Insects are the creepiest creatures in the world. Their gross, hairy legs crawling up pretty much any surface just to sit there looking for prey with their eight eyes is just terrifying. I can sort of understand why some people just pick them up without hesitation, but the irrational few find bugs cute. CUTE? How can you find a bug cute? I get chills just thinking about bugs. Even butterflies are creepy without the wings.
Needless to say, I have a fear of bugs, but nothing compares to my overwhelming fear of arachnids. My arachnophobia is a lot worse than people would think because a lot of people are just simply afraid of spiders. At the beginning of my biology class during freshman year, we were assigned a project. The assignment was to take pictures of some random creatures you find in the wild and identify them. One day in the middle of that year I went to the bathroom, and to my surprise, was a spider the size of my palm was sitting on top of the door. I took a video of the spider, closed the door, and avoided that bathroom for the rest of the year. Seriously though, the next time I used that bathroom was in the middle of sophomore year.
It doesn't end there: I still had to identify that spider in the project. Obviously, I avoid anything spider-related, so I had no idea what kind of species it was. I avoided trying to identify it, but the deadline was soon so I had to do it. I googled “big spiders” and my heart instantly dropped and I closed out the tab. For some reason, Google thinks we want to see uber-magnified pictures of spiders when we use those search terms. Detailed pictures of each and every hair, eye, and fang right in your face. I instantly knew that I needed a different way to identify it. My parents already tease me enough about my extreme arachnophobia, so I definitely was not gonna ask them to do it. The final option I could exhaust was to ask the teacher. At school the next day, I walked up to Mrs. Roberts and asked her to identify the spider for me. She asked me why and my response was that I was too scared to identify it. That was embarrassing.
I too hate spiders, I have a box of rocks in my room for two reasons, discipline, and to casually air-strike spiders. I hate spiders and bug in general, even though I go camping a lot i have like a bug net a bunch of spray and clear out anywhere I sleep. I personally think that people whom keep bugs as pets are psychopaths. Id much rather have like a dog or something but not a spider. Like what are you supposed to call a pet spider, ''fluffy,'' bruh if someone calls their pet spider fluffy I'm torching that thing and flushing it down the drain.
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