Do we ever really totally grow up?
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (159227)
Boise, Idaho
October 13, 2011 6:54pm CST
Well, I went through many a discussion interest and decided on this one. I think I really need to grow up. I have a childish fear. What of you might ask? Spiders!! Just the word sends shivers up and down my spine.
It started when my daughter brought a baby jar with a spider in it to show me. I think it was a Brown Recluse. It was striped brown and cream and was large, with substantial legs and good sized body. Had a mouth and snappers like to bite with. One of the neighborhood kids had brought it over. Ugh!I did some research online and REALLY weirded myself out.
I woke up afew days later to find a dark 'thing' up in the corner of my room's ceiling closest to my bed. I kept watching it. Was pretty much sure it was a spider although it looks like a mass of black in the corner. It was all folded up. I kept checking on it to see if it moved. At one point it had moved about three inches out of the corner. I started getting alittle nervous.
At bed time I slept with the light on for awhile and kept one eye open and zooming in on the spider. Finally I fell asleep.
My granddaughter came over for a visit and when she came in my room I told her how I had been putting up with it and showed it to her. Asked her to see if she could take a napkin and anialate it. After freaking and making faces she bravely moved around the bed, positioned herself over the thing and then jumped about half a foot when it began to move out into the middle of room and right over my bed. Ooooh! I told her to quit because I was afraid it would fall on my bed and I would die of fright. So she goes hurrying out of the room calling for the guy she had brought over with her.
THis young man comes back with her. He is looking at us both as if we are demented. By this time the blackest of spiders has moved out about eight inches from the side of the room and has these long, spindly legs and looks HUGE. My granddaughter's friend takes the napkin, squeezes it about the spider, looks at the napkin, seems satisfied and leaves the room. I tell him I am forever in his debt.
Now am I (and my offspring I might add)the only ones that have a fear of these little things? Is it of the unknown(poisonous, non-poisonous)and just the ugliness of the little creatures? Are you all brave out there? Is it just me and mine?
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@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
I have a similar experience which made me realize I also fear spiders. One big one just happened to be in my room one day, at the back of the door, and I looked at it for a long time and I actually asked it to please just leave. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't move because I didn't want to move the door. After a long time I called my friend whom I shared the flat with and told her my problem. She swept it away with a broom just like that. Only, she wasn't able to kill it and it just scuttled somewhere under our stairs. I was paranoid for a week when I was near the stairs.
Before that incident, I didn't know I was afraid of spiders. I have no problems looking at super-close-up pictures of them in books or on the internet. But I guess at that time I was reminded of a movie I watched when I was young, called Arachnophobia. That one you really should NOT see.
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@celticeagle (159227)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Oct 11
I saw that movie! Those were huge too! Creepy.
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@katcarneo (1433)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
Haha, you did? Scary, right. I partly blame that movie for my fear of spiders. After watching it one would be really quite paranoid for a couple of days listening for scuttling sounds around the house.
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@celticeagle (159227)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Oct 11
You should watch The Mist then. Ugh! Big ones!
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
14 Oct 11
Your not alone my friend...I have issues with spiders too. I have recently been introduced to my inner chicken at work too. I no more got out of my mouth that I had no problem with a mouse when the one I was being warned about shot out from under a basket in the factory and I squealed like a little girl
I like to act brave until I see them though
I like to act brave until I see them though2 people like this
@celticeagle (159227)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Oct 11
I think I would be braver if I could see them eye to eye. Even have some kind of communication with them. But not knowing what their intent is.......??!!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Oct 11
it is a legitimate phobia called arachnophobia and thousands of people have it and they are adults as well as children. Since you are not in an area I assume where you will see lots of spiders I wouldn't worry about it. It only becomes a problem when you are paralyzed and cannot carry on with your life. Then you can go for therapy to help you get over your fear.
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@celticeagle (159227)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Oct 11
Hi ya. Yes, arachnophobia for sure. I was trying to be funny more than anything else. I carry on regardless. Hehehe
@celticeagle (159227)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Oct 11
I know. It totally weirded me out.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
14 Oct 11
not at all. me and mine are in dire fear also. when i shared a room with my grand daughter, one night a giant black spider was on the ceiling next to her closet. it was near the door so we were afraid to try and go out it.
we were both screaming every time it moved. she kept throwing shoes and stuff at it, so it moved. 
my grandson came in to see what the mater was and killed it. whoo, that was close.@celticeagle (159227)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Oct 11
Grandsons do come in handy that way don't they?
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
14 Oct 11
I think that the majority of people do grow up and learn to be responsible adults in society. i think that the wisest people of the world are the ones that can keep that spark of their imaginations from childhood. they are the ones that find a way to grow up and still keep another part of themselves.1 person likes this
@Awinds (2468)
• United States
14 Oct 11
Spiders are my second biggest fear. It started when I was a kid. I was laying on the floor when one crawled through my hair!
I literally have break downs when I see a big one in my room. The longer I look at the worse I get. If I kill it within seconds of seeing it then I am alright but if I delay I am gone. After a spider is in my room I spend half an hour checking behind the furniture, under the mattress, etc. It's ridiculous but I just can't help myself.
There is just something about spiders...the way they look, the way they cling to everything and the way some are poisonous...bleh! I'd rather handle mice than spiders!
I am an adult and still this spider phobia remains as strong as the day it started!
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