Do you hate rollercoasters?

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I have never been on one and don't want to go on one.

I'm too scared to go on one , rather than hating them . I'm generally not an adventurous person , e.g I couldn't do a bungee jump.

I went on one once. Never again. I don't care for that or for amusement parks in general.

No, I love them. This is my favourite one I've ever been on. My friend pretended his seatbelt wasn't done up right before the drop and we thought he was going to die. It was brilliant.



However, I wouldn't go on one again because that poor girl lost her legs at Alton Towers a few years ago. f**k that s**t. It only happens very very rarely but to me the risk:fun ratio means my roller coaster days are done.

I hate them. I'm afraid of heights and particularly hate the feeling of going in a downward direction very fast. Roller coasters leave me a shaking, sobbing mess afterward.

I used to go to Disneyland before my Aspergers got ALOT of syndrome, i loved roller coaster. Now I can motion sickness, I can get motion sickness sitting in my rocker recliner chair. Going on roller coaster is a very bad idea now & toooo much crowds.

I am scared to get on them unless I take anxiety meds. Then I become a coaster junkie.

As an adult I enjoyed riding on a small wooden one. As a kid I was too small to be allowed on them.

No hate, man. Just peace

Just to foreword; I remember back in the day, rollercoasters/going to the amusement park, was something you did once a year if that, (usually during the summer). Admission was costly, but it wasn't that abhorrent. Usually you rode every ride in the park that was operating, that included gentle/family rides, and the coasters. Say an amusement park opens at 10 am, and closes at 10pm, that was more than enough time to queue/wait, and ride all the attractions. Also you could squeeze in time to see live performances, snooze through the souvenir and hobby shops, take a break to refresh yourself/eat at one of the restaurants, (if you wanted to be really ghetto you could leave the park and go get cheaper food lol.) and just walk around and see the different themed areas or the aesthetics.

Now things have changed drastically. Amusement park admission prices have really gone up. (Parking, Wheelchair/Stroller rental, Cut in line passes, VIP packages, premium food, seeing special attractions and shows are separately priced too, etc.) Sometimes it's impossible to ride every attraction during one day, and you have to make another visit the following day or for a second visit. Not only that, amusement parks are becoming more of an habitual thing and culture now. Lines are much longer, they are way more crowded, rides are being operated on more frequently. People are going to amusement parks several times a month now, and have bought VIP membership point cards. So it kinda soils the magic of once a special thing, has now become relatively common.

But to answer the damn question finally. (Sorry, I get like this lol) I don't hate rollercoasters. I just feel that they should be something you do on very special occasions, and people have the right not to care for them, and it's something that is not for everybody. I originally had a fear of coasters up until I was about 10 years old. I would ride the gentle rides and family rides, and I would ride the buccaneer pirate ship ride, but I stayed away from coasters. I then started to ride the gentle coasters that didn't have big drops or loops, then I went to coasters that looked tough, but were still easy to ride. I then finally graduated to the hyper mega coasters with lots of loops and high drops. I don't know if that will work for other people with apprehension of coasters, but it worked for me. So now I can ride any coaster, but coasters are still something I treat delicately and not every coaster I like, so it depends.

Also, pretty much every rollercoaster track layout in POV mode is uploaded on the internet. So it's like a test run, if the coaster looks too extreme for you, then you can tell for yourself whether you want to ride the actual thing. So yeah.