Solidarity for those of us who hate Spring

I think I'd like maybe 2 or 3 weeks of hot weather per year. Bit of a novelty doing barbeques and getting the paddling pool out for the kids but I soon get tired of it.

Same. Heat-intolerant and always have been due to normal range but towards the lower end blood pressure making me typically feel nauseous and on the verge of fainting and have fainted throughout my life even in childhood, and didn’t know the reason until I was an adult.

I had plenty of tree cover in my home country including around play areas whereas where I live now there isn’t much at all until I’m walking into town. I didn’t mind the summers when I first moved here and actually enjoyed them because they were mild but the temperature and the length of time of it has definitely increased In the time I’ve lived here, over a decade.

I love Spring though because you see nature waking up, flowers and trees budding, temperature is a bit warmer, and means the start of garden projects for me.

I’m with you OP but for different reasons I think. I’m not keen on winter, I love summer. I don’t like early spring (especially March). I feel as though I’ve got through winter and there should be some reward - but no, it’s still freezing, grey, and the trees are still bare and summer’s miles away. And then in April I hate never knowing how to dress. Warmly and risk getting too hot? Or less warmly and freeze to death.

@RampantIvy I think maybe people who like the dark have more freedom of when they go out? I absolutely hate it being dark so much. But then I have to go to work and come home in the dark which I find creepy and it makes me nervous about being attacked at the station or walking there.. Then I have to take my kids to all their usual clubs and it's just unpleasant driving in the dark. Most of the people who like the dark talk about coming home, shutting the curtains and getting "cosy". So they probably don't like being in the dark if that makes sense?
Also winter means either massive fuel bills or a mouldy house (we've had both this year) plus all the horrible winter bugs that kids bring home from school.
I genuinely do quite like autumn. It feels sort of romantic at the weekends, going for misty walks while the leaves change colour but winter? Ugh no thanks. And early spring is muddy and cold.

Do those of you who prefer the dark not commute by car?

Driving up the M1 in the dark in driving rain is not my idea of fun.

I'm with you OP! For as long as I can remember I've felt an uneasy on the build up to spring.
Same as you, no 'reason' or bad memories I just dread it every year. But a couple of weeks into it and it will start to ease off.

Although I really don't like the light evenings, I much prefer the dark nights and mornings. To be honest, if I could have it my way it would always be autumn and winter

@crochetmonkey74 You know, I think I know exactly what you mean but I've never expressed it before, even to myself. Summer into autumn feels natural - warm weather turning gradually cooler and leaves gently falling. Into winter is natural again - leaves are gone and cold weather continues. But winter into spring is different! Leaves suddenly appear from nowhere. Shoots sprout, buds appear, bulbs push their way up from the bare soil. It feels like... a lot. Kind of creepy, things lurking in the shadows and then suddenly just...being. There was nothing and now there is something. But then spring into summer feels like a natural progression again. The leaves and buds are already there.

I actually do find plants quite creepy, the way you can propagate them from each other, especially those weird cactuses where you plant their leaves and they self reproduce. Barf. Don't get me started on fungus, or things with lots of holes, or those weird tiny peppers that grow inside larger peppers. They're alive but also not alive. I'd hazard a guess that you feel similarly?

I'm the same OP I hate spring and summer. I love autumn and winter early dark nights and cold weather rather than warm/hot weather.
I can't wait to get spring and summer out the way I dread it

I feel exactly the same OP, thought I was the only one! The longer days give me so much anxiety 😟

Spring is definitely on its way, bulbs are up, the light is changing, subtle but it's happening.

I get that people are different and many people have a preferred season. I get that some people don’t like change. What I’m struggling with here is that it’s nowhere near Spring - it’s fucking January!! We’re more likely to have snow in the next two months than warm weather. It’s still dark between 5pm and 8am. We’ll get more storms and floods before any chance of a heatwave. Do you really spend 3 months every year dreading the arrival of Spring, OP?

No I have absolutely terrible eyesight!

I wouldn't say I'm an introvert either. I do sometimes wonder though if my hatred of spring is somehow tied up with lack of confidence. Not sure how to articulate it but I've always felt this way for as long as I can remember.

Move to the Pennines
Do you have good eyesight? I really struggle in low light levels because I have rubbish eyesight - thank you measles.

Those of you who prefer to shut the world out - would you say you are introverts?

