I used to be scared of American Cockroaches.
-
@futurebird Agree with (and honestly love) all of this, but a cockroach flew at me once when I was a kid and I didn't know they could do that and I've been traumatized ever since!
While I'm not "scared" of them anymore, I definitely do not like seeing them (in the north nor the south), but I'm going to take this to heart.
Yeah that flying thing happened to me when I first moved to NYC and it took me six years to get over it. But I did! It just took so long I didn't think it'd happen.
But I never gave up on not being irrational about them. Even as I kept being irrational.
-
@futurebird I feel this way about people's reactions to spiders.
@Gustodon @futurebird in my defense, some spiders make this part:
> Learning more about what you fear, looking at it more closely,
...really, really hard.
'cause like... there is a type of spider that:
1) moves *very* fast,
2) moves *toward me*, and then
3) *disappears* if i look away for literally 2 seconds.How am i supposed to look closely at something that pulls a frickin' harry houdini act?
-
@Gustodon @futurebird in my defense, some spiders make this part:
> Learning more about what you fear, looking at it more closely,
...really, really hard.
'cause like... there is a type of spider that:
1) moves *very* fast,
2) moves *toward me*, and then
3) *disappears* if i look away for literally 2 seconds.How am i supposed to look closely at something that pulls a frickin' harry houdini act?
@Gustodon @futurebird but... i will try.
Next time i see an unreasonably fast spider, i will try to get close enough to take a photo and look it up.(i guess it would probably also help to learn about spiders that are actually dangerous so i can say, "that's not on the list of things for which i would need medical attention.")
-
@Gustodon @futurebird but... i will try.
Next time i see an unreasonably fast spider, i will try to get close enough to take a photo and look it up.(i guess it would probably also help to learn about spiders that are actually dangerous so i can say, "that's not on the list of things for which i would need medical attention.")
Where do you live?
-
@Gustodon @futurebird but... i will try.
Next time i see an unreasonably fast spider, i will try to get close enough to take a photo and look it up.(i guess it would probably also help to learn about spiders that are actually dangerous so i can say, "that's not on the list of things for which i would need medical attention.")
Asking because in some locations the few "medically significant" spiders are not aggressive at all and you'd need to pin the spider down to get it to bite you.
Generally since spiders are small and scared of people it's hard to get bit by them. But always check your boots. If that makes sense.
