What do you think about thrill seeking and AS?

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05 Dec 2016, 6:00 am

As kid i always wanted to be astronaut or try to jump from plane on parachute, for now i'm rather TV thrill seeker than actual one,

I do not know why always I held in great admiration for ski jumpers

And Poland had on of the best mr. Adam Małysz
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Recently i started to watch skateboarding and more specifically Big Air (It's on so called MegaRamp)

Some people oppose extreme sport due risk insolvent, but i likr to watch :mrgreen:

What do you think about kids practicing ski jumping, skateboard big-air and other sports with strong possibility of bones fractures?

I recently talk about this with my friends, why parents allow their children to practice these sports, given the risk of injuries?
I told my friend that I think risk-taking binds to human nature, and that if people are still afraid, people would grew up to be cowards and losers :mrgreen:

If that were the human species would not take risk we would not achieve anything great and not differed from other representatives of fauna inhabiting this planet :D



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05 Dec 2016, 6:14 am

I don't think there's any correlation between autism and thrill seeking. Some of all the autistic kids I've been in school with, have been into skateboarding and such, while others can't/won't even ride a bicycle.



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05 Dec 2016, 4:43 pm

I've always been rather cautious about things because of being scared of falling and hurting myself. But there are some things that I would love to try, that are on the wild side.

I get fascinated with abandoned buildings, and I really want to explore anywhere where there's an abandoned building, particularly at night (but not on my own, I do know people who would do it with me). But the thing is everything is so protected and private, and so exploring around abandoned buildings and taking photos and stuff is considered ''trespassing'', even if nobody owns it, and then the police come out of nowhere and then you get into trouble. Then you get criticised by society if you're an adult being caught exploring abandoned places. But it's not like I would go to mess around or play, it's just that I just love exploring. Sometimes life can seem so dull and I like to do something different, and going into abandoned buildings and the possibility of experiencing supernatural occurrences is really thrilling to me.


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05 Dec 2016, 4:51 pm

I'm always too afraid of getting hurt. I have done ski jumps but only tiny ones. I have been inside an abandoned building. I knew it was dangerous and stupid but I did it and it was a mess and all torn up. I could tell homeless had been staying there and it had been badly vandalized. This was in the Rockies and they tore the building down because it's not there anymore but I can remember when it was still opened and one day it was all boarded up and that was back in 1997. It was a school and it was very tiny. Only a few classrooms and it had a auditorium but it was real small and it as just a stage and there were no seats. It was two story. There used to be a playground there but they took it all out when they closed the school.


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05 Dec 2016, 5:21 pm

League_Girl wrote:
I'm always too afraid of getting hurt. I have done ski jumps but only tiny ones. I have been inside an abandoned building. I knew it was dangerous and stupid but I did it and it was a mess and all torn up. I could tell homeless had been staying there and it had been badly vandalized. This was in the Rockies and they tore the building down because it's not there anymore but I can remember when it was still opened and one day it was all boarded up and that was back in 1997. It was a school and it was very tiny. Only a few classrooms and it had a auditorium but it was real small and it as just a stage and there were no seats. It was two story. There used to be a playground there but they took it all out when they closed the school.



I wonder where it comes from, that some can not live without doing something dangerous that people outside seem hopelessly stupid and risky, and on the other hand, there are also people that are afraid of literally everything?



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05 Dec 2016, 5:30 pm

I had no idea there were people that cannot live without risk taking. Something I will never understand I guess because it's so alien and not something I can relate to.


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05 Dec 2016, 11:39 pm

I never had any desire to do anything dangerous other than eating unhealthy, not exercising & trying lots of meds for different things. I'm extremely unathletic, have a low tolerance to pain & have anxiety.


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