Sensitive to temperature?

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I'm the same way. I'd really prefer to live in a bubble that never gets warmer than 65F. When the heat gets above 80F, I've been known to pass out.

I get migraines triggered from the heat, and overheat easily. I used to hang out in the cold pacific ocean (50 F) for hours in a bathing suit, and I tend to feel much better in the cold.

The only thing that helps me trying to stay in the shade, drink lots of water, have a breeze, and try to ignore it. Drinking water is super important.

I'm absolutely sensitive to temperature. It's probably one of my worst sensitivities.

Last summer, I nearly passed out on three separate occasions on the way to work. My car doesn't have air, and despite having the windows down and chugging water or powerade, I still began to get tunnel vision and feel like I couldn't breathe on those occasions.

In the winter, I have trouble breathing because of the cold. If it's windy and cold, I'm NOT breathing...I'll gasp for air before I can get my face covered.

Sometimes I have blankets on me when everyone else is warm, and other times have the window open or a fan blowing on me when others are cold. I can't sleep at night unless the room is the right temperature...the air must be cool, then I snuggle under the covers to keep warm, with just the cool air on my face, which keep my body temperature just right. If I sleep over with my boyfriend, I have to scoot as far from him as possible, because his body feels like a furnace.

Interesting factoid...my natural body temperature sits around 96-97. So, when I have a fever, it shows up 'normal' or slightly above, which always made people think I was faking sick.

Thanks Zoey, and thanks all! It's good to know I'm not alone, while it's not good to know so many have similar problems to what I have. I wouldn't wish it for my worst enemy.

I've been known to be a human radiator myself
About the rush of adrenaline/anxiety, you are probably right about that. When it starts while in a social gathering, it's only downhill from there.

It's weird how many seperate issues I have had over the years just all seem to converge within Aspergers.

Wouldn't that be just awesome! I have seen a japanese invention on youtube a few years ago, that made me abit envious. It was a shirt with a built-in fan. How I have longed for that one in big dinnerparties..

i also dont like warm weather; although i'm not that sensitive to small changes in temperature.

as for the ratiator, i recognize that myself; i'm often the one that my friends (usually the female ones) are drawn to warm up, even if it's freezing outside, my (ungloved) hands still ratiate enough heat to unfreeze another persons hands...
also, i tend to walk around in t-shirts untill way into oktober, where everyone wears sweaters and winter jackets.

if it gets warmer, on the other hand; the temperature where most people start going outside in as little clothes as decent, i start wearing sweaters to insulate myself from the heat (a desert dweller tactic)...

I am sensitive to extremes in temperature. I do not like to be too hot or too cold. If I am out in the water though, the warmer the better.

Sometimes I am cold in the same temperature I get hot in. Example: I get cold in the morning when I take a nap (house is set at 74F) and sleep with a heating pad but am very hot at night (same temp). Does anybody else experience this?

Oh yes... I am only happy if it is 30°C or even hotter. Except for hot summer days I am always cold and being cold makes me sullen and angry.

I'm extremely sensitie to the cold. Even my skin is always cold to the touch, and it's tanned year round! Being from New England, I should have gotten used to cold temperatures by now, but oddly I never have. I'm not comfortable unless it ges to at least the mid 70's. Since I was little, I've blamed my intolerance to the cold on being hispanic.

I'm not alone on this!

I drive people nuts around me! Year round I have to have a fan on in a room or car, or AC... If the air is stagnant I start sweating and feeling panicky...

Is this a sensory thing?

Do people with an ASD get panic attacks when overstimulated?

Give me cold weather anytime! I absolutely loathe heat with every fiber of my being.

This is definitely one of my biggest sensory sensitivities!

I am very sensitive to both heat and cold, but a tad more so cold. When I am cold, I am in utter PAIN and can barely function. I also get Raynaud's Syndrome, which means that my fingers and toes go white and lose circulation when I am extremely cold. I HATE Winter. I much prefer Summer, although I can't handle too much heat either. In some artificially heated places, I almost feel like I cannot breathe properly when it gets too much, plus I sweat very easily also and get very panicky if a room is too warm and I HAVE to get out of it.

I annoy people in cars, also, because I really need to make the air conditioner just right, or I can't stand it.

i am sensitive to cold temperatures....(I like it 75+ with no humidity)
cold weather or the feeling of cold almost causes me a fear
but also itchy clothes or dust make me very irritated.

I have dealt with my extreme heat sensitivity by working a seasonal contract job in a very cold location six months out of the year, and then coming back home in the winter. I have not seen one of those horrible Michigan summers in a couple years now, thankfully. But in general, I am comfortable at around 65F and anything warmer makes me feel sick and my skin feel super sensitive.

Oh I'm new here, by the way. Hello all.

I feel pain from cold too. And I do mean pain--not mere discomfort.

I am sensitive with temperature, actually
I can't stand it if it's too cold or too hot, whenever I sleep at night the temp. should not be cold or hot or else I won't be able to sleep (it needs to be so-so)
Also, my hands should not be too warm as well or too cold
When my hands are too warm, I need to touch something cold or things that doesn't produce heat....it could be anything (mostly objects like book covers, chairs, tables, anything....I prefer touching metal and steel)

I am normally not too sensitive to temperature but there are times when I will wake up in the morning and find myself shivering cold in 75F(24C), and yet on the flip side, there are times I find myself so burning hot that I can work outside for 3 hours in 0'F(-18C) temperature wearing nothing more then shorts and a t-shirt.