Aspergers and Sports.

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Most people I know with Aspergers are not fans of sports. They don't play them, nor do they watch them. I just want to know if you all are like this as well?

Also iv'e noticed that those with lower forms of Autism are more into sports compared to their higher functioning counterparts.

I don't watch sports very often, but when I do I enjoy it. I like statistics, so I enjoy looking at sports statistics. I like cheering on my favourite teams. I like watching the scores, especially in sports like volleyball where the score is always changing.

I'm terrible at playing sports. But sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I don't.

I've always enjoy watching and playing sports, even though I usually sucked in most sports.

I've never been interested in sports. The only sport I will watch all the way through is a boxing match. I hate UFC though. I used to watch soccer and tennis and sometimes hockey with my dad when I was little but I was just pretending to like those sports so I'd have something in common with my father so that doesn't count.

I love watching NBA basketball, I like NFL football as well. From 10-12yrs. old I played baseball on a little league team. When I was about 13 or so I switched to playing basketball.

Never been big on watching any sport. May watch part of a red soxs game once in a long while, but don't even know any of the players names, or anything on what's going on.

I have always been big on running and now a days speedskating. Would be on the schools team, and that counted as my hour of Socal interaction for the day. But never really into even watching the pro events of even running and such. Every one else on the team would know a little something on what's going on at the top but I just was more into my own little world while running and such..

Watching sports is boring, playing them is tedious. That's my honest opinion. Once in a while I'll go out to an amateur hockey game or something, but that's more just as an excuse to eat junk food and shoot the s**t with my friends.

I really don't care about team sports at all. I will occasionally watch figure skating or gymnastics if they happen to be on but never look for them.

Now my brother is very high functioning also, enough that he served in the military and was only recently diagnosed while being treated for PTSD. He is the family jock, played baseball, football, and wrestling all through school. I don't know if he still watches them. He use to watch them with dad but I don't think watching was ever that important.

I watch the Summer and Winter Olympics and the odd hockey or football game. I watch soccer every now and again. I also watch a bit of tennis. I also enjoy a basketball game here and there.

I feel like I've got better things to do with my time than sit around with a bunch of people so emotionally invested into a game that they scream n stuff. I don't understand the appeal of watching sports for entertainment in the slightest.

I enjoy watching sports a little, particularly when it's a big game. Though, I much prefer reading about sports in the newspaper (particularly I love looking at the standings and studying the box scores) and listening to sports on the radio.

I'm a runner.

Whether 'enjoy' is the correct word is perhaps a more interesting question

I run for a number of reasons:

1) It's very difficult and always remains so - the better you get, the faster you want to be, so it is always a challenge.

2) Progress can be measured against benchmarks i.e. aiming for 5k sub-17 min etc

3) Graphing/statistical analysis: sports such as running are a great way of building data charts that don't involve sitting in front of a screen all day

4) Health (health benefits should be obvious RE exercise vs no exercise)

5) General healthy lifestyle to support sport: in the pursuit of progress most sporty individuals eat very well and do lots of accompanying training (i.e bench work etc)

6) Physical helping mental state: if thoughts are predominantly of the self, physically pushing to the limit tends to remove thoughts of emotional state, as the entire focus is on not dropping to the ground in a heap!


The benefits of sports vs sedentary lifestyle are well-documented - and there are plenty of 'individual' sports, should the social communication issue be a problem.

RE watching sports - no interest at all. The idea of spending hours sitting in a chair staring at a screen seems to me like something of a waste of a life (the thought of having my last breath and thinking 'I spent a vast chunk of my life staring at a box when there's a whole world out there' absolutely terrifies me).

I am into baseball, I love baseball, I wear my boston red sox cap most days.
I like to bike and skate myself.
I also like playing tennis and shooting hoops.
I am a more sporty than most autistic people, I think.

I follow a few particular teams, enjoy keeping track of statistics, and play pick-up sports on occasion.

I have a rare low vision disorder & bad fine motor-skills so I s#cked when forced to play em in PE & I don't like the competitiveness so I never been into watching em.

I tried basketball for 3 or 4 years but I was just way too short to actually contribute at all. Basketball is a tall mans game and being short and not very fast is a bad combination for basketball.

I play soccer, tennis, and ping pong. I can beat most people at ping pong pretty badly but that's just because hardly anyone is actually good at table tennis. Tennis I am okay, I am better than most people who don't play it. As for soccer, i'm not good but not terrible. I mainly play defender because I am not good with the ball in my feet. I'm a decent defender. I can't lead a team on my back but I hold up my end of the fort most of the time.