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I like being underwater if I have goggles. My eyes are sensitive and I don't like being underwater without being able to see...

^ I'm a bit like that in that I can't open my eyes underwater without the use of a mask or goggles.

I have advanced SCUBA and Nitrox certification (but have not yet put the Nitrox to good use) and have been diving in both fresh and salt water. With standard air, I have no problems until about 100 ft or so, when the nitrogen narcosis kicks in and I feel very uneasy.

I really enjoy swimming underwater. It feels so refreshing and relaxing! When I was a child I wished I was a mermaid because I wanted to be able to swim underwater and not have to come up for air.

Scuba certified, although I've only done one dive since I passed. I'm not bothered by opening my eyes under water, and almost gave the instructor a fit when instead of just letting a little water into the bottom of my mask in order to show I could clear it, I just pulled it right off, and sat there breathing from the regulator completely without a mask. They also weren't too impressed by me swimming upside down, because it can make the other divers dioriented if the visibility isn't good, but the surface of the water looks so pretty from underneath. I'd read stuff like commercial diving manuals, and been snorkelling for the past 5 years, but they didn't expect me to be so at home underwater. I think they were used to amateur snorkellers who just float on the surface, not ones who wear weights and swim along the bottom.

I used to be able to swim a full length of the local pool underwater (not a full olympic size one), but I'm nowhere near the condition I used to be.

I do have regular dreams about being able breathe underwater.

Agreed, goggles are a necessity, and being able to breathe underwater would be fantastic.

I love swimming. Because of that, my dad thought it would be a good idea if I joined the swimming team. Bad move. I absolutely hated it. I had to swim on the surface and swim certain ways and go as fast as I could. I much prefer swimming underwater my own way at my own pace.

Being underwater, I feel more at peace than anywhere else. I loe diving and I've always loved it. I feel free when I dive. I don't know how to explain it. I'm hoping to become a marine biologist.

Do you think this love of being underwater is connected to autism/asperger's, or is it random? I would love to know where this came from.

I am sure people at the pool think I am weird, because I rarely swim on the surface. I'd far rather do lengths underwater, or even practice breath-holding at the side of the pool. Of course, the sea is best, because the bottom of a swimming pool is not very interesting, but it's better than the surface!

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Aspies have a marine brain! I love being under the water as long as the visibility is good.

I freedive a lot as well as a keen surfer.

Before I got swimmer's ear, you couldn't keep me out of the water. Now I have major issues with getting my head wet.

I love diving underwater, as long as I have a good diving mask.

I would love to get into scuba diving some day. Only problem I have is I'm deathly afraid of seaweed Not so much having a loose clump or anything like that, I just can't stand the whole "Okay, I'm walking through slimy who-knows-what and have no idea what could be down here."

Been reading a lot of books about diving and/or boating lately, and it's got me itchy to try it...especially in the ocean, I've never been in the ocean before, or even seen one.

I love being underwater and when I'm swimming I spend as much time under as possible. The weightlessness, being surrounded completely, the sounds, everything is very calming and after I've been swimming I feel so much better. I could see the similarity to Grandin's squeeze machine and I have heard (can't remember where) of being underwater as a type of stimming. Sometimes I dream I live underwater or that I can transform into a mermaid. They're vivid, beautiful dreams.

I love being surrounded byt the calm of water, being underwater, swimming quietly on my own or listening to the sound of water. I love the sensation I feel when I touch water. When I was little, I wished I would be able to live underwater forever. I never liked using a tuba or any other thing to swim.
Too bad my ears became so sensitive to pressure as I grew up, I use to have no problems underwater but now I have problems everywhere.

There are plenty of places you can dive which are virtually free of seaweed. At least any seaweed you'll come in direct contact with. If you're talking about the kelp "forests" off the coast of California, that's one thing. I'd be afraid to dive in those too, but not because of the kelp. Some of those kelp forests are close to sea lion colonies which in turn makes them great white shark country. Down here in Florida however, there's not much to about worry in terms of seaweed in most places divers frequent. You WILL encounter alot of sargassum weed floating on the surface and there are many creatures who live in the weed. I can assure you that none of them can harm you though, they're just tiny fish, crabs and other innocuous marine life.

Nope. I live right off the coast of Lake Michigan.

Which itself isn't very seaweedy as far as I've ever seen, but you'd have to go out pretty far for it to get deep enough for that sort of thing, so I wouldn't know. I try to only go out up to my neck, which is quite a distance from the shore.

Most of the other lakes around here, though, are full of it.

I'd love to dive in the ocean...it always looks so clean and clear on TV.

Does that mean you've never been in the ocean? I mean I know some people who live far inland haven't but I can't imagine life without it.