Is it normal that im scared to drive over bridges?

Is it normal that im scared to drive over tall bridges in a car but I can walk over one with no problem? Literally, I will back up and go another way.

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Based on 38 votes (28 yes)
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  • Ilovewinter12

    I kinda have the same fear.
    There's this bridge that goes over a lake, and sometimes I have to cross it to get to a city near by, and I hate it.
    I always fear that it will break and my car will crash into the lake, I can't swim either.

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  • dirtybirdy

    I wouldn't mind a ride on jeff bridges. Don't judge me.

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    • The dude...shut your beak.

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      • dirtybirdy

        shut the fuck up donnie!!!

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        • I'll have a white Russian.

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          • April=)

            what the FUCK?!?!???!!!? I REALLY HATE YOU. YOU THINK YOUR SOOOOO COOL BUT YOUR NOT YOUR JUST A FUCKING BASTERD. YOUR SOOOO MEAN TOO SO WHY DONT YOU CRAWL UNDER A ROCK AND DIE?!?

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            • At least I don't have to worry about being responsible for bringing another human life on this earth at age 18.

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  • Isabella80s

    I think it makes a lot of people uncomfortable but most wouldn't turn around to avoid it. There's a bridge near me and the river underneath it floods when it rains a lot and I find it nerve wracking to drive over it. I will but I don't like doing it. It's more to do with the water for me, though, rather than a thing about heights. What are you like with lower bridges? If you ever go over any?

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  • Avant-Garde

    I know what you mean but for me, they make me uncomfortable regardless of whether or not I'm in a car. Actually, my fear worsens depending on the situation I'm in.

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  • boehawk

    I hate driving over bridges too . I don't mind walking over them or being in a car if someone else drives me over the bridge . I live in the SF east bay area and I just take a bus or BART to get to SF ( and Bart goes under the bay by tunnel ) .

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    • Wishiknew

      I am afraid to but I have been driving over them now everyone tells me to just look straight ahead and you will be fine but also having other people in the car helps just so they can help coach it's great try it it really does help the fear

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  • Holzman67

    You need to build a bridge and get over it

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  • gummy_jr

    I'm afraid the bridge will start swaying back and forth and smash into a million pieces ):

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    • April=)

      ** sighs** just silly billy.

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  • April=)

    omg!!! i have this fear too! everyone thinks im wierd. Now i know im not the onley one oh

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  • Shroot

    I don't care

    i love it

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    • disthing

      Fucking. Hate. That. Song.

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  • WhiteCrow

    You have know way into my town exept walking. Heres a story of you in a year.
    You: Better get out it's a bridge.
    -Gets out of car. Walks to other d
    side.-
    You: Well all shit! How the hell am I gonna get my car across?

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  • XxSnowLotusxX

    Maybe it is because you feel in a car, if the bridge breaks and it's over water, you feel you could be stuck in the car but walking, you feel if it broke, you could swim? I'm not sure, just speculating

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  • Insert troll joke here;

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    • **rubs one out

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  • davesumba

    Nope. Get injured due to faulty construction once, and depending on how bad it is, you'll be financially set for a very long time.

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  • That's completely normal. I work with two girls who don't even drive because they're afraid of driving.

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  • Yeah man tough life for a billy goat with all those bridge trolls

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  • thegypsysailor

    Well, I guess that precludes moving to the SF Bay area. If you won't go over a bridge, it would take about 8 hours to drive from SF to Oakland and 12 or more to get to Marin, when it can be done in minutes if you'll cross a bridge. Seattle is also a bridgy place, I believe, and NYC but they have tunnels (also scary; a tunnel underwater; all that water above you). How in the world are you going to cross the Mississippi River, when the time comes?
    Are you also afraid to fly (on an airplane, not by flapping your arms)?
    I believe a lot of people feel as you do, (I do) but they are grown up enough not to let their fears rule their lives.
    I guess you are not going to be an adventurer or traveler, but just pend your life between the 2 bridges on either side of your habitat.

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  • Sog

    I had a neighbor who once told me that she had this fear.

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  • crion

    Yes, it's normal, but I'd suggest consulting a doctor or perhaps a priest if you also have xeroderma pigmentosum and a garlic allergy.

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  • Terence_the_viking

    I can understand why you would feel this way.

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