Are you afraid of fire alarms and smoke detectors?

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Are you afraid of fire alarms and smoke detectors?

No. And I typically respond more quickly than others in the area.

Afraid of them? Nah. But the sounds of stuff like that drives me nuts. It's just too much and needs to stop asap.

Am more afraid of fire and smoke.

But it is pain in my apartment to keep the skillet from setting off the alarm.

Alarms are annoying (theyre supposed to be). But ive never heard of folks being phobic about them.

I'm always startled so badly by them that I'm shaking for half an hour afterward. I'm not overly nervous about the possibility of them going off, but when they do, it's a very unpleasant experience for me. Instant shutdown.

I remember the school fire alarms.
BUZZ!! !! BUZZ!! !! BUZZ!! !! BUZZ!! !!

I used to cover my ears and scream whenever I heard it.

Hate the sound but I’m bad about forgetting stuff cooking.Boiled some eggs dry once, it took ages for the smell to dissipate.
They are a necessary evil.

I'm more afraid of fire and smoke.

I'm not afraid of them but my girlfriend is. She always wears at least one earplug in our apartment partly because she's afraid of the fire alarm going off. The loud noise would be more likely to cause her to stay inside during a fire because she'll put both her hands over her ears & would be too paralyzed to leave due to a panic attack without direction from someone else. Thankfully the alarms have only gone off a handful of times during the 3 years we've been living here & most of the times it was because they were testing them or doing some kinda maitance on them that we had a notice about so my gf visited her family for a couple nights.

I'm more afraid of fire and smoke than I am of fire smoke detectors and fire alarms.

They absolutely freak me out when they go off, just like the sounds of burglar alarms, hoover vacuum cleaners and drilling noises. So much so that I've disposed of my fire alarms and had my household security alarm disconnected several years ago. I dreaded the thought of the latter going off late at night, which once happened, and I then had to do something about it. The guy who disabled my home alarm took just two minutes to do so, and charged me £60, by the way.

No.
Instead of your usual kind of anxiety, I get a form of excitement instead. "Finally, something different and rarely ever happened!"

I'm not even afraid of smoke and fire. I may even try and find it. I'd be too busy being 'curious' and attempt to 'solve the issue' or whatever the heck I'd do simply because I never encountered it.

Someone HAS to 'freak out for me' or that I have to think that someone will be.
Why did it had to take a form of guilt tripping just to make me at least 'physically safe'?

I have a screwed sense of fear to a point that I may 'need' some form of anxiety in my life. I just get boredom and exasperated types of stress instead.

Maybe this had to be done often enough for me to 'lose it's novelty' and take it more seriously.
Or, if done pointlessly routine, like any interruption from super focusing, exasperation.

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Just for the sake of clarity, the alarm that I brought in an engineer to disconnect was a burglar alarm system, a pretty heavy-duty one comprising an outside unit with a flashing light and ringing bell, and an interior unit which emitted a horrendously loud whooping sound that could probably be heard by half the street. The fire alarm (smoke detector) was a lot easier to deal with - just remove the battery.