@asasolid2r :
Or maybe being an Afghani woman someone threatened to drown her like a wet rat. Now that she is in America she can learn to swim and never fear drowning like a rat.
Every person has different survival skills and definitely different demons that haunt us.
I've known many who could now swim or swim well, they always feared of passing that on to their children. They would beg me to teach their children that water can be fun. In turn they learned too.