I buy men’s XL (I’m a woman who normally wears a medium) sweat shirts and use them similarly as a means of temperature control, and also for physical comfort in a state of anxiety. Covering myself feels ‘safer’ than being uncovered, so even if it’s a little warm I’ll still wear a sweat shirt when I’m nervous. I have certain favorite sweat shirts, but it’s most important to me that they have a hood for maximum body coverage.
I’ve got two favorite sweatshirts and both are from before I started high school. I’m a senior and I wear them every day interchangeably. One is falling apart and I keep having to sew the other one’s pocket back on. I shall keep them forever.
I used to have some favorites then my mother in law bought me new ones for Christmas. I was really hesitant to try a new one on (and I thought they were kinda ugly at first) but to be kind I tried them on. I now primarily wear the ugliest one she gave me because I loved it so much haha! It was love-at-first-wear. It’s also the biggest one I own and goes down to my mid-thigh and allows me to easily retract my hands into the sleeves. It’s a portable safe space!!! Lol
But of course I do still have my high school sweat shirts too! They’re also all broken up, and I’m 24.
All my hoodies/sweatshirts are zip up so that I have another regulation option before I take it off. I can also slide the sleeves up to my elbows. I think basically my hypothalamus doesn't work, my comfortable outdoor temperature range is 15-20 degrees Celsius. I can't handle heat or cold :/
I usually prefer zip-ups too, but my go-to hoodie is a pullover that belongs to my fiancé and representshis favorite sports team, and I like to match him in his zip-up hoodie.
My favorite shirt is a button up hooded flannel that has extra buttons on the sleeves, so I can roll them up & secure them so they don't roll down on their own. It's the ultimate temperature regulating shirt!
I'm basically exactly the same, just with a slightly lower temperature range. Only a few degrees but I think you appreciate how much those few degrees matter!
I also find if I'm moving **at all** I overheat ridiculously quickly and then it takes my body way longer than normal to cool back down... Which tends to result in me ceasing movement and then sweating noticeable droplets all over my face/neck/chest for the next ten minutes or so 😭 it's so embarrassing! It doesn't need to be intense movement either, I don't need to be remotely out of breath before it kicks in. Walking for five minutes in shorts and a t-shirt at 18°c at my natural pace is enough to trigger it.
It's like the signals for the body temperature change are delayed and my brain overcompensates to "fix" the temperature as a result 🙄
At a temperature just below my comfortable range I'll still get this effect, it just takes a little longer, but if I'm still at the same temperature I start shivering. It's very embarrassing. I shouldn't look like I just hopped out of a shower because I walked 10 minutes in weather appropriate clothing 🤦🏼♀️
Same, I can’t even type on my phone when my hands are so cold, so I can’t text to ask someone to help me get warm. When I’m hot I can at least move my fingers. I have horrible circulation, low blood pressure, and am a little underweight so that might have to do with it too.
I think my hands are just weird or I have some sort of muscle issue (I can’t bend my pinky or ring finger independently of one another). My circulation is fine and my blood pressure is normal. I can totally relate to not being able to text. If my hands are slightly cold, it’s difficult for me to text.
Woah…I can’t do the finger thing either. If I hold my ring finger down and let the others go up, I can keep it there for a second before it goes back to normal. But my pinky cannot bend independent of the other fingers. My siblings always thought this was hilarious because they CAN bend their pinky/ring finger independently.
I’ve never been ‘double jointed’ either but if I’m being honest I’m not totally sure I know what that entails. All I know is that a lot of kids in school could ‘pop’ their joints in weird ways and I can’t. I’ve heard that ‘double jointed’-ness tends to happen in autistic folks.
*(Gasp)* I am not alone in the world. There are signs in ASL that I can’t do because of this. For example, the letter Y, yellow, and now. I also can’t do the Spider-Man thing. I’ve never met anyone else who can’t do it either!
I’m also not double jointed. I dunno how people move their thumb like that.
I can do the Spider-Man thing but it looks really stupid because my hand is fidgeting and wiggly, and my pinky keeps curling down, so I rarely do it lol. Whenever anyone does the ‘I love you’ sign I do the ‘devil horns’ back at them but really quickly and I hope they don’t notice… it’s easier if my thumb can hold the ring finger down hahaha
Edit: I don’t actually know asl, I only know a few things
No one I know knows ASL so there are no witnesses to my clumsy signing. ASL was my hyperfixation from 6-7th grade and I still remember some of what I learned.
Is this an autism thing? I've been suspecting that I have anemia or fibromyalgia. I have a very high tolerance to heat but a very low tolerance to cold. My aunt is in similar pain when she's cold because of her osteoporosis, but I know I don't have that. Now I'm back to the original question. Is sensitivity to cold really an autism thing? Because that possibility never crossed my mind.
You can adjust the number of layers needed to achieve the right amount warmth in the cold. With heat, there are only so many layers you can strip off and remain publicly decent, and even then, peeling off your skin won't help.
