#what it means to be an arachnophobe
Being an arachnophobe means constantly checking every corner of a room and the ceiling before you enter.
Being an arachnophobe means freaking out whenever you see a ball of hair on the floor before you realize it’s just a ball of hair.
Being an arachnophobe means teetering on the edge of a panic attack whenever you see a spider-web but not the spider.
Being an arachnophobe means wanting to pack your bags and move the minute the porter of your building tells you that the spider’s nest they found in the basement scattered all over the building when they disturbed it…and you live on the first floor…
Being an arachnophobe means cursing up a mental storm and breaking into a cold-sweat whenever you see a spider because it means you’re going to have to deal with it (killing it, removing it, whatever that means).
Being an arachnophobe means having a mental breakdown when you accidentally walk into a spider dangling from a web and it getting stuck on you.
Being an arachnophobe means your significant other telling you not to look behind you before they grab a shoe and kill it for you.
Being an arachnophobe means finding out that spiders create cobwebs (I honestly did not know this) and then freaking out when you find a lot of cobwebs in your room…
Being an arachnophobe means having to check every branch and leaf when you’re walking through a park or the woods to make sure you don’t accidentally run into a spider or it’s web.
Being an arachnophobe means finding out what countries experience raining spiders and have giant hunter spiders and deciding never to travel to those countries some day. Never going to Australia :P
Being an arachnophobe means going camping, entering a cabin, bathroom or changing area, seeing spiders and spider-webs everywhere and saying NOPE before turning back around and deciding to find another facility.
Being an arachnophobe means being excited to take a break from the city to go to the suburbs and then remembering that there are more spiders in the suburbs than in the city.
Being an arachnophobe means being over-joyed to stay at a friend’s relative’s place in the suburbs and she tells you that she hates spiders and she’s taken every measure possible to oust them from the house. (Halleluja!)
Being an arachnophobe means eating crabs and trying to forget that they’re in the same family as spiders.
Being an arachnophobe means finding two very small red spots next to each other your arm after waking up, Googling what it is, finding out that it’s a spider-bite and then jumping out of bed yelling to yourself “holy fuck, A SPIDER WAS ON ME?? WHERE THE FUCK IS IT??”
Being an arachnophobe means thinking about the possibility that you’ll never get over your fear and that you’ll probably die old from a heart-attack from seeing a spider.
