ok i WAS going to sleep. but guess what. spider om the ceiling. how tf am i supposed to sleep now 😭
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i feel like i am losing my mind a little bit bc i spent over half of my counselling appt talking about my fear of spiders and this lady kept telling me i should just kill them, and that the only way to get over my fear is to kill them, and i shouldnt catch and release them anymore ??
and now i am thinking about it and wondering do they actually remember how to get into the house,,,,,, if i put them way on the other side of the house in the garden under a plant where its safe, will they just... come back inside? because I don't remember ever seeing any duplicates of spiders that I caught and released, it seems to always be a different looking one each time so :|
but she just seemed so confused and kind of amused by me trying to explain how i think that like... every life has value and I don't think I should be killing spiders if I can avoid doing that. and she straight up laughed at me saying that they are fascinating very interesting little critters.
i don't know, i just feel kind of sick i think. that was just really not what i was expecting and I'm confused like... is this ... the only way I can get over my fear of them? to just start killing them whenever i find one in the house?? that doesn't seem right at all to me but maybe I'm being too soft or something
they talk about values in DBT and how you must make sure your actions don't go against your values, and this seems very backwards to that, especially since this woman started the DBT program at the hospital. so i feel like maybe it's wrong of her to be telling me this, but also maybe she's right about this. idk !!!
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I saved a daddy long legs!
i was scared and (i know dont @ me) was considering spraying him because I still fear spiders and spider-look-a-likes
up until past few years ive been working really hard on figuring out how to save them rather than kill bc ofc, it doesnt align with my views to kill them
normally i let my dog eat them to justify it- ironically, bc "im not killing them, my dog is"
but he was in one place, not moving and i was on the toilet, so i took the time to read up about him.
i named him, forced myself to, and to call him cute, so that it would make it harder for me to go through with killing him
i tried to imagine him being curious, or scared, or relaxing. Though i know most likely they arent capable of it in a way we can understand, it still helped me see him as no different than my dog or cat or me, rather than "just a bug' or some type of 'scary thing'
and in the end i saved him! container and a folder.
i still was scared, but seeing the (idk another word) humanity in him, the value he has and that he has for himself as a living being, helped make it possible to save him
its still really hard, and on occasion i do end up killing spiders or having my dog eat them when its quick scenarios where i dont have time to think it through
but compared to years ago ive gone from saving 0 to maybe 80%
and this is one of those moments where, its not exactly possible for me to push myself because it can undo all the work ive done. and thats ok.
this is the best i can do right now and im proud of myself.
my best, is not how i imagine my best being. in my mind, i could push myself harder but thats not practical.
doing your best is strategic.
im just so glad i didnt kill him. reading about him, learning about him, appreciating his role, and labeling him cute and giving him a name helped a lot
and sometimes, anthropomorphizing animals can be beneficial. i know he doesnt feel fear and curiosity like i do, but if it means not unnecessarily taking a life, then he does to me in that moment
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In my head Peter and Miles aren't overly excited to encounter spiders since yknow a certain life changing experience but since superior never directly got bit (even if he has a memory of it), and also since he found the powers pretty interesting to study at first he is much more excited about spiders :3 mostly in a purely scientific sense but they've seen him gently and carefully carry a few and talk to them while carrying them away from danger before ^_^ Anna maria finds this very sweet :] actually no peter and miles think spiders r super cool too but u get what I'm layin down right superior is like the resident spider lover <- definitely not biased just coz I love angry guys being niceys to critters
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Y’all I realized that I just assume any small animal booking it across the road at night is a cat.
Saw a Havelina scamper across the road once. Like a little one a baby. (Type of wild pig for anyone curious) and my first thought was “that’s a weird looking cat” and my second thought was “oh piggy! I hope it goes away from here..”
Then while my boyfriend was driving we saw a raccoon cross the road and my first though was “the fuck is wrong with that cat!?” Because it looked like if you gave a cat a monkeys bone structure. And when I made a EUGH noise my boy goes “what do you not like raccoons?” And I’m actually terrified of them they carry rabies which I am probably more than reasonably scared of and also they have Nasty little baby hands with tiny knives on the end why would I think that’s cute. They’re just little guys! Yeah guys who could rip my face off if they wanted I don’t want to fuck with that.
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