Hi, everybody. I'm Jenny Jaffe! I'm the founder of Project UROK and I'm
terrified of balloons popping. Who knows why?! Maybe something happened and I totally forgot it.
Point is, we are standing in a room full of my fear right now and I am here
with my friend Mara Wilson!
Hey!
Who is going to share one of her fears with us
We are going to talk about it and she's gonna help me overcome my fear.
Mara!
Yes!
What is your fear?
Alright.
Driving. I am very afraid of driving
I assume this is not a golf based fear?
No, it's not a golf based fear although
Actually that's pretty scary too. But yeah, no driving really
scares me because I kind of learned to drive and when I was 18 and that same
summer my brother was in a car accident. He's perfectly fine now by the way. He's
made a full recovery but still something about that kind of crossed over. I think
and I'm not sure what scares me more if it's like me driving because I'm not I'm
not good with spatial relations and I like have really slow reflexes or if it's just
other people on the road like you know I feel like I can trust myself or maybe
not other drivers like..
Do you trust other people when you're in their car?
It depends on the person like one of my brothers is the best driver
ever. I would trust him always but then I have friends who do maneuvers and I'll have
to say like, "You know, the lights green please don't do that please do this." You
know? I'll be gripping it especially when we drive in the rain and people have told
me that it's annoying because I'm like a back seat driver but it's like, "No, guys I'm sorry."
So you do drive? Just not from the front!
Yeah, totally! I just say like "it's green!"
"Turn, okay do this please. There's a pedestrian!" You know?!
I mean you do voiceover work. What I'm hearing is that you'd be a great GPS voice.
Yeah, actually that would be one of...
"Turn left, up ahead!"
Do it, safely!
"Do it safely!
"Someone's going to get killed, you rascal!"
Are there like steps you
think like that might help you as you build up to learning how to drive like
how are you
at Mario Kart?
Oh, yeah. Mario Kart I'm totally going to be playing more Mario Kart
just to make sure that I've got that dexterity.
If you take your driving test
on a Rainbow Road or a moo moo farm and
But yeah, and then if you fall off
You know you got the little birds to like take you back up like what could be better
than that?
All you do is go, "Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!"
and some birds come grab you!
I'm actually finally facing this and the reason I'm facing this is
because I am extremely competitive person and my little sister just told me
that she's taking driving lessons and I thought, "Okay, I'm six years older than her."
"I can't let her beat me." My sister and I are very close. We are not very competitive at all.
This is surprising. You guys have a great relationship.
Yeah, we're best friends
But still. Every now and again
there's just sort of this like, "that's not the natural order of things" so I have
to, I told myself, "Well, okay if she can do it then I can do it too." So I do actually have
to work at it up and studying the book over and over again and
I think I just need to be overly responsible about it and I think that's
actually one good thing about having a lot of anxiety is that it's led me to
become over cautious and sometimes that's good and sometimes it's not but I
think there's actually in one way in which can be beneficial I think it's
important to realize what you should worry about what you shouldn't worry
about and if it's something that you can control and you can do something about
you should worry about it. If not, you shouldn't and I know that's easier said than
done but I think that it can work.
Yeah, so I don't like balloons popping and I don't like them and I know you don't like
surprises either.
I don't. I don't like sudden loud noises.
I'm skiddish.
Are you okay to pop this balloon for me and
help me overcome this.
I think I am, yeah.
So Sarah is going to come hand you a pin. Just hold on to it for a second and then all you're going to do is just give it a pop.
Okay, are you okay? Just remember to breathe. Breathe!
Ahh!
I scream everytime!
No, it's okay! It's okay. I knew, I was like
"I'm going to scream or I'm going to laugh like an idiot"
Every single god damn time.
It's totally fine. That was a little scary for me too so...
Thank you for doing this!
Thank you so much for having me!
Hey, Mara! Beautiful people at home,
Where can they find you?
Oh! They can find me @MaraWritesStuff on Twitter
or MaraWilsonWritesStuff.com, Mara Wilson Writes Stuff on Facebook
I also have a show called "What Are You Afraid Of" here in New York so if you're here in
New York, you know keep your eyes peeled for that!
Thank you guys so much for watching!
I'm Jenny Jaffe. This is Balloon Room!
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