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Scary nature

I’m awfully scared of getting lost if we are somewhere very deep in the forest. But that might be the smallest fear because then I’m afraid that something will happen to me there. My granny lives in Virrat and that is quite in the backwoods. So in that place, if we go to the shore and onto the ice when it’s dark, like at night in the winter, it’s a little scary there sometimes when there’s nothing but black around you.

It’s scary when you don’t see what there is. So it feels like you’ll fall there somehow or something like that. Or for example that my leg will get stuck into something and then I cannot get out. And, as there are lots of lakes, I’m afraid that I might drown. But I’m not really that scared of animals there.

I’ve always dreamt of going to the tropics because it’s really cool there. I think it would be cool rather than scary. But then again, there are lots of spiders in the tropic and spiders are maybe the only animals that I’m really afraid of.

In the daycare, a spider climbed on my bare leg. That was not very nice, and then I was really frightened. I think spiders are a bit disgusting. Because they have so many eyes, and then those legs.

(a child tells about their thoughts at the art school, 2023)

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