IRRATIONAL FEARS ALL UP IN THIS THREAD

[Lumenskir]

So hey, I just discovered the worst sound in the world: A cockroach's skitter as it crawls underneath my bathroom cabinet, pauses, and then disappears from sight.

Now, I wouldn't say I suffer from a crippling fear of bugs in general. I can look at pictures of them all day and only suffer from mild boredom, safe in my knowledge that they are trapped behind a screen (whether it be TV, movie, Phantom Zone, computer, or zoo glass) and can't do anything to me. But in real life (say, in my bathroom when it thinks I've gone asleep already), seeing a bug means it can approach you, and if it can approach you it can get onto you, and if it can get onto you IT'S ON YOU AND IT'S SCURRYING ON YOUR BODY AND OMYGOD THOSE ANTENNA THINGS ARE MOVING INDEPENDENT OF EACH OTHER and then I start flailing about and trying to get to where I store my hyperventilation bag.

So yes, I will admit that whenever a bug touches me is a little much. Hands down, the worst feeling in the world is a bug crawling on you, none of its apparently thousands plus and multiplying legs ever moving in something approaching a calm fashion as it traverses your flesh. And yes, I've read everything in the world about how most bugs I'll ever come in contact with pose no harm to me, but that's why it's my irrational fear, ok.