The phobia I was affected with is clinically known as gephyrophobia. The name sounds funny, due to the Latin and Greek emphasis that is used to coin the names of specific phobias, but it really is just the fear of bridges and crossing them.

Since I was a baby, I am told, when the car began its journey across a bridge, my little voice would begin trembling and shaking, occasionally tears would fall, all due to crossing a safe bridge, traveled everyday by many people.  Once I realized that this was something not everyone was faced with, I found ways to mask my fear and try to appear normal.

I grew up in the Northern California's Bay Area, which you can tell by the name is an area with lots and lots of water, which in turn means, there are lots and lots of bridges.  The worst being the Bay Bridge, connecting Oakland to San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco to Marin.