Some Poll
August 31, 2024 5:32 PM Subscribe
This is a 2 part question. 1) Did you read, or watch an adaptation of, Charlotte's Web as a child. 2) Do you have arachnophobia?
Read and watched, had terrible arachnophobia before and after
posted by biddeford at 5:39 PM on August 31 [2 favorites]
posted by biddeford at 5:39 PM on August 31 [2 favorites]
1) both read and watched
2) no (in fact I quite like spiders and find them beautiful and fascinating)
posted by Sassyfras at 5:40 PM on August 31 [3 favorites]
2) no (in fact I quite like spiders and find them beautiful and fascinating)
posted by Sassyfras at 5:40 PM on August 31 [3 favorites]
1 Yes. I read the book many times and saw the animated film.
2 No. Opposite. I've always loved spider friends.
posted by RobinofFrocksley at 5:40 PM on August 31
2 No. Opposite. I've always loved spider friends.
posted by RobinofFrocksley at 5:40 PM on August 31
I both read Charlotte's Web as a child and did a book report on it (which a very strict teacher declared it was the best book report she'd heard on that book & also the best book report ever, so I peaked in fourth grade). I also saw the animated movie (so the '73 animated movie).
Did I have arachnophobia? yes and no. Not too much longer after this experience, the movie Arachnopobia came out which made me both fear and love spiders. I was still scared of them but I was fascinated by them. I had a whole book and I'd go seek them out in my backyard. I get that's separate from Charlotte's Web but the two things were close enough that I connect them.
posted by edencosmic at 5:41 PM on August 31 [3 favorites]
Did I have arachnophobia? yes and no. Not too much longer after this experience, the movie Arachnopobia came out which made me both fear and love spiders. I was still scared of them but I was fascinated by them. I had a whole book and I'd go seek them out in my backyard. I get that's separate from Charlotte's Web but the two things were close enough that I connect them.
posted by edencosmic at 5:41 PM on August 31 [3 favorites]
I read and watched Charlotte's Web and at age 4 made friends with a spider in my parents' bathroom (Mortimer) and refused to let them remove him from his corner home.
I did NOT like that awful rat.
edit to add: my delight in spiders has waned
posted by phunniemee at 5:42 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
I did NOT like that awful rat.
edit to add: my delight in spiders has waned
posted by phunniemee at 5:42 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Yes, and not particularly. I’m not keen to see one in the vicinity of my bed or food but not panic-worthy.
On the other hand, the Secret of NIMH made me terrified of rat colonies with Christmas lights forever.
posted by janell at 5:46 PM on August 31 [3 favorites]
On the other hand, the Secret of NIMH made me terrified of rat colonies with Christmas lights forever.
posted by janell at 5:46 PM on August 31 [3 favorites]
Yes; No.
posted by Depressed Obese Nightmare Man at 5:47 PM on August 31
posted by Depressed Obese Nightmare Man at 5:47 PM on August 31
1. Read and watched. 2. Yes, but I am very careful when I gently move them from my apartment into the basement. They are nice creatures, just not in my immediate surroundings.
posted by pangolin party at 5:48 PM on August 31
posted by pangolin party at 5:48 PM on August 31
Both read (often) and watched (I loved Templeton).
Terrified by and irrationally violent toward the eight-leggedy ones, before and after.
posted by wenestvedt at 6:00 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Terrified by and irrationally violent toward the eight-leggedy ones, before and after.
posted by wenestvedt at 6:00 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
1) Yes, read and watched.
2) Yes, mild, and I can control it. I'm the designated get-spider-out-house-instead-of-killing-it person in our house.
posted by signal at 6:04 PM on August 31
2) Yes, mild, and I can control it. I'm the designated get-spider-out-house-instead-of-killing-it person in our house.
posted by signal at 6:04 PM on August 31
1. read and watched.
2. mildly not a fan? There are other bugs I dislike much more, but while I'm okay with a general detente where I don't actively go after them (esp. in disused corners), spiders setting up shop too close to my bed or desk or other places I spend a lot of time will not find a welcoming environment.
