CockRoaches??????!

CockRoaches??????

Okay, every time I see a cockroach I run like hell. I see them alot out side and somtimes in the house "barely". I'm scared that it might bite me. And i'm a dude. Is it normal for a dude to be scared of cockroaches because in his childhood he got bit on the neck of something that look simliar to a cockroach? Even when i'm brave enough to kill one I look to the other side when i'm killing it. I don't like to see the gutz and sh!t. I'm not scared of no insects or other bugs but i'm only scared of cockroaches for some reason. Why am i'm like this? And do they have some guys thats is actualy scared of em? Am I the only one?

I happen to know you are not the only guy afraid of cockroaches. I've actually known a few, though not all of them would have been self confident enough to admit it. So since when does the y chromosome exempt you from a fear of something- even if the something is a disgusting bug? From what you say, it sounds as if you were conditioned in childhood as the result of a traumatic experience. Things that make strong impressions on us as children do hang with us through life, no matter how "logical" we thing we are, nor how much we know sensibly. Your reation is emotional, and first impressions weigh in heavily on emotional reactions. I'm not afraid of them, but I certainly find killing them distasteful for exactly the reasons you mentioned. On the other hand, I feel exactly the way you do about spiders, and although I wasn't bitten as a child, I did live in a place where there were tarantulas. I woke up with one on the pillow with me, when I was four, and it literally scared the peas and ques out of me. I am much, much older now- and still have to catch my breath in the presence of a muli-legged creature. Size doesn't matter. I have been known to vaccum them up, hair spray them, varnish them (hubbies spray varnish), anything that doesn't involve making any kind of contact. I lived in a house with them in the attic, and I never ever went to the attic in the four years I lived in the house. You would think after all these years I'd have at least outgrown the fear or come to more logical sensible terms with it, and I haven't. Not really. I don't panic, but it's not far short and it takes great force of will for the really hairy ones. So I wouldn't get too sensitive over the matter. Just make future GF's a deal- you will kill the spiders, and they can get the roaches. While most gals are terrified of spiders, for some reason, they can kill a roach without a second thought.