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Are you scared of spiders?
Yes, I am scared of spiders. 40%  40%  [ 8 ]
No, I am not scared of spiders. 35%  35%  [ 7 ]
It depends 25%  25%  [ 5 ]
Total votes : 20

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17 Aug 2023, 3:42 pm

But look at how cuddly and fuzzy wuzzy it is. :heart:
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17 Aug 2023, 6:06 pm

Misslizard wrote:
But look at how cuddly and fuzzy wuzzy it is. :heart:
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I am convinced that "spider people" (my term for people who like spiders) are a different species of human altogether. :lol:



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17 Aug 2023, 6:27 pm

I’m not scared of spiders. For no real reason, I just find them and other bugs kind of gross.


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18 Aug 2023, 8:58 am

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I’m not scared of spiders. For no real reason, I just find them and other bugs kind of gross.


Yeah, the gross aspect for me initiates a bit of fight or flight response, especially if the bugs are on or near me.



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18 Aug 2023, 10:26 am

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I am shocked at the poll results. I thought it would be a clear lead for the 'yes' option in the poll. :o

I'd be curious to know how many of the no answers were from people with a related special interest.

Or perhaps missed out on that great documentary for the '80s, "Arachnophobia." I swear I couldn't open a box of cereal for years after that if it hadn't been properly sealed.



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18 Aug 2023, 11:26 am

I used to be afraid of spiders, but exhausting yard work made too tired to feel fear one time. Now I'm used to them. I have this game called Kill It With Fire. It's about being an exterminator on a mission to kill spiders. You might find it therapeutic. The spiders can't hurt you. They might slow you down or surprise you, but they can't kill you and you can use ANYTHING to kill them.


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18 Aug 2023, 3:57 pm

Aspiegaming wrote:
I used to be afraid of spiders, but exhausting yard work made too tired to feel fear one time. Now I'm used to them. I have this game called Kill It With Fire. It's about being an exterminator on a mission to kill spiders. You might find it therapeutic. The spiders can't hurt you. They might slow you down or surprise you, but they can't kill you and you can use ANYTHING to kill them.


Thanks - I'll check it out! :D



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18 Aug 2023, 11:33 pm

Aspiegaming wrote:
I used to be afraid of spiders, but exhausting yard work made too tired to feel fear one time. Now I'm used to them. I have this game called Kill It With Fire. It's about being an exterminator on a mission to kill spiders. You might find it therapeutic. The spiders can't hurt you. They might slow you down or surprise you, but they can't kill you and you can use ANYTHING to kill them.


TBH, I'm not afraid of outdoor spiders personally, it's specifically the indoor ones that keep me up at night. But, then again, the indoor spiders are significantly larger than the outdoor ones, so that may factor into it.



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19 Aug 2023, 7:40 am

MatchboxVagabond wrote:
Aspiegaming wrote:
I used to be afraid of spiders, but exhausting yard work made too tired to feel fear one time. Now I'm used to them. I have this game called Kill It With Fire. It's about being an exterminator on a mission to kill spiders. You might find it therapeutic. The spiders can't hurt you. They might slow you down or surprise you, but they can't kill you and you can use ANYTHING to kill them.


TBH, I'm not afraid of outdoor spiders personally, it's specifically the indoor ones that keep me up at night. But, then again, the indoor spiders are significantly larger than the outdoor ones, so that may factor into it.


Speaking of larger, my first encounter with the large spider happened in the basement of my grandparents house. I was sitting on the couch when a huge orange one came out of an open vent above me. I was a toddler at the time.


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19 Aug 2023, 8:47 am

Aspiegaming wrote:
MatchboxVagabond wrote:
Aspiegaming wrote:
I used to be afraid of spiders, but exhausting yard work made too tired to feel fear one time. Now I'm used to them. I have this game called Kill It With Fire. It's about being an exterminator on a mission to kill spiders. You might find it therapeutic. The spiders can't hurt you. They might slow you down or surprise you, but they can't kill you and you can use ANYTHING to kill them.


TBH, I'm not afraid of outdoor spiders personally, it's specifically the indoor ones that keep me up at night. But, then again, the indoor spiders are significantly larger than the outdoor ones, so that may factor into it.


Speaking of larger, my first encounter with the large spider happened in the basement of my grandparents house. I was sitting on the couch when a huge orange one came out of an open vent above me. I was a toddler at the time.


It seems you were acquainted with spiders from an early age. :)



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19 Aug 2023, 8:52 am

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I voted "it depends." In the UK spiders are mostly harmless to humans, and I don't worry about their presence unless they touch me, which does scare me a little bit, but not unduly.


^What he said. There are no poisonous creatures in UK houses so we are pretty relaxed here. The only poisonous creature is outside, a snake called an adder, which is rarely seen and hardly ever kills anyone.


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19 Aug 2023, 9:15 am

I remember back in middle school some kid brought in a live tarantula for science class. The next day I caught a whole bunch of crickets around the house and they were all fed to it.


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19 Aug 2023, 9:55 am

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I remember back in middle school some kid brought in a live tarantula for science class. The next day I caught a whole bunch of crickets around the house and they were all fed to it.


8O 8O 8O



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19 Aug 2023, 10:01 am

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19 Aug 2023, 10:28 am

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I love jumping spiders. They are just so damn adorable.


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23 Aug 2023, 2:06 pm

I don't particularly enjoy the sensation of a spider crawling on me, but I am not afraid of them. I am a bit concerned that they may run up my shirt sleeve and I won't be able to easily get them off me, so I use a piece of paper or an envelope to pick them up, but I'm happy to let a spider in an unobtrusive place indoors stay as long as it clearly isn't a brown recluse (brown recluses and black widows are the only potentially dangerous ones in my area).

Arthropods in general were my first special interest, I suspect in part because they were the non-human creatures I had a chance to interact with most often. I remember when I was probably about three, finding a spider in the kitchen. I wanted to hold it but didn't want it on me, so I held out a book to it and kept calling "Here, spider!" trying to get it to climb onto it.


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