(Other books with arachnoid characters - A Deepness in the Sky, Children of Time - have also failed to change this.)
posted by ASF Tod und Schwerkraft at 6:04 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
2. mildly not a fan? There are other bugs I dislike much more, but while I'm okay with a general detente where I don't actively go after them (esp. in disused corners), spiders setting up shop too close to my bed or desk or other places I spend a lot of time will not find a welcoming environment.
(Other books with arachnoid characters - A Deepness in the Sky, Children of Time - have also failed to change this.)
posted by ASF Tod und Schwerkraft at 6:04 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Read and watched. I had a brief and very distinct period of arachnophobia when I was thirteen (so about 6 years after Charlotte). I remember trying to think about Charlotte to get over the fear, and it not helping. But it lessened on its own, and eventually passed.
posted by Merricat Blackwood at 6:16 PM on August 31
posted by Merricat Blackwood at 6:16 PM on August 31
Loved the book as a child.
Have mild phobia but not worse than any other insects that I hate.
posted by mmascolino at 6:16 PM on August 31
Have mild phobia but not worse than any other insects that I hate.
posted by mmascolino at 6:16 PM on August 31
Yes and yes. You can anthropomorphize them all you want but I am still running in the opposite direction of I see one.
The webs are cool tho.
posted by haplesschild at 6:19 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
The webs are cool tho.
posted by haplesschild at 6:19 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Yes and no.
posted by Seeking Direction at 6:30 PM on August 31
posted by Seeking Direction at 6:30 PM on August 31
Born in 1976, for reference.
Read more than once, and watched whatever the common 80s version was, lots of times. Pretty sure it was used as a read-aloud by my 3rd grade teacher, too.
Also saw Arachnophobia when it came out - I was 13 the summer it came out. Saw it and Young Guns 2 at the Drive In.
No fear of spiders whatsoever. They were common in the old farmhouse I grew up in.
At least, no fear until 2000, when I got bit by one and it put me in the hospital. (Black widows at my workplace, hobos at home, was bit at home in the middle of the night... never did determine what kind.)
Now, I'd prefer a little more distance, as in, not ON me.
posted by stormyteal at 6:40 PM on August 31
Read more than once, and watched whatever the common 80s version was, lots of times. Pretty sure it was used as a read-aloud by my 3rd grade teacher, too.
Also saw Arachnophobia when it came out - I was 13 the summer it came out. Saw it and Young Guns 2 at the Drive In.
No fear of spiders whatsoever. They were common in the old farmhouse I grew up in.
At least, no fear until 2000, when I got bit by one and it put me in the hospital. (Black widows at my workplace, hobos at home, was bit at home in the middle of the night... never did determine what kind.)
Now, I'd prefer a little more distance, as in, not ON me.
posted by stormyteal at 6:40 PM on August 31
1. Both
2. Yes (before and after, but never in conjunction with Charlotte's Web. Cartoon and imaginary spiders aren't scary.)
posted by Bardolph at 6:41 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
2. Yes (before and after, but never in conjunction with Charlotte's Web. Cartoon and imaginary spiders aren't scary.)
posted by Bardolph at 6:41 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Read it. Definitely don't have a phobia, but spiders are creepier to me than, say, snakes or mice (both of which I like and enjoy holding or looking at up close.)
Read Charlotte's Web to my daughter when she was a child and then when she was a bit older and we read a book about tarantulas she wanted to get one. So we did. We still have a tarantula and I think it's basically attractive but not as appealing as a mammal or reptile or amphibian.
posted by Redstart at 6:45 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Read Charlotte's Web to my daughter when she was a child and then when she was a bit older and we read a book about tarantulas she wanted to get one. So we did. We still have a tarantula and I think it's basically attractive but not as appealing as a mammal or reptile or amphibian.
posted by Redstart at 6:45 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
1) Yes, both, several times
2) Not in any clinical sense, but I'm certainly no spider fan and if I never had to see one again that would be nice.
posted by Stacey at 6:47 PM on August 31
2) Not in any clinical sense, but I'm certainly no spider fan and if I never had to see one again that would be nice.
