Reply #145: Hell, I'm 40 and I still cover my eyes

[Withywindle]

...at the giant spider scenes in the last LOTR movie. And I read the book for the first time at 12, and know to skip those pages on re-reading even now. Tolkien was way UNDERrated as a horror writer. :scared:

I also don't watch anything that I know will have explicit medical/surgical footage, and also say "excuse me" and walk out of in-depth conversations about medical TMI. Especially anything to do with pregnancy or baby poop or surgery. :scared: :puke: I get VERY physically queasy and pale and clammy. If I don't excuse myself, bad things happen. I just can't take real-life accounts or real documentation--But I can take almost any level of gore in movies because I know it's fake....except giant spiders. That's the only thing I can't convince myself it's fake enough.

How does anyone get to know their limits? Trial and error! That's the only way. Lots of error. And it starts young.