anyone else here with aspergers dislike/hate gym?

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I don't like having to do certain stuff and the group sports

Institutionalized torture.

Pretty much.

I'm already not very co-ordinated at all. So, having other people rely on me to be co-ordinated isn't cool.
Also, when I was in regular school, we did relays and everyone got to watch you do stuff.
I couldn't deal with that.

I also don't care for the gym. I don't like it when the more experienced members make comments about me.

I hated it in high school only because it was boring (all sports, what happened to all the fun stuff?) and kids didn't follow the rules and they goofed off. They didn't take any games we played seriously. I will never forget this line one of my classmates said, "This isn't softball, this is PE softball," I sure learned there was PE behavior and school sports behavior. I hated PE behavior. It made it all boring. Plus some kids would refuse to participate and they sit out in every PE class until they get suspended and we got less and less kids and it made the class even worse because it was even more boring.

I found team sports impossible. I am not capable of paying attention to so many different things at once, from where I am and how I am moving to where the other players are so I can pass to them or avoid them, if they are on the other team, to where the ball is, etc. I don't know how people can navigate so many different things at one time. I was also terrible at gymnastics, I think because I didn't really have a sense of how my body was moving if I had to be upside down, and i found it scary to be upside down.

I am not, however, clumsy, and I was good at things like running.

Ah, it's an awful place.

I would rather run with nature, than stare at some steroid popping male who's arms are bigger than my torso.

I was too stupid to "get" baseball,
let alone play it.

Add to that that we were expected to run a mile in under 13 (or was it 15?) minutes, and....yeah.

If you had gym the first semester during a class slot, you had "health" during the second of that same year, and vice versa,
so we also had to stand on the scale while the coach (he was a pervert, btw!) recorded our weights,
and then we had to calculate how many calories we should be consuming a day to be at our "ideal" weight-
mine was like -3000. Guess some idiot didn't put a floor in that equation.

No, I didn't like it. It basically involved being pelted with balls, running around the gym (yawn), or standing in the outfield totally not noticing a ball fly by.

You know that stereotypical scene in most high school movies where the kid with glasses gets WALLOPED in the face from point-blank range? Me.

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Last edited by dunbots on 23 Mar 2011, 10:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.

That was me too. I can't even count how many times I got hit in the face with a ball. The gym teacher was like "He didn't do it on purpose" while the kid that hit me is standing there laughing.

Also, we played this game called like, Three Toss or something where you had to toss the ball back and forth three times before you could score a basket. That one always messed me up, and when we played soccer and the gym teacher threw two balls in at the same time.

well then stare at the girls

aren't you being a bit judgmental?

I swear. Sometimes I want to go into a field like education, just so I can restore some justice for one tiny corner of the Earth.

I'd end up killing a little....PERSON like that, though.

High school gym was a real bummer. Hated it. But college was another matter. We had the chance to try a lot of different sports, e.g. handball, tennis, golf, etc. It was a good chance to see what you liked and what you hated.

Yeah I hated it. I couldn't do the mile run (or any thing else really... except I could do sit-ups) to save my life. For the most part, in highschool my teacher would make us walk a few laps then we could do what we wanted. I ended bringing a magnetic chess set along with me everyday and just playing that with a friend. If I absolutely had to do something physical, ping-pong wasn't too bad.

The only PE I've taken in college was an archery class. Took it for credit-only, and found it quite enjoyable. That's not to say I wasn't awful at it, I was, but I definitely improved. The teacher of that class was also really cool, so that helped too.