What about this thing?
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West, Jim West, desperado.

I have the needle thing. I still get vaccinations/injections though. The only thing I can't do is get blood tests, that scares me so fucking much. One time I had this medical problem, and they said that having a blood test was a way to find out what was wrong with me, and I never got it. Not too proud of that, because it never truly sorted itself out.

I am quite the sissy and will not allow a needle anywhere near my body unless not having it would be life threatening. Two years ago my job had flu vaccinations. I went to the room, sat down, put out my arm, and then promptly said that "fuck that" and left after seeing the needle.

I'm arachnophobic too but it does not bother me in videogames.Of course,in real life they scare the crap out of me,even the tiny ones(i know i sound like a wuss but its just one thing i cant do anyhthing about).If im watching a movie with any spiders in it,however,thats still frightens me as much.

I guess I can understand the fear of needles... it is somewhat self-perpetuating, because injections are only bad when you make them bad.

And seeing a spider is only bad when you make it bad. Think about it. Every time an arachnophobe sees a spider, they get terrified. Therefore they see spiders as scary. Quod erat dupum.

:| Is that sarcasm I detect? The sarc-filter known as the Internet is still functioning, I see.

I just mean, I've seen people afraid of needles scrunch their eyes tight with the most amusing expression of anguish, their muscles tense, especially where the needle goes, and all in all make it incredibly difficult for themselves, it isn't surprising that it hurts when you do all that.

Funnily enough emetophobia (fear of vomiting) doesn't quite work in the same way.

Instead of making you more likely to throw up it makes you more likely to choke >.< which I admit makes the idea of the next vomit even less pleasurable.

So you could argue that a phobia creates a self fullfiling prophecy I.E. because you fear it it seems worse.

Although this doesn't work for cancer or other diseases seeing as it's proven that a negative approach or denial of cancer can help overcome it. Funny how psychosomatic disorders work really.

Sarcastic? No. Serious? Definitely not. Although having a fear, or even just a dislike, of something will make some people reassure themselves that they can’t stand the can’tstandee in question, and be able to feel acutely all the pain/discomfort/bad taste that the can’tstandee doesn’t in fact cause.

When we were learning to draw blood samples in school I got paired up with the morbidly obese cow that just happened to be deathly afraid of needles.

Before making my first attempt, I asked her why she was afraid. She responded with, "Because every time I get a shot, or blood taken, the needle ends up breaking or bending!"

I figured she was just being a dramatic little turd, so I went forward. Right as I got the needle in, she let out a tremendous "aaaaaaaaaack!" and swung her left arm in a large arc. The needle broke off, she popped me in the mouth with her economy sized hand, and blood sprayed every where.

She pretty much ruined my scrubs.

The worst part? I received a lower grade thanks to the stream of profanities that flew out of my bloody mouth. Why? Because we were being graded on Bedside manner.

EDIT: The worst part was having to make a trip to the hospital to have the blood drawn out of my already tender arms [we had been practicing all week]. Because her blood sprayed into my mouth/left eye, I had to be tested for diseases.

Shit bad luck, that sounds horrible. Damn fatties.

But FUCKING CHRIST, why do spiders LOVE me right now? I had real trouble sleeping last night, so I played DS for like 2 hours, and then decided to try sleeping. Then I heard this like scrabbling, like a bird was caught in the corner of my room, so I lit up the wall with my cellphone and there was the HUGEST FUCKING BUSH SPIDER. Claws large enough to make a scratching sound on my walls. Freaked the hell out of me that early in the morning.

See I'm just full of spider stories.

Lucky Super Munch, I love Spiders, the little bastards are probably my favorite arachnid.

DI, that's an amazing story. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
I'm surprised someone with a fear of needles would take up that job...

My main problem with spiders is that pretty much all the ones you get around here are fucking white tails (thanks Australia!) and they aren't a joy. I still can't bring myself to kill them though, it's the glass and the paper everytime, no matter how long it takes.

Are they biters?

I don't like spiders, but I have to say I do not wish death upon them. That may be because we only have shit spiders here.

Those fuck off huge ones terrify me

Yeah, and they're generally decent sized. I can't remember what the size of a normal spider is anymore, because I only ever see these guys.

White tails are the only ones that I kill on sight, because they're nasty fucks. My sister put on a handpuppet as a yungun and one was inside and bit her, made her hand look most gross, and she went to hospital I believe. Funnily enough she is more scared of bees than she is whitetails

Kastere, this was no little spider, he was just a little bit smaller than my hand. aghbag no likey. I like ants though.

Just pretend is a multi-legged mini dog, or a deranged Chihuahua...No wait, chihuahuas are ugly...well, adoreably ugly but yeah...I dunno, just don't look at it.

Just imagine the spider eating an ugly chihuahua and you'll relax nicely.

I like spiders. Might even buy one as a pet. Any suggestions?

Why buy one? Find a large native specimen and breed it.

Or go classic and acquire a species of new world tarantula from your nearest exotic pet store. Expensive, though, for an invertebrate.

Breed a native spider? Biggest one we got here are those brown house-spiders...

Here too. There are two species: Tegenaria domestica, the domestic house spider (or barn funnel weaver spider), and Tegenaria duellica, the giant house spider, which is plenty big enough to be kept as a pet, as I did once. Sans terrarium.

I have mild Arachnophobia. Spiders pretty much scare me more than anything in the world. There aren't many spiders where I live though, so it's not that much of a problem for me. I don't get full-on scared when I see a spider in a video game though, although it does look a tiny bit disgusting.

I Don't Exactly have that fear i have something like it be it is from dogs :fuzsad:even baby local playful dogs.
when i see a dog i can hardly stay calm but i'm starting to conquer that fear but when i see a dog , I could feel adrenalin running through my body and i feel my heart beats so powerful:fuzconf:

Since I live in Darkhood's house, I have to deal with giant house spiders and wolf spiders, which live in every corner, behind curtains, at the ceiling, everywhere.
But I have no problem with it, I even love spiders and I love picking them up and looking at their eyes.
Yeah, indeed, they are so large that I can count every single eye and see their tiny teeth. I got bitten by one once but it didn't hurt and nothing happened either.
Spiders really don't harm you except when they you live in Australia and unconditionally must go down your cellar without light because you think it's free from Redback spiders. XD

Anyway, all you can do is confront yourself with those animals and study them in books, look at them how beautiful and interesting they actually are. You will be also very thankful to know that a spider in your room ate the mozzy, which wanted to bite you last night.

I had some kind of a "mobile fly catcher",a little jumping spider even. I loved watching it hunt. There is no fear for spiders...

The only kind of spiders I don't like are camel spiders. Muaaaaah... buaahh

Not spiders...



Man, I am such a pedant.

Ok, I had a repeat of the huge spider waking me up, but this time it was with a weta the size of my fist.

http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwpubafs/ma...%20hand%20.jpg

and cicadas have been landing on me, and they have pretty immense impact for an insect.

Wetas and cicadas are actually pretty awesome, they're just attracted to me and they freak me out when they unexpectedley land on me.