I hate spring. It's cold, but not cold enough to wear consistent jumpers and coats. It's wet and muddy, so coming home from a walk with the dog and kids is always a mess. The pollen starts, so guaranteed my hayfever will act up. The only decent holiday is Easter, but with the weather likely to be miserable and prices everywhere jacked up for the school break, it's not worth the money to go away. It's brighter in the mornings, so the kids won't sleep in past 6 anymore, but it's not warm enough outside to enjoy the lighter evening outside. The bastard time change will destroy any semblance of routine on our house.

Spring sucks.

Not spring, no, but I AM dreading the summer. Well, I’m dreading the heat. I seem to be hyper-sensitive to it. I would rather put up with anything - snow, rain, storms, flooding…anything but the heat. To make it worse, rural Essex (where I live) is unbearably crowded, with new housing estates appearing everywhere. The traffic is now so bad I hardly bother going out. For an introvert like me, the combination of heat, traffic and overcrowding is torture.

These are the sorts of days I actively like!

This is me.

I would be very happy for it to be permanently Autumn and Winter. I love closing the curtains against the dark nights, lighting candles and getting cosy. I love a bright but frosty morning and I love a chilly, rainy day. I deliberately keep our bedroom cold because we have a thick, goose down duvet and brushed cotton bedding. It's bliss.

I actively dislike strong sunshine and temperatures over 20 degrees. I rarely sunbathe because it's dull and uncomfortable. I hate feeling sweaty and unclean, it actually makes me stressed. I hate biting insects because they make a bee-line for me and I have Skeeter Syndrome so any bites really swell up and become inflamed.

Even though I never put my face in the sun, I still get stressed that the strong sunshine is damaging my skin because I just cannot tolerate any sunscreen on my face.

I love it when it gets dark at 3.30-ish. Lovely and peaceful. As soon as the clocks go forward in March out come all the kids to trash where I live

This is exactly how November weather usually looks - perhaps that's why I'm finding January unusually hard this year (been ill for weeks over Christmas which didn't help).

Grey, dank dampness, and whole days of perpetual twilight when it never seems to get properly light, are the worst!

NB. late, blowzy summer isn't a season I dislike particularly, but it's spoiled for me by the wasps. I'm positively phobic about them. One really good thing about November is that the evil buzzy little shits have all died off, and I can actually start to wear scented products again without attracting them. Bleurgh!

I 'get' it. My least favoured months are November and December (including Christmas): I start to feel better in January, especially toward the end when the days start to draw out more. (This year, however, for some reason January has felt interminable). I like the changing seasons and do find Autumn a pleasant time of year; it's the shorter days and early darkness I can't get enthusiastic about.

But if I feel that way about autumn then it's no great stretch of the imagination that others will feel the same way about spring. Not quite computing the gratuitous offence taken by some people simply because others are different, make different choices, or have preferences which are different from theirs. Is this myopia recent? It seems to be worse recently.

I try to find things about the seasons I struggle with that I do like. The healing darkness, and the fact that the time of year can make fewer demands. My lovely wood burner, and proper stargazing. I'll always love spring best, but solidarity and empathy to those who are feeling now what I felt in November!

@RampantIvy See, thats january weather in my book. Feels really spring like here today. It's forecast to get cold again. But January days where I don't need a coat and the sun is warm on my face feel so strange. Most people like that feeling of the first warm rays of sun. I get that. I can appreciate that it feels quite nice but it also signifies the roll towards bloody summer which I dislike so much. A few years ago we had high 30's/early 40's for a very long time and I felt so trapped and almost panicky. I don't feel at all bothered by the -10 degree cold snap we had last year, or snow, rain, hail, fog etc. Cold crisp days are the best though.

9 degrees here with a yellow rain warning and very low light levels as per my photo which I took out of the bedroom window.

@GoosieLucie I never understood people who didn’t like Christmas and I’m so much more sympathetic now. It can be such a tough time of year for so many reasons.

@RampantIvy “Where does everyone live where May and October are hot?
Is everyone from London and the South East on this thread?”

This did make me laugh. Nope, not everyone is from London and the SE but many millions of people live here😂 It’s 15 degrees here today. I was too warm to wear a coat on my walk into the village. It’ll be chilly again in an hour or so, but still. It’s pretty mild here today. I genuinely think about moving north just for the weather!