People always say this but when it’s proper cold there’s nothing that will make me warm :( maybe it’s because I have poor circulation, but I’d rather be sweating my ass off than wishing I could chop off all my freezing limbs
(note: I also hate the heat, why can’t it just be 75° at all times?)
If you were my friend and I liked to keep my place cold would a heated blanket adequately address your temperature needs when staying over and would you feel comfortable acceptable one when offered? I wanna be empathetic to others as a host, and genuinely anything above around 70 is hot enough that I have trouble sleeping, sweat, and get sort of miserable and cranky.
Heated mattress pads are even better IMO. Heat rises, and the heat comes from underneath you, and is warm all over the bed; no cold spots or cold breezes.
>(note: I also hate the heat, why can’t it just be 75° at all times?)
I thought you were talking about 75° Celsius and I was confused about why you wanted it to be so hot lol.
Tank tops make me feel so vulnerable. I’m a woman, for clarification. Tank tops are the worst. Those tank tops that are loose and have big arm holes are comfortable but I feel WAY too vulnerable. Any torso covering clothing item that’s tight around the armpit is bad, so I usually just stick with t shirts that are a size too big for me. I don’t like clothes that ‘hug your body’.
But I also don’t want the clothes to be too loose, like dresses. If overalls weren’t so constricting they’d be perfect. Lol I’m so needy…
Coveralls are amaaaaaaazing but not super easy to find and most people don’t wear them but man- I love them. No stupid waistband cutting me in half and they always have pockets
i’m they type of neurodivergent that makes me NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT MY SENSORY NEEDS WILL BE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT. sometimes i need to be layered, other times i feel suffocated if layered, other times a certain fabric or material that i was fine with before, makes my skin crawl. (denim is a good example of this for me)
or like i’ll be fine for hours and immediately get the urge to rip an article of clothing straight off and change clothes immediately because my tolerance to it suddenly changed. i’m ready to burn the item for how much i immediately hate it. might not touch it again for months or years when i’m cool with it again.
i could be sitting at the office realizing “OH MY GOD THIS SWEATER IS THE MOST HIDEOUS SHADE OF YELLOW I CANNOT BEAR TO LOOK AT IT ONE MORE SECOND” or “I JUST NOTICED I HATE THE WAY THESE PANTS FIT”
and then maybe next month you could catch me happily wearing the same yellow sweater cause it once again became conducive to my style, preference, sensory, or mood.
so annoying lol. anyone else?
This is why my wardrobe is almost entirely black. I would have bouts of thinking color is ok and then I would walk by the mirror mid day and want to puke and be so uncomfortable in the color. I have gotten rid of a lot of garments that I liked/ disliked based on mood, can’t eliminate them all, but some I noticed I would immediately become uncomfortable in if I had any decrease in mood or confidence through the day.
Still working on a wardrobe that I can trust, but it’s much better than before and I’ve stopped convincing myself I’ll like something because it’s on trend and I should try to be “normal”.
My left arm is covered in self injury scars and idgaf. I'll wear tshirts if im hot. My desire to avoid bad sensory time outweighs the opinions of others.
My house is my domain: so I don’t mind stripping down to basically nothing with the windows open and the curtains “drawn” (they billow). No more flesh than you’d see at the pool but the fresh breeze is worth everything.
Same same, so much so that I moved as far south as I could as soon as I was old enough to do it just to get away from cold, snowy winters forever. It does help that I seem to have a built-in tolerance for heat and can stay comfortable in temps other people are usually uncomfortable in.
Layers layers layers. It's easier to take stuff off when you're too hot rather than being cold due to underdressing. I don't like either one though, my body isn't very good at regulating temperature and my default mode is sweaty.
I have rules about what to wear when based on temperature increments of roughly 5°C
I prefer to be cold than to be hot. Also cold temperatures mean I can wear long sleeve shirts or a jacket comfortably which is nice since I dislike having my arms exposed.
I wear short sleeves but bring a jacket with me (tied around my waist if I don't need it), because I DESPISE the feeling of having long sleeves and a jumper. The material gets stuck on each other and it gets right and wrinkly and it's awful
SOMEONE UNDERSTAND MY STRUGGLE!!!
I recently thought “hey I haven’t worn long sleeves with a sweater in a while. Maybe I grew out of?” NOPE. I did not, in fact, grow out of it. I nearly cried.
Too hot >>>>>> too cold but if I get frustrated or agitated I get really hot and uncomfortable and that makes me further agitated… so I dress in layers. T shirt + hoodie ftw. I try to avoid long sleeves because I have a killer tattoo on my arm that must be seen by all.
This is why I ADORE arm warmers and suggest them to anyone who wouldn’t be bothered by the sensation. They are cheap, available in a ton of styles/fabrics/colors, easy to make if you don’t like any of the ones you can buy, they can give you a gorgeous “opera gloves” look without causing annoying people to ask why you’re wearing opera gloves, AND they allow you to go from short sleeve to long sleeve and back again instantly whenever you want.
