Fear is an emotion that can control a person and cause them to second guess. Fear is the body’s way of preventing bodily harm. There can be many things that a person could fear, including some very strange items, places or actions.

“A strange fear that I have is being put in a spacesuit that allows me to [survive in space] and then being cast out in space alone. I would go insane,”senior Cole Dicarlo said.

Dicarlo acquired this fear after reading about being cast out into space alone in a sci-fi book, but he has always had the fear of being alone.

Dicarlo said that there is no way for him to cope with this fear of being alone in space. “I would not be able to cope with it. I would go insane,” Dicarlo said.

From fear of solitude to fears of bugs, Logan Adkins has a unique backstory that created his fear.

“I have a fear of bugs crawling into my ear and popping my eardrum and proceeding to eat my brain,” senior Logan Adkins said.

Adkins has had the fear of bugs crawling into his ear since he heard that his uncle had a bug crawl in his ear and lay eggs. “The scary part about it is that you don’t know what the bug will do once it gets in your ear,” Adkins said. . 

Tickling sensations and itches on Logan’s neck or head trigger his fear of bugs in his ear. “The way I cope with this fear is to sleep with headphones in, ” Adkins said.

Logan and Michelle share a similar fear of bugs. The backstory make the difference between their fears. 

“I am afraid of ladybugs,” senior Michelle Forgét said. She acquired the fear when she was eating popcorn and accidentally ate a ladybug that was in the popcorn.

Forgét’s way of overcoming her fear of ladybugs is to avoid them whenever possible.

“Whenever I see a ladybug I freak out and want to kill it,” Forgét said.