Dear ninibee:

Here is an illogical, senseless explanation to your fear of vomiting: that your mother and other people gave in to your food preferences when you were a baby.

By suggesting the above, your mother suggests that you were a strong-willed, powerful and dominating baby with unreasonable demands for particular foods-

– while she and others, were weak-willed, helpless and submissive adults who gave in to the demands of the.. powerful baby.

Her explanation will fit well with some kind of a sci-fi movie with the theme of a powerful, evil baby- it does not fit reality.

On the other hand, your suggested explanation is reasonable: as a baby you were strapped to  a seat in an airplane, threw up on yourself and the seat and were stuck there for the whole plane ride. It must have seemed forever for the baby that you were. (Why you were not cleaned, I don’t know. I would imagine that either your mother and/ or plane crew would offer to clean the mess. Maybe your mother wanted to punish you, leaving you in the mess..?)

I withdraw my suggestion that maybe you were forced fed because your explanation is satisfactory in explaining your intense fear of vomit, and  why your “absolute worst fear is being trapped in an enclosed space with vomit”.

I am wondering how many more unreasonable thoughts and explanations your mother expressed to you on a variety of topics!

anita