posted by Stacey at 6:47 PM on August 31
- Read & Watched
- Pro-Spider (but would prefer not to meet a camel spider in person)
Chin Up! (cw: singing spider)
posted by brookeb at 6:54 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
- Pro-Spider (but would prefer not to meet a camel spider in person)
Chin Up! (cw: singing spider)
posted by brookeb at 6:54 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Read and watched, mostly fine with spiders. Don't like getting snuck up on by then but otherwise we leave each other alone. So no.
posted by Teadog at 6:55 PM on August 31
posted by Teadog at 6:55 PM on August 31
1. Read and watched.
2. I like our spider friends.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 7:03 PM on August 31
2. I like our spider friends.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 7:03 PM on August 31
No (although I've always been curious, and it's the type of book I'd pick up years later and enjoy, but I still haven't ever), and
No, not as anything separate from a general off-putting-ness vis-a-vis Insects - they're all usually too small to generate any Fear (unless they attack in great numbers, which is not unheard of)
posted by Rash at 7:04 PM on August 31
No, not as anything separate from a general off-putting-ness vis-a-vis Insects - they're all usually too small to generate any Fear (unless they attack in great numbers, which is not unheard of)
posted by Rash at 7:04 PM on August 31
1) Read, watched, loved
2) absolutely, utterly terrified of spiders, to the point that I will almost immediately nope out of any video game that features spiders as any kind of adversary, and have only recently (in the last couple of years) been able to handle the presence of jumping spiders without resorting to violence. Will, and do, freak out when scrolling through social media and friends post pictures of spiders they see, have unfollowed people (not friends, just random follows) for it.
posted by Ghidorah at 7:09 PM on August 31
2) absolutely, utterly terrified of spiders, to the point that I will almost immediately nope out of any video game that features spiders as any kind of adversary, and have only recently (in the last couple of years) been able to handle the presence of jumping spiders without resorting to violence. Will, and do, freak out when scrolling through social media and friends post pictures of spiders they see, have unfollowed people (not friends, just random follows) for it.
posted by Ghidorah at 7:09 PM on August 31
Read and loved it. (Won a costume contest where you dressed as a book character in second grade. I was Charlotte.)
Not afraid of spiders.
posted by vunder at 7:26 PM on August 31
Not afraid of spiders.
posted by vunder at 7:26 PM on August 31
Read it, did not and do not have arachnophobia. I think spiders are cute. I was, however, traumatized about the ending, and it probably contributed a little bit to my decision to not have children.
posted by LadyOscar at 7:27 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
posted by LadyOscar at 7:27 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
yes, no
posted by dizziest at 7:27 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
posted by dizziest at 7:27 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
1) Teacher read it to us AND teacher gave us all a special assignment of finding and capturing a spider in a jar and bringing it from home. Our second grade classroom was filled with jars of spiders for the duration.
2) Oh heck yes
posted by Knowyournuts at 7:30 PM on August 31
2) Oh heck yes
posted by Knowyournuts at 7:30 PM on August 31
Read and watched (and cried)
I love spiders, except that one that somehow appeared crawling across my glasses lens last Tuesday (I didn’t kill it though)
posted by ejs at 7:31 PM on August 31
I love spiders, except that one that somehow appeared crawling across my glasses lens last Tuesday (I didn’t kill it though)
posted by ejs at 7:31 PM on August 31
I did read it many times as a kid and watched it many times. It's a tear-jerker and the last line never fails to make me cry, even if I just think about it. But I still have arachnophobia, unfortunately. :( I understand the importance of spiders but the legs just creep me out. I leave them alone and don't mind if they're in a window, but get the heebie jeebies if they're crawling around in my space.
posted by starpoint at 7:38 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
posted by starpoint at 7:38 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
1. Yes
2. Yes
Let’s be clear; Charlotte and her babies in that movie have no relation to real spiders. I knew it was just Debbie Reynolds wearing a spider hat; I could tell she wasn’t a real spider.
posted by Tandem Affinity at 7:44 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
2. Yes
Let’s be clear; Charlotte and her babies in that movie have no relation to real spiders. I knew it was just Debbie Reynolds wearing a spider hat; I could tell she wasn’t a real spider.
