Is it normal people have gotten angry at me for being scared?

People should not make fun of you, but it's hard to have sympathy with what we don't understand. Although we should. My friend has a deathly fear of bees. I guess he had a really bad experience, I on the other hand ended up stepping on a sickly one, another flew into my mouth and you could say it never really bothered me to much from then on. On the other hand, I am afraid of heights. In fact, I can't so much as look up directly above myself for fear that I'll fall into the emptiness of the sky, now if that is not stupid I don't know what is. My point is, we all have stupid fears.

A professor I knew had a phobia of falling. She's a completely rational woman, who is very intelligent, but she couldn't stand even wearing high heels or any shoes that elevated her off the ground more than 2"

It's a fear that you can't control. There's nothing wrong with you, but people who don't understand will always judge. I am deathly terrified of Flying Cockroaches, Wasps, hornets, and bees. Basically any creature that can fly, and has a stinger. The odd thing is, I have never been stung in my life by any of them. I've been stung by ants, but they don't phase me. Yes, I will run into traffic trying to avoid one, but I can't help it... It's a fight or flight trigger caused by hormones. Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with having a phobia.

Immersion therapy works quite well. To simply say you can't help it is to accept defeat. I used to have a fear of cockroaches myself.

When I was in India I once woke up to a cockroach walking on me. I'm not phobic but it sure crept me out lol.

Nah, don't sweat it. I'm afraid of mosquito eaters.

sometimes the reason why people get frustrated is that some people try to look for things that make them seem different your friend maybe failed to understand that it may not always be the case

I pretty much let my class and my teacher know about my phobias last week, that was interesting. We've all had a psychology class where we talked about phobias and why people have them and how they get them, so I know they would understand. It made it a lot easier to understand my feelings when I reacted to my phobias.

My phobias are for worms, parasites and pregnancies.
There was (for some reason..) some sort of dead little worm in a classroom one day, and it was right under my bench. I didn't notice it until a friend who sat on the row in front of me saw it. I of course got very concerned about it, and tried to stay calm but my friend who sat next to me noticed that I wasn't acting normal. She understood why and suggested I would sit somewhere else, and she even removed the worm and tossed it in a bin. I almost started crying when she pick it up.