Faithfreedom
i gotta change my avatar
i like spiders in my house - small ones like daddy-long-legs. They trap mosquitoes and others catch flies. And ants.
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Your Top 3 Phobias
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Renji
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I got "scared" of cockroaches only when it flies. I'm just disgusted when I see one and not really that scared of it
MissAlice
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I have this one as well. I hate killing them though.
Circle_One
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Yeah, tell me about it. There's this giant monstrosity of a bird at the pet store I visit every week to buy feeder mice for my nephew's python, and I swear to the Gods, this thing screeches and it sounds like I would imagine a pteryldactyl would. I cry nearly everytime I hear it, and I've never actually seen what it looks like. Just the sound of that evil beast is enough to bring me to tears.
What about looking at a picture of birds? I know that when I look at pictures of sharks, it freaks me out big time.
A picture of A bird will give me a start, but not so bad. A picture of a flock of birds will get my heart racing and my palms all sweaty, but I can still manage it.
An underwater picture or video of the ocean, however, and I'm full blown panic attacking. Once, a friend of mine simply made an analogy that involved being underwater, and I panicked and covered my ears with my hands.
monta
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I can't really relate, I quite like some birds, especially of the corvus variety
but I did almost commit a hate crime at a European expansion festival when a butterfly landed on the hi vis vest of a security guard and I jumped back and knocked a large Russian gentleman into a Lithuanian woman's pram there was no baby in the pram thankfully, just a couple of bottles of vodka and some flowers. That was about the time I decided to knock the phobia on the head. I still find them disgusting though. (Important: no vodka was hurt, some tulips were smooshed and there was some shouting but that was all)
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Erebus
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Oh thank heaven! My heart was racing for a moment there.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
You do know that daddy-long-legs aren't spiders, don't you?
GabrielWithoutWings
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1. Death
2. Mirrors, especially in long hallways
3. Spiders. Even a picture of their faces is enough to make me almost faint.
2. Mirrors, especially in long hallways
3. Spiders. Even a picture of their faces is enough to make me almost faint.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
You probably wouldn't have liked doing what I did this past summer (the day before I went skydivingI know that when I look at pictures of sharks, it freaks me out big time.
). My husband and I went to Hawaii and drove up to the north shore of Oahu. There we took a ride on a fishing boat three miles out into the ocean. When we got to where we were going, the captain cut the motor and the sharks started flocking in towards the boat. Then he put the people on his boat (about twelve of us) into groups of four. Each group got about 20 minutes in an aluminum cage which was lowered into the water within arm's distance of a group of perhaps a half a dozen or so sharks, each of which was probably 6-8 feet long.
Faithfreedom
i gotta change my avatar
really??!!
Why? - They have 8 legs (iirc). They look like spiders. They spin webs up in the corners of the ceilings of my house. I kindna love them.
1 - Claustrophobia
2 - Paralysis
3 - Loss of customers' accounting data
2 - Paralysis
3 - Loss of customers' accounting data
Circle_One
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Well that depends, there are three "insects" around the world that are each called Daddy Long Legs.
There's the Crane Fly, which isn't a spider.
The Harvestman, which is an arachnid, but not a spider.
And as Monta said, the Cellar Spider (which is what we in Canada call the Daddy Long Legs), which is actually a spider.
Circle_One
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Cellar Spider
Harvestman
Harvestman
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
I didn't know that. I only knew that Harvestmen (which is what I've always considered to be a Daddy Long Legs) weren't spiders.
Circle_One
Well-Known Member
I didn't know it either
I wiki'd, because we have Daddy Long Legs in our apartment, and I could swear they were spiders, so I wanted to be sure. Pretty neat though! I did a google search on the Harvestman, and they're actually considered animals, rather than insects! And they can't kill their food, so they eat whatever dead things they can find on the ground. They'll also eat bread and other bits of human food!And they molt monthly!
They're REALLY neat little critters! Aparently, they make great pets for terrariums (sp?) as well.
I can only think of two main phobias:
-Spiders, and basically any bug/arachnid, etc.
-Water that I cannot see under (like a lake, because it's dark)
I don't have any specific experiences that caused them. I've basically just always had them. I can overcome them to some extent, but more-so with the water than with the spiders. I'm afraid of spiders and bugs just because they totally freak me out. I'm afraid of being in water I cannot see under because I'm afraid of stepping on something or getting bit by something.
I'm not afraid of heights, mice, snakes, social things, bats, dying, or small spaces.
-Spiders, and basically any bug/arachnid, etc.
-Water that I cannot see under (like a lake, because it's dark)
I don't have any specific experiences that caused them. I've basically just always had them. I can overcome them to some extent, but more-so with the water than with the spiders. I'm afraid of spiders and bugs just because they totally freak me out. I'm afraid of being in water I cannot see under because I'm afraid of stepping on something or getting bit by something.
I'm not afraid of heights, mice, snakes, social things, bats, dying, or small spaces.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
That's two out of three that we share. I'm curious about something, though since I tend to be more afraid of flying insects than of those that don't fly. People think it's hilarious, but I'm even a little bit jittery around butterflies. Some of them are quite beautiful, but if one were to fly into my face, I'd probably freak out.
The only one of these things I'm afraid of is bats. It's the way they dart around so unpredictably that makes me nervous.