In general I am not too bad with bugs. With a few exceptions, anything poisonous, maggots, wasps and cockroaches. I lived in China for a year and they had large flying cockroaches. When I first moved into a ground floor apartment, I moved a bag of bedding and a cockroach crawled out, I screamed and moved to another room. Fortunately the previous occupants had left a can of raid and the cockroach was dispatched with a spray of raid. When you went out in the evening you would here crunching as you walked on cockroaches in the street. When we moved to a seventh floor apartment, newly decorated we had a couple of weeks without roaches. We could never have our windows open in the evening as roaches would fly in. I also had a handy can of raid.
My son is not scarred at all and has stroked a hissing cock roach. I also love Tarrentula's.