Snow and autism- do you hate snow?

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I've never seen snow in real life. There's only one place that it snows here in Western Australia. That's Bluff Knoll, the highest peak. Some years snow there doesn't even happen.

Snow is just snow. Resenting it has never lightened the snowfall; complaining about the cold has never raised the temperature. That serves no other purpose than to make yourself (and all those around you) miserable.

I really like the quiet, bright conditions it brings. Drifts are often beautiful sculptures, with some delivered right to my door. An early snow insulates the ground, so seeds sprout earlier. On the roads, it lets us practice all the emergency maneuvers in slow motion at safe speeds. Shovelling snow is good exercise. It makes for easy log skidding to collect firewood. The arrival of snow breaks up the seasons, defining time periods better, as in the White Christmas. Schoolchildren love "snow days" and so do many adults.
Crows hate Owls, or seem to, because they compete. I don't think there is any functional reason to hate anything inanimate. Regarding climate rather than weather, Bill McKibben notes "The opponent is physics, and physics doen't negotiate."

As I said on page 1, I'm no fan of snow. It's slippery in several forms and does cause accidents.

I love rain though (when it's not freezing).

Some people like that snow makes the evenings and nights lighter, but I don't mind the dark.

As someone who lives in a state that rarely ever gets snow, I get excited whenever the forecast announces it. It's so beautiful! I especially love the way it looks on trees. Growing up, snow was a sign of fun, snowball fights and of course, school getting canceled for the day. So, snow for me is associated with positive things. However, I do understand how others from more northern regions would dread the arrival of snow. You have to deal with heavy amounts of it for a longer duration of time, whereas snow only stays on the ground in the south for maybe three days. I think the major downside with snow for me is in order for it to fall, it must be unbearably cold and I absolutely hate the cold.

I wouldn't say I love snow, but I like it enough.

I'm not so fond of ice everywhere (slip and fall on my butt!), extreme cold, and a half inch of mud or more. I'll take a ton of snow over those things.

The thing I like least about snow is when it gets packed into ice and gets slippery. When I walk on that, I get very tense, ready to save myself from a fall, and have to remember to stretch and dance around later. The best reflex is not let your foot slide out, rotating your mass, but to just drop in place.

...I grew up in a part of the USA (New York State( where there are real winters, I came to San Francisco, where it's made front-page headlines. when there's the tiniest sprinkling of snow at the mist remote, highest altitude, part of The City...so I don't see it ! !! !! !! !!
I don't hate it.

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I don't HATE snow, but I have a lot of problems with it.

It's beautiful, but I can't stand the texture (sensory issues) when walking through powdery snow. *shudders*
I also don't like driving in it. I like that it sometimes cancels school or work.
I'm in the PNW and we had a couple of winter storms this year that cancelled work/school. That was really fun because I didn't have to go outside. When work was back up, though, I had to walk through the snow and shudder the whole time.

When I was a child, I loved snow. I loved to play in it. But I hated getting dressed to go play in it.

I also hated wearing gloves (I can't stand the texture of winter gloves) and hats. My mom wouldn't let me outdoors without them. Sometimes I would sneak out in my sleeping clothes and play in the snow and about give my mom a heart attack. My mom was paranoid about CPS taking me away for the slightest thing.

As an adult, I can wear whatever I want in the snow. But I hate driving in it or the when roads get shut down because of it and I can't go anywhere. My brother was in a REALLY bad car accident after driving on an icy road and almost died, my dad had a friend who DID die driving on an icy road. So I'm not crazy about winter.

This advice goes for NTs too: Practice your snow driving where accidents won't matter, like a big empty parking lot. Go into every kind of skid, and learn to control it. Learn to judge the available traction by sight and temperature. Then, keep your reflexes sharp with little test skids whenever they look easy and safe. Twice, I've hit black ice, and still made my corner safely, but there was no time to think.
There's less you can do about getting hit in a big pile-up. Some taxi owners park their fleets despite lots of business when it snows in an area with the drivers out of practice. Real snow tires are a lot better than all-seasons, too. If your area gets less than a week of snow a year, there will be a lot very bad driving in it on summer tires.

I find snow to be visually appealing.

I absolutely love snow, snow storms, snow forts, snowman-making, snow-angel making, snow driving (it's exciting) ...

snow-everything .... except .... (slow drum roll)

I can't tolerate snow on the ground when it is sunny outside. The glare makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a dull implement. It's my worst form of sensory torture. I hate February because it tends to have sunny days and left-over snow. Sunshine on snow was the main reason I started being so reclusive and living with black-out curtains.

If you avoid bright light, use sunglasses, etc, sun on snow will be overpowering. Eskimos use a type of eye protection as basic survival gear. I can only handle the extreme days if I squint, or half-close my eyes in a relaxed way.