posted by Tandem Affinity at 7:44 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
1. Yes. 2. No.
Im not sure if you're looking for a correlation between the two, but if there is one I really think its going to be more closely related to the culmination if your spider experiences as a child, as opposed to exposure to one particularly popular story.
posted by cgg at 7:44 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Im not sure if you're looking for a correlation between the two, but if there is one I really think its going to be more closely related to the culmination if your spider experiences as a child, as opposed to exposure to one particularly popular story.
posted by cgg at 7:44 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Read; no phobia.
posted by The corpse in the library at 7:57 PM on August 31
posted by The corpse in the library at 7:57 PM on August 31
1. Yes, read and watched.
2. No. Spiders in my home are left alone. I did once come upon a roiling mess of spider babies erupting from an egg sac and that was unsettling, but not arachnophobia-levels.
posted by cocoagirl at 8:00 PM on August 31
2. No. Spiders in my home are left alone. I did once come upon a roiling mess of spider babies erupting from an egg sac and that was unsettling, but not arachnophobia-levels.
posted by cocoagirl at 8:00 PM on August 31
1) Yes
2) No, never. The main thing I remember about the movie was being grossed out by all the trash during the rat's song.
posted by blnkfrnk at 8:08 PM on August 31
2) No, never. The main thing I remember about the movie was being grossed out by all the trash during the rat's song.
posted by blnkfrnk at 8:08 PM on August 31
I saw it in the movie theater, but I had no idea what was going on.
I like the *idea* of spiders, I like to see them doing their thing, I can't say I love them crawling on my person.
posted by credulous at 8:21 PM on August 31
I like the *idea* of spiders, I like to see them doing their thing, I can't say I love them crawling on my person.
posted by credulous at 8:21 PM on August 31
Read it. Don't believe I saw the adaptation. Not particularly alarmed about spiders.
posted by Sing Or Swim at 8:25 PM on August 31
posted by Sing Or Swim at 8:25 PM on August 31
Yes (read and watched)
Yes as a child, not now. I blame my childhood fear on being told black widow spiders were everywhere and watching nature documentaries about people being bitten by venomous creatures
posted by arrmatie at 8:33 PM on August 31
Yes as a child, not now. I blame my childhood fear on being told black widow spiders were everywhere and watching nature documentaries about people being bitten by venomous creatures
posted by arrmatie at 8:33 PM on August 31
Yes, and completely depends on the size and hairiness of the spider in question.
posted by moosetracks at 8:34 PM on August 31
posted by moosetracks at 8:34 PM on August 31
I have only read the book, repeatedly. I deliberately avoid harming spiders.
posted by SPrintF at 8:41 PM on August 31
posted by SPrintF at 8:41 PM on August 31
Read and watched. Like some others I don't fear them but would very quickly shake one off if it landed on me.
posted by Hardcore Poser at 8:58 PM on August 31
posted by Hardcore Poser at 8:58 PM on August 31
Read it, am very fond of spiders.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:00 PM on August 31
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:00 PM on August 31
1. Yes, both read and watched.
2. No. I don’t *love* visibly furry spiders, but I am the designated capture-and-release spider person at my job.
posted by sugarbomb at 9:22 PM on August 31
2. No. I don’t *love* visibly furry spiders, but I am the designated capture-and-release spider person at my job.
posted by sugarbomb at 9:22 PM on August 31
I watched the cartoon version of Charlotte's Web when I was a kid, and I love spiders. Well, brown recluses can fuck right off, but otherwise I am very fond of my spider friends.
I'm curious if this question is to determine whether people who grew up with Charlotte's Web are less arachnophobic than most, or if it's to determine whether it's safe for somebody with arachnophobia to watch Charlotte's Web. In either case, I think anybody who encounters Charlotte's Web can't help being charmed by Charlotte. She's such a dear little lady. Some pig!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 9:27 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
I'm curious if this question is to determine whether people who grew up with Charlotte's Web are less arachnophobic than most, or if it's to determine whether it's safe for somebody with arachnophobia to watch Charlotte's Web. In either case, I think anybody who encounters Charlotte's Web can't help being charmed by Charlotte. She's such a dear little lady. Some pig!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 9:27 PM on August 31 [1 favorite]
Yes, and...it depends. It's hormonal, weirdly? I can peg my fear of bugs and spiders pretty reliably to my hormone mix. When I was breastfeeding I very memorably once started crying from looking at a book of photographs of bugs.