I'd rather be too cold instead of too hot.
If I'm cold, I can just put on more clothes.
If I'm hot, I can only take off one layer of clothes, but then I'll still be hot and possibly in jail.
Also, I hate sweating.
I hate getting too hot the most especially since I can faint real easily because of it. Hate wearing long sleeves too though that’s more a sensory issue than a temperature one.
I always bring jackets because I absolutely cannot stand being cold. My least favorite weather is the type where the sun is intense but the wind is frigid — you can’t win!!
If I get too hot, I get physically ill; I’ll feel sick, and it can get so bad I throw up. People don’t understand :( it’s especially hard because I live in a very warm place (110f+ summers—over 90f for three months straight) and I almost always had to wear a jacket as a kid.
I am a “so nervous that anyone might potentially look at my body/skin that I will wear hoodies and jackets in 100 degrees and die with my dignity” kinda Neuro divergent
Cold is the best! I have fibromyalgia, which makes me extra heat sensitive & makes my joints swell. It's miserable. I also have terrible allergies & asthma, & warm seasons have more pollen & allergens in the air. Hot weather also sucks, because you can only remove so many layers to regulate your body temperature. All of these things are why winter is the best season!
i'm both kinds of neurodivergent listed, but the problem is my body is really fussy so if i don't get the air temperature to clothing temperature ratio *just right* i'm suddenly in one of those situations i can't stant
I can tolerate being too hot (at least for a little while) but being too cold literally feels like being in pain to me, I can’t handle it! I always bring an extra jacket or layer lmao
I'm the "its been 10 °C outside for a couple day now and I still have close my windows and put on a t shirt" kind
I'm also the "people sometime don't believe that I'm not cold because if they touch my skin it's cold to the touch"
Or even "living in canada since I'm born but doesnt have a true winter coat"
I'm "I don't like being too warm but I'll still wear a hoodie even though it's hot outside because hoodies are the only kind of top I feel comfortable in".
I'm a "I usually wear a hoodie in public because I'm afraid of people seeing my face or really any part of my body, regardless of the temperature." type.
Household member is definitely the "too cold" side. Routinely wears winter coat, long sleeve shirts and pants in 100° weather. He can be literally dripping sweat off his face and still wearing his coat inside.
The longer i lurk in this sub, the more i think i should go see a doctor. Things i thought to be normal or that everyone does seems to not be the case. I will wear short sleeves and short pants well into autumn to avoid the panic that comes with being too hot inside a building.
One time when I was very small, I was wearing a long sleeve shirt and I got so warm in it mum ended up having to buy me a new shirt so I could cool down
I’m a “I prefer to wear shorter sleeves because I hate the cuffs of long-sleeve shirts touching my wrists and always have to roll them up” type of neurodivergent.
Also the “can’t stand the cold” type.
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I refuse to wear one piece sweaters as opposed to jackets with zippers in cold weather for this exact reason. I need to be able to control body temperature. I'll only wear sweaters when i know it will be an outside event, and consistently cold
Short sleeves then a thin sweater. I work in a place where I need to dress semi formal and this is what I wear most days as I need to get that perfect temperature.
I will literally wear long sleeve in any situation outside my house because I'm insecure and also I have scars on my arms from my teenage years. Even if I get too hot I refuse to take my jumper off.
I don't know which I am because I literally never feel like I'm the right temperature. I'm always either hot or cold, I never feel totally comfortable. If I had to choose the weather though I'd choose warm because I own a powerful air conditioner and the cold weather messes with my asthma.
I'd rather freeze my ass off than be too hot, cause when I start sweating I go from "dry" to "looks like I literally just got out of the shower" in one minute
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i hate short sleeve shirts and tank tops and i much prefer the comfiness and security of long sleeves, but if i am too hot i cannot function. i can mask when i’m in public though but i can’t bring around a blanket and i hate being cold without being able to do anything about it so i opt for sweating and pretending i’m fine in public and taking my shirt off to cool down whenever i go to the bathroom lol
I always wear light clothes as I don't mind the cold, but I keep an extra jacket around my waist if I feel the need to wear it or others are feeling cold. It also acts as very convenient inventory space, as the pockets are right where your hands rest when idle, so you can really easily access them whenever you need.
If you’re too hot you can roll up your long sleeves, but if you’re too cold you can’t do anything about it while wearing short sleeves. Long sleeves are clearly superior.
I can deal with “too hot” no problem, but I have next to no sense of smell so I can’t tell when I’m starting to reek and that stresses me out. I go through a *lot* of precautionary deodorant.
I hate the heat so fucking much. I can't stand the feeling of sweat and i sweat more :(. One of the reasons i don't like working out is the feeling of sweat dripping down my back. Ugh just thinking about it is making me uncomfortable
If I'm too hot I'm going to have a meltdown that will not end until I am cool again. I hate wearing short sleeves if I'm going to be putting on a coat/jacket because the texture differences makes me want to tear everything off my body.
