[x] public speaking
[x] staying single forever
[x] Rejection
[] being a parent
[x] giving birth
[] being myself in front of others
[] open spaces
[x] closed spaces
[x] heights
[] dogs
[] fish
[big ones] spiders
[] flowers or other plants
[] that Scary guy...
[x] being touched
[] fire
[x] deep water
[x] snakes
[ ] silk
[xx] the ocean
[x] failure
[] success
[] thunder/lightning
[] frogs/toads
[] my boyfriends/girlfriends dad
[] my boyfriends/girlfriends mom
[] rats
[x] jumping from high places
[] snow
[] rain
[] wind
[] crossing hanging bridges
[x] death
[] heaven
[] being robbed
[xxxx] falling
[] clowns
[] dolls
[x] large crowds of people
[] men
[] women
[x] having great responsibilities
[] doctors, including dentists
[x] tornadoes
[x] hurricanes
[x] incurable diseases
[xxxx] sharks
[] Friday the 13th
[x] ghosts
[] poverty
[] Halloween
[] school
[] trains
[] odd numbers
[] even numbers
[] being alone
[x] becoming blind
[x] becoming deaf
[x] growing up
[] creepy noises in the night
[] bee stings
[x] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[x] needles
[] blood
[] dinosaurs
[] the welcome mat
[] high speed
[] throwing up
[] falling in love
[] super secret

Final Total: 26

If you wish to post this in your journal, it's been requested that you title it I'm afraid of __ out of 75 common fears.

If you get more than 30, I strongly recommend some counseling.
If you get more than 20, you’re paranoid.
If you get 10-20, you are normal.
{{{If you get 10 or less, you're fearless.}}}
People who don’t have any are liars.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/355912/ <----  kokido 's journal entry that inspired me to post the irritatingly lengthy comment I made on here as my first Journal post.

Her question was "What got you into Furs?" inquiring because, I guess she's trying to do some research on what path in life, what show,comic, toy, just influence in journal has brought us this far... and yeah..mine's an interesting story..lol

Here's what I posted...

( Let me apologize ahead of time, cause this is a lengthy post..but you did say you wanted us to explain our history in find out about the community..*Shrugs*)

-hmm, for me to explain this, I'd have to explain my entire life to you.. I'm 21, my family actually noticed it when i was just an infant. All my life I've exhibited Canine-like qualities, even as a baby/toddler, My first dog, a Golden Retriever named Buddy was like my personal nanny/guardian, kept me outta trouble, protected me from our ignorant, redneck neighbors, and constantly escorted me around on his back. When I got to the age where I started to learn to talk and communicate with others, i'd always growl( various tones/depth, depending on the situation), whimpered, yipped, you name it and could eerily howl way too well for my own good, hehehe...

-from the beginning my family always toyingly called me a lil wolf, hellhound, etc. anything related to being a stubborn, young lil boy or dog, lol. I've always gnawed on various things, depending on if I was worried about something, deep in thought or just in one of those moods and bored.

I've always been a heavy meat eater, I liked vegetables and whatnot, but i preferred a diet of mostly meat *Shrugs* and my connection to canines and their wanting to follow and listen to me with such ease over the years made my family that much more curious about me, finally deciding it wasn't just a phase that was gonna go away after a few years.

When I got into 2nd grade, I started realizing I wasn't the same as other kids my age, I didn't ever feel comfortable, like something was wrong with me, I just couldn't pinpoint it, it's like, when you close your eyes and invision yourself, it's supposed to be like looking through a mirror, except for me, the face staring back wasn't the same when I opened my eyes and actually took a glance at myself.

Few years later, Road Rovers( Which I absolutely adored. The boxer that they would have in the straight jacket, all bound like Hannibal was my favorite of all chars), TMNT(Leonardo ftw, bitches), Street sharks, Doug(Porkchop was the shit) were my favorite cartoons of all time. By this time i was in 5th grade and really started messing around on the internet and had been roleplaying my "alternate" self, Titan for a year by then. Titan( Short for Titaniumwolf) was a big, tall blue furred werewolf, that inhabited MSN's roleplaying chatrooms, mainly "AA Wolfs Den" "Wolfs Inn" and "Wolf Haven". Around the same time I started noticing "Were" pictures and came across a Drawing of the Werewolf character from darkstalkers that was done by an Anthro artist, and that was my first run-in with the Furry community, after finding that pic, i started searching for more and more. I ended up learning alot of things about the community and myself, became more comfortable with myself when I realized I wasn't the only one, but learned that it's not something I needed to share with everyone, cause not everyone would be so openly accepting of that knowledge. (Found other sites like VCL, SA, Wolfhome,Furcadia,DA, and then, ultimately ended up here on FA, roleplaying on messenger with friends and on various chatsites once msn limited it's chatrooms to the users who were willing to pay to chat.)

Several years pass, The figure I saw inside changed as I grew up and changed as well, therefor, Titan, online changed to match what I saw, and a very small pack of close friends I now keep irl briefly know of my relationship with Titan, which to some degree the only reason why they accepted is cause they've had some sort of curiousity in Anthro's, Were's and a psuedo furry realization of themselves( one friend in particular is a Furry artist, who I actually ended up dating for a lil less than a year). The family nowadays has nicknamed me the werewolf of the family who has a vampire as a mother( Me and my mother live 3rd shift lives, i get called the werewolf, for obvious reasons, and my mother a vampire cause when she was younger she was "gothic" in nature before goth was even recognized as a style and culture, plus, of course the hours we keep) ssooo..yeah..now present day, you got me and Titan, I've calmed down alot of my quirks to kind of make it through everyday life without being stalked and bugged with millions of questions..but you get me in a comfortable situation..or just with a lil liquor and I'll go back to not giving a damn what people think and be right back to my usual self..lol

Once again, apologize for the length.. *bows*

Also..I find it amusing...Last night I actually asked my mother, in a sort of "beating around the bush" tactic, if we hadn't of owned as many dogs as we had growing up, would I be a different person today, without all my lil quirks and whatnot not, her response...made me very curious, because all she did was smirk with a thoughtful "Hmm" for a second before looking over to me slightly and said " No, I dont believe so..your personality traits, where probably influenced in some way by the amount of interaction with dog might've played a small part in who you are today..for the most part, I believe are very innate to who you are..whether we had them or not, you'd still be the same person and you'd end up owning a whole pack of dogs where I did or not...You are, who you are cause that's who you are supposed to be.Everything else was purely coincidence..

..that got under my skin pretty good, dunno why. I guess I was kind've expecting her to say otherwise, but the look on her face as she explained it was like icing on the cake pretty much, cause it's not like she was lost in thought and dreading something or worried, just...amused, looking back and enjoying something, i guess *shrugs*...either way that made my night..

But anyways, This is the first time I've ever officially posted what has made me "me" in a journal for everyone to see..which, i sorta doubt that anyone will actually read this, but whatever..later. for now.