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MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 weeks agoI can’t smell or hear them, but I know where I’m likely to find one and can’t see it. That scares me. Lol
I’m slowly trying to overcome my fear of spiders, but you’ll never catch me boopin’ a black window claiming it’s “friend shaped”! Lol
I came across a huge spider that I could hear. That is still one the most terrifying sounds of my existence. This spider had a 2 inch body which made it like 5 inches across and charged me. It made me less afraid of normal spiders though, so there’s that.
That’s CRAZY scary! What the heck did it sound like?!
Light clicking, sort of ti, ti, ti, ti, ti. A friend of mine’s kid makes that sound in my ear and it’s very funny to him. It takes a lot of strength not to hurt him while I get him away form my ear.
That’s wild. Freaky! Sorry your friend’s kid bullies you, but I can understand what kinda sound you’re describing now. 😬
Not a spider expert, I wonder if it was this guy (tw: spider picture but also useful article?)
Dunno about jumping spiders that big. Jumping spiders tend to be small, cute, smart lil’ guys that are mainly just super curious. :)
I’m also freaked out by spiders though, mainly because I grew up in the desert where there were tons of black widows. But I’ve started to slowly get over it by watching a channel I found called “MyWildBackyard” on YouTube.
Guy talks about spiders and stuff, lets them crawl around, explains how non-threatening they are. Kinda Steve Irwin esque.
I’m not about to go pettin them…but curiosity has replaced fear at least :)
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I developed a powerful arachnophobia as a kid when I was playing in a mountain steam building a dam out of rocks, turned over a rock, and there was a huge spider spread-eagled on the bottom of the rock.
I can still remember that image. Seared into my head. I was like 6.
The extent of the arachnophobia included:
It was pretty bad. Just saying it was a strong phobia.
Then I did some ayahuasca ceremonies, and my arachnophobia is basically gone.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’ve mostly gotten over my more intense childhood arachnophobia but the big ones and up close pictures still freak me out and I still smash em or vacuum them up when they’re in my home regardless of size so they don’t end up in my mouth when I’m asleep (that stat about eating so many spiders in a year really messed with me as a kid)