As temperatures drop, the cooler months are getting increasingly more difficult to bear, encouraging people to start playing with their thermostats.
This young woman was not given access to the thermostat in her home, though. Her parents asked theAITA communityif they were in the wrong for not letting their daughter turn up the heating as she was the only one feeling cold, and the internet said yes. Scroll down for the full story.
The colder months of the year require more effort to keep comfortable, be it turning up the heating or layering up
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This woman suggested that her daughter put on more layers if she’s cold and refused to give her access to the thermostat
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Staying warm through the colder months might require taking a hit to the wallet
The cold months are not easy to bear, neither physically nor financially. It’s unclear whether money was the reason the parents in the story were hesitant to turn the heating up, but for quite a few people, heating prices are a strong encouraging factor to layer up instead of touching the thermostat.
Such prices have understandably made people worried about facing the colder time of the year. The Office for National Statistics reported that roughly six in ten adults were concerned about keeping their home warm over the winter, and nearly one in four said they weren’t able to keep theirs warm over the last two weeks leading up to the survey (carried out in December, 2022).
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Whether the house is comfortably warm or not, some people might feel more hot or cold than others even while in the same environment. That depends on the intricate processes of thermoregulation of each individual’s body, the issues with which can result in them being heat or cold intolerant.
Take cold intolerance, for instance—extreme sensitivity to low temperatures. According toMedical News Today, it is a disruption in the body’s process of temperature regulation. The process itself starts with the hypothalamus—a part of the brain that works like an inbuilt thermostat—sending messages around the body in order to heat or cool it.
In the case ofheat intolerance—when a person feels extra sensitive to high temperatures—the body also listens to the signals from the hypothalamus, but it reacts in a different way. Upon receiving the signals, the nerves on the skin increase sweat production, which then evaporates and cools down the body.
Quite a few people believed the parents are in the wrong here
Some redditors sided with the mom and dad
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