Do Asperger people dance?

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Do Asperger people dance?
- I don't know why but seems I don't have the interest to dance at all, but I like looking at others dance. About 4 occasions I could have the opportunity to dance, but I declined. I seemed to be terrified or nervous, I can't explain it. Only once I did try but I know my dancing was real terrible.

Yeah I like to dance. Mostly choreography. I like learning new styles.

I love to dance. But i'm terrible.
I prefer to dance only around people I know well, so they don't mind my rubbish dancing.

I enjoy a bit of dancing, but I'm pretty awful, partly because I don't know I'm doing moves that NTs would think of as strange. Also, when NTs try to teach me dance moves or steps that would come naturally to most NTs, I don't get how to do it at first and do something very different to start off with. Most annoying. So if I could dance at all like an NT, I would really enjoy dancing.

Yeah, dancing is easy. It's just learning some moves and following the beat. I've done it many times.

Of course, I'll never enjoy it as much as most people. Like with any activity, I tend to focus more on the technicalities than the social aspect. Dancing just doesn't have enough technicalities for me to wrap my mind around.

I can twitch in a rhythmic fashion, but that's about it. I tried taking ballroom dancing lessons, but kept being creeped out by weird guys touching me. I'd like to try it again if I had a partner who I wasn't creeped out by. Other than that, it's just twitching. However, I dj great, and have a good ear for clarity in music, so I can run the music. So I'd rather watch and run the thing than be part. Then EVERYBODY is dancing instead of me. It's a bit like running puppets.

I like to dance, but only to music that I like, and not with a partner, or in any way that requires rules, haha.

I adore dancing!! ! When I was in my 20's, this is the only reason I went out to clubs. The experience for me is so relaxing. Most people find me odd though when I dance, but I don't care! I will go out to dance, and for me...that is the reason I am there. Not to make new friends (I go with someone I already am friends with)...not to drink...not to pick up guys...just DANCE! I actually go almost into a trance-like state when I am listening to music, and I just let my body do what it feels like doing. Most, if not all of the time I go dancing, I like to find myself an area where I can move around a lot (I like to move my arms around, both to feel free, and also to keep random dudes at bay), and I always dance with my eyes closed. I really love to feel the music thru me, and find that by shutting out everything else, I can experience total freedom, almost as if I'm flying. Sometimes if I go out with more than one person, I will often find myself dancing alone while the others drink, or talk, but as long as they are still close in proximity, I don't mind dancing alone on a dance floor at all...I don't ever care that people look at me alone out there, and what they must think...they have NO idea the kind of freedom and joy I'm experiencing, and everything else is secondary.

Women are mostly catty about it because they don't understand or think I'm a weirdo, but I've found that they are simply jealous because a lot of men will usually gather near me to watch me. I can't help that! I'm not trying to steal anyone's boyfriend...they just like to watch me dance...I've never known anything different than this.

That's really cool! Reminds me of several groups of people that use dance to go into a trance as a ritual...

I love dancing, and I'm naturally good at it. Unfortunately, my asthma - which can at times be fairly severe - tends to get in the way, and prevents me from dancing for more than a few minutes at a time.

Dancing is the bane of my existence.

I don't like it, I don't "get" it, I don't do it.

I would rather have every single bone in my hand smashed, sequentially, with a ball-peen hammer than go dancing.

Trouble is, 90% of online dating profiles seem to mention it in some way: I can't tell you how many times my hopes have risen with every word when suddenly the "d-word" appears like a giant bucket of ice water dumped on my head.

So I guess the answer for this Aspie is "no"

Reason #6,953 why I am doomed to always be single...

I don't dance, although I have in the past. When I was at University I was obsessed with exercise and in my first year I would go to clubs (sometimes on my own as I had few friends) and just dance solidly to lose energy. It ended up being more of an endurance test than anything else, as I didn't particularly enjoy it and know now that I hate being in noisy crowded places. I really can't see the attraction of nightclubs. I am pretty sure I wasn't any good either as I was always scared of self expression and would dance in a very conservative way, not knowing what else to do (or daring to do it).

However, for a few years after that I joined the University Ceilidh society - partly because I like folk music anyway and partly because I had made a good friend who was part of it. I used to really enjoy Ceilidh dancing - basically there is a caller telling you what to do beforehand, so you know exactly what to do, and it was mainly people I knew who would come and it wasn't too loud. I don't do this anymore as don't have the energy (prefer early nights and energetic mornings) and don't know anyone who does it, but I did enjoy it at the time.

Call me a weirdo or a narrow-minded person but I see dancing as some sorta sexual display. They all talk about it in evolutionary psychology and what not, so the thought of myself dancing for that purpose is just really awkward. Also, I've never properly learnt to dance, I think it's just cheesy to copy what everyone else is doing (if everyone's doing similar stuff in the first place) and I have no idea as to what looks good or dumb when it comes to dancing.

I love to dance, but can't do the, 'choreographed' thing.

I used to like to dance until my then girlfriend (now wife) laughed at the way I dance.
I haven't danced since
I am thinking of taking a class or something to at least 'fit in'.

JD