Is it possible for aspies to dance?

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I hate dancing.

i like dancing in clubs because i'm really really good at it

and we had to take ballroom dancing both in fourth and in 12th grade anyway so i pretty much can dance 3-4 of these dances as well

so it is possible for an aspie to dance

I'm really good at dancing after a few drinks.

I'm naturally a good dancer. I wish I had lessons as a kid-I'd want to be a professional dancer. I auditioned for and got the role of a dancer for a musical I was in during high school.
I won dance contests and can still bust a move. I couldn't jog a block to save my life, but I can dance hard for hours. I love to dance alone.

I only dance with myself, when nobody is looking.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0VNx78SAq8M[/youtube]Good fortune,

- Icarus taught Billy how to dance...

Actually I CAN dance, I just hate having anyone look at me so I don't do it. I dance sometimes when I'm by myself, just to move to great music. I tell people I don't dance because it's against my religion... "Oh? What religion is that?" "The First Church of Dave's Not Looking Like an Ass..."

My oldest son went to a dance about a year ago and raved about how much fun he had dancing. He said he was really good, other people were watching and the DJ even shot a video clip with his phone... I looked at him and being an Aspie too, I said without thinking... "People watch TRAIN WRECKS too...."

I also took dancing lessons from Elaine.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xi4O1yi6b0[/youtube]Good fortune,

- Icarus is a much better mosher...

I have good dancing skills - for a normal person, and latin blood, so yes, I think.

i took ballet, tap and jazz classes from 3-13. i was ok, but never really good at it. i do however LOVE dancing at clubs most of the time. haven't been in forever. i don't need to drink, just dancing makes me feel super drunk. i went with other people once or twice and that was terrible and akward. i like going by myself-- everyone's a stranger. there is so much noise and light and sensory stuff i can just zone them all out. i am not a "good" dancer, but probably because i forget myself completely i am an interesting one. i mean, i've had guys stop me and tell me they like my dancing, but i don't think that counts-- i assume that's just code for-- hey, i wanna sleep with you.

I cannot dance and because of some self esteem issues I absolutely refuse to dance. Even when i've been drunk (and that's only ever happened a single digit number of times) and someone's tried to drag me onto the dancefloor i've pulled myself away from them as hard as possible to avoid going out on the dance floor, a couple of times I even came really close to punching the lights out of the person trying to get me to dance, and i'm a pacifist. I'm not the type for going out very much anyway but the point is that I absolutely refuse to dance as I know it is just something I cannot do.
I'm pretty similar with getting my photo taken aswell, even as an adult i avoid it and have been known to run away from anyone with a camera. (Ironic considering one of my fields of expertise is working in video production)
I hate making a fool of myself and looking stupid, which is what would happen if I danced.
Another really big reason I won't dance is because I have co-ordination issues and dancing makes them worse. If i'm feel under pressure and have to perform physical motions it makes me ten times as bad. Martial arts has helped my coordination and balance but i still have no wish to do any sort of dancing.

On the bad side my sister is getting married this summer (which is absolutely awesome, the bad bit isn't the marriage) and she is having a ceilidh and barn dance and i've been dreading the dancing for months. I love my sister and would do practically anything for her, including facing a big fear of mine and not avoiding or running away from a single photo at her wedding, but I just cannot dance at her wedding. I've told her this, along with everyone else in my family and they just don't understand. To quote my mum "there'll be someone calling out what you do, it's impossible to get wrong" I have one thing to say to you mum, Asperger's Syndrome (she doesn't know I have it, though that will be changing in the very near future).
Anyway, apologies for rambling, it's late and i'm very tired.

Point is, Can't dance, Won't dance, and i have absolutely no intention of ever changing that.

NO

Yes, can absolutely dance up a storm ... or at least when I was younger!

The weirdest thing that ever happened while dancing was that someone approached me and asked who taught me karate? I answered, no one. The guy responded that he had asked because my dance moves were classic martial arts moves.

Apparently, I had picked up some nice "martial arts" dance moves from Canadian skater Elvis Stojko while watching the Winter Olympics.

Now though with the passage of some years, while I still know the moves, having the physical endurance to make it through even one whole song can be a challenge.

I love dancing (And I think I'm good), it's the loud music and getting bumped into all the time that freaks me out.