Big Spiders

Nothing to be ashamed off.

 

I actualy have an origion story for my aracnophobia. Im pure terrified of any spider but i wasnt always up until about 7. We used to have these high trees you could go behind in my backgarden and one day I noticed this big spider a bit up the trees in his web. I wasnt scared at all i liked the thing and kept coming back to see it day after day and one day the * started crawlling down fukin 90mph and nearly landed on me face but i was able to peg it outa there. Ever since then even the tinniest * freezes me with fear.

 

Goes back to what I said. A rat looks more human than a Spider, you could (maybe at a stretch) impose human attributes on it (two eyes, a nose, etc)

What other threatening creature do humans regularly come into contact with that looks less human than a Spider? Other than things like small insects, which aren't threatening enough to bother our survival instinct anyway, there really isn't anything.

It can go the other way - if something looks too human, it sets off alarm bells. Something like C3PO, say, which looks humanish but clearly isn't, is ok. But something like a corpse, or a clown, or a mannequin, or (lets face it) the physically disabled - which all look too "normal" but clearly aren't - all set off the "danger" alarm and freak us out at a primal level. It's telling us "something is wrong, keep a * eye open".

At the other extreme is the "alien", things which are so completley beyond our capacity to relate too. You can't give human attributes to an eight-legged, eight-eyed, non-vertabrae that lays eggs. It's the very definition of different, and in nature different = unsafe. We even imagine something like a spider - just try and see how many monsters people have invented that can't have any human attributes applied to it. Give it a go.

Racism probably has it's roots in this.

 

Explain the racism part i dont understand?

 

Do you study psychiatry or something lol

 

"They look different, ergo are different, ergo are dangerous".

Nature, I'm afraid.

 

No hes just that * good!:icon_mrgreen:

 

I am afraid of spiders, and daddy long legs. Just 2 secs ago I seen one at my window, so I went over and I hit it with a paper, moved it a bit and it tried to fly so I screamed like a girl I then smacked it again and threw it out.

 

Psychology

 

Now i see what you mean.

 

In my mind you put on your Doctor Who glasses before saying this in a matter-the-fact but interested tone.

 

That's how I hear myself, yeah

 

Can u explain arachnophobia big time but not the slightest bothered by daddy long legs haha

 

Cause they are skinny wee feckers.

 

Look, no one knows how this works, I'm only taking an educated guess here

But it might just be spiders themselves, rather than all Arachnids (which includes things like mites) that are the problem. I'm not a psychiatrist, y'know.

 

We got you on this one boffin!!


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Haha i think it might have something to do with that sketch ricky gervais done[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSZdHdfF4G4[/YOUTUBE]

 

Yes that swayed alot in my favour mate.

 

Il be checking the bed tonight before i get into it,im freaked out now.

 

woodlice? never heard that one before:icon_mrgreen:



I'm * scared of earwigs and millipedes/centipedes.