No one believes me when I say I hate the summer.

[ItsADiamond]

Just wondering if anyone else feels this way or if I really am a minority.

From now until late October I will feel quite low. Wherever I go I can hear happiness and laughter, even at home I can hear children playing and bbqs taking place. I just don't want to be part of it all.

I feel pressured to enjoy it. My dc want to be out all the time. When I just want to be at home.

There's so much I dislike about the warmer months but can't list it all. I just want the winter to come.

to be fair - it’s the same with pretty much anything and everything. Summer, winter, holidays, Christmas….

Why was it your first question though and why do you care?

I’m not touchy about it, I am touchy about others belittling people or derailing a thread for the sake of making a jibe.

As Pinkfluffy said, I think I am also part Mole!

I don't like summer because I am allergic to everything in the air so lots of sneezing and red eyes from March to October, plus apparently allergic sun (sun block gives me a heat rash) I swell up with water retention, I am red faced and cornbeef legged, sweaty, grumpy. I don't like doing anything outside when it's too hot for all the above reasons. So, I stop running or even walking anywhere for a month.

I really do appreciate that most people (everyone in my family anyway) love it, so I try very hard not to complain irl!

Yeah the dark evenings can be cosy I quite like wearing my big duvet coat in the cold winter days. Plus I'd pick a frosty foggy cool day over a hot sunny day

I hate the summer too.I hate the heat,getting sweaty,being too warm to sleep at night.I much prefer Autumn and Winter.Its too warm to do any cleaning,so I'm staying up tonight when it's cooler.I prefer cold days and hot meals😂

Since then I’ve been basking in the sun, children been in the paddling pool, we’ve currently got burgers on the BBQ, bifolds open, music on

And did anyone mention how noise levels go up in packed-together gardens? 😁

i am another summer hater. I am counting down to the start of September already. I embrace it as best I can but I hate the light mornings ( and yes I have blackout blinds and curtains but somehow my body still knows it's light) and get more and more tired. I am fine at present but any warmer and I struggle to cope and worst of all is increased neighbour noise and boy racers with loud exhausts who all spend the weekend making a racket.
I actually like rainy days and cold weather and the rare snow days we get are the v best of all.

For me it's the heat and humidity. Anything over 25 is too hot. I like the garden and the birds and not needing to put the heating on, and the beach, and bbqs and pretty much most of summer but over 25 I retreat indoors and try to stay cool.

And for those who are weight focused I'm not fat I just don't do heat or humidity well.

I’ve always loathed summer. The pressure to be out doing fun, summery things. I have hyperhidrosis and my head down to my chest feels and looks like a tap has been turned on. It’s uncomfortable and miserable.

I hate it but just because I hate feeling hot. The sound of people having fun doesn't bother me but I much prefer colder months

I’ve always hated summer too from being a skinny child who had nosebleeds, allergies and heat rash to being an overweight adult. I hate walking outside and getting hot and sweaty and having to be coated in sticky Sun cream.

I play rain sounds when I got to sleep to help me feel cooler. I love the other seasons though.

I hate heat too. It makes me feel suffocated, tired and grubby. Being too hot to sleep is a dreadful feeling. However, I do love sunshine. The worse possible combo is hot, muggy overcast days.

I feel so much more comfortable in autumn and winter. I feel like I can breathe again.

I don’t like the heat. I’m ok with the sun just not the heat

Are you okay? Is it literally only in the summer?

I can’t relate to this at all, I love the summer, but I really struggle in the winter - I was not built for cold, the darker skies and lack of colour and less daylight really get to me - so I can imagine that it’s horrible the other way round.

Do you think there’s any way to make it easier for you?

it wasn’t my first question

I don’t relate to hating an entire season especially when the UK doesn’t really have a proper summer. Can you move to Lerwick?

Lots and lots of people (including me) thought your question sounded snippy and judgmental. Rather than fight that, and every poster mentioning it, maybe just accept that it was poorly phrased. You did sound that way, even if you didn't mean it that way.

And then maybe everyone can stop derailing.

I’m much happier in the winter . There something about this weather that makes you feel a thoigh you should be out doing things . When actually I’m an antisocial introvert who is happier on my own inside doing bits and bobs.

had the Op expressed offence, i would have responded differently

im not bothered about what other posters think on a thread that isn’t theirs!

I like it so long as it stays below 26. Once it goes over that I'm a boiling menopausal mess.

Carry on then, you clearly know best.

i love the sounds of people having bbqs and lawn being mowed

I live very rurally. We could shout from the rooftops and only the cows and sheep would complain. But yes, I can see why people get fed up with that.

Yep. I hate summer too. I burn not tan, hate summer clothes and neighbours are at their worst noise wise out in their gardens . I’m also not keen on summer food. Roll on autumn I say.

I've never much liked hot, sunny weather - and that includes my teenage years and young adulthood when I was as thin as a rake, so fuck all to do with being fat, as some posters insinuate.

The bright light hurts my eyes and I have to wear sunglasses the entire time.

I don't like the sunshine beating down on my head, even when I have a hat on. It gives me a headache and the hat makes my forehead sweat.

I get prickly heat.

I'm allergic to most suntan lotion.

I dislike the sensation of suntan lotion on my skin, especially if some kid runs past on the beach and kicks sand on you.

I don't like sunbathing.

I'm fair-haired with pale freckly skin and burn easily.

I have had a second-degree burn from getting sunburnt on a small patch of skin I missed with the lotion. In May. In the UK.

I get hay fever.

I get a rash from sitting on the grass.

I have had sunstroke and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

These days I have to contend with menopausal hot flushes as well.

I'm sure I'm not alone in not liking summer all that much. I yearn for autumn.