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Scary water

Just_me

I have been embarrassed most of my life about my fear of certain situations. The main culprits that cause me to get anxious, (actually anxious isn’t the word, I don’t even know the word for what happens to me) is toilets flushing, urinals flushing and blocked toilets. It’s the sound that gets me at fist then when I see the water I am completely frozen to the spot. Friends and family have teased me about this since I was a child. I’m now mid 40’s and still struggle with these situations. I just wandered if there js any one else who experiences this. What I was always told was silly I have been told in recent years is possibly associated with sensory overload. 
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  • This is one thing without any strange history I have always hated about being a woman…. Why do girls go to the toilet in groups? Why do they talk to each other in there and why even worse do they all think the toilet is the ideal location for a group photograph? 

    my entire life - I go to the toilet alone, I take a moment and I leave … couldn’t think of anything worse than it being a group activity 

  • in reply to InterTrails

    I think women going to the toilet as a group is so as they can gossip about who they've met and fancy etc.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    In the very small window when I did go to night clubs (at the start of uni when I was really trying to fit in), I prefered going with someone else for the safety aspect -having to move through the crowd and not being alone after, trying to get back to everyone. Same reason I didn't like going up to the bar on my own. But that was only one or two people, never more and no photos! 

    That was the only time it was acceptable for me.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    In the very small window when I did go to night clubs (at the start of uni when I was really trying to fit in), I prefered going with someone else for the safety aspect -having to move through the crowd and not being alone after, trying to get back to everyone. Same reason I didn't like going up to the bar on my own. But that was only one or two people, never more and no photos! 

    That was the only time it was acceptable for me.

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