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Hello,
I didn't have an interest in spiders before a year ago. If anything, I was just another arachnophobe... It all started with reading some stuff online and watching videos of spiders, because they're scary and deadly, right? right?
Well, I was terribly afraid of them. Would have kept my distance and tried to kill it with anything I could find back then. Luckily (for me and the spideys), big ones are a rare sight in Lebanon. But after learning that they're almost harmless, and as a Psychology student, I'd hoped I could find some one day, you could say it's as a form of exposure to my object of fear. Never seen one bigger than my nail, until I moved to this apartment two months ago...
But by then I'd already cleared most misconceptions about them, and was very eager to confront the first spider I found here. I was on my toes until I put a tupperware over it! It was a Huntsman Heteropoda. Since then all the hardcore research started. Two weeks later I let the spider go, after attempting to handle it, but was too anxious seeing how fast it was...
Not two days later I found a Chaetopelma Ovilaceum in my living room. I trapped it, and am keeping it as a pet now. It's quite pretty, but a little too eager to be defensive/aggressive.
Some week later, I found a Heteropoda Variegata tangled in web.
He lost a limb in it... :C
So, I helped him out, then put him back on the balcony (where I found him)...
Few days later, I woke up at 3 AM for a cup of water when I noticed he was on the side of my bed, just next to my head.
I'm very comfortable handling him now, though. I think I went a long way in this venture against Arachnophobia
And that's about my story for now. It's a bit long, and being the only person in the country that is keeping a tarantula, I got a bit talkative here
What's your story?
I didn't have an interest in spiders before a year ago. If anything, I was just another arachnophobe... It all started with reading some stuff online and watching videos of spiders, because they're scary and deadly, right? right?
Well, I was terribly afraid of them. Would have kept my distance and tried to kill it with anything I could find back then. Luckily (for me and the spideys), big ones are a rare sight in Lebanon. But after learning that they're almost harmless, and as a Psychology student, I'd hoped I could find some one day, you could say it's as a form of exposure to my object of fear. Never seen one bigger than my nail, until I moved to this apartment two months ago...
But by then I'd already cleared most misconceptions about them, and was very eager to confront the first spider I found here. I was on my toes until I put a tupperware over it! It was a Huntsman Heteropoda. Since then all the hardcore research started. Two weeks later I let the spider go, after attempting to handle it, but was too anxious seeing how fast it was...
Not two days later I found a Chaetopelma Ovilaceum in my living room. I trapped it, and am keeping it as a pet now. It's quite pretty, but a little too eager to be defensive/aggressive.
Some week later, I found a Heteropoda Variegata tangled in web.
He lost a limb in it... :C
So, I helped him out, then put him back on the balcony (where I found him)...
Few days later, I woke up at 3 AM for a cup of water when I noticed he was on the side of my bed, just next to my head.
I'm very comfortable handling him now, though. I think I went a long way in this venture against Arachnophobia
And that's about my story for now. It's a bit long, and being the only person in the country that is keeping a tarantula, I got a bit talkative here
What's your story?
