Tocophobia and a Meme

[anogete]

I'm still in love with my new computer.

Work is super slow, and I've been using the extra time to knit a matching scarf and hat for Markel. I'm like a doting aunt. Don't worry. This still doesn't mean I'm even considering kids of my own. I seriously and honestly believe I have primary tocophobia. The thought of becoming pregnant actually makes me nervous, afraid, and physically ill. I find it absolutely disgusting and gross. I can't remember a time when I didn't. It's actually one of my worst fears, and if I ever found out I was pregnant, I would demand an abortion the same day I discovered my situation. I'm aware that this is not normal, but I'm not even joking when I say that I would flip my lid.

Oh, and a meme...

SEVEN THINGS
a. list seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself
b. tag seven people to do the same
c. do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it"

1) I have a certain order in which I do things in the shower. I cannot deviate from the plan by washing my face before my hair or shaving my legs before my armpits.

2) When I find a book I am really excited about reading, I make myself wait at least two weeks to prolong my enjoyment of it before I even read it.

3) I love admiring other people's lawns, and I go out of my way to watch sprinklers in the neighborhood.

4) I always have to have the television on if I'm online. I don't watch it, and sometimes I mute the volume, but I need to have it on.

5) Sleeping without the sound of at least one fan (not a ceiling fan) is impossible for me. In the summer, I cannot sleep without a fan blowing on my face because I feel like I'm suffocating.

6) I'm obsessed with hoodies. Every time I see one in the store, I want to buy it.

7) I refuse to use ready-made ringtones on my cellphone. I always make my own from my favorite songs and move them to my phone with a SD card.

Tagging: bleedtoblue, dreamy_dragon73, falco_conlon, fredericks, holczer13, shalanar, witchy_1

Comments

[fishchick.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I can attest that pregnancy and childbirth is, in fact, disgusting. People just like to pretend it's not true. I will say that I did find it interesting, but I like gross medical stuff.

[shehops.livejournal.com]

Eurghhhh. I entirely feel you on the pregnancy ick. The thought of having an organism the size of a puppy actually living inside me is just shudderously horrifying. I am positive that pregnancy would be an endless series of panic attacks. Do not want!

Actually- not that I am actually reccomending that you read this, mind- there is a piece out there called What to Expect When You're Expecting an Abomination (http://hwrnmnbsol.livejournal.com/35208.html) that sums up my feelings about pregnancy remarkably well. Eep.

[anogete.livejournal.com]

You know, I've discussing the "organism living inside me" thing with people before, but no one seems to understand. I get a mental image of the movie Alien when I think of pregnancy. Ewww. All the women folk just say, "But babies are so cute." Actually, puppies are cute, not babies.

[transephera.livejournal.com]

agree with the pregnancy thing 100%- if I could find a doc that would perform a tubal ligation or hysterectomy on a single 25yr old with no kids, I'd be SO THERE. Massive case of DO NOT WANT.

I have to sleep with a fan on too! I have my air conditioner on high so it's cold, my fan blowing on me for the noise and to circulate the air, and then I sleep under the covers. Only problem is the power goes out at my apartment far more often than it should, and I wake up sweaty and shaking when it does >.< I also have to do things in a certain order!

but...lawns?

The squirm inside

[(Anonymous)]

Oh definitely DO NOT WANT. Cannot even think about the horror of having a living parasite growing inside me and bursting its way out through my most private of places. GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT!!!

I'm now 47 and since I was 18 I've tried to convince a series of doctors (as it's arisen from time to time... I'm not WEIRD and doctor-stalking, mind) that I really do NOT need my lady bits and they are just more trouble than they're worth. TAKE THEM OUT!! But no, I STILL get the "Oh you silly girl, you'll change your mind and want children one day..." speech. HELLO??? At 47???? Yes, I might just wake up one day and think "I want a child with possible Downe's Syndrome who'll want a parent in their 60s as they enter their teens"...

No fan for me, but I MUST have the window open, even (especially?) in winter. But I understand lawns.