I don't remember my first experience of fear, but I do remember my first moment of modesty, which is a manifestation of fear. When I was a kid, my mom used to take us to the lake(Michigan) in the summer. Lake Michigan has the most glorious, soft sand! Very fine particles which, from a mom's point of view, needed to NOT be all over the house! So she would have us strip down in the yard and she would hose us down. We liked it:)
I was seven when I felt my first shame at my nakedness. Nothing had changed in the circumstance, the change was within me. I wonder as to the source of that shame. I remember it so clearly. It was a fearful, dark feeling...