What is the scariest thing to you? Mine is clowns. it can living or in costume, but it scares you.

[yellowdogintexas]

23. I was terrified of heights for years. It came on when I was in my teens

As a kid, I would scamper around on a local bluff with a fire tower on top and it never bothered me . All of a sudden, I started getting the pit of the stomach feeling looking out windows above 2nd floor, and balconies were horrifying. When I had to go down a set of stairs, if I could not see my feet (like if carrying a laundry basket) I would be shaking and sweating by the time I got to the bottom. This was a bad problem when I lived in the college dorm and had to get to the laundry room in the basement!!!

In my 30s I started caving and ran into situations that involved heights, which were quite terrifying. However getting through them alive, and learning how to navigate them has pretty much done away with the acrophobia!