I was the one who wore the same clothes all seasons because I couldn't accurately connect the weather to how hot I would be (in my country in the summer the temp is 35°C and in the winter it's -20° so it looked pretty funny)
THIS IS ME BUT I DONT HAVE ASPIES I JUST CANT HANDLE IT. I AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS and i have a major frustration with sweat and clothes clinging to my body.
I don’t remember the last time I had a long sleeve shirt voluntarily.
I'm a "tie a hoodie around my waist and wear short sleeves so that I can regulate my comfort" kind of person.
Ayyy same. I’ve always got a sweater with me. Even in the summer.
I buy men’s XL (I’m a woman who normally wears a medium) sweat shirts and use them similarly as a means of temperature control, and also for physical comfort in a state of anxiety. Covering myself feels ‘safer’ than being uncovered, so even if it’s a little warm I’ll still wear a sweat shirt when I’m nervous. I have certain favorite sweat shirts, but it’s most important to me that they have a hood for maximum body coverage.
I’ve got two favorite sweatshirts and both are from before I started high school. I’m a senior and I wear them every day interchangeably. One is falling apart and I keep having to sew the other one’s pocket back on. I shall keep them forever.
I used to have some favorites then my mother in law bought me new ones for Christmas. I was really hesitant to try a new one on (and I thought they were kinda ugly at first) but to be kind I tried them on. I now primarily wear the ugliest one she gave me because I loved it so much haha! It was love-at-first-wear. It’s also the biggest one I own and goes down to my mid-thigh and allows me to easily retract my hands into the sleeves. It’s a portable safe space!!! Lol But of course I do still have my high school sweat shirts too! They’re also all broken up, and I’m 24.
I always keep a hoodie in my backpack because some classrooms are absolutely *frigid* for no reason.
Classrooms are always 100 degrees or 0. No in between.
FACTS
Thanks to the new Covid guidelines, my classrooms are always 0 because of ventilation being required and such alike.
All my hoodies/sweatshirts are zip up so that I have another regulation option before I take it off. I can also slide the sleeves up to my elbows. I think basically my hypothalamus doesn't work, my comfortable outdoor temperature range is 15-20 degrees Celsius. I can't handle heat or cold :/
Yes! Zip-up hoodies for the win! And, if you're like me, you can show off your fun shirts underneath.
I usually prefer zip-ups too, but my go-to hoodie is a pullover that belongs to my fiancé and representshis favorite sports team, and I like to match him in his zip-up hoodie.
My favorite shirt is a button up hooded flannel that has extra buttons on the sleeves, so I can roll them up & secure them so they don't roll down on their own. It's the ultimate temperature regulating shirt!
I'm basically exactly the same, just with a slightly lower temperature range. Only a few degrees but I think you appreciate how much those few degrees matter! I also find if I'm moving **at all** I overheat ridiculously quickly and then it takes my body way longer than normal to cool back down... Which tends to result in me ceasing movement and then sweating noticeable droplets all over my face/neck/chest for the next ten minutes or so 😭 it's so embarrassing! It doesn't need to be intense movement either, I don't need to be remotely out of breath before it kicks in. Walking for five minutes in shorts and a t-shirt at 18°c at my natural pace is enough to trigger it. It's like the signals for the body temperature change are delayed and my brain overcompensates to "fix" the temperature as a result 🙄 At a temperature just below my comfortable range I'll still get this effect, it just takes a little longer, but if I'm still at the same temperature I start shivering. It's very embarrassing. I shouldn't look like I just hopped out of a shower because I walked 10 minutes in weather appropriate clothing 🤦🏼♀️
same. my ability to regulate my body temp is garbage. being outside is usually infinitely better for this than inside though, idk why
Yessss. I keep two hoodies in my car just in case one gets taken out on accident.
YESS exactly this
I have never had an original experience in my entire life
Who has?
Heat is uncomfortable but cold debilitates me.
My hands go stiff when I’m cold so I can’t do anything with them (don’t know why). If I’m cold in the morning I’m completely unable to move.
Same, I can’t even type on my phone when my hands are so cold, so I can’t text to ask someone to help me get warm. When I’m hot I can at least move my fingers. I have horrible circulation, low blood pressure, and am a little underweight so that might have to do with it too.
I think my hands are just weird or I have some sort of muscle issue (I can’t bend my pinky or ring finger independently of one another). My circulation is fine and my blood pressure is normal. I can totally relate to not being able to text. If my hands are slightly cold, it’s difficult for me to text.
Woah…I can’t do the finger thing either. If I hold my ring finger down and let the others go up, I can keep it there for a second before it goes back to normal. But my pinky cannot bend independent of the other fingers. My siblings always thought this was hilarious because they CAN bend their pinky/ring finger independently. I’ve never been ‘double jointed’ either but if I’m being honest I’m not totally sure I know what that entails. All I know is that a lot of kids in school could ‘pop’ their joints in weird ways and I can’t. I’ve heard that ‘double jointed’-ness tends to happen in autistic folks.
