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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Rebecca Shaw

Australia’s approaching summer fills me with dread. I’m not equipped to battle 40C

Beachgoers cooling off on Tamarama beach, Sydney
‘If you’re a summer lover (slight slur), someone who doesn’t sweat or who likes feeling overheated and burned and dehydrated, good for you.’ Photograph: Glenn Campbell/AAP

As a cultured citizen of the globe (social media), I am witness to a lot of different opinions about the weather throughout the year. I will soon be sharing my own, as Sydney weather begins to warm, triggering my dread of the hot months to come.

As the cold mornings start to ease, and everyone and their hot mothers start to post from the beach, I see friends overseas shivering in fear at the fast-approaching winter, when they will then shiver from the cold. Anytime and anywhere cold months happen, people post about having Sad. Not having sad, which is what I call my depression, but Sad – seasonal affective disorder.

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