What is your phobia?

• the Bear

  19 Oct 06, 17:38

  tarantulas!
  
  if they don't start throwing their hair at you, you're pretty safe.. they're relatively harmless and will leave you alone..
  
  if you want to catch it, do it like a crab... poke the middle of the body downwards gently with your index finger and then grab gently with the rest of your digits and lift it up...
  
  i like tarantulas
  
  oh.. in australia, the bigass huntsman spiders are also harmless.. big and hairy.. but they're pretty friendly things as they are curious
  
  

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  I have arachnophobia actually .....
  
  thanks to this encounter with a gigantic hairy bird-eating spider one time at a jungle somewhere .....
  
  those puny ones i can deal with .... big hairy ones just freak me out .......
  
  (toasters are not in the same league btw ... )

• the Bear

  19 Oct 06, 17:40

  with the hairy caterpillars, do NOT ever touch them.. most are hairy because they are toxic.. and a few of them, their hair works like a jellyfish sting and may cause a terrible rash at best and death a few weeks later at worst...
  
  so that fear of hairy caterpillars could be rational fear
  
  

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  me too
  
  and I'm also afraid of sudden, loud thuds.
  
  and hairy caterpillars... to name a few.

• MooKu

  19 Oct 06, 17:43

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  with the hairy caterpillars, do NOT ever touch them.. most are hairy because they are toxic.. and a few of them, their hair works like a jellyfish sting and may cause a terrible rash at best and death a few weeks later at worst...
  
  so that fear of hairy caterpillars could be rational fear
  
  

  actually before the fear of hairy caterpillars comes the fear of being under a mango tree.
  
  when i was in pri sch, there were mango trees near the canteen, and a bunch of us girls would always stand around the area eating ice cream.
  
  one day, i saw a caterpillar hanging from the tree. then one night, i had a bad dream about someone being bitten by a hairy caterpillar and then that person just began to... decompose.
• the Bear

  19 Oct 06, 17:47

  ahhh.. those..
  
  they may cause a rash.. most "hang down" because they have fallen.. their lifeline is that thread of silk... sort of like "worm bungee"
  
  best not to touch them..
• MooKu

  19 Oct 06, 17:55

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  ahhh.. those..
  
  they may cause a rash.. most "hang down" because they have fallen.. their lifeline is that thread of silk... sort of like "worm bungee"
  
  best not to touch them..

  it's grosssss.
  
  sometimes you might WALK INTO them without knowing it cos the thread is not visible unless there's light shining there or something.
  
  or sometimes they just fall onto your head and into you hair or what!!!!
  
  i don't know, these are just my imagination
  
  
• the Bear

  19 Oct 06, 17:58

  yeah.. it happens...
  
  i look at it as them just trying to get on with their own lives too...
  
  although when i was a cub i was evil and fed a few of them to spiders
  
  maybe don't walk under those trees again?
  
  

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  it's grosssss.
  
  sometimes you might WALK INTO them without knowing it cos the thread is not visible unless there's light shining there or something.
  
  or sometimes they just fall onto your head and into you hair or what!!!!
  
  i don't know, these are just my imagination
  
  

• udontknowme

  20 Oct 06, 05:21

  Agraphobia/Contreltophobia
  Chiraptophobia
  Claustrophobia(sometimes)
  Glossophobia
  Haphephobia/Haptephobia
  Virginitiphobia