re: How did people grow up in the south without air conditioning?

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Walking outside today is like being wrapped in a hot and wet towel.

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Try working outside in this shite wearing FRC's. Whoever the genius fricker was that thought it was a good idea to have to wear FRC's in this heat never had to actually work outside of an office.

Windows open,attic fan,higher ceilings. It was dusty and miserable. I remember when we got our first a/c.

Attic fans did a decent job of keeping the house bearable. Those suckers would rattle a house

you can't fathom it because you have already had it.

We didn't have it in school until 10th grade.

We played outside all summer. It is not that bad in the shade when the breeze is blowing.

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Some of us aren't bitches when it comes to the heat...that is reserved for the cold in winter time

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I'd take the miserable heat over the miserable cold any day.

Why? If that is the environment the infant is in, that is what the infant will get used to.

Neither grandparents had central AC, woke up in the morning, played video games till it started to get really hot around 10 am, then went outside played like normal kids till it got dark.

Occasionally sat in living room/or the one room in the house with the big window unit. All other rooms had fans, even had a fan on the porch.

People these days.....

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I lived for a time where there was no central heat and air. You would be surprised how quickly you adjust.

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I think most people can relate at least a little. It's not the same, but if you've had your AC go out in Summer and have dealt with it a few days, you've probably found you're not dying on day 3 like you expected on day 1.

Most difficult part for me is how people dressed like they did in prior centuries and dealt with the heat, but I'm guessing the answer is the same (you adjust).