I have posted about my fear of balloons, which I am planning on overcoming, but I also have a fear of birds and feathers. It is a phobia, my Uncle took me to Trafalger Square when I was 4 and showed me how to feed the sparrows, protecting me from the big pigeons all the time, and some idiot tipped an entire packet of bird food over my head, I have been petrified of them ever since, to the point of refusing to go in my kitchen cos there were feathers in there!
Recently I took my kids and 3 neices to a local Stately Home for a fun day, and they had a falconry display.
3 Nieces said, Aunty Scaz, can we hold the birds? PLEASE! but can you do it first cos we are scared.
I refuse point blank to have a child scared because I am afraid. So I did it!
This is me, holding Molly the Owl, scared senseless but refusing to be beaten..
there is a light at the end of the tunnel people, embrace it and it gets brighter!