Fear Of Spiders?

[ChameleonFan1989]

Is this fear even possible to over come? Has anyone here faced their fear and not be scared of spiders anymore?

I think Tarantulas are beautiful and can happily look at them through a tank but when it comes to handling any spiders, feels like my heart is going to pop out of my chest.

I think the fear is the legs and how they feel when on you. My dad has held a Tarantula and he describes their legs like pipe cleaners.

 

[Miss Lily]

Ugh! I really don't like spiders! How anyone could keep a big fat hairy one as a pet is beyond me, lol! I have a friend on facebook who didn't like spiders and once she held a tarantula she ended up getting some as pets! I'm not as brave as her! It's the way they move that freaks me out I think - they can be sat quite still and next they leg it across the floor! I use pip cleaners to clan my dripper fittings - now I will always think of spiders legs,lol!

 

[ChameleonFan1989]

I know what you mean LMAO and those horrible house spiders, fast little buggers, shoot across your room carpet O_O and then totally paranoide of where they went LMAO

 

[tkilgour]

Here is an easy way.

You can thank me later, but this is Avicularia versicolor

 

[ChameleonFan1989]

I have no problems look at them its getting the guts to hold one without freaking out

 

[tkilgour]

I have no problems look at them its getting the guts to hold one without freaking out

There are several species I will not hold either.

 

[KarmaChameleon1337]

I saw someone overcome it on My Animal Phobia.

 

[Solid Snake]

Yes you can overcome it.
You just have to realize their is no reason to be afraid.
Then actually experience the fear, and it will dissipate.
(like holding the beautiful specimen tkilgore posted)

Im not a huge fan of them, but they dont scare me.
I kept a female lactrodectus for a while.

 

[DekuScrub]

mwahahahaha!

i love when fall comes around because my sister is deathly afraid of stinkbugs. its absurd. i capture them and chase her

spiders im fine with. my one major problem is thousand leggers

http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/house-centipedes

i used to piss myself (not literally) and regress into a feral rage of screaming and destruction, until said arthropod was nothing but a violet smudge on the wall (yes their guts are purple)

some people react to fear by fleeing, apparently i hulk SMASH when im terrified.

what i hate is when you can see them turn their tiny little heads tup to look at you. they look at your face. it freaks me out, and the way they float across any surface with their undulating waves of malintent (apparently thats not a word and ive been using it for years....malignant intent)

we had a population explosion this last winter because my tokay that used to free range the whole house finally died. so i was killing a lot, and then one time one just looked at me before subsequent smashing and i froze. i couldnt kill it.

so then i looked em up, apparently they watch over their young and stuff, theyre pretty cool actually and cant survive the winters here in PA.

so for me it was just a matter of the unfamiliar and being plain ignorant. though i did know they were insectivores.

hence why i captured one and a wolf spider recently and chucked em into the same tank for an epic death match. we have lots of wolf spiders in the house too. but i dont mind them so much.

so i dont get scared anymore i dont rampage i just leave em be.

i would just repeat scutigera coleoptrata im my head.

i do need another tokay though.

last time i saw one my gf was freaked out and i didnt want to kill it. so i busted out a nerf gun and said if i can hit it its meant to die. he escaped into the curtains. i was damn close tho

 

[amanda509]

lol i dont mind spiders, if there far enough for safety..if theyre in the corners of the rooms, so be it, but if theyre on the counters or IN MY BED they must die. i dont mind tarantulas either, if theyre kept in a cage, i dont want to hold one..id freak. and indeed thos pesky thousand leggers scare the begebes out of me! i try and kill them, but normally am not talented enough..if theyre in the basement, i leave them alone, they belong there..but anywhere else in the house is unacceptable. -.-

 

[shaunaroxanne]

Ugh, I held one once and got the worst rash ever on my arm from it.

 

[Solid Snake]

i used to piss myself (not literally)

Come on man,all the cool kids piss their pants!
You aint cool if you dont piss your pants...

 

[DekuScrub]

Come on man,all the cool kids piss their pants!
You aint cool if you dont piss your pants...

i have but not since 1st grade. i reprimanded myself by being cool enough to figure out how to catapult crayons into the light fixtures so they would melt and look like rainbows.

pooping yourself due to alcohol poisoning is a different story. the cool thing about legit alcohol poisoning is you dont have enough fluids to pee. but when other 14 year olds force feed you bread to keep you alive no one notices if you pooped ur pants! then you hobble home and pull chunks of doodie out of your pants till you get to the slop sink downstairs and drink a gallon of water like its your job.

ah the good ol days

 

[DekuScrub]

Ugh, I held one once and got the worst rash ever on my arm from it.

a thousand legger? mofos are venomous!

 

[Solid Snake]

i have but not since 1st grade. i reprimanded myself by being cool enough to figure out how to catapult crayons into the light fixtures so they would melt and look like rainbows.

pooping yourself due to alcohol poisoning is a different story. the cool thing about legit alcohol poisoning is you dont have enough fluids to pee. but when other 14 year olds force feed you bread to keep you alive no one notices if you pooped ur pants! then you hobble home and pull chunks of doodie out of your pants till you get to the slop sink downstairs and drink a gallon of water like its your job.

ah the good ol days

Hahaha, I dont remember much

 

[ChamomilleCame]

This video kinda made them OK for me http://www.youtube.com/alltime10s#p/search/0/ka0Pwp8bu94

 

[shaunaroxanne]

a thousand legger? mofos are venomous!

No a tarantula gave me a rash. I would never hold a thousand legger they are disgusting and give me the heebie-jeebies.

 

[okiroo]

yes and yes. for a long time i would cry if a spider got on me, i mean litteraly break down and freak out. so my dad woud kill them. i cuddnt stand an animal dieing becuse i was being a little wimp. spiders cant help that their spiders, they just are. i felt it was wrong of me to fear something i didnt understand, that want to live just like a bunny or something else. i forced myself to get over it and look at them like every other creature on this earth. i'd probally still freak if someone tossed one on me but i can now go near/ hold them no problem..just dont toss them on me

 

[ataraxia]

Im fine with looking at them. They can even be around me....Im not fine with handling them or them touching me. I will flip the F... out...SERIOUSLY. I can catch them with a container but if the dang thing touches my hand.....The spider better be able to with stand MAch 5 cause its about to be sent flying and if i cant it off its a dead spider.