I really don’t like them. I try not to be a spas about it but I can’t help it. This is the time of year where they try to move indoors and it’s just awful for me. My heightened sense of fear leads to tactile hallucinations more so than normal and I’m really uncomfortable. I don’t like hating the little creatures but stay out of my house. I fear they are hiding in my shoes. I’m afraid to drink my coffee thinking one got in there. The other day I was in my bed and I felt one crawling by my eye and I swatted it away as fast as I could but it felt like it bit me. It hurt and stung for awhile but no spider bite ever appeared, I guess I just hurt myself when I swatted him off me. It’s terrible. I can’t wait until they are all in hibernation for the winter or where ever they go in wintertime. Does anyone else have a fear of spiders?
Spiders make me uncomfortable.
We don’t have venomous ones here, but they can get pretty big and I’m scared they’ll jump ib my face if I get too close.
I keep having tactiles about things crawling on me too.
Spiders freak me out
When I was a kid we lived in an old farm house and there were mega spiders
I lay in bed at night and a massive one crawled down the bed from my bed post
Also one time I took a shower and after I looked in the shower and there was about four massive ones by the plug hole
I live in top floor flat now and there’s not many but occasionally
I had a spider bite a few years back, hurt like hell
I don’t think my people understand how disturbing it is to me. Some times I can’t get it out of my head. I can’t even sip my coffee now because I think one is in there. I’ll have to throw the coffee out for new and then stay with the coffee until it’s drank. It’s bordering of phobia I think, or maybe is phobia already. I just feel like they are out to get me. Almost like it’s personal about me. Jeeze I’m insane.
Maybe it’s your paranoia a little bit
Don’t really mind house spiders, but that’s only because the ones we get in Scotland aren’t venomous. If we had dangerous ones I would understandably freak.
There are many people who have that fear. Even to not leaving drinks uncovered or avoiding places that may have spiders. They’re creepy, if beneficial.
I had a fear of black widow spiders when I was living in the southwest. They were inside the home I was living in and outside on the patio. I put my phone books in a plastic bag dropped them on top of the spiders. That took care of that.
I have a fear of all kinds of bugs including spiders.
I find them to be disgusting but I know that they are beneficial.
I love butterflies and what they symbolize.
The idea that phobias are heritable has some merit.
At its neurological heart, fear/anxiety/panic triggered by visual and other long-distance sense appear to strongly involve key structures in the brain, especially the amygdala and its connections to other brain structures. The development of many, possibly all or nearly all, neuroanatomical features are controlled by genes, which are heritable.
However, as with any complicated behavior, especially in humans, genetics may predispose, but do not determine. More likely, I think, is that a phobic parent may teach a child to have phobic reactions to their specific triggers.
I’m not aware of any study that has attempted to distinguish phobias acquired via learning from “innate” ones, but imagine such a study would be interesting, and would enjoy reading some, if anyone knows of and can give us some links.
The hypothesis that fear of spiders is inherited and innate, vs. the alternative that it is learned, can be tested by studying infants. If it is innate, we would expect young infants to exhibit it. If learned, we would expect the behavior to appear only as they age and learn.
To the best of my knowledge, such experiments support the conclusion that phobic behaviors are learned, not innate. However, there appears to be an innate predisposition - exhibited as early age 7 months - for phobia triggers such as spiders and snakes, vs. flowers and pretty butterflies.
My ancestors may have originated from a region of the Earth which, is either now or was, plagued with deadly spiders (Central America). Somehow, the conscious experience and physical attacks are somehow combined in my makeup. Somehow, my genes remember over long periods of time that spiders in general were something of which to stay clear. What was created was a sort of intrinsic antipathy towards the said creature.
You know, my mom wasn’t afraid of spiders but we did grow up in a place where black widows were very common and I was taught young to watch out for them. Maybe that plays a part in the fear I have today. I don’t know, but it’s very disruptive to be so anxious about everything all the time. I swear if it’s not one thing, it’s the other.
Funny you post this now. Two days ago my oldest daughter (24) was bit by a spider. If was brown and we weren’t sure it wasn’t a Brown recluse. Luckily the spot started to shrink last night.
Im afraid of spiders. I have told myself they are soft cute animals. But the first look on a spider when you suddenly see one always scares me.
Imagine getting up at two in the morning to use the bathroom and you see this crawling on your floor.
The Goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi) belongs to the tarantula family Theraphosidae. Found in northern South America, it is the largest spider in the world by mass and size, but it is second to the giant huntsman spider by leg-span. It is also called the Goliath bird-eating spider; the practice of calling theraphosids “bird-eating” derives from an early 18th-century copper engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian that shows one eating a hummingbird. Despite the spider’s name, it only rarely preys on birds.
I don’t like them as we have some poisonous ones that are pretty common but the big huntsman spiders I tolerate. If they are indoors they hunt the bugs which get prevalent over here. Up here we have a lot of redbacks…they are poisonous but timid unless you step on em…If your healthy it’s usually just intense pain but they are small and hide in places quite well…you get to avoid messy webs…that is where they live!
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