Is anyone afraid to run?

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my son and I both hate running-we do this goofy gallop thing before we start running, lol, and we trip over ANYTHING in our path.

That's a shame...


I do that too but I probably combine it with a skipping motion. I casually bound really high to smoothly increase my velocity, then start bolting towards my destination. It feels nice to do, and that’s all that matters in this situation.


I don’t do that, though. I only run by myself, so I’m probably more focused than you are.

My lungs always felt as though they were burning when I tried to run at school. I prefer to walk. I have tried to run, but it hurts my feet.

I tend to fall down and hurt myself if I try to run, plus the kids in my school always made fun of the way I run, so I reserve it only for running away from psychopaths with knives and people with "cures" for my AS

Aspies tend to have poor bilateral coordination - I have major problems with falling down easily while walking or running, and I could never roller skate or do anything like that without causing severe bodily injury. lol

I liked it in school in Jersey. You get to run along the peer BUT!! ! There was one advantage we all did it when the teacher wasn't looking which was most of the time we walked. Well it was on a peer 'come on' the teacher can't see us all the time not all 15 of us!

People have told me I move lethargically. Some also said I look like a t-rex when I run.

im not really afraid of running, i just dont do it because i always think people are gonna stare or holler out there car window, i need to eliminate all situations like that, sometimes i run in place in my room.

I can't run competitively myself, yet I'm fascinated with Roger Bannister. Go figure!

Roger Bannister said that, when he was a teenage boy, he would wheeze "like a hysterical girl screaming." He overcame that to become a top miler with a lung capacity greater than any other athlete in history. During the Empire Games in 1954, he struggled against a severe chest cold to win the championship. John Landy of Australia was second. He had cut his foot the day before the final. Shows what determination can do for a person.

People have said that werbert is afraid to run. Well, I like to think I have proven them wrong with my campaigns for city councilman, mayor, governor, and my last three campaigns for the Senate. Yet some people insist that I don't have the stomach to run for elected office. To them, I say, I've won eight bleeping elections! WTF have you won lately?

I was also told that I ran in a strange way, back when I had to run in school marathons etc.

Now, I occassionally want to run for fitness reasons, but I can never bring myself to do it, for all sorts of reasons. I much prefer indoor activities.

Yeah, it is kind of a bummer, because he is a little interested in trying to learn to play soccer with one of his friends. As for me, I have knee problems anyway (born with legs twisted inward, almost backwards), so I dunno how much good it would do.

He still tries occasionally, but other kids tease him. He usually just tells them "that's okay if I don't run as good as you do, because my mommy says I don't have to be good at everything as long as I try". Which is good that he tells them things like that when he isn't great at something like running or throwing a ball and such, but I noticed he tends to stop after someone comments, even though he seemingly shrugs it off. Needless to say, he doesn't try to run often-I think he just doesn't like having to explain to people, and since he's 5, and his friends are 6-7ish, they aren't shy about telling him anything about the way he looks.

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I'm pretty well-coordinated, but I'm terrified of running because it gives me this weird feeling like I'm being chased or something. It's just one of my weird phobias.