Are you more sensitive to the heat or the cold?

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I voted cold. Although I'm not too sure. I get hot quite easily and don't use a lot of covers or wear loads of clothes. I don't mind being hot, though. I can sit in a hot room (30 C or more) for quite a while without wanting to open the window. And I do not ever use A/C, fan or even keep my bedroom window open at night.

I'm impervious to heat - I can exercise in 100 degree weather with sweat rolling off my face like raindrops and not bat an eyelash. Cold doesn't affect me much either - when I was a child, I used to go outside in the snow in shorts and a tanktop.

i dislike heat intensely. i have underactive sweat glands, and i do not sweat except in extreme conditions (eg: physical labor on a 38 degree (c) day), and even then i only get some mild beading on my forehead.

my internal temperature can not be controlled by the process of sweat evaporation, and so i start to feel delirious and nauseous when i am subjected to prolonged high temperatures.

other people i see are grateful for a breeze, and they open their shirts and let the breeze blow past their bodies and it cools them off. i feel breezes on hot days as furnace blasts, because i do not have any sweat to evaporate.

i do feel relieved if a breeze blows past my forehead if i have some beads of sweat on it, but that relief is localized only to my forehead. it would be good to have that relief "body wide" when a breeze blows past my body like other people do.

i must seek air conditioning constantly on hot days.
during summer, i have the central air conditioning system set at 19 C (66F) 24 hours per day. it is very expensive . i employ the air conditioning in my car at all times. i only go to places that are air conditioned, and that i can reach within a few minutes of getting out of my car.

i have a very good tolerance to low temperatures.
i rarely feel cold. i have a layer of baby fat that i never lost, and it seems to always keep me warm. on very low temperature days, i mostly wear t-shirts when "tough" people (who see me as a "soft baby who has no clue") are wearing parka's and other cold weather attire (like beanies and gloves etc). i do not care because my inner temperature stability more than equals the cooling power of the air around me, and i remain warm.
there are limits however to how cold things can be before i start to feel uncomfortable.

The heat I cannot stand. The cold however, yes.

Put me in the snow in my boxers and I will love it.

Both. I can hardly bear to walk past the chilled foods in a supermarket, because when I do, I feel the cold acutely on the back of my hands. And excessive heat makes me feel physically sick.

I seem to need a very narrow environmental temperature range, maybe 22-23C. Often I just can't get comfy, and keep alternately overheating and freezing as I try to regulate things with clothes, blower fans and heater thermostats. The feeling I really hate is when my core is too hot while my fingers and toes are too cold.

I am more sensitive to cold that I am to heat. I don't usually even sweat in the summers, though I am admittedly not very active. but cold...I cannot handle cold. even having the AC blow on me drives me nuts.

I voted "neither", but that is assuming that we're discussing weather and not water, surfaces, etc.

I can go out and do a labor job in the sun when it's 115 degrees, and I can go outside in a blizzard with no shirt, no problem. But when it comes to water, I can't stand fluctuation in the shower water temp, etc.

Charles

If the temperature rises above about 24C, I start getting nauseous. Heat seems to trigger migraines for me--not sure why.

The results here are quite interesting, any NT I have asked about this matter always says that they are more sensitive to the cold and prefer hot weather.

But I prefer cold weather, not just it makes me feel more physically comfortable, but because I love walking the streets on my own, while others sit in their houses shivering. In the summer, everywhere seems more crowded.

i love them both but i can't bare the extremes of either one of them..
to me it often is too cold or too warm.

I'm oversensitive to heat but I love the cold. I only wear a jacket if it's snowing or raining really. Otherwise it's a T-shirt even during winter.

I am very sensitive to heat. At about 75 degrees I am starting to get hot. By 80 I am very sad. On the other hand I don't think I have ever been to cold...And I have enjoyed temperatures down to -10 with proper clothing...