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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Why are people afraid of house centipedes? They already ARE cute! It'd be one thing if they were at least somewhat willing to bite you, like some spiders, but they won't. They've got the best eyesight of any centipede, which inadvertently gives them really cute little eyes too.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago

Though i agree they are harmless, they do not meet any classical, popular definition of cute

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They have too many legs and move too quickly. It just freaks me out, man.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

My tiny lizard brain refuses to acknowledge their usefulness. Skittering and many legs? Dead!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Don't forget the painful, venomous bite!

If I find one in my house, I'm killing it. They're my irrational fear. You can't talk me out of it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

The reasoned par of my brain wholeheartedly agrees with you, and when I can convince myself to do so, I let them vibe. Unfortunately the reasoned part of my brain is powerless to stop the fight or flight response that happens when [spindly-legged creature] crosses my field of view. It simply happens.

If reasoning alone could overcome an otherwise unreasonable physiological response, then allergies wouldn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

For me it's the fact that I lived in a desertic place for most of my life and centipedes there have a very painful bite

I know house centipedes are smaller and harmless but it's difficult to re-train the brain

Edit: words

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Gosh this was hard to read. Those centipedes really did a number on you huh!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

For me, they manage to trigger the "SNAKE!" and "SPIDER!" panic responses simultaneously. The rational part of my brain likes them, the instinctual part tells me to smash it with a rock

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They creep me the fuck out. I know they're harmless and beneficial to have but when I turn on my bathroom light and see one on the wall above my toilet I have to get rid of it. They're literally the only bug that freaks me out, even roaches aren't that bad to me.