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The original was posted on /r/submechanophobia by /u/Prestothebesto18 on 2025-06-24 22:44:39+00:00.

At some point most of us have had a traumatic incident that either led to us having this phobia or while we had the phobia.

I’ll start, as a kid I always knew I was afraid of objects underwater but didn’t really understand the fear. One day my family went snorkeling in the ocean near Mexico just off the coast. I was having fun and I started to drift off and wasn’t really paying attention until I looked down and about 4-6 feet below me was a giant rock spanning roughly 15x15 feet wide. While a rock isn’t man made, it still does play into the phobia. This was traumatic for me and lead to me realizing I had this phobia.