Can you be too afraid of spiders?
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
November 1, 2007 3:59pm CST
When I was a little kid I got a really bad spider bite on my arm. It was so bad that my entire arm was paralyzed for almost half an hour. Not an experience that I want to experience more than once. For years, I had horrible nightmares about being attacked by spiders. Since then, I have been extremely afraid of spiders and can't stand to have them anywhere near me. I've never been able to understand how people can keep spiders as pets.
Most times I don't think about spiders, but when I see one, I get freaked out again and have to kill it. Guess it's better to be safe than sorry. I know that not all spiders are harmful, but you can never tell. Do you think that you can ever be too afraid of spiders? How do you get over a fear of spiders?
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5 responses
@hopejordan (3561)
• Australia
7 Nov 07
hi there beautyqueen26
yes i have been bitten by a white tail you can get little sick i went to get my letters from letter box i did not see it and i did not feel it bite me when i got inside the house i started to open one of my letters then i saw the white tail spider on the back of one of my letters and then i started to feel something i went to doctors and they told me just take panadol and i had a panic attack cause i dont like spiders.
thanks for this discussion
@youless (112497)
• Guangzhou, China
3 Nov 07
I am not very scared of the spiders because it is not very common for me to see them. Usually the spiders I see are very small and they are not harmful at all. They just make a net and catch flying bugs. If it is a very big spider and it gets close to me quickly, then perhaps I will be scared.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
3 Nov 07
When I was a kid, I used to live in a very old house, which was more than twenty years old and there used to be lots of huge spiders in the house. Each time I saw a huge spider, I would have been scared as to walk past it and sometimes there would be a huge spider coming to pay a visit to our rooms and I would yell loudly and would ask my mom and daddy for help to get rid of it from the room. I would also have goose skin when seeing a spider and when I grew a little older, I could deal with spiders by myself using a big broom to drive it away or send it to heaven. I hate to see spiders like you do.
@cherryblossm90 (180)
• Philippines
2 Nov 07
When I was a kid, we used to catch some spiders and then we would let them wrestle on a stick until someone wins. I was not afraid because we picked the small ones that are lurking in plants and bushes. But when it comes to huge ones like half the size of your hand then that's a different story. Big spiders makes my hair stand on end. I'd rather eat some worms than hold a very hairy spider and let it walk on my hands. Actually, I don't know that spider could bite and now that I'm aware of it, I really, really, really hate spiders.
..^^..cherry
@iamagyno (8)
• India
2 Nov 07
Spiders.....? ....ho ..ho ...... you are afraid of spiders...?
I did't see any spinder in my life ......which bites .....!!
ya...i ahve seen it in ... amovie (spider man) .......... !!
but really ...... you got bitten ..by a spider...?
well...spider ..may vary ...from ...differnt location to location... here in my place ..... there is no afraid of spideres...... and no one cares about it ..!!
any how as a suggition ....keep you surroundings ...clean ...and use some naphtalin balls .....to restrict ....spiders ....!!