posted by potrzebie at 9:33 PM on August 31
posted by potrzebie at 9:33 PM on August 31
1) Read and watched
2) Yes, probably comes from growing up in an area where black widow spiders live, and being besieged by warnings that they have venom that can harm humans.
posted by creepygirl at 11:37 PM on August 31
2) Yes, probably comes from growing up in an area where black widow spiders live, and being besieged by warnings that they have venom that can harm humans.
posted by creepygirl at 11:37 PM on August 31
1) read but didn't watch
2) no arachnophobia.
a) I have a healthy fear of spiders that are dangerous to humans, like Red Backs;
b) I will actively ask friends to bring me spiders that are harmless to humans (like Daddy Long Legs) and release them in all the different rooms of my house as an environmentally friendly way to control pest insects.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 12:13 AM on September 1
2) no arachnophobia.
a) I have a healthy fear of spiders that are dangerous to humans, like Red Backs;
b) I will actively ask friends to bring me spiders that are harmless to humans (like Daddy Long Legs) and release them in all the different rooms of my house as an environmentally friendly way to control pest insects.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 12:13 AM on September 1
1) Yes read and watched.
2) No. I am more afraid of talking pigs than spiders.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 12:39 AM on September 1
2) No. I am more afraid of talking pigs than spiders.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 12:39 AM on September 1
1. Yes, both read and watched.
2. No, not afraid of spiders but I did become vegetarian (now vegan).
posted by Violet Hour at 1:02 AM on September 1
2. No, not afraid of spiders but I did become vegetarian (now vegan).
posted by Violet Hour at 1:02 AM on September 1
Yes (read) and no (I see spiders as allies for getting rid of flies and mosquitoes).
posted by demi-octopus at 1:11 AM on September 1
posted by demi-octopus at 1:11 AM on September 1
1. Yes, read and watched.
2. No. I'm not a fan of spiders but not particularly bothered by them.
(I have had several pet rats though.)
posted by mmoncur at 1:24 AM on September 1
2. No. I'm not a fan of spiders but not particularly bothered by them.
(I have had several pet rats though.)
posted by mmoncur at 1:24 AM on September 1
1. Yes, read and watched.
2. No, I mostly enjoy them, except in a bedroom.
My two spider startle stories:
Once I was in bed, reading Ed Yong’s An Immense World, just starting out in a section about jumping spider vision, when a little salticid saltated directly into my hardcover copy of the book… causing me to panic and drop the book, which closed on the spider. I felt so bad I haven’t yet been able to finish the book.
Another time a relative and I were startled by a huntsman indoors while vacationing in Australia. (Arachnophobes, do not Google.) Not knowing what it was (and cognizant of my child sleeping nearby) we tried to kill it out of fear, but huntsmen are famously fast, and it escaped us easily. Once I was able to look it up later, I felt sheepish, and glad we’d failed — they’re massive but usually harmless.
posted by eirias at 1:53 AM on September 1 [1 favorite]
2. No, I mostly enjoy them, except in a bedroom.
My two spider startle stories:
Once I was in bed, reading Ed Yong’s An Immense World, just starting out in a section about jumping spider vision, when a little salticid saltated directly into my hardcover copy of the book… causing me to panic and drop the book, which closed on the spider. I felt so bad I haven’t yet been able to finish the book.
Another time a relative and I were startled by a huntsman indoors while vacationing in Australia. (Arachnophobes, do not Google.) Not knowing what it was (and cognizant of my child sleeping nearby) we tried to kill it out of fear, but huntsmen are famously fast, and it escaped us easily. Once I was able to look it up later, I felt sheepish, and glad we’d failed — they’re massive but usually harmless.
posted by eirias at 1:53 AM on September 1 [1 favorite]
1) Pretty sure I read it in school; may also have watched it
2) No. I don't have a phobia of any bugs except brown roaches, and I'm working on that (colourful roaches and mantises don't trigger my roach detection algorithm), and I particularly like spiders (I think they're cute). I don't love finding huge spiders in my home, but I'm very careful to evict them without harming them.
