Maybe showing my age but... Nuclear war and total annihilation.... The thought that some capybara or another was gonna nuke my a*s, despite being on the other side of the planet.....
Or going through an " on the beach" senario.... (Again showing my age...)

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Don't understand the "on the beach " reference but definitely remember the very real possibility of nuclear war growing up in the 70s and 80s.

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my brother told me that if i swallowed my gum they would have to cut my stomach open and take it out. then i asked him what color the inside of my stomach was, and he told me it was my least favorite color. and then another time (i was in kindergarten) he told me he had tiny invisible cameras following me around all day so he knew what i did. the actual reason he knew what i did was because he was at the same school lol. also capybara.

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As a kid i feared being forgotten. I would never leave my moms side if we went somewhere like a party of family or anywhere and if we were leaving the home i would cry if everyone was waiting for me outside as i was sure they would forget me. (I only have one older brother so its not like there was 10 kids to count)
(And by the way Capybaras are cool)

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Same

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I’m scared of porcelain dolls, I’m convinced that the ones in my room were cursed, because they actually gave me nightmares. One of the most vivid nightmares I can remember is a porcelain doll attacked me, and it made a blood curdling scream after it attacked me and I threw it at the wall and it still managed to attack me even though it was broken, and it had blood dripping down its face, then it bit me and I was bleeding a lot. It was the worst nightmare I’ve ever had, and I unfortunately still remember it.

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that was real and you just don't remember, also do you use melatonin that gives really vivid dreams (i use it it does).

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My dad convinced me that
My stuffed up nose (one nostril blocked off)
My leg hurting (growing pains)
was because I didn't sleep.
This is the same guy who punished me for lying after i told the truth

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ThatOmniCapybara(she/they)

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No capybara so it's fake

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As a little kid, I was scared to flush the toilet when I went to use the bathroom in the middle of the night because I thought that the sound of the flush would alert the monsters in the hallway to my presence. Tbh, I wouldn't have minded meeting one of those monsters. Maybe one of them was a Capybara :⁠-⁠)

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In my native language, "Christ" is pronounced the same as "Screams". I am autistic and so i take things literaly, and I genuinely believed that Jesus Christ was just screaming. Constantly.
The problem was that, in the little figures of Jesus, he is *not* always screaming. So my logical conclusion was that there were two Jesus: Jesus Christ (Jesus Screams) and Jesus Christ Pas (Jesus Doesn't Scream).
I also believed it was not "Mary and Joseph" but "Mary And Josette" so the holy twins also had lesbian moms".

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I had a weird fear of being hated/forgotten… my father has never like me much and I’ve always tried to appease him. All this lead to me having severe anxiety and attachment problems, I’ll often beat myself up over small things and feel large amounts of guilt for small things

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I say it’s weird Bc not many 13yr are still scared of the dark but it’s because I might have a disease that could take my vision

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Hey, jsut to let you know. I just turned 13 about 2 months ago and i am absolutely TERRIFIED of the dark. Just know its noy you and its normal to be scared of these things!!!!

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I thought a Pennywise, Chucky, and Annabelle would jump out of my closet when I fell asleep and beat the absolute capybara out of me.

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Capybaras, obviously, but also my sister convinced me that the sound of vacuuming was a monster so I freaked out when the noise started

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As a kid (and still now) i feared being kidnapped, if a stranger talked to me i would run as fast as i can. Capybaras are cute too lol

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Capybara. I read the dang thing again.l

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For years I was terrified of a particular plug socket after getting an electric shock.

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when I was little I used to believe that being bi was a completely normal thing and that all girls liked girls and guys and guys the same it wasn’t until 5th grade that I found out about pray the gay away and most people like the opposite gender as a christian raised gay I was very confused (now 9th grade out and proud to everyone but my parents as a lesbian)

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yes we love that <3

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I’m afraid of losing my boyfriend, I told him a really inappropriate joke and I immediately regretted it, and I thought he wouldn’t want to talk to me anymore, but he said he didn’t see the joke, and he said he won’t lose me. I think capybaras are the most wholesome animals on earth.

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I remember back when I was around seven, I had a reoccurring nightmare of "the big bad wolf" sprinting down my hallway. I'm gonna give you a visual aid when I say it was just a silhouette, however the silhouette looked like a cardboard cut out, THE THING WOULD LITERALLY WADDLE TOWARD MY DOOR IN THE DREAMS, AND I WAS AFRAID OF IT???

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My parent's let me watch poltergeist when I was like 3 or 4. From then on I wouldn't sleep with my closet open for fear of being sucked into the portal to the ghost world. I have gotten over the fear, but still to this day won't leave the door open.

Also I won't swim in water I can't see to the bottom of, who knows what's lurking down there.

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It's probably a capybara down there.

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That Freddy from fnaf would murder me if I went the the bathroom in the dark
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I was scared of being forgotten and ignored...still am, I am also terrified of leaving someone even if i know ill see them later...theres always a chance they could disappear, its happened before so now i never take chances....

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I was afraid of quicksand and those outhouses on the Pacific coast where it is a long way to the bottom.. I was afraid I would fall in.

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Capybaras are cute!

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I was terrified of dirt roads. For some resources I thought the road would go off a cliff. Any unpaved road, in my little kid brain, led to a cliff that you would then drive off and die to a gang of capybaras. I would absolutely freak out when my dad would turn down an unpaved road. Eventually driving enough dirt roads with my dad ended that fear.

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I thought boba balls were fish eggs,

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MY FRIEND TOLD ME THAT WHEN I WAS 10 AND STILL BELIEVED IT TILL 2 WEEKS AGO OMG

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Firstly, I thought that there was a hobo in our basement, so whenever I was home alone I would throw a fruit leather downstairs so he wouldn't eat me, and second, I thought Freddy Fazbear was in my closet so I would try to sweet talk him into not murdering me.

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My older sister had me totally convinced that I was adopted. I believed her into my teens.

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thinking that covid was gonna be like a zombie apocolypse
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When I first heard of quicksand I thought it was going to be an everyday problem, everyone made it sound so dramatic!

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if monkeys go extinct a gian big army would take over the world (ngl i think a capybara gave me drugs)

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I was scared as SHlT of Momo when I was younger

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That I would catch a cold if I went outside without a jacket.

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The backrooms

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The car wash. My mom got out of the car and before she reached me the men started vacuuming.

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that a CAPYBARA would murder me in my sleep

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My parents had the double LP version of Jeff Wayne's "The War of the Worlds" and a really good hi-fi. 10 year old me decided, for whatever reason, to listen to this and spent the next six sleepless months thinking Martian capybaras would be more of a problem.

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