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Anonymous
Phobias are just weird. I can see how someone who had a horrible disfiguring spider bite or got swarmed by them as a child could develop a fear of them, but the vast majority of people with arachnophobia have never even had a bad encounter with a spider. They're just afraid of them because they are taught from a very young age that spiders are "extremely dangerous and scary creatures, avoid at all costs", or they just don't like the look of them, and saw other people freak out around them so they in turn developed the same fear from exposure to that hysteria. The number of spiders that can potentially kill a human you can count on one hand, but that's only if the bite is left untreated. And chances are you won't ever encounter one in a situation where it can get you.
I was lucky enough to come out of childhood without any phobias. My aunt has a severe phobia of kittens, I am not shitting you. Makes no sense. I want to know what that kitten did to make her freak out, but she goes crazy at the thought of them.
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