I have a debilitating fear of spiders. I just saw one as I was walking towards my computer to check Daily Kos - it was about the size of a quarter, brown, and it came wandering out from underneath my desk. My scream literally made the spider jump, along with my significant other who says my blood curdling scream is going to give him a heart attack one of these days.
Logically I know I'm much bigger than the spider and that I can do way more harm to it then it can do to me, but there is no logic when you have a phobia as bad as I have. I'm not sure where my paralyzing fear came from - I only know that I have always been afraid of spiders as long as I can remember.
The little wiry spiders don't bother me, I certainly don't like them, but they don't have the same effect on me as the big, hairy, brown ones do.
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