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I need your help, /an/. I am an arachnaphobe in a serious way. I scream like a girl, call for help, and go pee sitting down when ever I see one. I've had the problem for as long as I can remember, going back into early childhood. No specific event that I can remember setting it off. I've tried exposure, held tarantulas in my hands, etc. Nothing seems to work. Last week my boss got bit by a brown recluse on the groin, and this has just about tipped me over the edge into the land of paranoia. i need help. Any suggestions?

tl;dr: Halp! I's scared o' dem spiders!
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
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Not sure..learning a lot about them usually helps because you learn (subconsciously) that they aren't out to get you. Most of the time they'll just run away because you are a fucking giant compared to them.
>> Anonymous
>>309745
oh fucking great, my greatest fear realized
>> Anonymous
>>309745

That's fucking terrible. Jesus Christ.
>> spiderman !!SsRNV3jTiv8
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>>309769
>>309763
:D
>> Anonymous
>>309770
so what, it's a spider.

when it's hiding in my soda... fuck.
>> Anonymous
Catch/buy spiders and keep them as pets. Holding tarantulas while squealing to get it off doesn't count. Keep that fucker for years. Keep some smaller, lanky fuckers you find around the house too.
>> Marx !ztENIsXjtM
>>309745
I was drinking a soda, too. Thanks.
>> anonymous
>>309737
Wow, brown recluse spider biting your boss in the groin, there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with that. The Brown Recluse spider, like the name suggests, is mostly to itself, always hiding, never really showing up in broad daylight. I'm sure they're hard to find, and most likely wouldn't appear just out of nowhere. Most spiders are harmless, especially the little wolf spiders you'll see once in a while. Taranchulas are the LEAST deadly since they are big enough not to need any type of venom, so if you're bitten by one, most likely, you'll be fine in a few days. Look at the webbing, if you see a perfect web design (like you do in them cartoony pictures), most likely, you'll want to avoid it. On the other hand, you see it looking kinda crappy, they're not poisonous and you'll be fine. Besides, most species that lurk inside homes kill off roaches, and I'd rather have a spider around me than a roach, them roches are scary little bitches.
>> Anonymous
>>309794
>Look at the webbing, if you see a perfect web design (like you do in them cartoony pictures), most likely, you'll want to avoid it. On the other hand, you see it looking kinda crappy, they're not poisonous and you'll be fine.

This interests me. Have a source?
>> Anonymous
I was an arachnaphobe for a time, until i learned to KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

srsly, kill dem spiders and you will doesn't afraid of anything.
>> Anonymous
For crying out loud, don't listen to that guy. If his points were totally valid, you'd have to avoid every perfect web you see and the fact is that you don't. The picture-perfect webs are made by orb-weavers and are completely harmless. Indeed, look at black widows - terribly poisonous, rubbish web. The fact is that for the most part, the most venemous spiders are those which actively hunt their prey.
>> Anonymous
>>309806

I don't ask for sources when I accept people at their word.
>> Anonymous
Touche, indeed, and good point well made.
>> Anonymous
OP Here
>>309745
Intellectually I understand about the giant thing, but I seem to have a hard time scaring spiders off when I find them, and then it becomes a hostage situation, with me trying to negotiate the release of my sanity with Arachne's great great grandbaby.
>>309794
lol@brown recluse hiding and not really showing up.
They prefer dark places out of the heat, but they hate the cold. When you happen to stumble across one, they don't exactly melt when sunlight hits them, much to my dismay. I live in Oklahoma City, and work in back yards, so I get to see 20 - 30 of them a summer at least, and a few more usually inside the house after the first freeze. December, January and February are really the only relatively spider free months here in OK. Boss got bit in a hotel room in San Angelo, TX. Week later I ran into a Recluse with a leg span of just under 3". I swear it was asking for my phone number, and started calling me bad names when I said no.
>>309804
Killing with fire, while effective, is not helpful in a constructive manner. Also my back is in constant pain, so carrying a flamethrower around isn't really an option.
Take off and nuke the site from orbit, see above.
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>> Anonymous
I was terrified stiff of spiders for a long time. Maybe I got it from watching Arachnophobia when I was a kid. I always felt that spiders were watching me, waiting for their chance to pounce on me. Anyway, one time I got really high and watched a house spider up close and I didn't feel scared and never did again after that.
>> Anonymous
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buy one of these and roast the fuckers.

I prefer axe + zippo lighter myself, but those generally lead to property damage.
>> Anonymous
>>309737
jesus christ if I were to see that in my home I would move. To another country.
>> Anonymous
Scotland has small spiders but they kick ass.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3902993.stm
>> Anonymous
>>309907

Indeed, this entire topic just make me so FUCKING glad that I live in a mostly non-spider country.
>> Anonymous
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dun haet me ):
>> Anonymous
if i ever saw that i would be running for my life. fuck that.
>> Anonymous
>>309988
what a cutie <3
>> Anonymous
I hate spiders. Since I moved to the City, I don't have to deal with them, but when I lived in a woodsy area... ugh. The worst was when I was in elementary school, and about halfway through my morning shower I noticed this HUEG FUCKING BLACK HAIRY SPIDER ON THE CURTAIN WITH LIKE SIXTEEN BABIES. I fucking freaked out and sprayed the whole thing with window fluid for five minutes.

Even worse, I sometimes do odd landscaping/gardening jobs for cash, and you get those jumper spiders who dart out when you disturb them (digging near the house, usually). Shit my fucking pants, every time.
>> Anonymous
All this spider crap reminds me a small night of hell I went through. This last spring I was up late, feeling dead tired. It was about 12:30-1:30 in the morning, and I was ready to go to bed. I powered and closed up my laptop, which was on the lower section of my desk, when I noticed some large speck of dust slowly falling on my laptop. I inspected it closer, and saw it was a tiny spider. Needless to say, I squished the little bastard, and then looked up to the top shelf of my desk, and saw several more little spiders, some slowly gliding down on little threads of silk. I won't give you all the details, but the whole thing lasted about 45 minutes with over thirty or some dead baby spiders, and me checking my entire desk and its surroundings for a half hour after that to make sure I got at least most of them.

It may not seem that bad, but when you're ready to drop off to sleep, at night, and you see at least twenty little eight-legged creepers silently infiltrating your study/laptop space, with who knows HOW many more just out of sight somewhere, you'll understand why it was a crap adventure. Plus I had the thought in the back of my mind that their mom might be no more than a few feet away from me.....ergh.
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>> Anonymous
I think that>>309794is a troll because spiders that make perfect webs are non-venomous orb weaves and such. One that make messy webs with no order to them are black widows! I don't know how brown recluses make webs, or if they make webs at all, but funnel web spiders(very venomous spiders in Australia) make a web in the ground the shape of a funnel that is also a bit messy.

Harmless spindly daddy long leg type spiders (also know a cobweb spiders) make somewhat messy webs as well, but there is more order to them than black widow webs. Also, you're most likely to find black widow webs rear the floor.

Keeping your house clutter-free can help prevent black widow or recluse populations in your house because they love piles of papers and other things that sit around for a long time, and dark little areas behind or under stuff.
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>> Anonymous
>>310340
You already left that here.
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>> Anonymous
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You need to call this guy.
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>> Anonymous
>>310024
I can't tell you how many times I've done this. I live out in a woodsy area, and yet there's never any goddamn bug spray in the house. I end up nearly suffocating myself with 300 squirts of windex, watching the creepy little assailant float in a pool of it.