Who else despises autumn and winter?

[DrCoconut]

It's getting dark earlier and earlier, I've got the heating on due to being cold and everyone is already down with the lurgey. Hate it. The constant juggling of sick kids and work. Dragging everyone out for school when we all just want a pj day. Poor light levels and depression. DS2's autism will soon be massively exacerbated by being unable to get out and burn his energy off (he's also asthmatic and cold/wet triggers it). After the washout summer it's going to be a very long haul to spring. I think a decent spell of good weather would make it bearable but I can literally count on my fingers the number of hot days this year, out of 365 days it's a bit of a let down really. And the rain! Almost constant, varying only from drizzle to torrential, though admittedly that's let up a bit now. So looking forward to the back end of winter already.

Oh yes, me, totally. I hate winter and I really, REALLY hate autumn, which just drips, is foggy, filled with spiders and is aeons away from spring.

Sorry to hear about it's effects on your poor DS's autism. I feel your pain, my DH suffers from anxiety and I think poor light levels make that worse, too. Heaven help us, he's in a rotten state already .

Well that was a downer. Sorry
Brave

Me. I get down at the thought of winter.

So this year I've taken control!!

I've bought a gorgeous coat from River Island that I should enjoy wearing.

Also booked a wintry week's holiday to krakow with a friend in November so I'm looking forward to that, & planning my outfits for the trip.

January is usually the hardest month though.

No, sorry, I think they're the best!

I love leaving the house in the dark in the early mornings. It makes me feel really ahead of the day, even though I'm not actually up any earlier!

Then getting home and getting cosy, or taking the dog for a frosty walk in the dark all wrapped up with a podcast on.

I love wearings socks and boots. No blisters and dry feet from wearing sandals and pumps.

I love the colours of Autumn so much. The light is just gorgeous.

I really, really properly hate it.

I get properly sad and angry and depressed.

I suffer terribly with the cold, I have bad circulation and have permanently freezing, white fingers and toes (even in the gym - I train daily so it's not a lack of exercise).

My anaemia gets loads worse.

I usually walk the kids to school and back, 3.5 miles round trip, which is miserable in the cold wet darkness.

I usually gain a few pounds, which makes me bloody miserable because I am very, very weight-conscious and my summer weight is on the borderline of underweight, which I much prefer - I really struggle to keep it that low over winter.

I love being outdoors usually, and in the winter it's a miserable battle of endurance until you can get back in.

I hate the gross overindulgence of Halloween/Christmas and the greed of everyone stuffing themselves with food and drink all the time and overspending on crap and the miserable, damp, stinky crowds in the shops.

I hate the darkness. I hate the feeling that the day is almost over a few hours after it's begun.

i hate my garden looking dead and desolate, and not being able to hang my washing out to dry.

I hate feeling like i'm vegetating, trapped indoors.

I hate having to wear 18 layers of uncomfortable clothes just to go outside. I hate the biting cold wind on any bit of exposed skin.

I hate people who go all sappy about "cosy jumpers" and "mugs of hot chocolate".

I hate mulled wine, which tastes like crap and is full of sugar.

I hate every fucking thing about it, and more than anything I hate the people who voted Leave who condemned me to carry on living on this damp, dark, miserable island.

ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!!

All those who say "I love dark evenings and scrunching through leaves and pumpkins" can FUCK OFF. It's miserable, dark and horrible, and I have SAD so it feels like the entire world is ending as the light goes. Hate it, hate it, hate it. My ideal job would be one where I flew to the other side of the world in the time the clocks are not at British summer time and never had to endure the awfulness again.

Me!

Today has been lovely, but yesterday was cloudy and cold and I was miserable. Not so much autumn, but I loathe winter.

I like the idea of roaring fires and chunky scarves and thick wooly jumpers and hot chocolate.
In reality, chunky scarves make me claustrophobic and itchy, wooly jumpers are no good inside because everywhere has heating on full blast, I don’t actually like hot chocolate and I bloody hate the constant colds rampaging through the family (2 primary aged DC who are already plastered in snot after being back at school two weeks, and a baby).
Oh and winter boots make my toes claustrophobic. I like to stretch my feet out.

I quite like autumn but find winter quite depressing. It's not cosy at all, it's cold and dark.

Love winter, autumn, spring and summer. We are so lucky as we have the best weather in the entire world.

I like autumn and the run up to Christmas, but my god do I hate January and February. I HATE snow as well with a passion. My flat is always too cold as I have storage heating and it's shit!

