Foxytosin 🏳️🌈I recently learned the name of a phobia that I always knew I had but didn’t have the words for
Submechanaphobia
I was always terrified of wave pools in particular
I remember being out on a lake one time and I lost a flip flop in the water that floated out near a buoy that was anchored by the shoreline
When I got close to the buoy, my body just locked up and I couldn’t get any nearer
That’s the only time I have ever had that feeling of locking up
keirFox@Foxytosin Had been kayaking for so many years on the ocean and rivers and never had any moments like this.
…until a friend got me into magnet fishing and I was out on a river trawling with a strong magnet on a rope from the kayak. It suddenly catching something and the realization of just how deep the water was under me messed me up briefly.