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i tell you what. I cant drive a car but once i'm in the water i can swim! maybe its because there are no set rules for swimming. you can swim all over the place son. sh-t is magical!

But, i will have to say. the smell of clorine, and the feel of it on my skin drives me mad. thus i never go swimming

I can swim every style pretty well, I was a Jr lifeguard for a while at the local YMCA when I was younger. Now, I can still swim but my stamina is so bad I cant swim more than 8 laps without getting out of breath

I have this problem as well. I think I can do it but it involves large confident strokes which I feel self confident about. Doing the ducking or whatever it's called in crawl is just a case of practice. I didn't used to be able to duck when doing breast stroke but now I can, just took a while.

I must be a bit of an odd one out here, , I love swimming it feels as natural as breathing for me.
Being totally submerged under water is one of my best things to calm down and gets rid of sensory issues. But I can understand why the crawl feels awkward, especially trying to keep your head above water.

terrible swimmer...though I haven't tried again in years- maybe I picked it up some how.

i can doggy paddle ha...

I am kind of clastrophobic in water, when my head goes under I panic. I can hang out in the hot tub because I can feel the bottom or the shallow end.

I took swimming lessons when I was little, but I can swim now for some reason.

I don't even know what the crawl is. I don't swim because I can't. I have a fear of water and pretty bad motor skills.
I feel claustrophobic in water too. It's this crushing pressure and also I hate being too close to people. Other swimmers don't understand this. Also, I hate wearing swimmers.

i had to get past a disabling fear of getting water in my eyes, uncomfortable as hell but i learned to tolerate it, with eye drops later. i had to learn how to swim as a 22 year old young adult, due to a back injury and a prescription from a back doctor that if i learned how to swim my back problems would be less disabling. he spoke the truth because i became strong enough to enlist in the army [not that i actually WANTED to do such a silly thing but that is another story]. starting out, i was a relative oldster in the YMCA pool, with a bunch of kindergarten-aged kids in the pool, all of us being taught by a high-school-age lifeguard. it took me three months but i finally learned how to do a clumsy crawl and backstroke. i faithfully swam a mile's worth of laps most days until about 6 years ago when i had to move out in the country, too many hours away from civilization to be able to drive to a pool of any kind.

I love swimming. It is the most calming activity I've ever experienced and I've been able to swim well since I was about three years old. One of my earliest special interests was in marine biology and, more specifically, elasmobranchology (study of sharks). Now I've been studying up on all aspects of scuba diving and I plan on getting certified this summer and then I plan on doing a trip to hop in a diver's cage with great white sharks later in the year. I am so excited. It's like, the culmination of a 26 year special interest and I'm finally going to indulge myself

Yep, I have the same and it's common in Aspergers. There's a name for it - can't think what - but it's about having difficulties with motor movements where one side of the body is doing different from the other side. Breast stroke is fine because both sides are doing the same, but the crawl is hard because each side is moving at different times.

I swam for 9 years. I retired after high school tho.