Do we really love water?

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I love water and swiming always have. I used to take litteral 3-4 hour baths as a kid in fact I used to hate leaving the water!!


Lots of children with autism who wander drown infact I think we lots 3-4 this summer. Drowning is the number one cause of death in autistic kids if I remember correctly.


A friend of my lost her son to his wandering and drownining I pn his memory she created the Mason alter. I am trying very hard to get it started here at home. I may need tot week some things for the version here to make it more acceptable to autistics

Ie instead of being a registry (though that might have it's benifits) it might be more like when a kid wanders they call it in and is filled out right there with info, maybe provide free temp let's for parents to fill out and have on hand to give to the first responders.

I like to watch water. I moved near a big lake and like to sit and watch it. When I was a child I didn't mind it. I liked putting my head underwater in the bathtub. I took swimming lessons and learned to swim. I didn't like public or private pools because people pee in them.

No, not at all. I absolutely hate being wet, cannot swim, do not want to learn how to, and cannot drink the dreadful stuff unless it is combined with something else (like coffee).

I love the water. I like being submerged in it as well. I like free diving and swimming down to the bottom of lakes. Swimming down to about 30-40ft puts the perfect amount of pressure on the body. It's like getting a bear hug from God. You can't beet the feeling.

I really liked water when I was a little kid - I loved swimming and playing in swimming pools (both the big ones at hotels and small kiddie pools) and I loved bath time. I always had like a ton of plastic toys in there with me. xD I took swimming lessons between the ages of 9 and 12.

I've always loved the sensation of being immersed in water and take a long bath every day.

I like to swim too but I have quite a phobia of submerged objects (rocks, pipes and especially the drains in swimming pools) so I have to know that I am well away from all of these things.

I hate the sensation of cold rain falling on me - on University field trips I sometimes had to spend whole days outside in the rain and it drove me nuts.

I've always meant to have a go in one of those flotation tank thingies - they still have some in London. I wonder what that would be like?

I only enjoy being in "safe" water like hot tubs or chlorinated pools. I don't like lakes because the sand and rocks scratch up my feet and I hate not being able to see where I'm walking. I am afraid of putting my face in the water, or being in over my head because I can't swim. I can't even float. I almost drowned in 6 feet of water when I was 14 and that just made it worse.

Overall I enjoy looking at water much more than touching it. Rain, waterfalls, fountains, wet t-shirts, that sort of thing.

Yes I love water so much I drink it too much

I absolutely LOVE water!! ! I love walking in rain!! ! I love being in, around, and under water!! ! I learned to swim when I was a kid, and you just couldn't get me outta there. When I went snorkeling in Jamaica, I coulda stayed down there for the rest of my life!! ! I love being on boats, and other water equipment. I love water games (I'd do water sports too, if I weren't so uncoordinated). I love lakes, ponds, puddles, pools, oceans----I don't know which is more mesmerizing, to look at: the ocean, the mountains, or a fireplace!! !

The only time I have the slightest problem with water, is first thing in the morning. I don't wanna look at it, I don't want it touching me, and I don't wanna drink it!! It's all I can do to make coffee cuz I have to watch it come out of the sink!! ! Other than that, I drink bottles of water, ALL DAY!! !

P.S. skibum: I'm sorry you had such a hard time with that little girl drowning. ((((cyber hugs)))) I know you said you're over it, but I'm sorry you ever had to endure it!! !