Hello and welcome to Fun Fact Friday, a feature in which I share facts about myself that aren’t linked to my Cerebral Palsy.
Today, I want to talk about phobias. I have quite a few myself. I won’t go in the sea because I’m scared of crabs, I hate the thought of getting on a boat, and I’m pretty scared of dogs too. Especially the ones I don’t know. I mean, what if they jump up at me and knock me over?
Those are just a few, but those are not the things that scare me most of all. Oh, no. My biggest phobia is the eight-legged-creepy-crawly things that we call spiders. Even small ones have been known to make me scream, have a racing heart and, make me try my best to run away in case they come after me.
One started crawling up my bed sheets once. I was nearly sick. You probably think I’m joking. I’m not.
One spun down from the ceiling on its web and landed in my hair once while I was reading and landed in my hair. My mother says she’s never seen me move so fast. My family thought it was hilarious. Needless to say, I did not.
I wish I could say that I can get close enough to them to catch them them in a glass, but I can’t even do that for the following reasons:
- It involves getting close to the spider
- If it’s on the floor I have trouble bending down to reach it
- It involves getting close to the spider
- It might drop it or fall over and then I’d have no idea where they thing scurried off to
- It involves getting close to the spider
So yeah, in summary, today’s Fun Fact Friday is that I hate spiders.
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I have quite a few phobias too!!! I’m scared of: rats, mice -in fact anything small and rodent like, balloons, pigeons, loud bangs, big dogs that I don’t know, frogs and wasps. But the thing I hate most of all is snakes, I’m terrified of them!!! I can’t even watch them on the TV, they make me feel sick!! I can’t explain my phobias as some of them don’t really make sense even to me, especially my phobia of big dogs, seeing as I adore horses, most of which are much bigger than a dog!!
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I used to have pet mice so they don’t bother me . I don’t like. My mum’s like that with snakes. She doesn’t like horses either but I love them. I miss riding.
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I miss riding too.. I grew up around horses and could ride before I could walk, but haven’t ridden for years. I’m hoping to start again soon, when I can afford it and am loose enough in the hips to actually be able to get on a horse!!
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Do you have an RDA group near you? Sometimes they can be a bit cheaper. Hope you manage to loosen your adductors. Mine are really tight at the moment.
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you’re funny. i think you need to let yourself be funny more often. i think it’s a gift.
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Thank you!
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