Things that annoy you

[Dee & Faulk]

What I don't understand is the need to kill something that isn't doing anything to you. Spiders generally mind their own business - they're not out to slit your throat in the dead of night. If you find them in a small space that generally where they want to stay; a spider in the open is a dead spider. If you're that uncomfortable with them, get a jar and put it outside. I only kill spiders when they're too dangerous to leave to their own devices or to put outside (we get Black Widows occasionally) - the little marginally dangerous house and jumping spiders I just leave alone.

Honestly, I just generally get annoyed with huge spider hate fests. I think that most people who claim to have "arachnophobia" have just been taught by society to hate spiders, since, if you haven't noticed, a huge majority of society hates spiders. I still can't figure out why, of course.

Not to mention people use the term phobia rather lightly these days for my tastes. I almost feel bad for real arachnophobes.

._. I'm with you on this one. I have a wolf spider that lives in my room. He stays in his corner and avoids me and I just ignore that he's there. I used to try to get him to leave by taking down the web, but he just kept making new ones and since I can't bring myself to kill something that does more good than bad, I just got used to him being there. He's actually very beneficial to me. He eats most of the other little bugs that sneak into my room during the summer. =D

I very much hate when people say they have a phobia when it's just a distaste or lower grade fear. >> Unless it interferes with your everyday life and basically controls you, it's not a phobia. I have a phobia and it's very different from my simple fear of water. Fear =/= Phobia

I'm going to have to say something here... You do know right, that it is very much possible to fear spiders without that fear controlling your every day?

I don't see spiders every day. Winter time I usually am happy as a pig in [censored], because the only time I see a spider then is if I go into a old building or start digging around in the attic.

Summer time I almost don't dare go outside because I am extremely scared of any kid of bugs. Spiders are the worst though. Just the sight of a spider will make me want to scream and run away. I don't care that it is small and that it most probably won't do anything to me - it is there and I am terrified of it.

I can't just ignore a spider if I know it is somewhere. I just can't. Harmless or not, it is a spider, and I fear spiders like crazy. And no 'it is smaller than you' or 'it can't do you any harm' comments/logic will make this change. I simply fear spiders like crazy, and when I see one, my first instinct is to scream and run, and the second one is to KILL NOW.

I know it seems silly - I find my aunt's extreme fear of birds a little odd - but then I remember my own uncontrolled fear and then I understand.

I don't want to be afraid of spiders, or any other bugs. I just am. ._.

[chirp.]

How I'm going to get up at 5:00 AM tomorrow for a 10 hour long road trip just AFTER I recover from the stomach flu. >.< I can haz hug?

[Dreamwave]

Robert Pattenson annoys me. I gag every time I see or hear his voice.

[chirp.]

Robert Pattenson annoys me. I gag every time I see or hear his voice.

This is why that Vampires Suck movie is coming out. <3 I bet they made it just to tick off the twilight fans.

[June Bug]

What I don't understand is the need to kill something that isn't doing anything to you. Spiders generally mind their own business - they're not out to slit your throat in the dead of night. If you find them in a small space that generally where they want to stay; a spider in the open is a dead spider. If you're that uncomfortable with them, get a jar and put it outside. I only kill spiders when they're too dangerous to leave to their own devices or to put outside (we get Black Widows occasionally) - the little marginally dangerous house and jumping spiders I just leave alone.

Honestly, I just generally get annoyed with huge spider hate fests. I think that most people who claim to have "arachnophobia" have just been taught by society to hate spiders, since, if you haven't noticed, a huge majority of society hates spiders. I still can't figure out why, of course.

Not to mention people use the term phobia rather lightly these days for my tastes. I almost feel bad for real arachnophobes.

._. I'm with you on this one. I have a wolf spider that lives in my room. He stays in his corner and avoids me and I just ignore that he's there. I used to try to get him to leave by taking down the web, but he just kept making new ones and since I can't bring myself to kill something that does more good than bad, I just got used to him being there. He's actually very beneficial to me. He eats most of the other little bugs that sneak into my room during the summer. =D

I very much hate when people say they have a phobia when it's just a distaste or lower grade fear. >> Unless it interferes with your everyday life and basically controls you, it's not a phobia. I have a phobia and it's very different from my simple fear of water. Fear =/= Phobia

I'm going to have to say something here... You do know right, that it is very much possible to fear spiders without that fear controlling your every day?

I don't see spiders every day. Winter time I usually am happy as a pig in [censored], because the only time I see a spider then is if I go into a old building or start digging around in the attic.

Summer time I almost don't dare go outside because I am extremely scared of any kid of bugs. Spiders are the worst though. Just the sight of a spider will make me want to scream and run away. I don't care that it is small and that it most probably won't do anything to me - it is there and I am terrified of it.