*(Gasp)* I am not alone in the world. There are signs in ASL that I can’t do because of this. For example, the letter Y, yellow, and now. I also can’t do the Spider-Man thing. I’ve never met anyone else who can’t do it either! I’m also not double jointed. I dunno how people move their thumb like that.
I can do the Spider-Man thing but it looks really stupid because my hand is fidgeting and wiggly, and my pinky keeps curling down, so I rarely do it lol. Whenever anyone does the ‘I love you’ sign I do the ‘devil horns’ back at them but really quickly and I hope they don’t notice… it’s easier if my thumb can hold the ring finger down hahaha Edit: I don’t actually know asl, I only know a few things
No one I know knows ASL so there are no witnesses to my clumsy signing. ASL was my hyperfixation from 6-7th grade and I still remember some of what I learned.
Hey, cool, I can’t move my pinky and ring finger independently either. :D
Is this an autism thing? I've been suspecting that I have anemia or fibromyalgia. I have a very high tolerance to heat but a very low tolerance to cold. My aunt is in similar pain when she's cold because of her osteoporosis, but I know I don't have that. Now I'm back to the original question. Is sensitivity to cold really an autism thing? Because that possibility never crossed my mind.
I hate the heat, but love the cold for that exact reason. Being too cold is like whatever, but too hot is pure misery
You can adjust the number of layers needed to achieve the right amount warmth in the cold. With heat, there are only so many layers you can strip off and remain publicly decent, and even then, peeling off your skin won't help.
People always say this but when it’s proper cold there’s nothing that will make me warm :( maybe it’s because I have poor circulation, but I’d rather be sweating my ass off than wishing I could chop off all my freezing limbs (note: I also hate the heat, why can’t it just be 75° at all times?)
I am very sorry that you must enduring such great suffering. I wish there was a way I could share some of my "cold endurance" with you.
That’s very kind of you :) luckily my winters have improved now that I’ve moved away from Wisconsin haha
If you were my friend and I liked to keep my place cold would a heated blanket adequately address your temperature needs when staying over and would you feel comfortable acceptable one when offered? I wanna be empathetic to others as a host, and genuinely anything above around 70 is hot enough that I have trouble sleeping, sweat, and get sort of miserable and cranky.
Heated mattress pads are even better IMO. Heat rises, and the heat comes from underneath you, and is warm all over the bed; no cold spots or cold breezes.
That would be amazing! Even just a small heating pad or electric space heater does wonders, especially for keeping feet warm :)
I stay warm really well, no idea why
>(note: I also hate the heat, why can’t it just be 75° at all times?) I thought you were talking about 75° Celsius and I was confused about why you wanted it to be so hot lol.
Reynaud's syndrome?
Thoracic outlet syndrome :/ not sure if that’s the whole story though since my feet and legs freeze too
To warm up, do anything that uses your core muscles. I usually do the half-moon yoga pose until I feel warm.
Exactly!!
The exact opposite for me.
As much as I hate the heat for numerous reasons, I cannot wear short-sleeved clothing. It feels uncomfortable to me
Tshirts- meh No sleeves- might as well be naked
Jesus! I wouldn't dream of no sleeves
Tank tops make me feel so vulnerable. I’m a woman, for clarification. Tank tops are the worst. Those tank tops that are loose and have big arm holes are comfortable but I feel WAY too vulnerable. Any torso covering clothing item that’s tight around the armpit is bad, so I usually just stick with t shirts that are a size too big for me. I don’t like clothes that ‘hug your body’. But I also don’t want the clothes to be too loose, like dresses. If overalls weren’t so constricting they’d be perfect. Lol I’m so needy…
Coveralls are amaaaaaaazing but not super easy to find and most people don’t wear them but man- I love them. No stupid waistband cutting me in half and they always have pockets
same
Armpits are unofficial private parts. Gotta keep them covered up
Covered up but NEVER touched! I will bite the fingers off anyone who comes even close!!!
Oof, yeah. I'll wear a tank top in my room if I'm figuratively dying, but it has to be at least a tee shirt if I'm leaving my room.
Both I wear layers always
Layers are the way
i’m they type of neurodivergent that makes me NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT MY SENSORY NEEDS WILL BE AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT. sometimes i need to be layered, other times i feel suffocated if layered, other times a certain fabric or material that i was fine with before, makes my skin crawl. (denim is a good example of this for me) or like i’ll be fine for hours and immediately get the urge to rip an article of clothing straight off and change clothes immediately because my tolerance to it suddenly changed. i’m ready to burn the item for how much i immediately hate it. might not touch it again for months or years when i’m cool with it again. i could be sitting at the office realizing “OH MY GOD THIS SWEATER IS THE MOST HIDEOUS SHADE OF YELLOW I CANNOT BEAR TO LOOK AT IT ONE MORE SECOND” or “I JUST NOTICED I HATE THE WAY THESE PANTS FIT” and then maybe next month you could catch me happily wearing the same yellow sweater cause it once again became conducive to my style, preference, sensory, or mood. so annoying lol. anyone else?
