Are you scared of spiders?

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I don't particularly enjoy the sensation of a spider crawling on me, but I am not afraid of them. I am a bit concerned that they may run up my shirt sleeve and I won't be able to easily get them off me, so I use a piece of paper or an envelope to pick them up, but I'm happy to let a spider in an unobtrusive place indoors stay as long as it clearly isn't a brown recluse (brown recluses and black widows are the only potentially dangerous ones in my area).

Arthropods in general were my first special interest, I suspect in part because they were the non-human creatures I had a chance to interact with most often. I remember when I was probably about three, finding a spider in the kitchen. I wanted to hold it but didn't want it on me, so I held out a book to it and kept calling "Here, spider!" trying to get it to climb onto it.

Your efforts as a three year old to communicate with the spider are/were cute. I'm surprised you remember that far back.

I really just have a few snippets of memories from toddler-ish age, probably assisted because that's one my mom tells others somewhat often.