Do you or anyone you know have any animal phobias? My mom has a phobia of snakes.

Do you or anyone you know have any animal phobias?

My mom has a phobia of snakes. Even if she knows it's harmless the sight of one will cause her intense trauma and make her shut down for days. I asked if she had a traumatic experience with snakes and she said no, and angrily insists hers is the normal reaction and I'm the strange one.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My grandmother is terrified of snakes because she came from the third world and lived in a village and she's convinced that a snake sucked the life energy of her neighbour

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      snekubus

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Does being afraid of Black folk count? I always tense up whenever one gets close to me in the wild.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Your mom's moronic, and as such you likely are too. I recommend comitting not alive immediately.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't like grasshoppers. When I was 12 my then-26-year-old sister got my 5-year-old niece and they chased me into my bedroom before shoving a massive grasshopper under the locked door, laughing hysterically while I had a fricking meltdown. Now I work with my sister and have to pretend that I give a shit about either of them.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You don't need a traumatic experience to have a phobia, I'm afraid of millipedes and they've done nothing to me. I have no idea why because the damn things can't hurt you in any way, maybe it's my defective monkey brain misdirecting a fear of snakes?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's not so intense that you can't post a pic of one.
      Some people can't even stand to save a pic.

      Squeamishness just makes you not want to touch/go near the thing. A phobia activates your fight or flight response to the point where your brain becomes absolute fricking non-functional when you see the thing you're afraid of.

      I feel like people misuse the term phobia too much. Arachnophobia in particular. There's situations where they need to just work on growing a pair rather than dismiss something as an inherent fear.
      I recall also hearing that trypophobia isn't a legit phobia, and just amounts to squeamishness.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My girlfriend has a phobia of isopods. Doesn't matter if it's a little woodlouse under some wood or a giant isopod at the bottom of the sea, she can't stand them. I don't know what caused it or how I even found out about it but at least they're easy to avoid in daily life.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      imagine if you were human and this thing walked up to you

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i'm terrified of wasps, and very grossed out by snails. i can't even look at snails on the ground without getting shivers. snakes and spiders are fine, though. both my parents have phobias that i think are kind of unusual as well.

    >on a cruise ship with mom
    >go hang out on deck
    >seagull flies relatively near us
    >mom loses it
    >get startled because mom is such a calm person normally
    >mom covers her head with her hands and runs back inside, screaming
    i had no idea she had bird phobia and she doesn't like talking about it. but when i tried to push it once, she just said they're disgusting and she can't stand them. i love birds and think they're adorable, i've even taken care of injured birds as a kid. no wonder mom hated it when i did that.

    and then there's my dad.
    >be me, a kid with a hamster
    >it was dad's idea to get me one, and he helps me take care of it
    >be kinda indifferent to the thing
    >one day, in my room, handling the hammy
    >dad walks in
    >"heya kiddo how's hammy?"
    >sits on my bed
    >i release hampter to roam on my floor
    >it wanders, unexpectedly turns towards my dad's feet
    >dad gets startled, quickly pulls his feet up on the bed
    >"huaah, ohmygod!"
    >what the frick is dad afraid of the thing???
    >"it's not gonna hurt you dad"
    >dad looks at me, then looks away ashamed
    >denies being afraid of it
    >leaves shortly after
    it's really funny to me that him, at the time a professional bodybuilder, was afraid of his kid's hamster. what was going on in his head when he insisted on getting me the thing? i've never confronted him about this since it would really hurt his pride, but i do think about that moment in my room from time to time.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I know that generic squeamishness isn't the same thing as a straight up phobia, but is being squeamish one of those things that women are more hardwired to be than men?

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The little baby spiders that can paraglide are nightmarish

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My dad is insanely arachnophobic because of a life event where after doing some work in a crawlspace he realized he was absolutely covered in baby spiders.

    I have no animal phobia, so I generally don't get it. I tried to emulate what happened by allowing a colony of wienerroaches to crawl on me but all I did was get itchy. I have multiple """"pet"""" hose spiders that I charge rent. They need to eat flies or I evict them.

    I see them roaming about regularly in the hidden corners of my house.

