What did you fear the most when you where a kid?

Goobleman

Tidalwaves and a space station / satellite falling down and landing on me.  And injections.  Ironic really, because me and a load of other astros took heroin while watching a tidalwave from the ISS.

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I was scared about the size of the universe. Funny thing to be scared of as a kid. I would spend nights thinking about how huge the universe was, and it terrified me. 
 
Another thing was the length of eternity. At that time I didn't know that the universe hadn't been around forever, so I was thinking about how long an eternal lifespan would last, and how horrible it would be to live for an infinite period of time. Not a billion years, not a trillion years - but FOREVER.
 
I was about 9 years old at the time, and I don't really understand the existential dread that afflicted me. Now, I marvel at the size of the universe and I would jump at the chance for biological immortality. Maybe my 9 year old self was... wiser.

Growing up and dieing. I was terrified of it.   
 
Being a (mostly) adult isn't so bad. Still a little worried about the dieing thing. 

Kids with mustaches.

I would jump at the chance for biological immortality. 

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That fucking clown from IT.... frackin' creepy stuff ;)

Drowning. I was never really a scared kid in terms of weird things like monsters and stuff, but the idea of running out of breath and dying from that is what terrified me to no end.

Sexual predators

Needles. Those things still freak me the fuck out. I hate it whenever I have to go to the doctor and they draw blood. 
 
Just seeing the needle makes sweat bullets, it's almost to the point I might just have a straight up phobia of needles or aichmophobia as those who use google like to call it.
 
See now we all learned something too.

" That fucking clown from IT.... frackin' creepy stuff ;) "

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It's what you can't see that is most frightening. "

Rats, mice, hamsters...all those bastards with creepy tails. Also insanely scared of Snakes but unlike rodents, snakes still make me shit myself.

Bad grammar.

The Groke.

Use to dislike spiders when I was a kid but they aren't much of a problem now but I can relate to a fear of water. Swimming pools and such are fine but the fear of being really far out at sea kinda terrifies me, and there isn't much that does. I guess its the fact that you can't see very far when you are that far out and the uncertainty of what is nearby would get to me.  
 
I guess the only thing that I worry about now is losing friends and family.

Spiders. Something about....those legs.

Zombies freaked me out when I was younger

Snakes, I fucking hate snakes. And open water.

I was afraid of users flooding my OT :(

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" I was scared about the size of the universe. Funny thing to be scared of as a kid. I would spend nights thinking about how huge the universe was, and it terrified me.  Another thing was the length of eternity. At that time I didn't know that the universe hadn't been around forever, so I was thinking about how long an eternal lifespan would last, and how horrible it would be to live for an infinite period of time. Not a billion years, not a trillion years - but FOREVER. I was about 9 years old at the time, and I don't really understand the existential dread that afflicted me. Now, I marvel at the size of the universe and I would jump at the chance for biological immortality. Maybe my 9 year old self was... wiser. "

Elevators, deep water and BIRDS... I still get the fucking creeps every time a bird comes up to close to me.

Monsters..  
The real kind you know. The ones that has no face or fucking personality, those were freaking scary.  
I laughed at everything else "scary"... 
 
@Apathylad:  
Not too soon, guys been dead for more than 24 hours.. It's ok to make jokes about all kinds of stuff like that after 24 hours, in my book at least.  

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Vem ska trösta knyttet"   

 

I get the fear of open water too. It knows you're scared, it wants to take you. There is so much of it, so little of you. Wouldn't be hard.  
 
Apart from that, injections scared me as a child. And as an adult. 

Possesions ..... imagine being taken over by a demon/spirit or whatnot ..... still can make myself watch the exorcist

" Needles. Those things still freak me the fuck out. I hate it whenever I have to go to the doctor and they draw blood. 
 
Just seeing the needle makes sweat bullets, it's almost to the point I might just have a straight up phobia of needles or aichmophobia as those who use google like to call it.
 
See now we all learned something too.
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Water. Well, not so much water, but getting in and realizing you're body is completely submerged and something could be underneath. It's scary as shit, and still is, so I always have to go in with multiple people with me. 

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" Kids with mustaches. "

All the things I was afraid of, I still am.  
 
Bugs, especially big hairy ones. I'm not scared of clowns, but they definitely give me a weird vibe. 

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still am. that shit is fucking terrifying. who knows what the hell is down there..  as of now its just losing people. not much else matters "

I wasn't scared of spiders or anything when I was a kid, but we had this Hobbit game for the Commodore 64 that gave me nightmares. Now that I'm older, bees freak me out. This wasn't an issue when I was younger.