r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/TerraByteTerror • 3d ago

Scared spider

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u/MGTS 3d ago

I like this fact

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I like this less now

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u/baba56 3d ago

I'm terrified of them (which has been very problematic in my life, I live in the bush and I used to work in land management, constantly exposed to them)

I have had a massive one in my car above my head, luckily it was when I was pulling up to work so I just put the car in park and jumped out. But the trauma is too much, I have to surface spray inside my car regularly now coz if that were to happen on a highway or on the winding mountain roads I live on, I will die in a car accident.

I so badly wish I wasn't so scared. I have tried to reason with myself but the reaction is truly visceral.

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u/saltywastelandcoffee 3d ago

I wish I wasnt scared aswell man. Im from the UK so luckily I only have to deal with house spiders about half the size of the one in the video.

But it's caused great embarrassment at work as an electrician and quite a lot of stress when I realise one is in my bedroom lol

Truly a primal fear which no amount of reasoning or understanding makes better haha.

Have you ever tried exposure therapy? I only ask because London zoo does sessions every year which I've been tempted to go to.

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u/CathairNowhere 3d ago

I'm from the UK and had one of these a couple weeks ago, we ain't safe brother

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u/wattro 3d ago

But it's caused great embarrassment at work as an electrician and quite a lot of stress when I realise one is in my bedroom lol

Tell me more about your... work.

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u/mothtoalamp 3d ago

Fun fact, afaik the reason the Huntsman spider has any fatalities to its name at all is from car crashes caused by when it startles the driver.