how do you deal with the heat?

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people are simply used to the temps as they 'grew up' in it...

also, peopel use air conditioners, fans, etc....

I can do okay wearing a thin long-sleeved shirt during a 'hot' day-had a reputation for wearing coats/jackets when it wad 50* earlier on and 'jumped' to 70-80* later on that day; f**k carrying it, I'll wear it...

it also depends on the weather and whether you wear heavy clothes more often and get 'used' to it, etc..

Ick I hate heat. It got real hot here a few times this summer I used AC because I could not stand the heat. It rung our electric bill up to 66 dollars and last month, it was three dollars cheaper.
I do wear dresses or shots and short sleeve shirts in the summer to keep cool.

When I lived without AC, I wore my bathing suit at home. I would come home from work and strip out of my work clothes and put on my bathing suit. When I lived with my aunt and uncle, I was just naked and when it be almost time to leave for work, I would put on my clothes and get ready for work. I even slept without blankets. Only with a sheet. I also slept naked too.


I do tend to stay indoors a lot during the summer but I do it all year around anyway. Only thing I like about hot weather is going to a water park or go swimming.


But I found out by reading in the paper here lot of people don't like to be hot. Everyone wants to stay cool so this all probably isn't even autism related. Lot of people use their AC and their bill goes up, they go out and swim to keep cool. So an article was published in the paper giving people tips how to stay cool for free. Go to a mall for one. That's free alright lol. They don't charge you for going in there. Only when you buy.


I also use a fan at night to keep cool since the air is still outside, open windows doesn't help.

But the funny thing is, hot air didn't bother me as a kid but when I reached puberty and my body changed, I then began to hate the heat. I just couldn't stand it anymore. I spent most of my time in the basement when I lived in Montana but when I was living on my own, I wore a bathing suit.

Dunno about the heat, but I'm pretty intolerant to humidity. It can be like a comfortable 70º F out, but if the humidity is anywhere around 50% or higher, I just melt =/ We had almost an entire week not too long ago where the temp stayed around 80-90º and the humidity reached 100% several times

Sticky heat, like in Florida, is the worst. Your skin sticks to itself, fabrics itch and you generally feel like throwing up all the time. It actually gets too hot for me to think, especially too hot to talk.

I visited Eastern Canada in December of last year and walked outside for hours in a snowstorm that shut the busses down and I was more comfortable there than walking down the block to get a newspaper and back during the eight months of summer we have here.

How I deal? Air conditioning.

I don't mind heat, as long as:

1. It's a dry heat
and
2. I don't need to sleep during it.


I can be quite happy in 95 degree weather during the daytime with the above circumstances, but anything over about 78 degrees makes it very difficult to sleep.


This probably has a lot to do with growing up in New Mexico. Our summers get kind of hot, but it still cools down at night, and most importantly, the heat is dry.

I cannot stand humid heat, unless it's in short bursts. I can enjoy going into the rainforest-like areas at the zoo, but standing around for 30 minutes in a parking lot in a hot and humid city is terrible.

I use the AC cranked down to 65 degrees fahrenheit.

we don't have fahrenheit in Europe, so how is that related to celcius?

I live in the Phoenix metro area where it often gets hotter than 110 degrees Farenheit in the summer. We go from the air conditioned house to the air conditioned car to the air conditioned mall... Are you seeing a trend here? We also drink a lot of water and wear sun hats and sunglasses. We try to stay out of the sun as much as possible and try to do most physical activity in the morning or evening when it isn't quite as hot.

Humidity is a huge factor. It feels just as bad when it's 105 with a 60 degree dewpoint as it does when it's 115 with a 5 degree dewpoint. One summer, we had 115+ degree temperatures with 60+ degree dewpoints. A lot of people died.

When you've lived here a while, you do acclimate somewhat, but you never get used to this heat.

People in general, not just Aspies, do get more stressed and irritable when it's hot. We see it happen every summer.

23 degrees is how much Fahrenheit then?

[°F] = [°C] × 9⁄5 + 32




Personally, I don't see how anyone can live in Phoenix heat. Phoenix summers just sound crazy to me.

Albuquerque is 90-93 degrees nearly every day in the summer. That I can handle.

110? **** that. Seriously.

Hi there,

Ok, I forgot the humidity. Yes, that would be the crucial factor how you experience the heat.
Here in Holland, when it's freaky warm, it nearly always tends to go high on the dewpoint too.

Beetje stomme vraag, Loborojo, niks erg natuurlijk maar ik had al bij de 'openingpost' de omrekenformule gegeven om dit soort vragen te vermijden.

Best of socks (not too tight) to you all,
Ceesjan