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If it's not harmful to you I would suggest picking one up. I was in your camp and picked up a harmless spider, better now. This is simplistic but a quick anecd
by tertius 9y ago
If it's not harmful to you I would suggest picking one up. I was in your camp and picked up a harmless spider, better now.
This is simplistic but a quick anecdote to hopefully push you like I needed pushing to get over my irrational fear.
- staunch 9y agoExposure therapy seems to be pretty solid science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy
- krylon 9y agoI am aware of that and have considered it. But it does not affect my life very much, so the pressure to deal with it is not high. Vibrating spiders tend to live in places where they are not disturbed, and they do not move around a lot, so we do not cross paths very often.
- jazoom 9y agoI thought picking it up was a bit extreme until I realised krylon was talking about daddy long-legs spider. Fair enough. If there was a pick-uppable spider I think that would be it.
- spoonie 9y agoThose are cellar spiders, not daddy-longlegs (AKA harvestment AKA opiliones; which aren’t spiders, as they only have one body part). They do look similar though! I like to say that I’ve got opilionophobia, and just happen to be afraid of spiders and some other insects that look like daddy-longlegs.