Weird stuff that stressed me out as a kid

1) When restaurant menus don't have pictures. I wasn't picky as a kid, but the idea of my rare opportunity to get nice food being ruined by having to go in blind to a new culinary experience was scary, this resulted in me eating the same stuff everytime. This changed around a decade ago when we went to a truly fancy (not expensive just pretentious) italian restaurant, and they had a burning hatred for both of my usual pizza orders (hawaiian and kebab) so i ordered something that had both mushrooms and shrimp + some other bs, it was delicious and after that i started exploring a lot more. Even without being able to visualize what's gonna be on that plate.

2) When stuff was "off" idk how to explain it, sometimes things wouldn't be symmetrical or they just looked unpleasant. I hated a lot of the asymmetrical art bs that would be at waiting rooms and libraries.

3) Thinking that i was having a heart attack or that i would just spontaneously die, either in my sleep or just in general. I would check my pulse/heartbeat a lot. I don't have heart problems or any chronic medical issues like that. My mom would often comment on the way that i sometimes sounded like i was suffocating because i was breathing weird, which was me actually trying to breathe normally, but it was difficult because it felt like the air wouldn't go to my lungs (it was because of anxiety) I had a lot of medical anxiety, regarding myself and also my family.

4) All of a sudden being called on stage during a school assembly and our principal just reading my mind to the entire school or listing off all the bad things i'd done. (I was really fighting demons in elementary school)

5) The matrix just as a concept, i hadn't seen the movie, but my mom made the mistake of mentioning the premise of "a computer generated false reality" to me one evening.

6) Elevators. I still have reoccurring dreams and nightmares about them, i'm not even scared of them irl anymore, but they're still the most prevalent dream element/theme i have.

7) The idea of having to drive my parent's car. Almost everyone has had atleast one nightmare with this scenario. And the most pressing matter was never "oh do i know the law?" NO it was "how the hell do i reach the pedals while being able to see the road when i'm just two apples tall?"

8) Certain rhythmic sounds or repeating sounds or words. This has persisted funny enough, idk why. And i don't mean like chewing or something like that, it's like a certain type of drumming that really just triggered me, also if people keep repeating words, it was either irritating or scary. Also if things got stuck in my head, if it was something that was associated with something bad happening, i was scared that i would cause it just by thinking it accidentally.

This was supposed to be a more light hearted post, but some of these go to "what the fuck" territory, that's just how it was being me from ages 1 to like 13. Some of these i never really got over, they just took new forms. I'm still an unfortunately anxious and paranoid person.