▲ 83 ▼ What is a specific fear you have? (lemmy.blahaj.zone) submitted 1 year ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 93 comments fedilink hide all child comments By specific, I mean not general fears like fear of heights or spiders.
[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 child) Im not sure what is going to happen when I have kids For me, it went like this: I'm afraid I'll drop or hurt this tiny helpless child. But this tiny helpless child can't even go drink milk by itself. I guess I can only make things better helping it get milk. I'll just be really careful. That wasn't so bad. I guess I can do this. Then repeat in stages every 15 minutes or so as it needs diapers, or cuddles to warm up, or cleaned, or milk again, or diapers again. Until eventually I'm confidently picking it up in a moment of complete terror so that it won't run out into traffic. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago This does make me feel better. My wife keeps saying I need to hold babies to get over it (I suppose similar to your experience, hold it and realize it ain’t that bad). We’ll see how it goes. I don’t plan on having kids until I finish grad school though so I do have some time to prepare myself to face my fear: baby droppin. Thank you kind stranger for the words of wisdom permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago This does make me feel better. My wife keeps saying I need to hold babies to get over it (I suppose similar to your experience, hold it and realize it ain’t that bad). We’ll see how it goes. I don’t plan on having kids until I finish grad school though so I do have some time to prepare myself to face my fear: baby droppin. Thank you kind stranger for the words of wisdom permalink fedilink source parent