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It's going to snow next week, got a coat, can't harp on about it, can't help being a wimp, can't help having a phobia of it so I just got to live with it.

Last edited by Joe90 on 07 Dec 2012, 4:14 pm, edited 4 times in total.

It's snow. Try living in it without power!! !! !!

Yes, like a good chunk of people did here in Canada during an ice storm back in 1998

Try sleeping outside in that stuff.

It's an irrational fear, not a silly ''I'm afraid to be too cold'' or a ''I think I live in the only country that gets snow'' thing. Usually the UK doesn't get snow, and it certainly doesn't usually get temperatures that reach below -20 celcius, for a whole month or so.

It's OK, I will be writing joyful posts in the summer if (hopefully) they forecast temperatures of reaching 30 or 40 celcius. You will all probably get sick of me doing that aswell. But I'm an Aspie, and one of my main symptoms is ''obsessive paranoia''/''obsessive cognitive behaviour''. I also have anxiety issues.

If you actually had money, I'd suggest you buggered off to the Canary Islands for three months of the year, which is where - entirely coincidentally - I've just returned from a few days ago.

I'm the same way! I have anxiety and maybe OCD. I am obsessed with getting a certain thing done and it has to be perfect otherwise I go nuts. It drives parents insane. But oh well. I'm an aspie/LD adult.


I remember Blizzard of 2010 and it was bad. We couldn't leave the house at all because the snow was so much. Over a foot. Schools and Fed Gov were closed for a week. This area rarely gets that much snow. But people living in upstate NY, or even Vermont are used to that much snow. Dad went to college in Vermont and it never closed no matter how much snow fell. We didn't lose power, but some did. A lot of people in the Washington DC area lost power this summer during a massive heat wave. It was some wind storm.

Last edited by luvsterriers on 07 Dec 2012, 2:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.

And, yes, I hate it when it's cold and snowy and there's ice everywhere. It's crap.

Joe90, as a huge snow and severe weather fanatic (obsess-er, even), I'm curious to see what caused your phobia of snow. I'm terrified to drive in it but I know your fear goes way beyond that. Is it a control-type fear where you feel as though cold and snow accumulation causes undesirable effects beyond your control like the inability to drive to a store for food or something else? Also, emetophobe checking in

I have to shovel the stupid driveway for 45 minutes just so in 2 days it can melt and all be gone anyways and then it's like my shoveling was all in vain. So I'm out there going "What a waste of time. I have to shovel the stupid driveway for 45 minutes just so in 2 days it can melt and all be gone anyways and then it's like my shoveling is all in vain".

But if I didn't shovel, then it'd probably stay there all winter. That's how I know there is a God, and He works in strange and humorous ways.

Yeh, same with me. When I was a child I loved the snow, and got very excited at the thought of snow coming, and I loved it so much that I panicked if a heavy snowfall was decreasing and stopping or turning sleety. But unfortunately we didn't get much snow back then, it was always very cold every winter but never no snow at all, and the cold snaps didn't last that long, only about a week. In early 2003 we got a big snowfall, and the schools were closed by the next day, but I got in my diary that I had outdoor PE 3 or 4 days later, so it must have all cleared by then because they wouldn't have let girls do PE outside if it were still icy. Otherwise, we didn't really get any snow, and even when we did, we still had to go to school because it wasn't deep enough to disrupt. Now the schools all closed when it's less than an inch deep, and this week they all got sent home half way through the day, when the snow was thawing and there were no more snow in the forecast.

So yes, now that I'm grown-up with responsibilities, we suddenly encounter snow every winter, since I turned 18. Ugh!

If you loved snow as a child...did something happen to make you have a phobia of it? Or you just randomly became afraid of snow? sorry if I am misunderstanding, this thread is kind of confusing.

I have low self-esteem, and social phobia, where I fear being watched, judged, and humiliated, and usually when I'm put in a situation where I'm very certain that I'm watched, judged, or humiliated, it can sometimes (not always) trigger off a severe phobia. So, in retrospect, my phobia of snow was caused by being in a situation where I was watched, judged and humiliated. I was walking on an unavoidable patch of ice in the street, and I heard two people behind me snickering each time my foot slipped. It wasn't noticeable, I mean it's not like my arms were flying out or anything, but to them it was that hilarious, and to notice something as small as somebody's foot just uncontrollably slipping a bit on ice (which is to be expected so no social rules broken there) you'd have to be watching really closely and paying attention, in which they must have been, so I got the feeling that I was being watched and judged, because they were laughing at me as though I was a spastic or something, which then caused me to feel humiliated.

But slipping over on ice isn't why I fear snow. I just have an irrational fear of snow. I hate to see it falling, and when it's all down I can't bear to look out of the window at it, and I dread going out in it. This year I will have to go out in it because I've started a new job that is local, which means I'd probably be called in on all my days off if others can't make it in, which will be a pain.
Also snow changes plans sometimes. It disrupts, and makes everything seem different, and you can't walk properly in it. Having snowball fights can be fun, but I haven't got anyone to have snowball fights with. I suppose I could build a snowman, but I'm not sure if that is socially acceptable for my age or not.


It's weird really....I have a fear of fires, but I don't have a fear of lightening, what can cause fires. It worries me a little, but it doesn't make me feel the same way I do with snow. I go out to watch thunderstorms.

snow is no problem when you are prepared
wear multiple layers of everything and good boots
with good winter boots they will grip to ice

I also like to drive on the back roads that have yet to be plowed. they are fun to drive on and I almost always run into someone whos stuck, being the nice guy I am I always offer to pull them out. I have yet to run into someone who was not happy to see my jeep rolling down the road

I don't think snow is the problem, I think is more the connection it has for you to immature people that's the problem.

People who'd laugh at something like that don't have a firm grasp on just how stupid they are.