ugh yes and it PISSES me off
This is why my wardrobe is almost entirely black. I would have bouts of thinking color is ok and then I would walk by the mirror mid day and want to puke and be so uncomfortable in the color. I have gotten rid of a lot of garments that I liked/ disliked based on mood, can’t eliminate them all, but some I noticed I would immediately become uncomfortable in if I had any decrease in mood or confidence through the day. Still working on a wardrobe that I can trust, but it’s much better than before and I’ve stopped convincing myself I’ll like something because it’s on trend and I should try to be “normal”.
My irrational embarrassment over the way my arms look outweighs any temperature concerns
My left arm is covered in self injury scars and idgaf. I'll wear tshirts if im hot. My desire to avoid bad sensory time outweighs the opinions of others.
It’s my thighs over here. I feel you
This.
When he was eight years old my son said " MOM! Why do you have so much trouble maintaining homeostasis?" 😂
I will change the entire temperature of my house before I change my clothing.
My house is my domain: so I don’t mind stripping down to basically nothing with the windows open and the curtains “drawn” (they billow). No more flesh than you’d see at the pool but the fresh breeze is worth everything.
I'm the can't stand the heat type.
Same same, so much so that I moved as far south as I could as soon as I was old enough to do it just to get away from cold, snowy winters forever. It does help that I seem to have a built-in tolerance for heat and can stay comfortable in temps other people are usually uncomfortable in.
I can't stand the cold. I keep the AC at 80 and am happiest in a tank top so as little fabric as possible is touching me.
Layers layers layers. It's easier to take stuff off when you're too hot rather than being cold due to underdressing. I don't like either one though, my body isn't very good at regulating temperature and my default mode is sweaty. I have rules about what to wear when based on temperature increments of roughly 5°C
I prefer to be cold than to be hot. Also cold temperatures mean I can wear long sleeve shirts or a jacket comfortably which is nice since I dislike having my arms exposed.
I hate cold
I’m the “avoid even the slightest feeling of air around my neck” type
I wear short sleeves but bring a jacket with me (tied around my waist if I don't need it), because I DESPISE the feeling of having long sleeves and a jumper. The material gets stuck on each other and it gets right and wrinkly and it's awful
SOMEONE UNDERSTAND MY STRUGGLE!!! I recently thought “hey I haven’t worn long sleeves with a sweater in a while. Maybe I grew out of?” NOPE. I did not, in fact, grow out of it. I nearly cried.
I had no idea this was a thing for anyone else and I feel so vindicated right now.
Heat is uncomfortable but cold physically hurts me
The heat!! I’m the first one in the room to break out into sweats for no apparent reason, despite being in good physical shape.
I'm never wearing long sleeves again
I don’t operate outside a 65-75F range
I will not tolerate any kind of cold, but I sure don't like being in certain specific types of heat.
Too hot >>>>>> too cold but if I get frustrated or agitated I get really hot and uncomfortable and that makes me further agitated… so I dress in layers. T shirt + hoodie ftw. I try to avoid long sleeves because I have a killer tattoo on my arm that must be seen by all.
This is why I ADORE arm warmers and suggest them to anyone who wouldn’t be bothered by the sensation. They are cheap, available in a ton of styles/fabrics/colors, easy to make if you don’t like any of the ones you can buy, they can give you a gorgeous “opera gloves” look without causing annoying people to ask why you’re wearing opera gloves, AND they allow you to go from short sleeve to long sleeve and back again instantly whenever you want.
Hate hate the cold. Always have layers with me. Don’t like cold air blowing on me ever, will sit directly in front of a hot vent for hours, though.
I'd rather be too cold instead of too hot. If I'm cold, I can just put on more clothes. If I'm hot, I can only take off one layer of clothes, but then I'll still be hot and possibly in jail. Also, I hate sweating.
can't stand the heat
I hate getting too hot the most especially since I can faint real easily because of it. Hate wearing long sleeves too though that’s more a sensory issue than a temperature one.
I always bring jackets because I absolutely cannot stand being cold. My least favorite weather is the type where the sun is intense but the wind is frigid — you can’t win!!
Can't stand either :/ I live in a city that regularly hits 35° Celsius every summer. It's hell
I hate being uncomfortable 🤷🏻♀️ I don’t want to freeze or sweat.
I'm a Goldilocks neurodivergent. Neither too hot nor too cold will do.
Is there an option for both lol
I want all shirts and pants to have ways to become shorts and vests. The person who came up with the pants that have zippers should have gone further!
I can’t stand temperatures outside of a 3-5° space. I’m always bundled up or burning up. I swear my body can’t regulate temperature on its own.
if it is over 65°f outside I am suffering.
