Fear is an unpleasant emotion that subconsciously makes someone feel that possibly threatened or in some kind of danger. Whether it’s as little as being afraid of an animal or being afraid of heights, fear is something that causes a change in your brain telling you to run away and avoid it at all causes. Fear can come from anything and any type of experience. It can be from something as simple as getting bit or something major like almost dying. It’s an involuntary thing that can cause someone to freeze up, retaliate or just simply run away. Fear can become so intense and affected on someone’s life that it becomes a phobia. Phobias are so intense and strong that it interferes with someone’s life and their ability to function.
I interviewed my mother Cynthia who has a fear of lizards also known as Herpetophobia. This has lead to many unfortunate and hilarious incidents every time my mother sees one. I asked her what about lizards that made her so afraid of them and she told me that “I hate how they crawl over anything and can change colors on what ever they are on making them hard to find,”. She also told me that when she sees lizards, she feels the immediate need to run away. While I do have a fear of lizards, my mother’s fear escalates higher …show more content…
While I wasn’t there my mother told me of her experience. She said that she was laying on the couch talking on the phone to a friend of hers when she looked up and saw something go across the bottom of the screen door. She said she thought to herself, “what is that,” before quickly noticing the long thin tail of a lizard. She immediately jumped up screaming while dropping her phone as she stood onto the couch. She said started to jump up and down before grabbing her phone and calling my oldest brother Dj. She told him to hurry it up while she kept an eye on it. Dj replied that he and his girlfriend ZaKara were almost
I interviewed my mother Cynthia who has a fear of lizards also known as Herpetophobia. This has lead to many unfortunate and hilarious incidents every time my mother sees one. I asked her what about lizards that made her so afraid of them and she told me that “I hate how they crawl over anything and can change colors on what ever they are on making them hard to find,”. She also told me that when she sees lizards, she feels the immediate need to run away. While I do have a fear of lizards, my mother’s fear escalates higher …show more content…
While I wasn’t there my mother told me of her experience. She said that she was laying on the couch talking on the phone to a friend of hers when she looked up and saw something go across the bottom of the screen door. She said she thought to herself, “what is that,” before quickly noticing the long thin tail of a lizard. She immediately jumped up screaming while dropping her phone as she stood onto the couch. She said started to jump up and down before grabbing her phone and calling my oldest brother Dj. She told him to hurry it up while she kept an eye on it. Dj replied that he and his girlfriend ZaKara were almost