toilets: fear of

My sister was 10 when the movie Jaws first came out and she begged my father to take her to see it for her birthday, finally he caved and took her. Unfortunately it absolutely terrifed her and for weeks later she was even scared when she went to the toilet incase the shark came up and bit her bottom.

I was made to believe that the pinching loo seat in the very old holiday cottage in Wales that I stayed in with my family at a very tender age, had a life of it's own and was called 'Pinchbottom'. My Dad named him thus and by the end of the two weeks I was unable to go to the loo on my own!!

I used to think that if the toliet overflowed that the water would creep down the hall and into my bedroom and swallow me up. Because of this, I would always flush and then run as fast as I could into the living room.
To this day, every now and then when I flush the toliet I feel my heart start to race and my old fear creeping up on me!

After being forced to watch Stephen Kings It (My father used to make me watch scary films) as a five year old... I was terrified of the toilet for ages... I thought the clown was gonna reach up and pull me in, or rip my arm off... Or that he was gonna climb out and kill me... I also thought Freddy Krueger was gonna climb up through the drain in the bath and kill me while I was on the toilet... I'm 18 and still pretty scared... and I'm petrified of clowns, I wonder why?

when i was 9 my uncle told me that if i used a airplne toilet it would suck me and through me out from well the whole, so when i was in a plane later that month i was so scared when i had to use the bathroom. i thought i was 2 fat for the whole.

When I was in kindergarten, each class had its own washroom(a good thing, in my opionion) but anyway, when I started grade one my sister was starting fourth grade. She told me that all the toilets in the girls washroom had monsters in them, who would eat anyone who wasn't 7 yet(lucky me,8 months til my birthday). She told me the only place I could go to the bathroom was in either: a urinal in the boys bathroom, or my pants. Now being young and gullible, I believed her without question. Of course, I could never let a boy see me in their bathroom, so I spent many a lunchtime trying to sneak into the boys bathroom without being seen. To make matters WORSE, I couldn't figure out how the urinals worked, and naturally assumed that you sat in them like a toilet. After sitting down in it and doing my business(ill give ya a hint. i didnt have to piss), I spent ages trying to find the handle to flush it! I eventually gave up and went back to class, but after that I could never bring myself to go back into the boys bathroom, cause i didnt like the wet feeling on my ass(which i have now deducted was some guys piss) And,well, put it this way. My mom started wondering why she found my pants in the laundry every day.....But don't worry. I got my sister back....Hehe(i got all my friends together and we held her down and made her drink 4 glasses of water. Then we towed her over to her crushes house, and he opened the door just as she lost control. :)YAY)

I live in South Africa, and when I was 10 a black kid in my class told me about one of the "mosters" of his beliefs, that waits for you in the bathroom. The thing was called 'Pinky-Pinky', it had one but and this one arm with a really long claw on it that it uses to scratch you. Also it only went after girls. But, the thing that scared the crap out of me was that there was actually a story in a newspaper about that thing that was supposed to be true!! Since then I've always been telling myself "I can scream, someone will hear me" when I think about scary stuff.

When i was between 2&6 I used to belive that the toilet ate your poop as food and drunk your pee like soda

and if you didn't run out it would eat you

When I was young, my family watched The Grinch around Christmas every year. I became really scared of the Grinch and was afraid to sit on the toilet (especially while it was being flushed) because I belived that the noise would wake him up and he'd eat me through the toilet.

I had just learned to start using the toliet, and my step dad asked me "Did you see the toliet bowl man?" so for the longest time I was afraid to go to the bathroom cause I thought a guy would jump out of the toliet and suck me in

After watching "Goulies" the movie, I never sat on a toilet without looking to see if a goulie was going to come up and grap my bottom!

when i was little i used to believe the guy from scream lived in the toliets and everytime u flushed u heard the giant sound and that was him screaming at you to go away.

I used to believe that if you flushed the toilet too often it would eventually overflow. I was so terrified of this that I had nightmares about overflowing toilets and drowning in toilet water, nice!

When I was about 1 1/2 and started potty training my 14 year old sister told me that when I went to the bathroom and used the toilet the devil would grab me and pull me down into the sewers where I would be lost for ever. I didn't want to use the toilet... Not until my other sister explained to me that she was just trying to scare me.

I used to be terrified of the toilet. I thought that if you accidentally fell in while it was flushing that it would suck you down to a horrible world that was full of rats, poop, and monsters. I hated going to the bathroom.

When I was little my cousin told there was a monster than lived in the toliet or something like that. And that he loved little kids and if i EVEN went in the bathroom he would get me. And that if I went to the bathroom he would definetly get me. I was four at the time so of course beleived him and was petrified to go near the bathroom. I remember I would have to take my nan with me!