I can't just ignore a spider if I know it is somewhere. I just can't. Harmless or not, it is a spider, and I fear spiders like crazy. And no 'it is smaller than you' or 'it can't do you any harm' comments/logic will make this change. I simply fear spiders like crazy, and when I see one, my first instinct is to scream and run, and the second one is to KILL NOW.

I know it seems silly - I find my aunt's extreme fear of birds a little odd - but then I remember my own uncontrolled fear and then I understand.

I don't want to be afraid of spiders, or any other bugs. I just am. ._.

Like I said, that's a fear, not a phobia.
I have a phobia of sickness and it controls just about every decision I make. I can't share food, handle other people's money, hear a child cough or sneeze, be in close contact with others, or even type/read/hear the freaking 'v' word without having at the very least a minor panic attack. That is a phobia. I also have a fear, a fear of water. That doesn't effect me until I'm actually in a situation that deal with it witch is how I know it's not a phobia.
My dad has been a Psychologist for 35 years, don't fight me on this, I know what I'm talking about as I've had long conversations about my own fear issues with him. =P

[mokapi]

What I don't understand is the need to kill something that isn't doing anything to you. Spiders generally mind their own business - they're not out to slit your throat in the dead of night. If you find them in a small space that generally where they want to stay; a spider in the open is a dead spider. If you're that uncomfortable with them, get a jar and put it outside. I only kill spiders when they're too dangerous to leave to their own devices or to put outside (we get Black Widows occasionally) - the little marginally dangerous house and jumping spiders I just leave alone.

Honestly, I just generally get annoyed with huge spider hate fests. I think that most people who claim to have "arachnophobia" have just been taught by society to hate spiders, since, if you haven't noticed, a huge majority of society hates spiders. I still can't figure out why, of course.

Not to mention people use the term phobia rather lightly these days for my tastes. I almost feel bad for real arachnophobes.

._. I'm with you on this one. I have a wolf spider that lives in my room. He stays in his corner and avoids me and I just ignore that he's there. I used to try to get him to leave by taking down the web, but he just kept making new ones and since I can't bring myself to kill something that does more good than bad, I just got used to him being there. He's actually very beneficial to me. He eats most of the other little bugs that sneak into my room during the summer. =D

I very much hate when people say they have a phobia when it's just a distaste or lower grade fear. >> Unless it interferes with your everyday life and basically controls you, it's not a phobia. I have a phobia and it's very different from my simple fear of water. Fear =/= Phobia

We get black widows and brown recluse spiders here more often than we get the dinky little jumping spiders, but we algo get half-penny-sized fuzzy black jumping spiders with white spots and I would be lying if I said I didn't kill all three of those kinds of spiders. I am so genuinely terrified of house centipedes that I go into shaking fits and cry and panic if I see one, which is so often that I leave big shoes in every bathroom so I can step on them. I tend to leave the babies alone, but there was one in my mom's bathroom that crawled ON HER HEAD while she was showering (they like sinks, bathtubs, drains, etc.) and she said it was easily as long as her palm.

House centipedes and turkey buzzards are the only animals/bugs that send me into panic attacks. The rest (mainly bugs) just make me queasy or nervous.

[Dreamwave]

The vampires suck movie completely makes fun of it! I really want to see especially since I read the books. There is no way Im watching the twilight movies....Yuck. Its more funny when you know what actually happened....Xd

[Pugnacious!]

I got an MRI today and in the middle of it I thought of the X-files episode where the weirdo guy has a voodoo doll of the one doctor's wife and I thought of the scene where he makes her burn to death in the MRI or Cat-scan or whatever it was.
I had a hard time not panicking. ;-;

[[Paradox]]

What I don't understand is the need to kill something that isn't doing anything to you. Spiders generally mind their own business - they're not out to slit your throat in the dead of night. If you find them in a small space that generally where they want to stay; a spider in the open is a dead spider. If you're that uncomfortable with them, get a jar and put it outside. I only kill spiders when they're too dangerous to leave to their own devices or to put outside (we get Black Widows occasionally) - the little marginally dangerous house and jumping spiders I just leave alone.

Honestly, I just generally get annoyed with huge spider hate fests. I think that most people who claim to have "arachnophobia" have just been taught by society to hate spiders, since, if you haven't noticed, a huge majority of society hates spiders. I still can't figure out why, of course.

Not to mention people use the term phobia rather lightly these days for my tastes. I almost feel bad for real arachnophobes.

Id have to say about a dozen times ive had a spider in my room, it crawled up on my ceiling over my bed, and just dropped. Of course whenever i see a spider in my room i run out, call my parents, and then stand there and watch where i goes.... and its always over my bed-.- I dont even sleep in my normal bedroom any more because of the spiders, and of course the room that i do sleep in, i still get them...
One time i was standing in the hallway waiting for one of my parents to come after a spider had dropped on my bed and then it followed me out into the hallway... and im NOT joking...

If spiders would just leave me alone, id leave them alone, but they dont.

[proud.little.wolf]

Bugs are annoying to me... therefore I hate them. >.<