America’s Top Phobias Are a Fear of Heights and a Fear of Other People

If you ask a bunch of people to RSVP for a rooftop Halloween party, expect some no-shows . . .

A new survey on America’s top PHOBIAS found the top two are a fear of heights, and a fear of OTHER PEOPLE.  “Social phobia” ranked second.  It’s another term for social anxiety.

They polled people in all 50 states.  Here are the top phobias overall . . .

1.  Acrophobia (akro-phobia) . . . the fear of heights.  It’s #1 in 20 different states.

2.  Social phobia . . . the fear of social situations.

3.  Arachnophobia . . . the fear of spiders.

4.  Thanatophobia (than-uh-tuh-phobia) . . . the fear of death.

5.  Trypanophobia (trip-an-uh-phobia) . . . the fear of needles.

6.  Ophidiophobia (oh-fiddy-uh-phobia) . . . the fear of snakes.

7.  Atychiphobia (uh-tick-uh-phobia) . . . an intense fear of failure.

8.  Agoraphobia (uh-gore-uh-phobia) . . . the fear of open spaces.  (It’s #1 in New Mexico . . . and in America’s smallest state, Rhode Island.)

9.  Glossophobia  (gloss-uh-phobia) . . . the fear of public speaking.

10.  Trypophobia  (trip-uh-phobia) . . . having “feelings of disgust or fear when you see patterns with lots of holes.”  (???)  Like in honeycombs or sponges.  It’s supposedly the top fear in Hawaii and Idaho.

Claustrophobia . . . or the fear of tight spaces . . . only ranked first in one state, Mississippi.

(Casino.org)

(Here’s a map with the top fear in all 50 states.)