Being confined in a straitjacket.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I honestly don’t have a particular fear. We must live life without limits, and fear can become a limit.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2013 source ↗
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Eleanor Tomlinson
English actress
I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
Clothes moths (and the imminent threat of world war three).
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