Anyone ever picked last when choosing teams in grade school?

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This is almost unanimous, that Aspies are picked last (by their peers/other kids). Well add me to this unanimousness.

About the only time I remember NOT being picked last - and actually I was picked pretty early - was when we were doing hockey in PE. Not ice hockey, but field hockey.

Actually it wasn't even a field, we played on a blaes pitch.

Obviously field hockey (or blaes hockey in this case) was seen as a girly game, and this was why I was picked quite early. It wasn't a compliment.

But there is no logical reason why being an Aspie would be girly, nor any logical reason why Aspies are any better at hockey than the football (soccer) or rugby we normally played.

Thank goodness - I'll punch anyone who calls me a girl (or at least I'll think about doing it). The fact that I am a girl is entirely irrelevant when coming up with reasons for why you feel I should be called a girl

I'd have been shocked if I'd been picked anything other than last, frankly...

severe asthma, outdoor and indoor allergies, severe clumsiness, inability to socialize very well, and popular girls who were always team leaders because they sucked up to the teacher

I wasn't always picked last - sometimes I wasn't picked at all (and got to go read elsewhere)

Nobody ever wanted me on their team and I was always picked last. This was because I was unpopular; they thought I was weird and really unsociable, and also because I was probably the worst in the whole school at sports. I am un-coordinated and couldn't throw or catch a ball, couldn't hit a ball with a bat and they said I 'ran funny'. The team that got landed with me used to complain that I was making them lose. They thought I just wasn't trying, and that was one more thing they could pick on me for.
The one thing that I really dreaded was being asked by the teacher to pick a team; nobody would have wanted to be in my team, and I wouldn't have had the nerve to pick anyone. Fortunately it never happened.

I was usually one of 2 kids routinely picked last for any kind of gym-related event. I couldn't hit a baseball or catch it. I didn't throw well. I couldn't kick well, either. I suck at basketball. I could only do one thing really well--- run ( which was important when you had to escape bullies). So I did do well at races against other kids.

I was usally always picked last.

I was not picked last. I was left over.

I was usually picked last for football (soccer) teams,despite the fact I often confounded
them by actually being not bad at playing it.Seems that ability didn't make up for being a
social misfit !

Yep.

Being overweight with no sports skills and being an aspie kinda makes people hate you in gym.

'Being an aspie' because I'm convinced that one guy hated my aspieness.

It was the gym teachers who assigned teams, so students didn't pick anyone.

I was consistently picked last, yes

Indeed I was. Mostly because I sucked at sports and everybody picked their best friends to be on their team first.

In elementary school we weren't allowed to pick teams. Then in middle school I had no friends and was picked last (after the unathetic kids). Then in high school people decided I was funny and semi-athletic and I got picked after 1/3 of the picks.

I was picked last only when they thought to pick me at all.

Me... ALOT of time in primary



btw:(im aussie!)