Solidarity for those of us who hate Spring

Oh, you're not that bad. 😁

Is it the inconsistency you find difficult. As in one day you are wrapped up in a big, warm coat, hat, scarf, gloves. The next it’s much warmer and you suddenly feel uncomfortable in those clothes? I can understand that.
Ive made a conscious effort these past months to embrace the seasons.
So if it’s cold I make sure I’m appropriately dressed.
Once spring is fully here I’ll swap my clothes and out will come my summer/spring clothes.
It’s my way if coping as I’m the opposite and love summer especially.
Bring on the warm/hot weather is my motto.
Can you find something to enjoy about spring? Easter celebrations, spring flowers, eating pancakes and chocolate (is that spring?) Buy yourself some tulips or daffodils maybe.

100%. Autumn and winter are my happy months, but I dread a long, hot summer.

I get it @crochetmonkey74.

Spring is my least favourite season. Last night I was already thinking I can't wait for Autumn. I love the dark evenings.

I do like the really hot weather though.

Well you aren't the only one. The Wasteland by TS Eliot (my fave poem) begins 'April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.' So maybe you're destined to be a prize winning poet!

You hate birdsong and daffodils?

This is a new one for me and tbh is the exact opposite of how I feel. I love spring. I love all the seasons to be honest just because I like observing the change.

I can sort of understand people who hate summer (though I love it personally) because of the discomfort element, but hating spring is very niche. What exactly is it which you don't like about birdsong?

Yes I am totally with you on this OP. I feel the same. Prepare to have your arse handed to you though and be told you are a weirdo or you are depressed because you have a preference. People get so riled up over others not liking Spring or Summer and the days getting lighter. It’s bizarre. I couldn’t care less who likes the warmer months. I am a Winter girl and that’s ok.

I feel exactly the same OP.

I prefer Spring to Summer. But I don't like it getting lighter. I find it unsettling and irritating when it's light past about 7pm and as soon as we hit January it feels like that's round the corner. I always get a twinge of sadness on the Winter solstice and the opposite on the Summer solstice.

People who get cluster headaches often find that the change of seasons, spring and autumn, is a trigger. This may be due to something going on in the hypothalamus of the brain, which regulates various body systems, so there may be a physical physiological basis for it.

Does anyone get SAD in reverse? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4525012-Does-anyone-get-SAD-in-reverse

I think I like autumn so much because I hate the heat of summer and the feeling of being slathered in sunscreen. I'll avoid going out in the open if I can.

That "fresh start" feeling lots of people describe in January hits me in September instead when it gets cool enough for me to want to go out and do things.

I hear you OP,I don't like this part of the year either- clock changes,early waking because of the blasted birds, means summer is on its way which means terrible hay fever. It's like SAD in reverse.

There is a whole thread on this! You should read.

I dread summer and heat and just want to wish it away. Spring isn't too bad ,but I've never been a fan of summer time

I have this too op. For me Autumn and Winter feel safer as by the evening we are all settled indoors keeping warm and I look forward to being cozy in bed. Some people will find that boring but I like there being more routine.

Spring and summer however, I find are more exposing as dc will be out in the garden playing til dusk, we will be out more In the evenings going for walks and bbq etc. Eldest will want to be out longer with friends. In the warmest months I will dread bedtime as we get too hot and uncomfortable.

Dc and Dp love all things summer but I'm the complete opposite.

Also for me my allergies will kick in and I'll be miserable about that.

I've always been this way even as a child.

DS hates bird song. Really hates it. When he gets up and moans about the birds, you know it's going to be a long, draining day of autistic sensory overwhelm and he's going to complain about everything.

I'm not a winter lover, but one of my small consolations of Jan/ Feb is that all the leaves have been blasted off the trees so the views are at their most open, and you briefly get peeps of views that you don't get March- December.

August is a weird month. It feels like summer gets stuck. It tends to be humid, and nature seems to pause. You notice that you're past the longest days (so draws attention to the slog ahead), it's the wettest, most overcast summer month on average, and summer looks tired. Plus no routines from term time. I prefer September when a freshness returns and nature prepares for its finale and peps up again.

At the weekend I felt relief at the lengthening days. It was light enough to go for a walk at 4pm and actually use the afternoon rather than finding it dark mid-afternoon with fuck all of interest to do to fill the 6+ hours until bed time. The mud is drying out too; it looks like I can now get off tarmac and actually move across the fields after over 3 months since the floods.

Oh yes totally agree. Sun worshipper types bitch non-stop about the cold and the dark but if you dare to say you're not a fan of being frizzled alive by the beating sun you are "wishing the lovely weather away" and "being a misery." There are a couple of people now that I am deliberately insensitive to when they complain about the cold (which they do incessantly) because they've been horrible to me so often about me feeling the heat.

I hate the heat and to some extent the relentless brightness of summer and did use to dread spring so I completely understand OP. As I always say on these threads, I got myself into gardening deliberately as a way of making myself like summer and to some extent it's worked. I actually feel excited about spring now and only get summer dread when we actually get there.

"I am at my happiest. I find the need to be active and living my best life because it’s March-Aug really annoying."

You don't need to be active or "living your best life" at all. Just spend your days how you like!

You're not the first person I've heard say this sort of thing and I just don't get it. If you don't want to do something then don't.

I mean I hate having to do stuff in winter, in the dark, like ferry my kids round to clubs and stuff but I'm doing the same stuff in summer when it's light so there's no real change there (except in how pleasant it is)

I am with you OP but then Sept-Feb I am at my happiest. I find the need to be active and living my best life because it’s March-Aug really annoying.
I like dark mornings and nights, it’s calmer and quieter.

It's the most awkward of the seasonal transitions I think. The others seem more gradual, this is like a tedious wait mixed with a rude awakening.

The reason I hate this time of the year is that I'm losing patience with the dark mornings, it seems to take ages before they get lighter and then the clocks have to go forward. I'm not fussed about lighter evenings at all and soon get fed up of them in the summer months.

I love spring and summer. Windows and doors wide open, long evenings, washing on the line. Though I go into it dreading my chronic hayfever and the 4am day light!