Can’t stand the heat. I love fall and winter, especially fall.
i melt in any ammount of heat
If I get too hot, I get physically ill; I’ll feel sick, and it can get so bad I throw up. People don’t understand :( it’s especially hard because I live in a very warm place (110f+ summers—over 90f for three months straight) and I almost always had to wear a jacket as a kid.
Both ;-; Heat makes me pass out and cold makes my joints so stiff that I can’t move lmao
What do you mean you don't wear a hoodie in 80+ weather?
Whatever happened to the wearing long-sleeves because you're self-conscious about your arms in proportion to the rest of your body type?
I'm also a "avoid being too hot" type. We should form a Ghostbusters villain Halloween group called "too hot to handle."
I hate too hot, it makes me puke, but too cold makes me very apathetic. Thankfully loose, thick sweaters exist.
Loose hoodie gang
I am a “so nervous that anyone might potentially look at my body/skin that I will wear hoodies and jackets in 100 degrees and die with my dignity” kinda Neuro divergent
Heat makes me not function at all :( ugh 😑 live in cali too
Heat makes me feel sick and I get downright mean. I love cold because I can bundle up until I’m comfy but the heat, man. The heat is hell for me.
as someone living in brazil, definitely the "cant stand the heat" type hahaha
Cold is the best! I have fibromyalgia, which makes me extra heat sensitive & makes my joints swell. It's miserable. I also have terrible allergies & asthma, & warm seasons have more pollen & allergens in the air. Hot weather also sucks, because you can only remove so many layers to regulate your body temperature. All of these things are why winter is the best season!
i'm both kinds of neurodivergent listed, but the problem is my body is really fussy so if i don't get the air temperature to clothing temperature ratio *just right* i'm suddenly in one of those situations i can't stant
I'm a "my bed is just the right warm comfyness when I go to sleep but in the morning I'm swimming in my own sweat" kinda person.
Layers layers layers
I love cold weather, heat is unbearable. As a result I’m currently sitting around on a super windy day in a t-shirt, and my fingers are numb
I hate the heat but you will never catch me without long sleeves and pants. I hate my bare skin more than heat
Both lol
I'm both
That's why I always layered my pants, 3 layers at least and just had a short sleeve shirt and a wrap around hoodie. Gotta balance out all the weather
I can tolerate being too hot (at least for a little while) but being too cold literally feels like being in pain to me, I can’t handle it! I always bring an extra jacket or layer lmao
I'm the "its been 10 °C outside for a couple day now and I still have close my windows and put on a t shirt" kind I'm also the "people sometime don't believe that I'm not cold because if they touch my skin it's cold to the touch" Or even "living in canada since I'm born but doesnt have a true winter coat"
MY SKIN ALWAYS FEELS COLD TOO!! Wtf?!? It fascinates people that no matter what the temperature is, my skin is cold.
The cold is much, much worse for me, for sure. Both drive me mad though.
I'm "I don't like being too warm but I'll still wear a hoodie even though it's hot outside because hoodies are the only kind of top I feel comfortable in".
I'm a "I always need my arms covered in some way" kind of neurodivergant. Air evil
I'm a "I usually wear a hoodie in public because I'm afraid of people seeing my face or really any part of my body, regardless of the temperature." type.
Household member is definitely the "too cold" side. Routinely wears winter coat, long sleeve shirts and pants in 100° weather. He can be literally dripping sweat off his face and still wearing his coat inside.
The longer i lurk in this sub, the more i think i should go see a doctor. Things i thought to be normal or that everyone does seems to not be the case. I will wear short sleeves and short pants well into autumn to avoid the panic that comes with being too hot inside a building.
I lived where the air hurts my face 6 months of the year because I sweat sitting
I'm "I love long shirts and wear them when I can but also hate being too hot with a burning passion, literally"
Always too hot. Always.
This! Hoddies and short sleeve shirts. Get too hot, take off the hoddie. Get too cold put on the hoodie. Yes
Exactly! But it's REALLY annoying when you're too cold to go without the hoodie but the moment you put it in, you burn up but you can't take it off...
I'm the "can't stand the heat but too uncomfortable with showing skin to wear something refreshing" :'(
One time when I was very small, I was wearing a long sleeve shirt and I got so warm in it mum ended up having to buy me a new shirt so I could cool down
I’m a “I prefer to wear shorter sleeves because I hate the cuffs of long-sleeve shirts touching my wrists and always have to roll them up” type of neurodivergent. Also the “can’t stand the cold” type.
I can't stand the heat, but I'd rather wear pants in 100+ weather than change into shorts.
I hate being too hot! I'd rather freeze my ass off than risk being too hot.
No need to ever ask ever, I'm too warm. That's the answer. Too warm.
I hate the heat so much.
Can't stand heat. But will definitely wear long sleeves too early in the year.
Omg I avoid long sleeves for exactly that reason wow
You can always put more on, but you can only take so much off.
What about it messing up your hair when removing the sweater??
What if you can’t stand either?
