If temperatures outside are below freezing please don't go walking outside. I'm not judging anyone. If temperatures are low enough, you are at risk of hypothermia. Alcohol makes you feel like you're warming up. You won't realize how close you are to freezing. Most people who freeze to death had alcohol in their system.
I'm autistic and I know a Mortician. I am not a mortician. I just ask weird questions.
Please be safe, friends. Biology is scary.
You can die of hypothermia even if temps are not actually below freezing. It's just above freezing here and especially if it rains or you've been partying and sweating a bit falling asleep outside somewhere people wouldn't immediately find you can be a death sentence.
Having been drunk and walking around in -30°C, I must say that it depends if you wear your normal winter gear or not. If you thomk you're warm and go for a walk in your sweater and it's -30°C, you're gonna have a bad time. But that same walk in your usual winter gear that you were perfectly warm in earlier that day? Fine!
Like be careful, but a buzzed walk in softly falling snow is a beautiful time and can be done safely đ
Facts. My first time getting drunk i drank an ungodly amount of hard alcohol. It was the middle of winter and i was bundled up. My friend and i decided to stumble to another friend's house like 2 miles in the snow. I peeled off my winter coat, both hoodies, and rolled up the sleeves of my long-sleeve shirt on the way and felt so hot.
I get why you mentioned it. It is a part of who you are and it certainly avoided the whole, 'why do you ask mortician questions?' That is where you mentioned it, youre inquisitive. And you probably offer too much info and ask too many questions for the neurotypical. It probably keeps you from having to deal with their issues saying it upfront. Its not your whole personality, as someone suggested. It saves you time dealing with neurotypicals. Sometimes you just have to placate them đ
Iâve found quite a few autistic people I know will tell anyone any chance they get. Comes up a lot in conversationâto the point where it sometimes feels like theyâre trying to make it their entire personality.
Maybe I can educate the 3 of you. Itâs about heading off the judgy questions that come because we are always communicating in the wrong fashion based on all the unwritten rules there are for âregularâ people to communicate. Donât mention being autistic and itâs like well who the hell is this person saying this or that. Say youâre autistic and itâs like why tell me youâre autistic. Autistic people will share all kinds of info unasked for because they have information and want/need to share it. People think thatâs annoying.
Itâs never the ârightâ communication ever for you people.
Also, making a generalization about a population of people is really narrow-minded and ignorant.
Celebrate peopleâs differences. Donât be so judgmental about what you donât understand.
Iâm being genuine when i say i see all these different people stating that they have autism sometimes multiple times a day, both online and in person. Its pretty hard not to think its become some weird trend or badge of honor(?) and there have been several occasions where the person admits to self diagnosing which doesnât help either.
preach. the "making it their entire personality" comment was so insane and frankly rude. we're talking about a visible difference in brain chemistry and neurodevelopment, cut people some slack.
That's not what I was trying to do. I just wanted to get the bit about me being really into weird facts out of the way. I know this may not help everyone. I just want people to know in case. Lately, a lot of people self diagnose and I think they spend most of their time trying to convince themselves that it's backed by a licensed processional. So, I genuinely understand your take.
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Thereâs many regions in the world, where the temperature stays below 0 for months and people do go outside and are okay. You suggest they shouldnât go out at all? Be inside for months?
Of course, people should be smart and wear warm clothes when theyâre in a cold environment. Alcohol widens the blood vessels, so the body loses temperature down quicker. Also a drunk person might have troubles with motor control or judgement, so itâs important to not let smb fall asleep sitting in the snow. Alcohol consumption increases the risk of all sorts of such fatal accidents. :(
No autism, I thought this is common sense knowledge.
there's a big difference between going outside briefly vs. passing out in the snow; i know you did briefly mention that, but still. the person you're responding to probably did not mean walking from the car to the store or something similar when they said "don't go walking outside".
I also didnât just mean walking from the store to the car, Iâm too broke to have a car. In my country winters get below -20 C (so 20 degrees below freezing), and even then people really enjoy walking outside, snow makes everything beautiful. As a kid I walked to school 20min or so, also in winter (we got off school when it was colder than -20C tho). Thereâs ofc buses etc too. Also skiing, sledging etc need snow, so temperatures below freezing.
Many areas of the world have prolonged periods of temperatures below 0, life doesnât stop then. Wind, humidity etc have a big effedt too. But historically and also a bit now, many people also work outside with this weather. You just gotta have warm clothes. C:
it must be location dependent i guess, like the culture. i live somewhere that can get as low as almost -30c (usually more around -20 to -8) lol and i never see people purposely spending time outside haha
The comment is about going outside after drinking when it's freezing outside. Both the alcohols physical effects on the body that make you lose heat faster and other effects such as being less steady on your feet and feeling warm when drinking so you might not put on appropriate clothes etc will make you a much more likely victim of a cold death. If you live somewhere cold and you are not drunk one would have to assume you know how to behave appropriately, but there's still always some dumbdumbs at the start of winter when we're unprepared for the freezing nightly temps đ¤ˇđťââď¸ đ§đť
The people who live in those regions of the world have also likely built up more of a cold tolerance than the other regions where itâs not as cold đ
How the fuck Is there always someone on Reddit trying to get some moral high ground or teach a lesson, is it like a nervous spasm that if you donât get this information out you feel like youâll implode? I just donât get it
Definitely not drunk. I have a six month old baby. Haven't had a full night's sleep in weeks lol I'm just sharing information to help people. If even one person remembers this and their life is saved, it's worth it.
The fact is people do die because of this. A few every year. It is a small number, true. Just sharing the information. If it is not relevant to you, that's OK. Have a good day.
While youâre correct about alcohol increasing your chances for hypothermia, itâs kind a silly safety tip. A few drinks wonât cause this or walking a few blocks. This is typically going to affect severely drunk (black out drunk) people who already have impaired judgment and will/are doing a lot of things that can kill them. Essentially this like a telling a drunk driver to wear their seatbelt.
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If temperatures outside are below freezing please don't go walking outside. I'm not judging anyone. If temperatures are low enough, you are at risk of hypothermia. Alcohol makes you feel like you're warming up. You won't realize how close you are to freezing. Most people who freeze to death had alcohol in their system. I'm autistic and I know a Mortician. I am not a mortician. I just ask weird questions. Please be safe, friends. Biology is scary.