Bad at Physical Education?

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At secondary school, I was good at almost all subjects, except art classes and P.E.
I'm not sure where it came from. I was bad at absolutely everything: running, jumping, throwing, ball games, etc.

Part of the reason was probably that I didn't do any sports outside school, but I think other people who didn't, either, were better than me.
I was small, but not fat, and I didn't have any physical problems.

Concerning running, that may suffice as an explanation. But concerning ball games, I was often bad at locating the ball and realizing that I should play it. The teachers often yelled at me for that reason; they didn't understand why I didn't react properly.

Do you have an explanation or similar experiences?

I was always hopeless at PE . . . mostly the team sports. I could never coordinate my motor skills while at the same time trying to understand the rules of the game. And everyone yelling at me didn't help. The physical contact always bothered me too. I can't push into people, it makes me feel bad.

I sucked at PE too, most team sports really just went too fast for me. That and I never really felt like going after a ball as that'd put pressure on me having to do something with it and make others try to take the ball away. Plus I hated PE with a passion so I didn't really put in any effort either. One exception was 1 on 1 badminton, that was actually quite fun at times, but we usually only did that for like 4 or 5 classes out of the whole year.

I was mostly failing, but there were things I did noticeably better than others (accuracy of shots in basketball for instance).

Did bad at PE since i am clumsy and slow, the the psychopathic teachers did not help things either.

I was good but that was because most of the other kids did not care. IF they tried they might have been better.

I suck at PE. This is why I never do it.

Rubbish at them all, but then I took up cycle racing, broke a club record and qualified for three National championships.

It is a well-known fact that many (but not all) people on the spectrum have balance and coordination issues. This can make most of the activities in PE very challenging for some of us. Ensuring that young people get an adequate amount of exercise is very important, but I think Autistic and Dyspraxic people should be given an alternative to competitive sports like football, as Neurotypical kids are often very impatient with people who aren't as skilled as they are.

The way I see it, this is an issue of discrimination, and a severely overlooked and trivialised one too.

I always enjoyed fitness training, swimming, and cycling, but I'd have given anything to avoid the awful experiences I had with competitive sports.

I'm bad at PE because of the autistic balance things, and the fact that I can't run properly, but I love it. But when people say I'm unfit because I'm getting bad grades, that I'm not doing good and that I should do better, it really hurts and 9/10 times I do go home crying. But you have to pull through, anyway.

To be honest though it's not about being better than the neurotypicals, or even at their level. It's more about -you- progressing, and if they don't understand why you're not like them and not progressing at the same speed, then trash them (if they're treating it negatively). I try and think like that and sometimes it helps me.

I had a similar experience with finding the ball though at my school the PE teachers didn't care. It was the student problem.

Well the purpose of P.E. is to help you to get good at it! If you don't have any physical activity at all, and then show up there expecting to run a mile, of course it's going to be extremely difficult! But if you start engaging in that activity regularly, then it will gradually get easier, until it's a piece of cake for you! It's just like any other subject in school, the more you practice it, the better you become. Only in this case, you practice and study not by reading a text book, but by actually getting exercise.

I'm officially the unfittest person in my PE class cos I can't run 800m in under 5 minutes (which makes no sense whatsoever). I can't balance or coordinate my legs so most activities don't work out well for me. I'm also ridiculously photosensitive. There's no way I can function in PE if I have to close my eyes most of the time. However, I do have a good stamina and an above-average upper body strength. Too bad the teacher assumes I'm hopeless based on my running...

I refused to do any type of PE throughout all of my time in school. I got in quite a bit of trouble but I never did any PE so it was worth it. I am uncomfortable running and the other kids always laughed at me when I did run, so I decided to avoid the humiliation.

At my high school, PE class grades were based mostly on participation. Physical ability had nothing to do with the grade. The only way to fail PE was to sit around and do nothing. I think it's absolutely stupid to grade based on physical ability, since everybody has different physical abilities.

Lets just say that class was a constant source of humiliation mostly because I couldn't keep up in any way couldn't stretch as far, run as far, run as fast, react as fast and sometimes when I did get focused I'd lose track of everything else which caused a couple embarrasing incidents of continuing to play a game when everyone else had stopped because I didn't notice the teacher saying class was over. There was also one time in 4th grade when I twisted my ankle running laps outside and it was hurting like hell but the teacher wouldn't let me sit out and made me participate in soccer which was the sport that day so I did and then I ended up spraining the ankle what a suprise and ended up limping around in pain the rest of the day and ended up having to stay home for a week due to swelling and pain...maybe she didn't take it serious because I wasn't crying about it or something but yeah usually emotional pain is more likely to cause that than physical pain with me...aside from that I was also terrible at math. I failed remedial math in college twice even with a tutor.