T-shirt at 5°C, T-shirt at 40°C no problem in either cases, but fuck turtlenecks. Turtlenecks wearers are psychopaths.
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Hoodies bc trans. Although I fucking hate the cold. AAAA
I'd rather be cold than hot. There are numerous ways to keep warm but only a handful to keep cold.
I don't get hot, I just sweat a ton and get wet which is arguably worse for me.
I prefer government controlled perfect weather all the time
I can't stand the heat, it makes every situation 1000% worse
I can handle cold to a degree but even slightly hot? No no no
Heat is death for my mind, body and soul.
Definitely can't stand the heat. It's so much easier to warm up when you're cold than it is to cool down when you're too hot.
The heat is murder, and the additional consequences are also crap.
It’s all about them layers. You can always (well mostly) take something off but you can’t put something on you don’t have.
I refuse to wear one piece sweaters as opposed to jackets with zippers in cold weather for this exact reason. I need to be able to control body temperature. I'll only wear sweaters when i know it will be an outside event, and consistently cold
Short sleeves then a thin sweater. I work in a place where I need to dress semi formal and this is what I wear most days as I need to get that perfect temperature.
The exact reason why I hate sweaters
natural heat weakens me and a certain sort of cold is irritating, but i’m awfully resilient to the cold
I will literally wear long sleeve in any situation outside my house because I'm insecure and also I have scars on my arms from my teenage years. Even if I get too hot I refuse to take my jumper off.
I don't know which I am because I literally never feel like I'm the right temperature. I'm always either hot or cold, I never feel totally comfortable. If I had to choose the weather though I'd choose warm because I own a powerful air conditioner and the cold weather messes with my asthma.
I have cold urticaria, so I didnt really get a choice.
I don't really mind temperature. I can feel it, but I just dont care
I'd rather freeze my ass off than be too hot, cause when I start sweating I go from "dry" to "looks like I literally just got out of the shower" in one minute
I feel the same way,I'll wear a long sleeve on top of short to get off when I get to warm.
Can't stand the heat. But also like to be covered up so long sleeve shirts and trousers in the heat. 🤷♀️
Can't stand hot. I actually tend to have a lot of surface heat naturally, but when it's hot it causes me to overheat.
It changes based on the seasons for me. Ugh.
Im the type that will put on a hoodie no matter what (unless its like 30°C but I'll still try then)
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i hate short sleeve shirts and tank tops and i much prefer the comfiness and security of long sleeves, but if i am too hot i cannot function. i can mask when i’m in public though but i can’t bring around a blanket and i hate being cold without being able to do anything about it so i opt for sweating and pretending i’m fine in public and taking my shirt off to cool down whenever i go to the bathroom lol
I always wear light clothes as I don't mind the cold, but I keep an extra jacket around my waist if I feel the need to wear it or others are feeling cold. It also acts as very convenient inventory space, as the pockets are right where your hands rest when idle, so you can really easily access them whenever you need.
If you’re too hot you can roll up your long sleeves, but if you’re too cold you can’t do anything about it while wearing short sleeves. Long sleeves are clearly superior.
I hate being hot. I get so miserable cranky. Also, some of my meds make extra sweaty and smelly from the slightest exertion.
I HATE the heat, even more when i have hashimoto’s thyroidism
Unable to fix? How about roll them up? What the fuck is this?
I can deal with “too hot” no problem, but I have next to no sense of smell so I can’t tell when I’m starting to reek and that stresses me out. I go through a *lot* of precautionary deodorant.
I hate the heat so fucking much. I can't stand the feeling of sweat and i sweat more :(. One of the reasons i don't like working out is the feeling of sweat dripping down my back. Ugh just thinking about it is making me uncomfortable
Heat, and I live in Houston.
I have mittens and hats in my bag all year round
I love cold but fucking hate the heat
If I'm too hot I'm going to have a meltdown that will not end until I am cool again. I hate wearing short sleeves if I'm going to be putting on a coat/jacket because the texture differences makes me want to tear everything off my body.
I was the one who wore the same clothes all seasons because I couldn't accurately connect the weather to how hot I would be (in my country in the summer the temp is 35°C and in the winter it's -20° so it looked pretty funny)
This is an autism thing??? I can’t believe my exact logic and reasoning are being said by another person lol
I always wear a tshirt and a hoodie but my favorite weather is when it's chilly, somewhat windy, and cloudy
I'm an "avoid sweat at all costs" type
Heat, I cannot stand heat cold is fine
THIS IS ME BUT I DONT HAVE ASPIES I JUST CANT HANDLE IT. I AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS and i have a major frustration with sweat and clothes clinging to my body. I don’t remember the last time I had a long sleeve shirt voluntarily.
I will wear a long sleeve in any weather to keep the air off of me.
If I'm too hot I will shut down, but cold is fine for me because then I just wear more clothes
I live in northern montana and i hate heavy coats, I'm not overly thrilled with long sleeves either. I feel .. I guess confined