FabSwingers.com forum: What scares you as an adult but didn't as a kid

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Would say life. As a kid you had no concept of life but as you get older it scares you to think wow how have we got here

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By *ananaMan2026Man
over a year ago

Dubai

Bills

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Time

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

Falling

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Police

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Na nothing I've always lived life on the edge even as a child

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heights

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Debt, homelessness, interest rates.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

My wife.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Adulting...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rolf Harris

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Flying

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Politics. Only thing you had to worry about as a kid were parents. As an adult, politics controls every aspect of life!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The washing up

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Me.

I try and scares myself every now and then.

If you are not scared from time to time, you become complacent, in my job that can prove fatal.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Other people.

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By *ustfortheforumsWoman
over a year ago

Making a doctors appointment

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By *ola81Woman
over a year ago

pond

Falling IQ in people and lack of common sense

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By *o30Woman
over a year ago

Lincoln

The government. They have no idea what they're doing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Time it frightens me how fast the weeks go by

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes Departure Lounge in NN9

Fear of falling

Fear of heights

Claustrophobia

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By *ategoodbyeMan
over a year ago

Hertfordshire

The inevitability of loved one’s deaths.

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By *ananaMan2026Man
over a year ago

Dubai

The unstoppable marching of time leading us all towards an inevitable death

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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago

Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria

Can’t think of anything I’m scared of now that I wasn’t as a child, never really been scared of anything other than freaky spiders (not really scared but find them a bit icky) and enclosed space with not many escapes routes like potholing

and the loss of family, friends and pets

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By *hrough the looking gla55Couple
over a year ago

Epsom

"Bills

This

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

Wasps

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Walking my area in the darkness.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kids

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Once you hit 21 years old time speeds up.

Before you know it you're a parent, grandparent, then great-grandparent and you're looking for the glasses that are on your head.

I'm scared of leaving my children without a mother.

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By *he love catsCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

Growing old.

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By *akie32Man
over a year ago

winchester

hights, never used to bother me, now i cnt even look over the edge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Life it self.

The future of generations to come.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Women’s periods!!

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By *007ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

"Time"

This. My childhood seems 10 x longer in time...from birth to 16.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heights.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The cruel depths to which the dog-eat-dog nature of the world can go.

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By *trong Stocky Butt SweetMan
over a year ago

SNottingham

How frail human life actually is....

As a kid you are invincible & think it's the weak that die not you!

It takes something to happen to you or someone close to you, that you like/respect that dies.....

You then realise you were not as invincible as you 1st thought & it gives you a massive kick up the pants.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As time moves ever quicker its the fear of not finding the love of my life...

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By *ustfortheforumsWoman
over a year ago

My mum dying.

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

The first 2 answers to the thread were my instinctive thoughts before reading them: time and bills.

We think we have all the time in the world as children, only to see that life disappears in the blink of an eye. Life's for the living, grab it by the horns

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Making sure I'm eating right

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Crashing my motorbike

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Life

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport

Getting old alone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heights and bad car drivers

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By *xydadbodMan
over a year ago

towcester

Having to cook my own meals lol

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

"Falling IQ in people and lack of common sense"

In fact the average IQ, Intelligence Quotient, has been incrementally growing for decades; it is called the Flynn Effect.

Look it up on Google. Possible explanations are: better nutrition, exposure to more influences such as media, better edication., etc.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Going blind

Eviction

More heartbreak

Working til I die. Literally. I'm expecting to drop down dead at work due to lack of liveable pension

My son dying before me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Society!

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The prospect of being permanently injured or disabled that would socially isolate me; last year I acquired an injury that left me immobile for two months, during Covid.

A shocking, humbling and very frightening time and a bad experience I would never want to repeat.

Incidentally, my employer sacked me when I refused to return to work until my injury, that I acquired at work, was fully healed!

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By *ugsly95Man
over a year ago

Ashbourne

"Would say life. As a kid you had no concept of life but as you get older it scares you to think wow how have we got here

Life

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Public transport

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

"Rolf Harris "

And Jimmy Savile, and Stuart Hall, and Gary Glitter (Paul Gadd)......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Heights dobermans

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Spiders...I used to have a pet tarantula when I was in my late teens and now I hate the buggers

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By *ecretlivesCouple
over a year ago

FABWatch HQ

Life (preserving it). When a kid you are invincible. When an adult you realise how fragile the reality is. No drama or music, just gone. Love them while you can.

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

That this is all there is, and I'm not making the most of it.

As a kid I never thought about the future or about missed opportunities, but as an adult I do question whether I'm getting all I can from my life and I fear that I'm not.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The top diving board, I used to jump off that all day long as a kid, took the kids swimming not long ago thought I’d have a go for old times sake, got up there and absolutely shit myself, it’s higher than I remember

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sometimes, myself

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Knives.

Roller coasters.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Age, getting older.. i get sleepless nights over it

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By *litlicker77Man
over a year ago

wiganish

Politics

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By *ewfie02Couple
over a year ago

Ayrshire

Children.

Actually I think I was scared of them when I was a child.

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By *ragaCouple
over a year ago

Boston

Cycling with no lights...if I had known how bloody dangerous it was I would have lit up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Would say life. As a kid you had no concept of life but as you get older it scares you to think wow how have we got here

Fairground rides, I’m a right baby now and feel battered after being on one.

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