Hey ya'll, at least with my life, phobias and fears seem to have been just as innate as sexuality.
From the very first thoughts I can remember, I've always been been absolutely terrified of heights and of the dark. I've never had any traumatic physical encounters with these two things before the fears took place (though I have had many terrible dreams involving both since.) I'm terrified of both of these things to the point that certain heights will make me suddenly cry, curl up, shake, and it evokes this feeling as though someone's trying to kill me, that I'm literally going to die. With the dark, it's more of a deep, slow fear that makes me fanatically sit up in the bed and look around the room (even with a nightlight on), to make sure nothing supernatural is there (I'm so atheist that I make Marilyn Manson look religious, but I somehow am terrified of ghosts!)
I figure that something must have happened before the age of 3 (because I remember every even slightly important or effecting day I've ever had since that age) involving both these fears, but I just don't know what. I figure it may have been pre-memory abuse, since my parents later became abusive when I was in my middle childhood (and anyone who abuses a child has the possibility to have done it before or to do it again), but like I said, I can't remember anything before the age of 3! So either something caused it, or it's entirely innate.
Anyone here want to share their innate fears that they've had even before they could remember?
