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Originally Posted by iluvBlooQKazoo
But thats you, you can handle spiders, well tarantulas. I can't I'm scared it'll bite me or something, I won't even handle a snake I'll pet them though but it creeps me out. My older brother has one in a fish tank (a snake).
Peace and Love: J.M Manucy aka iluvBlooQKazoo
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Spider USED to creep me out, too, but I was determined not to let a fear get the better of me. I could not justify defending snakes against the many wives' tales and myths and outright stupid reasons people were afraid of THEM, when I myself was falling victim to the same sort of idiocy when it came to spiders, nor could I mentally justify trying to convince people that all Pit Bull-type dogs weren't the demonic, savage unpredictable killers so many had been taught they were, if I believed that about a little spider. I met my fears head-on, by accepting a free Rose-haired tarantula that a fellow teacher offered me, several years ago, after her son got married and moved out, leaving his former pet behind. I also got myself a digital camera, and I started taking pictures, not just of that spider, but of spiders outside and inside the house. I started observing them closely, and trying to find out more about them. I got more tarantulas...and more tarantulas...and more. Fear turned into fascination, which turned into some sort of affection, as I realized that 99% of what I'd thought I "knew" about spiders was bull-droppings! I realized that even the ones which WERE capable of seriously injuring or even killing me, which are very, very few and far between, had no desire at all to do so, since they could not EAT me. I knew that having a great fear of something that for the most part cannot harm me at all was pointless and waste of time and emotional energy, and as someone who is getting "up there" in years, I certainly did not want to waste what time I had left being all stressed out and scared of something that could not harm me, not when there are sure plenty of really scary things out there which CAN. I'd strongly recommend anyone do the same, before a fear becomes a true phobia-a mental illness which can severely cripple a person, emotionally and even physically, putting themselves and others around them in far greater danger than the actual subject of the phobia itself ever could.
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