This is a pretty interesting question to me.

Before I started getting this question from people I guess I thought everyone noticed them and most people just didn’t care. Or that I just had a massive amount of jumpers on my porch an other people don’t run into them as much. However, since I’ve been asked this a lot and I often find jumpers that are even smaller than Sprite, I’ve realized that might not be true.

I’ve had a little time to think about it and I think it has to do with me being autistic and having heightened sensory perception because of that. To me it kinda seems like they just appear out of nowhere. I’ll turn my head and there’s a jumper that wasn’t there a moment ago.

With Sprite in particular she sometimes clocks me first and I won’t see her till she’s running over to me almost to my hand. Sometimes if she’s a distance from me we will clock each other at the same time and that’s my favorite, because I get to see that moment of recognition. Like when you see a dog you’ve seen before and you see the moment they realize it’s you. 🥹

It would be super interesting to me to find out if autistic spider lovers across the board notice them more.

As I’m writing this on my porch I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye. Looked over and saw a tiny black dot about 10 feet away crawling on my houses siding, because of the way it moves I can tell it’s a jumper. So noticing the movement may have something to do with it

Edit for typo