Solidarity for those of us who hate Spring

[crochetmonkey74]

I've had a thread on here before about this and found it really useful as there's no one in real life who doesn't look at me in horror if I even mention this.
You know how people have SAD when the nights draw in , I have it the other way round. This morning, the birdsong by me set me off. Its like a sense of dread. I think it's to do with change. I don't cope well with change generally, I have anxiety made worse by peri menopause so I think moving from something you know well and feel happy with (the dark nights) into something new makes me feel a bit unsettled . Are you the same? Want to chat about it?

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

@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 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

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.

@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.

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.

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 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.

I prefer warmer weather because it is nice to be able to leave the house without having to get layered up. I feel more free in fewer and lighter clothes. It doesn't have to be blisteringly hot. A lovely 24 degrees will do for me.

I seem to have this hard limit of 25 degrees when I feel too hot. Low 20s is good for picnics and the park, I'd be quite happy to have a whole summer of that sort of weather.

I love the dark too.

I always look forward to 1 September because I think of it as the start of autumn. 🍁

I like being able to peg the washing outside, but other than that, it makes me nervous, as heat and too-bright sunshine and flies are on the way. Then I loathe summer...

Hahahaa calm down the drama
We are talking about noticing the shifts toward a new season. Might be best to read my actual posts where I say I'm happy and get on with things but it's an undercurrent of being unsettled. You've entirely made up the 3 months of dread

I hate dark mornings. They are anything but cosy.

Yesterday's weather vs today's. I'm wrapping up, putting sunglasses on and going for a walk.

Absolutely agree x

It's not so much that I hate spring itself,it's the fact that I know uncomfortably hot weather isn't far away. I admit I'm not a fan of freezing weather,but I can cope with it. But hot weather (anything over 25 degrees) makes me me anxious. I feel the heat really easily and seem to spend hot days constantly sweating and being short tempered. I know there will people saying oh but we hardly ever get any hot weather in this country,but in my experience,it seems to be becoming more common lately. Plus I also hate it getting light ridiculously early in the morning. If I wake up at 5 am in broad daylight,I find it impossible to get back to sleep.

Me too

They are to me. Not in a temperature way but I find the dark quite comforting. I prefer getting up and off to work in the dark.

Once September comes I love it. The autumn months. The build up to the Christmas season. Love the dark. Love the “feel” of it all. The anticipation. Who wants long light nights with endless noise outside x

"To me, when the clocks change, the evenings just feel bleak and exposing, as if someone had pulled the duvet off my bed."

Very well put, @KreedKafer 👏

You can be under cover of darkness until the day starts and they all “find” you x

I feel this too! The recent mild weather has started the fear for me; I really don't like spring or summer and feel panicked and down at the thought of both. I actually feel my mood lifting once I sense autumn starting. Spring and summer leave me feeling frozen, and as someone else said, exposed.

I need tips on how to traverse another spring and summer.

I know your message was from last year, but as Spring approaches I start to feel the same way you do. It makes me feel so unsettled, anxious! It is such an unpopular opinion and my family don't understand (apart from my Daughter who has the same views). I would love to know the psychology behind it.

I don’t like the idea of warmer weather and also hate it.