posted by confluency at 3:17 AM on September 1
2) No. I don't have a phobia of any bugs except brown roaches, and I'm working on that (colourful roaches and mantises don't trigger my roach detection algorithm), and I particularly like spiders (I think they're cute). I don't love finding huge spiders in my home, but I'm very careful to evict them without harming them.
posted by confluency at 3:17 AM on September 1
Definitely read, maybe watched but didn’t get arachnophobia until I watched a horror movie called Arachnophobia when I was too young to see it!
posted by ellieBOA at 4:01 AM on September 1
posted by ellieBOA at 4:01 AM on September 1
Yes, read and watched.
No serious phobia, but don't want them crawling on me!
posted by Eyelash at 4:46 AM on September 1
No serious phobia, but don't want them crawling on me!
posted by Eyelash at 4:46 AM on September 1
1. Both
2. No arachnophobia, but I attribute it more to the book Be Nice to Spiders by Margaret Bloy Graham
Any spiders in my house get escorted out.
posted by poppunkcat at 5:00 AM on September 1
2. No arachnophobia, but I attribute it more to the book Be Nice to Spiders by Margaret Bloy Graham
Any spiders in my house get escorted out.
posted by poppunkcat at 5:00 AM on September 1
Both. No.
posted by trip and a half at 5:06 AM on September 1
posted by trip and a half at 5:06 AM on September 1
1) Yes, watched the 80's cartoon.
2) No, not any more afraid of spiders than the average person.
posted by Chuck Barris at 5:21 AM on September 1
2) No, not any more afraid of spiders than the average person.
posted by Chuck Barris at 5:21 AM on September 1
1) Third grade teacher read a chapter to us every morning
2) Yes, all creepy crawlies.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 6:28 AM on September 1
2) Yes, all creepy crawlies.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 6:28 AM on September 1
1) both read and watched
2) no arachnophobia at any time in my life
posted by rabia.elizabeth at 6:48 AM on September 1
2) no arachnophobia at any time in my life
posted by rabia.elizabeth at 6:48 AM on September 1
1. Yes, book and movie
2. No, I love spiders (and most tiny creatures)
posted by glorybe at 6:51 AM on September 1
2. No, I love spiders (and most tiny creatures)
posted by glorybe at 6:51 AM on September 1
Read multiple times never watched.
No phobia. I'm a live and let live person.
posted by kathrynm at 8:39 AM on September 1
No phobia. I'm a live and let live person.
posted by kathrynm at 8:39 AM on September 1
1. That was one of my favorite books as a kid, I read it dozens of times. Saw the movie a few times as well.
2. Was terribly arachnophobic until I lived on my own for a while. When you have to dispose of spiders yourself you lose the fear a bit. I still don’t love spiders but I can deal with the general household types without issue. However, you will never find me near a tarantula or anything on the larger side voluntarily.
posted by Fuego at 8:48 AM on September 1
2. Was terribly arachnophobic until I lived on my own for a while. When you have to dispose of spiders yourself you lose the fear a bit. I still don’t love spiders but I can deal with the general household types without issue. However, you will never find me near a tarantula or anything on the larger side voluntarily.
posted by Fuego at 8:48 AM on September 1
Read and watched, and I have arachnophobia, but not from Charlotte's Web. That came later, from the movie Arachnophobia. I'm pushing myself toward overcoming this by catching and releasing house spiders, but yeah... never going to have a pet tarantula or anything.
posted by xedrik at 8:53 AM on September 1
posted by xedrik at 8:53 AM on September 1
Read and watched. No phobia as such (I had a lil spooder friend living in a corner near my kitchen sink until just recently), but I'd be reluctant to touch a tarantula. Too big, too hairy, too crawly.
posted by velvet_n_purrs at 9:55 AM on September 1
posted by velvet_n_purrs at 9:55 AM on September 1
1. Read, cried.
2. Yes, big house spiders freak me out. "They're more scared of you than you are of them" - so why do they always run towards me then?