    I have snakes that will often times free roam in my room. I really wish I had a pet crow or bird but then I realized the snakes might eat them.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    not exactly a phobia, but frick wasps, they always materialize the second i try to eat dinner outside, i can't chill while they're constantly trying to smear their nasty wasp asses all over my food

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't understand snake phobias.

    >two eyes
    >"muzzle" & mouth
    >flat scales, smooth body
    >shape-wise, looks like a loose rope, cable, or cord dropped on the ground
    >pretty slow
    >not silent and fairly chunky, easy to ward or seal yourself off from them
    >no arms and legs for grabbing you
    >you're only in danger if it's looking right at you
    >recognizable as an animal
    >arguably cute

    meanwhile spiders
    >too many eyes
    >no mammal physiognomy, just a machine of enormous exposed fangs and prehensile mandibles for a face
    >jagged body, sharp joints, covered in fine spines or slimy gloss
    >shape-wise, unique
    >lightning fast
    >100% silent and small enough to go anywhere around you & your house
    >too many legs, can navigate any surface and grasp on to you
    >no safe angle of approach
    >not recognizable as an animal, more like a suspended platform of killing and organs
    >only cute when simplified to a chibi artstyle, or sometimes the very tiny ones with fun colours that dance around

    I must be missing something but it seems far more natural to have a spider phobia than a snake phobia

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Jumping spiders defy phobias. They are too cute.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Probably the part where snakes not only ate our ancestors, but evolved to blind us in particular. You probably have an instinct to recognize every squiggly thing as a snake until you do a double take and people who think they're special often have weird primal fear dreams when sleeping near snakes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There is nothing evolutionary about snake phobias, that's a pseudo-scientific myth. Lots of people aren't even scared of them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I don't understand snake phobias
      tl;dr it's monkeybrain stuff
      >be early hominid
      >walk around alot in grasslands
      >be upright so you can see OVER the grass to pick out prey
      >snakes are cryptic predators that are ALSO predated on, so they like to hide both from what they're hunting and what's hunting them
      >they also hang out in grasslands, but at ground level so humans are almost certainly never looking at them
      >again, they're cryptic predators so they're hard to see even when you ARE looking for them, pic related.
      >end up stomping your monkey foot right in front of a snake
      >snake goes "OH GOD FRICK" and chomps on your ankle
      Two things will now occur - you will either:
      >be fine apart from a few little pin pricks on your ankle
      >spend the next 20 minutes to 2 hours dying in agony as your flesh starts to swell, or rot, or swell AND rot, or your nervous system slowly shuts down
      >there is no way to stop it
      >the sum total of all human knowledge at this point is "whatever the oldest guy in the group can remember" so even if you got a good look at the snake or still have it, you probably still have no idea which of the two things is going to happen
      >you might not know even if you know if it's a bad snake or a harmless one because even bad snakes can "dry bite" and not envenomate you, and YOU DONT KNOW THIS and there's no way to find that out
      So people who were more cautious around snakes in general probably had a far better go of things than those that werent, whether they had a ton of dangerous snakes in their area or not.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        To add to this, to this day snakes kill a person every 5 minutes

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        okay but where the frick is the snake

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Copperhead.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    im just a little afraid of any erratic flying bugs like crane flies, moths, and butterflies. i hate crane flies creepy long legs but i think moths are very cool when they aren't flapping about

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    roommate is 6'2. 370lbs and he runs like a toddler at the sight of a spider. I'd make fun of him for it if arachnophobia wasn't so common. it sucks too since spiders are cool as frick and mostly harmless.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      At what point would you say that it's a phobia and not just squeamishness?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Squeamishness just makes you not want to touch/go near the thing. A phobia activates your fight or flight response to the point where your brain becomes absolute fricking non-functional when you see the thing you're afraid of.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Release like 200 huntsman spiders into the place one night

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Your mom is kind of moronic

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sure, but she makes up for it with the quality and frequency of fresh hot cream pies.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not afraid of ghosts
    I'm not afraid of sharks
    I'm not afraid of cancer
    I'm just afraid of snakes!

    They really freak me out
    Where are their arms and legs?
    It's not okay!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It is okay

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