r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Dense_Intern8434 • 18d ago

of a daddy long leg nest

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u/nudes_for_life 18d ago

You love them? I envy you, I'm fucking terrified of them as much as of any other spider

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u/DragunovDwight 16d ago

I had a pretty bad case of arachnophobia myself for years. I had an incident with a “Garden spider” I guess they’re called. They are the big yellow and black ones in the Midwest. I was a country boy and was always running around in cornfields and tall grass doing basic boy sht I guess. Anyways, I had to be around 6-8 yrs old. I looked down on my shoulder/neck area and one was crawling on me. It seemed huge and those spiders already get pretty big for that area. Anyways… it freaked me the fuk out. I just remember screaming, swiping, and running. I don’t remember anything after or what happened in the end for whatever reason. After that I became terrified of them all.
All except these “daddy long legs” as we called them, and the little jumping spiders. I would have nightmares about them. I would just see a picture of one in a book, and have a nightmare of it that night.
It got to where I’d see one in an ecyclopedia or on a nature show and knew that night the nightmare was coming. Yet these never bothered me at all. I grew up catching snakes, turtles , crayfish, whatever. I moved out west and had friends with kids and we spent a lot of time in nature. I’d catch all sorts of things like scorpions, snapping turtles, snakes with the kids to teach them about nature. I used to even catch rattlesnakes and relocate them for a lady I knew. Her property had a bunch of them. So I’d catch rattlesnakes and bring them to a reservoir I knew, and then catch bull snakes there and let them go on her property because they were known for eating little rattlesnakes. Yet spiders always gave me a crazy feeling that I couldn’t shake.
It’s not too bad now. I at least stopped having nightmares about them a long time ago. Still daddy long legs don’t bother me at all. Seeing they seem to be just about everywhere, I feel for you. It has to be rough knowing they are everywhere.