Not me, I love autumn and winter! The dark starry nights, the much better clothes and footwear, hibernating at home eating comfort food, the feeling of the earth slowing down. I can understand the reasons that people don't like these seasons though.

No, I love autumn and winter

There will be plenty of time to do nothing indoors in the cold and dark when we're dead.

I wouldn't mind autumn if it were followed by another summer.... The light is nice and I like the colours on the trees etc before it gets too cold and dark. But because it signals the end of summer it makes it much more shit.
I hate the dark, and the cold, and the damp and the rain. I love being outdoors and active in the sunshine... Sitting inside in warm clothes isn't cosy it's just rubbish.
I think February is the worst... It has already gone on sooo long by then and it's still showing no sign of ending. I swear it only has 28 days as if it had 31 it would tip people over the edge.

We don't seem to have had an autumn round here the last few years.

The next couple of weeks are meant to be 19°-24°, really horribly warm.

Last year we hardly had any real cold at all. Definitely not winter coat weather.

I miss the cold.

Autumn is ok. Winter - proper winter, ie Dec 21-March 21 - can fuck right off. Except Christmas because ours is chilled and quiet.

Me! I love light mornings and evenings!
Even now I'm having to get up in the dark, walk home from the gym in the dark. I don't like it, I like the light.

Where the hell do you live OP, where I live it's been relentlessly hot and I loathe being hot with sun in my face all day. We've had hardly any rain at all and every thing is bone dry.
I long for autumn. At last crisp days, cosy evenings indoors by the log burner and Halloween (hate shitmas though).

madcatladyforever

I was wondering that as well, I've just come in from the garden and it's another beautiful sunny warm day with clear blue sky.
We also got plenty of hot sunny summer days with enough rain to keep things growing nicely.

I really love it, but I can appreciate it is hard for other people, the same as it is for me in summer. I hope you can all find ways to make it a little easier for yourselves, though I wouldn't discount some warmer days to come given the climate the last few years

At least disliking the winter months is generally more accepted than struggling with the summer months. I've personally never understood why rain and cold is considered bad weather and sun is 'glorious'! I feel the opposite and actually struggle so much with everything even our mild summers bring.

The colder, darker weather does my autistic self the world of good! The lighting is dimmer and more manageable, there are less people around out and about which is wonderful, less noise from neighbours , being able to walk the dogs without worrying if it's too hot, being able to hide away under a blanket when life becomes too much without burning....so many benefits!

My ideal year would edit out November and January.

Autumn itself is beautiful as long as it doesn't have bad weather that means the trees rapidly drop their leaves into a squelchy mush. I'm done by Halloween though and would happily jump to December. By February, the days aren't as painfully short as mid-winter, it's short, there's a few festivals to pace it and the crocuses and snowdrops are emerging. March is a relief.

Life is just easier when you can slide on some sandals and walk out of the house. Herding socks, shoes, jumpers, hats, gloves and coats onto reluctant children is a PITA, especially when doing something repeatedly in/out.They don't get enough outside time when anything outside school hours is dark.

This is a lovely time of year... a shame about what follows!

I hate Autumn and Winter too. It just drags on and on, cold, damp and miserable.

I started tracking the daylight hours this year and it really helped me with being able to see the written evidence of the days drawing out into Summer. The drawing in again has been hard but it's only until December and then the days begin to get longer again. That makes me feel better again. Although I hate the late snows we've had though, because we get snowed in on our little lane so easily.

I’m not sure how anyone can muster the energy to be so worked up about something that is inevitable and unchangeable personally. Isn’t it worth trying to find some positive in there rather than resigning yourself/your family to 6 months of misery because of The Weather?

Every season has its drawbacks and positives.

Spring: still chilly, still broke from Christmas, still a bit fat vs buds flowering, brighter, baby animals.

Summer: wasps, lawnmowers going all hours of the day, shit not beach ready vs sun, heat, holidays.

Autumn: getting darker, colder, sniffles vs beautiful nature, cosying up, new coats and boots.

Winter: cold, shit traffic, dark vs Christmas, inevitable excitement and wonder of snow, fattening up (and not having to shave so much).

Try focusing on the positives because you really can’t do anything about it unless there was a dramatic climate change; which of course there is, therefore there’s still warmer days even in November.

Oh and buy some First Defence.

@1wokeuplikethis

Winter: cold, shit traffic, dark vs Christmas, inevitable excitement and wonder of snow, fattening up (and not having to shave so much).

Sorry, what were the positives supposed to be here?