Completar frases phobiasVersión en línea phobias por Julieta M UK 1 nightmares since joke birthday pretty worms pile beach just eyes change microscope bunch kind months I don ? t know if I really do have actual scoleciphobia , but I ? ll tell you all of this . As a little kid , I was , in fact , less scared of than my sisters , whom I chased around with the critters . I even once dug up a massive of worms ( about 50 , if I remember ) and placed them in a . By the time I was eight or so , stuff began to . I was encouraged to look at microscopic swimming roundworms under a and jumped back in disgust . Stuff really started to squirm away on my tenth when my mom said : " Happy ten years without getting ringworm ! " I ? m not even sure if ringworm actually is a of worm , but ever then , I have avoided going out in heavy rain ( I ? m from southern California , so for eight of the year , getting enough rain to bring the worms out of their burrows is pretty rare anyway ) . I seldom dig , especially not in moist soil . Seeing sandworms on the is an " Outta here " scenario for me . I used to get covered with worms in , and when earthworms and tapeworms come up in documentaries at school , I always shut my . So this January , all my friends at my high school found out I was afraid of worms , and of course , I ? ve been pestered with so much since then . Seeing one worm in my backyard can be enough to make me want to head back inside , and I ? m not a sedentary guy . We even that I could run a five - minute mile if I were being chased around with a worm , which is funny , even to me .