Upon posting a photo of a huntsman spider on twitter, I was asked if I was scared of them. No, I replied, as long as they don’t touch me because I’m allergic to a spider’s hair, I just don’t know which. Wait… what? Yeah, you read that right, there is a kind of spider I am allergic to the hair of, and I don’t know which kind of spider it is. I know it’s brown, and has thin legs. Some people are allergic to peanuts, to lactose, or to gluten. I’m allergic to spider hair. The story is I woke [...]