Here's how to gauge your own level of arachnophobia: if you said "Wow, what a colorful and interesting specimen," you've got a pretty small case of spider-phobia, if at all.
I live in a home full of spider...haters. Seriously, arachnophobia is an issue for at least two of the three people I live with. My daughter can have her ear-buds blasting away with her favorite music, oblivious to everyone and everything, and all someone would have to do is whisper "Is that a spider...