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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hansepans" data-source="post: 26634" data-attributes="member: 2909">Hey,I'm new to this forum and to keeping T's. Actually I had severe arachnophobia and would scream like a little girl whenever I saw a spider no matter how small it was. For me every spider was HUGE, had big fangs and was going to bite me, even looking at spider pictures made me cry...thinking back I'm kind of emberrased <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" />After no longer daring to go to the downstairs bathroom due to fear of seeing a spider I decided to face my fears headon. With rubber spider replicas. My roommates hid them throughout the entire house until I eventually started getting used to it. I put spider wallpapers on my desktop just to force myself to look at it every day. Then after relapsing and climbing on the stove after a spider crawled from under the fridge I got so tired of myself and took the leap of buying a T. I did some research, struggled between getting a Grammostola rosea and a B. Smithi. Eventually I chose the latter and bought her from someone who had her for three years since a hatchling. She is sooo beautiful and my fear of spiders is completely gone. Whenever I see a spider now I compare its size to that of Hans (my B. Smithi is female but has a male name...long story)  and laugh at myself for ever being scared of spiders. I don't handle her often since she is skittish but I did pick her up 2x and she was very calm. I love her to bits and am so happy that I not only overcame my fear but gained a wonderful companion in my life as well. <img src="http://i61.tinypic.com/33f52t2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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