Asperger / Autism with a special interest of water, swim and get wet with clothes on?

[H2O]

Hello to you, I wonder if its common with people who get a special interest in to go for a bath, water and swim
but even like to get wet with their clothes on and dont think swimsuit are really needed.

It other ways people can like to do this but I have wonder maybe its a little common in to the autism world to.

 

[Judge]

Nope. But I do recall a former girlfriend who was dying to get me to go to a nude beach.

Modesty was never her thing....go figure.

But for me going to any beach in Northern California to go into the ocean was a bit twisted. Nice to be there, but on the sand and with a camera- not the cold water and cool breezes.

 

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I always loved the water when I was much younger. Swimming, fishing, surfing, or just to relax in with a nice cold beer. Then I spent more than 20 years living in a remote region in the top of Australia where the waters are very dangerous. That sort of broke me of the habit. When I moved back down south again I had dreams of going to the beach and swimming again but I've only done that twice in 6 years, my habits have changed.

 

[Judge]

I always loved the water when I was much younger. Swimming, fishing, surfing, or just to relax in with a nice cold beer. Then I spent more than 20 years living in a remote region in the top of Australia where the waters are very dangerous. That sort of broke me of the habit. When I moved back down south again I had dreams of going to the beach and swimming again but I've only done that twice in 6 years, my habits have changed.

What were your greatest concerns off the coast ? I know as a toddler my mother was mortified over so many stonefish found in shallow water along the beaches of Guam when we lived there. But the ocean itself seemed pretty placid most times other than in an occasional typhoon.

 

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What were your greatest concerns off the coast ? I know as a toddler my mother was mortified over so many stonefish found in shallow water along the beaches of Guam when we lived there. But the ocean itself seemed pretty placid most times other than in an occasional typhoon.

Our entire coast all the way around has a lot of very dangerous critters in it but you grow up with local knowledge of how to avoid danger and for the most part there's very few problems.

Adelaide gets sharks, stone fish, blue ringed octopus, several species of sea snake, and a few jellyfish that have nasty stings but won't kill you. To me the waters in and around Adelaide are "mostly harmless" where as to a lot of visitors they're terrifying.

Darwin has all of that plus sharks that hunt in packs, jellyfish that will kill you within minutes, snails that will kill you within minutes, and Crocodiles which are just as happy in fresh water as they are in the ocean. On top of that is the nasty infections you can get from tropical oceans. In cold climates it's good to let wounds soak in the sea, try that in the tropics and those wounds turn in to tropical ulcers, a nasty necrotic infection that's difficult to get rid of.

 

[Judge]

Our entire coast all the way around has a lot of very dangerous critters in it but you grow up with local knowledge of how to avoid danger and for the most part there's very few problems.

Adelaide gets sharks, stone fish, blue ringed octopus, several species of sea snake, and a few jellyfish that have nasty stings but won't kill you. To me the waters in and around Adelaide are "mostly harmless" where as to a lot of visitors they're terrifying.

Darwin has all of that plus sharks that hunt in packs, jellyfish that will kill you within minutes, snails that will kill you within minutes, and Crocodiles which are just as happy in fresh water as they are in the ocean. On top of that is the nasty infections you can get from tropical oceans. In cold climates it's good to let wounds soak in the sea, try that in the tropics and those wounds turn in to tropical ulcers, a nasty necrotic infection that's difficult to get rid of.

What about the water itself? Riptides, weird currents, etc. Things one can encounter of the coast of California, north or south. Making escaping from places like Alcatraz unrealistic at best.

My cousin and I nearly drowned off a Southern California beach once...in a nasty riptide. But we managed to come out in one piece....though my cousin came up to the surface with her bikini top around her neck. Something I used to kid her about. But then she went on to discover scuba diving, and nearly drowned from it with an equipment malfunction.

 

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What about the water itself? Riptides, weird currents, etc. Things one can encounter of the coast of California, north or south. Making escaping from places like Alcatraz unrealistic at best.

Learning to judge those is something many of us learn as small children, but not like most people would expect. We weren't taught the "dangers" of rips, we saw it from the other side because of our surfing culture, we deliberately looked for rips because they save you a lot of effort getting out to the deeper water where the waves are.

Big tip for inexperienced swimmers - if you see people surfing don't go in to the water. People are surfing there specifically because of the "dangerous" currents.

 

[Judge]

Learning to judge those is something many of us learn as small children, but not like most people would expect. We weren't taught the "dangers" of rips, we saw it from the other side because of our surfing culture, we deliberately looked for rips because they save you a lot of effort getting out to the deeper water where the waves are.

I was a very good swimmer. However up to then I had never experienced a riptide. A very humbling experience, I can tell you. I was lucky not to have struck the bottom with lots of rocks, apart from suddenly swallowing a great deal of seawater. <UGH>

It was also the last time I ever went into the ocean. Love the beach, but not the salt water.

 

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I was a very good swimmer. However up to then I had never experienced a riptide. A very humbling experience, I can tell you. I was lucky not to have struck the bottom with lots of rocks, apart from suddenly swallowing a great deal of seawater. <UGH>

Big rivers like the Murray also have very dangerous currents and people can get caught by those unexpectedly. The trick is to stay on the surface of the water where it's nice and calm. The top of the water can be almost still while currents deeper down are very strong and swift.

The way people get taught to "tread water" will get you in trouble in a big river, there's almost no current on the surface but you don't want to let your legs hang down too deep in the water, that's when the currents can grab you. Stay horizontal.

 

[Judge]

Big rivers like the Murray also have very dangerous currents and people can get caught by those unexpectedly. The trick is to stay on the surface of the water where it's nice and calm. The top of the water can be almost still while currents deeper down are very strong and swift.

The way people get taught to "tread water" will get you in trouble in a big river, there's almost no current on the surface but you don't want to let your legs hang down too deep in the water, that's when the currents can grab you. Stay horizontal.

Yep...even on a map you can see that it's no small or docile river. Our Truckee River that runs right through the middle of town is no exception. Very cold from mountain sources and snow and runs at a fast pace. Killing people who underestimate it routinely nearly every year.

 

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Yep...even on a map you can see that it's no small or docile river.

That's the part that traps people - it looks docile. That's exactly the same trap that people fall in to when swimming at beaches - the part of the beach that has no waves is where the rip is.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Big rivers like the Murray also have very dangerous currents and people can get caught by those unexpectedly. The trick is to stay on the surface of the water where it's nice and calm. The top of the water can be almost still while currents deeper down are very strong and swift.

The way people get taught to "tread water" will get you in trouble in a big river, there's almost no current on the surface but you don't want to let your legs hang down too deep in the water, that's when the currents can grab you. Stay horizontal.

And you recommended me to paddle the Murray!

I love being wet. I hate getting wet. I can get wet with clothes on when lining a canoe or wading in a swamp. If I’m in the wilderness I’ll swim without clothing. What’s the point?

I went to a nude beach on St Thomas in the Caribbean. Swimming nude in salt water was a totally different and awesome sensation.

I got nailed by a stingray wading on a Florida beach. That hurt like hell and required an ER visit and surgery. I vowed it wouldn’t keep me from swimming, but that was more than 15 years ago and I haven’t gotten around to salt water recreation since.

 

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And you recommended me to paddle the Murray!

A lot of people do it, 2000 Km or 1200 miles of river. It's more about the experience of being in remote bushland though, although not as green and lush looking as the tropics it has a beauty and charm all of it's own that creeps in to your bones and never leaves you. There's something about the smells and the sounds and the nature of the wildlife that's just so peaceful.