Aspies and water...

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I love swimming and being in wavy water. The bouncing is so much fun

I don't think it's an Aspie thing as such, because everybody I know says the worst part of going swimming is drying themselves afterwards with all water running down their skin and goosepimples appearing all over their body. I feel the same.

I used to love swimming as a child, but it wasn't because of being in the water. Well, it was, but not physically - I just liked being in the water because it was fun to play in (most kids like playing in the pool). There is nothing unique about love being in the water. I don't really like water myself - I don't like my hair getting all wet and my sinuses start burning and my ears really ache if I go under the water. So I never go under the water.

When I was at school I was the last kid in my class to learn how to swim (I was 11 before I could swim - even though I loved to play in the water before I could swim). I always thought maybe I was the last one to learn to swim because I had AS, but I'm not the type to associate all my strengths and weaknesses on my diagnosis. I only thought it was because of the AS because I was the only Aspie in my class and also the last to swim, but that could be a coincidence. I do have Dyspraxia aswell, so.....

My avatar says it all ...

i love swimming, more in the sea than the pool. i hate it when clothes cling because my skin is wet. sometimes there's a warm wave and it bothers me, it's like the water's dirty because it's warm. i dont like water on my skin when i leave the shower and it seems like no matter how much i dry myself with the towel there's still water someplace. it's annoying, but not to the point when it horribly bothers me, just to some extent.

I also love being in the water. I go swimming at least three times a week. I would go more often if I had a bus pass. I'll be talking to my bank about me getting one for next year in December. The only time that I really feel at ease is when I'm in the water.

Yes, I am the same way.

I don't like swimming. Showering is fine. But the water on my body afterwards is

Yep, I love swimming and I take showers just to relax ...but I can't stand wet clothes. If I get even a few drops of water on my socks I can't handle the feeling--I have to change socks or I start to freak out.

I like water when I am in it, but I despise it when I am not swimming and get wet...like my hands or something. I feel scaley without some lotion STAT!

I can't swim! You will never find me in the water. Of course I shower daily (never bathe). I don't feel comfortable being around large bodies of water.

I think it's just the increased sensitivity of your skin, being in limbo between wet and dry and that the water is cooling off and making you cold.

yes i really love love love it though i don't like the unknown so i will never go too far off-coast into the deep blue sea.
i am afraid of big fish, i love them though(beside sharks)