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[ChickenCanoe]

... Hmm, maybe because I was too busy being afraid of my mother and her mercurial moods. ...
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[ronott1]

As a young married mother, now that is another story. I had a 2 1/2 year old daughter and a newborn son. One night my daughter started screaming bloody murder and I ran to see what was going on. When I reached the bedroom door my daughter was standing in her crib and pointing at the closet. Her screaming and actions so freaked me out that I was afraid to go into the bedroom. I don't have any idea now (she's 40) what I thought might be in that closet but I darted in grabbed both kids and ran back out again. My husband was outside talking to someone in our driveway and he came in and looked around and dismissed the whole incident.

My Youngest DD had night terrors when she was a Toddler. It was quite traumatic for Us as Parents. They do not remember a thing in the morning.....

 

[Lacy Blues]

I always did the same for my kids.
I had both but was cured. I got both from my mother. I remember a road trip to California. On the return, as we were leaving Salt Lake City heading into the mountains, the highway my dad chose because it was a fairly direct route was extremely narrow, windy and with no guard rails. My mother was so freaked out (and to her defense, it was scary) she made my father drive back to Salt Lake, go to the highway department and have them find a route home that wasn't so scary. They did it.
I remember climbing a fire tower at Taum Sauk mountain, Missouri's highest point. It was fun till I got above the tree line and I froze. Grasping the hand rail it took me about 20 minutes to retrace my steps.
Learning to ski and being constantly on chair lifts and aerial trams cured me of acrophobia. I still freaked out one time on Aspen Highlands in CO. The chair goes up at about a 60 degree grade to a peak and then crosses over to another peak. The drop is about 300' and that is to the trail, if you were lucky enough to hit the trail. More likely you'd fall to the wrong side of the ridge below which was a steep slope and one would probably slide a few thousand feet before coming to a stop. I had a camera in one hand and my ski poles in the other. When I hit the peak, I froze, gripping the crossbar with my arms. I was too scared to stick the camera in my pocket so I could hold on with both hands.
I was on a high aerial cable car going from Ischgl, Austria with some Danish friends. One of the guys was afraid of heights and he put himself in the middle of the 40 person car so he couldn't see how high he was. His cruel friends kept describing the view to him till he was slumped cowering on the floor.

My first real attempt to deal with arachnophobia was when we bought our current house. The cellar was literally solid spider webs. If there was one spider egg sac there were tens if not hundreds of thousands. The previous owner had never gone into the cellar. It was virtually empty except for the spiders and spider webs so resembled the cellar in the movie. I knew I had to eradicate them. I took two days off of work wore long sleeve coveralls, taped the cuffs to my boots, sleeves to my gloves, collar around my neck and put on a bandana. There was little uncovered skin or hair. I took a shop vac down there and sucked up everything I could. It took two whole days to get rid of everything. I have to repeat every couple years.

That helped but by the time I had so many spiders and other bugs to deal with in Costa Rica, I was pretty much over it.

When I was a kid, it seemed like every time my mother would go to the bathroom at night she'd see a spider. She'd wake my dad from a sound sleep to kill it. He'd sleepily walk into the bathroom. Not seeing anything, he'd stomp and swipe his feet on the floor to satisfy her as she'd sit in bed to hear the deed. After a while, it always sounded exactly the same and at exactly the same amount of time from walking into the bathroom. She eventually demanded to see evidence which he could never provide.

Why am I so screwed up?

Brown recluse still make me wary. A workplace friend's son was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs. During training camp, a brown recluse had gotten into his equipment. It bit him on the bicep. Halfway through practice he collapsed. They thought he was overcome by heat and sent him home. He passed out in his apartment and was found by his girlfriend. They got him to the hospital but he ended up having severe necrosis of his bicep and never played football again.


Yes, they do have their place. Even non-poisonous spiders can leave a nasty bite. I was on a 3 day 45 mile canoe trip on the St. Francois river and there were times the overgrowth covered the river. There were always spiders dropping into the canoe. I had several big swells where I had been bitten.

Thank you CC for the heebee jeebees and the shudders that just won't quit!

Dreamed one night that I was ON TOP OF a tram car crossing over some desperately deep canyon. Then the box tilted at about a 60 degree angle. When I woke up, I had gotten myself diagonal on the bed and had a firm grip on each side of a corner!

I am with you on that. Black Widow spiders are not allowed. We also have a type of jumping spider that can cause a rash that is not allowed:

We have some jumping spiders here too, and being not horribly far from you, I'll keep my eyes peeled for this little nasty! As soon as I see one, it's dead! If it doesn't jump onto my foot as I'm trying to squash it. Yek!

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Wow! My oldest grandson had the night terrors! Those are very difficult to deal with! I have never heard of anyone else that had to deal with them.

 

[chickadoodles]

CC I was born in the very early 1960's. Am I old enough to be on here? If not does being disabled qualify me?

 

[LindaB220]

I loved Twilight Zone. We get reruns here on a certain station, like to watch that once in a while, and Alfred Hitchcock..I like to look for him in them, they say he was in all of them..discreetly.

Yes, he was so funny. Stopping someone on the corner and asking for directions or something. Same thing with Stephen King. He always has a small bit part in his movies. The most I saw him was in the mini series "The Stand" My absolute favorite of all his works.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

CC I was born in the very early 1960's. Am I old enough to be on here? If not does being disabled qualify me?

No you are fun enough to stick around. Although, Wisher has the final say.

ETA
Plus, there are much younger people lurking here.

 

[chickadoodles]

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I knew there were a lot more younger than me on here...

 

[bamadude]

Im 39 and lurking....under beds..with spiders....i have a cousin who likes a closet. Hes a sharp dresser tho

 

[Sylviaanne]

I never liked scary movies, Hitchcock has some nice ones though. What I can't stand at all, are modern horror movies. Usually very bad acting, flimsy scripts, and mostly they concentrate on gore. I'm sure the Saw franchise is a collection of cinematic masterpieces, but I have absolutely no desire to watch that kind of things.

Oh, I like the original Halloween and Jaws. I love disaster movies, Towering Inferno really rocks! I have one called Razorback and I don't know if it is from Australia or if it was produced in Australia but it is a real good one too. Not all of it but the main plot. I have not seen a Saw movie and don't want to, the previews were enough. I like to watch Shark movies too although some are just plain dumb. If I am sitting and crocheting and only using half my brain for my work, I will watch dumb movies one after the other. I like horror and disaster movies but too much gore turns me off. Those Jeepers Creepers movies shouldn't have hit the light of day.