Man tells GF he has lifelong phobia of being driven by a woman, she says 'get over it.'

Chronic anxieties and phobias are often by their very nature irrational.

Whether it's simply brain chemistry or unresolved trauma, the day-to-day effects of working around a phobia can be deeply debilitating. And there's often a looming question of where the lines are between managing one, and pushing yourself through it as much as possible.

In a popular post on the AITA subreddit, a man asked if he's wrong for rearranging his life around a gendered phobia.

He wrote:

AITA for not wanting to be driven around by women including my GF?

When I (27M) was a kid, I had a traumatic experience and was in an accident in the school bus which was being driven by a lady. Since then I have always had a phobia of being a passenger in a vehicle being driven by a woman. My mom did not drive and even when my older sister learned to drive, I refused to drive with her even though my other siblings did.