What sports are good for Aspies?

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I think boxing is a good sport for someone with Aspergers, NLVD and or ADHD.
If you have boxed or just spared you know that boxing is anything but an easy sport. Boxing demands all of your energy both physical and mental. You have no choice but to focus which can be diffcult for someone with Aspergers, NLVD and or ADHD. I am dignosed as having NLVD and ADHD. As I get older and understand myself and NLVD and ADHD. I have come to the conclusion that acativities that make me focus as hard as they can be. Are very good for me. I have done some training and spard a little bit but hve never competed. I am in a kickboxing class at my university right now. The drills also take focus. Hitting the pads, hitting both the heavy bag and speed bag and skipping rope all take focus as much as they do physical skill.
There are easier sports for someone with Aspergers, NLVD and or ADHD. However I don't think there is a better one.

There are no such things as easy sports, only sports that make us feel good and determined enough to work on it for as long as we wish.

So let us just work out whenever we can!

One suggestion what will work for a certain type of person is roller skating.

I go to a skating rink in the evening when the music is playing out loud. I skate on my own, but like to see the other people around me and i feel like i'm being social without needing to talk to anyone or even interact, other than maybe the odd smile.

The noise doesn't bother me becuase if anything it acts as a focuser, i don't start to think about life becuase i'm focused on skating and listening to the music which fills my ears. I do the same in the car (v loud music) to keep my attention on the road.

I can go skating for the night, come home and tell my wife about who was there, who i met, a few funny things that happened and feel really good about myself. Yet i've likely not said a single word to anyone in the 3 hours i was there. It's all nods, smiles, claps, thumbs up etc, the kind of body language that i DO understand.

Positives
loud music so no need to talk to people, yet you're still around them and feel social.
solo activity, you can go alone without feeling silly.
as relaxing or strenuous as you want it to be

Negatives
Requires co-ordination
loud music will upset some.

Heh, I remember when I used to be a rollerblade nut. Friends and I back then had a bunch of homemade ramps and stuff. Good times, good times.

What about now? Do you still rollerblade? What had stopped you from having such fun time now?

Likely the pain

I had a phase for 3-4 years of agressive inline skating, would go to skate parks most weekends etc. Eventually i just stopped doing it, falls hurt so much more when there's a 4-12 foot drop involved.

Now i just stick to rinks and some outdoor skating through towns or seafronts.

Long story.... lets see...

Back then I used to be underweight to hell (I was supposed to be around 190-200, but was in the 130s, and all my weight was nothing but muscle, internal organs, bones. and FYI I am 6-ft 3in, same height as I was back then, Im down to 190 now though.) I was outside like 24/7, asside from school and meals. I also tended to eat a lot. when I was 16, the doctors pointed out that i needed to gain weight (something which I still want to kill them over since I was happy with myself.). Well, my father ended up forcing me into alot of weight gain/bulking up products (creatine and such). Well it ruined my metabolism entirely. I ended up pushing 230 at one point.

Because of all the weight gain, I ended up breaking the rollerblades, and didnt feel like buying new ones or even exercising anymore in anger that if I lose the weight, the doctors would be all you have to gain it back again. At least I dont live with my father anymore. (He also was the parent that was in denial of me having as, and heavily protested medications and stuff for me, even when I was younger (around 5 years old, doctors thought I might have been autistic, my father denied it, my mother was open-minded about it.)

Sigh. It's sad that so much had happened that you gave up rollerblading... because of some personal reasons that I feel fortunate to share your woes. Sigh, 60 lbs... I must feel fortunate because I had stopped medication a few years back. I once ballooned to 165 lbs. Now I am about 125 lbs and I feel good again!

It's alright. When circumstances permit, why not just rollerblade again and have fun with them? Rollberblading is fun! Smile on!

I have always enjoyed the shooting sports. Archery and with fire arms. when my father was actually around me and not with his legitimate family he always made sure i fired and could dissemble my guns very well. In my early teens i got into paintball but it's really way outside of my budget now. And I can do ok in basket ball, terrible offence as far as dribbling and getting close but i have very long arms and legs so when others have the ball they cant get by me too well and i can shoot.
I'm starting to get into Mixed Martial arts now but i cant afford any formal classes so I've been learning from videos on the internet. A little bit of boxing a little bit of wing chun and a little bit of American wrestling is how i like to fight. I'm really not good yet though so I'm trying to get my step brother whom is self taught as well to be my teacher, he is self taught and very proficient for an amateur he's fought dudes that are easily 100lbs larger and much stronger yet he remains un beaten, but I'm really bad at keeping to a routine and he's almost never here.

I used to do gymnastics at school but all ways struggled with a backward roll. I do like playing rugby and hockey plus snooker

Wow! Rugby plus hockey plus snooker! You're simply cool! Are you my sports idol?

I think any sort of Combat Sport. These are great because I've noticed that while I seem to take longer to learn some things I also manage to do them far better in the long run. I also went from being not very athletic at 18 to very strong and coordinated by the time I was 25.

Another vote for Eastern Martial Arts. They coordinate the body and calm the mind.

I've been a rollerblader since I was about 14/15. I've never been very good at the tech tricks, but when it comes to throwing myself off big ramps, getting air and stuff like that... My new thing is sports photography though.

May you please share with me how much do you exert for sports photography... or rather, what is it like?

I am really into my swimming. I am quite good at it and it's relaxing. I really like the relays because they're fast and furious. I swim for both Special Olympics and my local mainstream swimming club's development squad. My squad coach's brother swam for NZ at the Olympics and himself coached athletes at jonior and age group level at his previous club. He is also trying very hard to cope with the crash course in coaching autistic swmmers and doing well in my opinion.