But maybe you are only afraid of chins, sex or knees. (Don’t mix up Geniophobia, Genophobia and Genuphobia!) Or – most subtle – of phobias! I’m afraid of amnesia, called… err…
The Phobia list
BTW: I do not intend to make fun of phobic human beings here. Phobic people are NOT hypochondric. (Like me) I try to make fun of a poster listin all possible phobias. And – especially – of its proper use. Or its inherent purpose.
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