Poll: Do you like sports as spectator, team player, etc

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I found another sports poll here but I don't think it had enough choices. I have always loved some individual sports, would like playing team sports and one-on-one if I had any ability to play them and only tolerate spectator sports finding them mostly boring.

For team sports I would include only sports that involve social interaction to play. A relay race would be an individual sport for example.

Also include whether you think your answer is related to ASD or other issue. I think ASD would explain my disinterest in spectator sports. I have very poor hand/eye coordination and hypotonia which are somewhat other issues.

The only sport I enjoy watching occasionally as a spectator is tennis. I don't like other spectator sports at all. I'm therefore not a very good conversationalist with "the guys" when sports is a topic.

Definitely spectator but it was very cool being a volunteer off-ice official (penalty box attendant and timekeeper) for my stepbrother's old Jr A hockey team. Another officiating dream job for me would be a boxing/MMA referee or cutman.

I have never found any sport to be interesting either as a would be participant or a spectator.

The sport that I was 'forced' to play at school was just a series of horrible experiences and I never took to anything as I got older.

Why anyone likes it is a complete mystery to me.

I hate most anything to do with sports. I never been athletic at all. I never had much mussel, have bad motor-skills, & very slow to process things. I also dislike crowds & groups. This explains why I have no interest in playing sports but I'm not sure why I never got into watching them on TV. There's one exception, I liked watching cheerleading & dance competitions as a teen for perverted reasons since I didn't have access to porn.

I watch figure skating, college gymnastics, and women's pro wrestling for similar reasons (also I was good friends with the cheerleaders in high school, many of whom were on the school's gymnastics team as well) and it's thrown my standards entirely out of whack Making matters worse is I live in a medium sized city (Buffalo) so it's fairly easy to meet these beautiful athletes in person and torture myself even more

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I'm completely disinterested in any kind of sport. I find watching them boring and I'm terrible at playing them. I don't know if this has anything to do with my ASD or not, my NT brother is also completely disinterested. It could also have something to do with the fact that I've had undiagnosed breathing problems for as long as I can remember so I was never able to keep up with everyone else in PE.

Yep, I play voleyball

In school I competed in track (the 800m) and in cross-country racing. That was a good level of competitiveness for me. I was mostly competing with myself, but the urge to finish ahead of one or two more people helped spur me to greater effort, too.

Practice was satisfactorily solitary -- I would do endurance training or run up bleachers, mostly alone. My coaches learned that I could be trusted to keep at it without needing to be watched, so they left me to it and coached the other kids.

Later I found a niche practicing karate. It was about 90% solitary or semi-solitary (repetitions and kata, either alone at home or under sensei supervision and guidance with a bunch of other students in the dojo) and 10% kumite (sparring with another student). That suited me very well too.