[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Irrational childhood fears

[illyana delorean]

> Iggy wrote:
>
> The ones that actually terrify me (since I have fortunately gotten 
> away from
> the black widows that roam around California) are the brown recluses 
> here in
> the south.  Those actually scare me worse than the black widows because
> they're not only more dangerous, but I know some of the strange things 
> their
> venom can possibly do to someone who has a bad genetic reaction to it.
> (Trust me... you don't want to know.)  I actually found a dead one in 
> the
> glass globe over one of our light outlets when I was changing a bulb.
>
> God forbid I ever visit Australia and see a funnel web spider.  I'd 
> probably
> just go into a massive case of the willies there on the spot.

Now illyana:
Brown Recluses are pretty scary, because they are so deadly - good 
thing we don't have those here in AZ. But venom/poison really has 
nothing to do with my fear of spiders - I just think they're creepy. I 
hate it when people remind me that most spiders are harmless or aren't 
going to bite me, because that has nothing to do with my fear of them! 
They just have too many legs and want to crawl all over me!!

> Iggy again:
>
> A couple of fun little bits of info about daddy long legs'...
>
> 1:  They're not really spiders.  Instead of having a head and abdomen 
> like
> spiders (a two segment body), they have only a single segment 
> head/body.

Now illyana again:

Yah, I know that they're not really spiders. Well, at least the ones 
most people consider to be daddy long-legs aren't really spiders. There 
is a type of daddy long-legs spider, but I can't really remember 
anything about it. (I have a friend who is obsessed with spiders, and 
she gave me this info.) Anyway, the single segment body thing really 
scares me, for some reason. Just the fact that they have this tiny dot 
for a body and head and then these long-legs that sometimes get out of 
control! At this camp I went to (I mentioned it before), this colony of 
daddy long-legs lived there, and some of them were really mutated (with 
too many legs and large bodies). That experience was what actually 
sparked my fear of spiders - before then, I had never had a problem 
with them, and I can actually remember playing with spiders when I was 
really little.

illyana, who forgot to include in her last post that she is also afraid 
of her teeth rotting and falling off, and she frequently has dreams 
about these kinds of things



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