2a. Spiders in the garden, pretty much ok.
posted by Martha My Dear Prudence at 9:56 AM on September 1
2. Yes, big house spiders freak me out. "They're more scared of you than you are of them" - so why do they always run towards me then?
2a. Spiders in the garden, pretty much ok.
posted by Martha My Dear Prudence at 9:56 AM on September 1
Response by poster: Thank you for all the answers! This isn't really a "best answer" or "mark resolved" sort of question, but I appreciate everyone's time.
It seems my SIL is not the only one who missed out on Charlotte's Web but that her dislike of spiders would probably not have been tempered in any case.
posted by the primroses were over at 2:48 PM on September 1 [1 favorite]
It seems my SIL is not the only one who missed out on Charlotte's Web but that her dislike of spiders would probably not have been tempered in any case.
posted by the primroses were over at 2:48 PM on September 1 [1 favorite]
1) Definitely read, a few times, both in class and on my own. Cried. I may have watched the film, but it would have been fifty years ago, so I can't recall. (However, checking the star-studded voice-cast at IMDB, I think I would have stood up and taken notice of all those voices I knew so well.)
2) I don't think I have more than garden-variety spider-avoidance, not full-on arachnophobia. Tiny spiders are a mild annoyance to me; Daddy-Long-Legs creep me out. But other creepycrawlies bother me significantly more.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 4:22 PM on September 1
2) I don't think I have more than garden-variety spider-avoidance, not full-on arachnophobia. Tiny spiders are a mild annoyance to me; Daddy-Long-Legs creep me out. But other creepycrawlies bother me significantly more.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 4:22 PM on September 1
1. Yes, both watched and read *MANY* times
2. Nothing that impacts my daily life. If they are on me, I will be startled and brush them off. Otherwise, I let them be or move them outside.
posted by chiefthe at 7:12 PM on September 1
2. Nothing that impacts my daily life. If they are on me, I will be startled and brush them off. Otherwise, I let them be or move them outside.
posted by chiefthe at 7:12 PM on September 1
1. Both, multiple times each.
2. Yes, severe. For some reason I can handle this one, but if it weren’t animated and was instead live action with CGI Charlotte, I’m sure that would be different.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 8:30 PM on September 1
2. Yes, severe. For some reason I can handle this one, but if it weren’t animated and was instead live action with CGI Charlotte, I’m sure that would be different.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 8:30 PM on September 1
I not only read charlottes web many times but I did a monologue of Charlotte when I was part of a “drama club” when I was about 9 years old and got second place in a local competition.
I really do not like spiders, they give me the heebie jeebies. I respect their right to life but like, outside and out of sight
posted by like_neon at 5:10 AM on September 2
I really do not like spiders, they give me the heebie jeebies. I respect their right to life but like, outside and out of sight
posted by like_neon at 5:10 AM on September 2
Read it. Didn't watch it.
No strong feelings about spiders. I don't like it when they're on me but it doesn't bother me to look at them.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 9:03 AM on September 2
No strong feelings about spiders. I don't like it when they're on me but it doesn't bother me to look at them.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 9:03 AM on September 2
1) read and watched
2) no, I have always really liked spiders
posted by oneirodynia at 1:06 PM on September 2
2) no, I have always really liked spiders
posted by oneirodynia at 1:06 PM on September 2
1) only watched
2) I used to be more arachnophobic as a kid but that has diminished to the point that I picked up a wolf spider in my bare hand to take it outdoors last week
posted by AzraelBrown at 2:38 PM on September 2 [1 favorite]
2) I used to be more arachnophobic as a kid but that has diminished to the point that I picked up a wolf spider in my bare hand to take it outdoors last week
posted by AzraelBrown at 2:38 PM on September 2 [1 favorite]
Read so, so many times, no. It was given to me by my child psychologist aunt. Certainly my favorite childhood book. It probably influenced my later vegetarianism and if I'd had children I would have seriously considered Fern as a name.
posted by jocelmeow at 3:14 PM on September 3
posted by jocelmeow at 3:14 PM on September 3
read and watched, and I liked it ok.
not scared of spiders.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:15 PM on September 4
not scared of spiders.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:15 PM on September 4
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(2) No
posted by muddgirl at 5:36 PM on August 31 [5 favorites]