Out of interest Queen how did overcome yr fear?
My first boyfriend wanted one. Being young and wanting to impress him I wanted to buy him something hed love for his 18th. Hed said how hed always wanted a Tarantula, but his mum wouldn't let him. So I had a chat with a friends mum who also loved them and she said she would let him keep it at hers (he practically lived there by this point).
So I bought him one. I was such a wreck though. I went into the shop and this bit of water from a pipe that had burst dripped on me.. I ran out screaming, crying and shaking, it took half an hour to go back in.
The man set the tank up in the petshop and transferred to tarantula into It. Whilst I stood ready with a roll of sellotape to tape he lid down "just in case"!
I didn't sleep that night. I put books on the tank incase the tank lid and the sellotape failed!
He came over the next day. We had covered the tank with a towel expecting him to ask what it was! He thought it was the fucking breadbin. So eventually I said "pass me that towel". He was chuffed, and was told that under no circumstance was it to come out, the tank was to be kept closed at all times while I was there etc.
I used to watch her in her tank, and just gradually wanted to see her do more. One day I let him get it out across the room from me. And gradually went closer and closer over a few weeks until one day I touched her. Then one day I let her walk over my hand.
He bought another one and kept asking if I'd hold her again. One day we were joking and he said "let me put her on your head" and I said no. He kept going on and I said jokingly "have the bigger one on your face and ill do it" thinking he wouldn't. But he did. So I did. And I realised while it was sat there "I'd kill that if I hit it.. The worst its going to do to me is bite me.. The cats done worse.. I'm not scared of the cat.." And it just went away. Like that. I've not been scared since.
There are some that I wouldn't touch in a million years, but that's because some are more vicious than others, and I don't know if I'm allergic either so that's just common sense more than a fear.
I still won't touch a true spider. I don like how they move. But ill calmly catch one in a glass now, whereas before I'd have broken out into a sweat and ran in a blind panic.