Conquering my half-corked arachnophobia

Tiny spiders that tend to show up and dip out as soon as you see them? Adorable. Nickel sized spiders that show up looking lost? Let them go on their way. Anything larger than that with big legs and can’t help but move in an alien manner? Somebody other than me kill it, because I can’t be in the same room with it.

And there in lies my “fear.” The bigger the arachnid, the easier I cower. I’d honestly just rather be afraid of them all, or not at all. The various levels of response actually kind of bother me. I would love to conquer this fear. Unfortunately, I’m not a huge fan of exposure thereapy, and I’m not intersted in taking drugs for it, so my solution is a fictional one. I will manifest a power to control spiders telephathically. It will run as a passive abililty until the day of my death, telling larger spiders to not be anywhere remotely near me. An arachnid restraining order, if you will. This ability can also pass on to my offspring.

Problem solved.