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I am in my forties and I am afraid of mushrooms. When I was a little kid, my mother used to do a lot of gardening. One thing I liked helping with: picking mushrooms out of the lawn. I thought they were neat - they would just pop up overnight! She gave me a little book which identified all kind of them....cool!
But she always made me WASH MY HANDS after BECAUSE TOADSTOOLS ARE POISONOUS. Shortly, after that period (4 yrs old), I developed a pretty bad phobia...Mycophobia, fear of mushrooms. I had nightmares, I would not walk on ANY grass barefoot, I wouldn't (and still won't) touch them, smell them and DEFINITELY NOT eat them (willingly). I've moved ahead a little - I ate some pizza with mushrooms...willingly. Not so bad - gave me the creeps a little. I eat chinese food with black mushrooms - because you can't really recognize them. But those little shitake mushrooms in Japanese food are the exact shape of a nightmare to me. I HAVE to pick them out - it's embarrassing! |
