Friday, August 12, 2011
Is there a different name for a phobia of hard shelled insects?
So I have this irrational fear of any bug that has a hard shell. For example, my sister got the mail today and there was this little beetle on the mail and I freaked out and she dropped it next to me and the beetle jumped on my seat and I almost jumped out of the car because I was so far up off of my chair. I ended up crying my eyes out and I still feel like the beetle might be on me somewhere. I used to be fine with bugs, but it keeps getting worse as I get older. When I was 11, I woke up one night covered in ants because my sister had eaten in my bed and left crumbs all over. A couple years ago a ton of cicada's and locusts and crickets were out and of course, I had a tiki torch, and they love light! They would fly at the torch and then drop on to my head after hitting the flame (I was sitting on the ground holding the torch, by the way). Thankfully, there haven't been any other encounters in a while because I've been in Idaho, where there are no bugs. But, now I'm back in Texas, and everyone knows that bugs love Texas! And on top of that, everything is BIGGER in Texas! Please help me! I'm not afraid of worms or soft bugs, just the hard shelled ones that crunch when you step on them. I just shuddered from typing that... This is bad.
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