Cold Intolerance?

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I'm fairly intolerant to both, and sometimes my perception of temperature can fluctuate wildly...I often find myself opening and closing my window all night long because I'm either burning hot or freezing.

Sometimes I can walk out in the cold and barely notice, but the majority of the time, winter weather causes me to shiver so hard that it feels like my back is breaking. I can't breathe in the cold at all.

I've had three cases of sun poisoning and nearly passed out on 5 different occasions last summer just driving from my house to work without any air in my car (the windows were down and I was chugging powerade/water). Got full on tunnel vision and all.

I find that I'm typically feeling the exact opposite as everyone else in the room as far as temperature perception.

I have no problem with what most people would call "cold". -20 degrees Fahrenheit or lower makes me just want to stay inside, but above that I am ok being outside for hours as long as I have proper clothing. It's been 30 degrees or so the past few days, so I've been enjoying that, not even wearing a coat.

I've lived in Alaska my entire life though, so I am very used to the cold.

I can't stand heat at all though. Anything above 75 or so feels too hot to me, if it's summer. I go into much hotter rooms during the winter, but that's just due to me being cold.

I can't stand cold weather. My ears hurt terribly in cold air. And someone mentioned bones hurting, mine do too when I wash my hands in cold water.

my late father had the best of all possible worlds, he had a humongous motor home about the size of a 2-bedroom mobile home trailer, and every time the last week of october's washington cold would roll around, he'd pack up and move down the road to yuma, arizona, and bask in their summerlike winters until next april, when it would get too danged hot down there and he'd pull up stakes again and move back up north. i wish i could do that. that sounds sooooo nice!

I don't think being sensitive to the cold has anything to do with being on the spectrum. I get more sensitive to the cold than I do in the heat, but when it was about 6 degrees, people in the charity shop kept saying, ''ohh, ain't it cold today?'' and I said, ''no, it's not that cold today, not like it was last week''.

And I remember last summer, everybody kept on going on and on and on about the heat, and I felt like saying, ''yes, we're all hot, just make a cold drink and do something to take your mind off of it instead of standing about complaining about it.'' It was only, like, 26 degrees - it's been much hotter than that before. It's been in mid-30s or more.