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I don't know if I'm right or not but apparently this is called chochleaphobia.I am acctualy highly afraid of snails and (mostly) slugs. If i am wrong please tell me below what it really is.Have you ever experienced this or do you have this too? I have been scared of them for so long and its honestly quite bad at times.
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Snails can be a serious health problem.
( Rat Lung Worm )
Snails eat the droppings of rats and if you don't wash your
hands and food,lettuce,Fruit,& Vegies, People can die!
Are you afraid of oysters and mussels as well; or do you find them tasty, as I do?
Snails and slugs (gastropods); and oysters and mussels (bivalves), are different forms of molluscs that have evolved, over a very long period of time (c. 500 million years), from a common ancestor.
I like oysters and mussels too, and clams. And snails, the French delicasy. I found slugs sort of slimy and nasty when I was a kid. But none of those things are anywhere close to as repulsive as maggots. Slugs and snails don't feed on rotting corpse and produce disease and the most foul odors like maggots do. And unlike snails, I've never heard of anyone eating maggots before, not without getting severe illness or death, which is what eating rotten meat with maggots will do.
Phobias are defined as an extreme, irrational fear towards something. No, I don't think it's normal.
It's not that uncommon to have phobias, many people have one of some type. How common though depends on the phobia. Claustrophobia (fear of small, closed in spaces) or agoraphobia (fear of crowds, public places) are the most common as well as fear of heights (forgot name) and arachnophobia (fear of spiders). Then there are the more unusual phobias. I think fear of slugs/snails is less common than fear of maggots, the latter is pretty common I think due to them being directly associated with rotten meat, dead corpse, and the most horrendous odors. Fear of slug/snails, though less common than maggots, is probably still more common than a more unusual phobia due to the creepy slimyness of them.