And I got another one out! Woot!
Is it normal to be this freaked out about bugs and arachnids? Because I remember alternating between annoyed and amused by the whole thing. Not that I'd want one of the poisonous specimens crawling on me. That would be scary.
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When the older of my two nieces was about three or four years old, I googled a picture of a sea slug for her as part of a juvenile urge to gross her out (very juvenile, as this was only about four or five years ago!). Ironically, I wound up sitting there for two or three more hours Googling more sea slug pictures after she laughed hysterically and announced at the top of her lungs that "I *like* gross stuff Uncle Dan!"
@Dan: I think I'd like your niece. ^_^ Last year I was at the zoo with my Dad and got to gross out a couple little girls by showing them where some giant cockroaches were hiding in a terrarium they were looking at. That was fun, and I think they enjoyed it a little, too.
I'm not sure there is a 'normal' for arachnophobia: although I suppose there's an 'average' somewhere in the statistics.
Folks vary - a lot - in what spooks them, what doesn't, and what's likely to produce full-blown panic.
Like the fellow said: "oh, look; there's a yeti." ;)
@Dad: True. It just seems like there are an awful lot of little girls whose first instinct is to start screaming when presented with anything with more than four limbs.
Naomi: Or less than four. :)
@Dan: Yes, there is the stock reaction to icky boys.
Hey...I didn't mean that, exactly. I was referring more to the smaller, invertebrate variety of things with less than six legs.
@Dan: Ah yes, like one of the things little boys are made of. ;P
@Brigid: Well, depends how you define normal. I happen to know a handful of people who get freaked out about a spider. Personally, I prefer to just transport them somewhere where they don't bother me. Of course if it were a black widow or any other such poisonous spider, I would probably be a little more inclined to be creeped out.
Having said that, I tend to be a little exasperated when people get freaked out by a picture of a spider.
"Ceci n'est pas une araignee" XP
@Journo: True, true. I can only speak from personal experience and observation, after all. And I prefer to move the critter, too.
Ce what now?
"This...is not a spider", I think...
@Dan: dun dun DUN!
@Dan: That's correct!
@Brigid: What Dan said. It's French for "This is not a spider" and is actually a reference to a famous painting by Magritte. Virtual cookies/cake/sweet stuff if you can guess which one ;P
@Journo: Had to look him up, but I'm guessing it's a reference to 'The Treachery of Images.' Now gimme the cake! *yumyumyum*
@Brigid: I'm almost tempted to call shenanigans on that one...oh, what the heck, why let a good cake go to waste!
Enjoy!
@Journo: Yay! Cake!
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