Climbing?

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Are you good at climbing?
Do you have any other positive Aspie-physiologic traits?

I didn't vote as I really had a hard time seeing the relevance of ability to climb being an Aspie trait, physiologic or not...

I am very good at climbing and love to climb on whatever i can. (I am 18)

I find this question highly relevant because the brain dead garbage in the so-called mental health industry think that absolute physical clumsiness is an essential aspie trait, along with memorizing bus schedules, being uanble to understand the meaning of things we learn pursuing obsessions, being unable to get jokes, and using a microgram scale to put sugar in our coffee.

I've always loved climbing. I started with trees when I was a kid and took up rock climbing in my late teens. I also took up sky diving. When there's nothing to climb, I look for an excuse. I once outraged the zoo supervisors by rigging a tyrolean traverse to fix a jammed door in the giraffe cage; it didn't work too well, since it was made out of coat hangers. I was always happy when a cat got stuck in a tree and somebody had to go up afterward.

In later years I worked as a scaffold builder and an ironworker. My body is too old for most of these things now, but my mind still loves the sensation of air beneath me, and I feel a close kinship with my primate heritage. Things went all to hell when we took to life on the ground.

I like to climb. Don't much anymore, but I used to climb the roof of the two-story I grew up in all the time. Trees are fun, I think rock climbing would be fun but I never tried it.

I'm lousy at climbing!

I'm actually good at it, but it scares my friends / family cuz they find me accident-prone (on the ground)...

It's been a long time since I've climbed anything, but I remember being very good at it.

i enjoy climbing trees, but most of the trees around here are termite infested or have some sort of bug infestment. i just hate how the branches get so tiny at the top of trees and then there's the "looking down" thing.

Yes.

Huh. I've always been the first one to get jokes. Back in third grade, we'd have a joke riddle thingy each day to figure out the answer to and I was almost always the first one to figure it out. And now when our teachers tell jokes, I'm often the one explaining the answer to everyone else.

I like climbing trees but I dont like rock climbing. My sweaty hands make sure I lose grip.
I think climbing skill has more to do with physical fitness than AS IMO

Climbing has been a "passion" since very young.I love the feeling of stretching to reach the next targeet area and the mental part of figuring out the best path.It is easier and more comfortable for me to climb to the top of a rock hill then walk on the sidewalk around people.The first allows me complete focus and the second has to many "destractions".I will admit,I am a bit of a cat in this....much easier to climb up then to climb back down...ooops.

Exactly my point. It does not make any sense that Aspies are generally clumsy. Because the mental health industry never see anything positive with AS, they will largely miss out any positive traits, especially physical traits. The "clumsiness"-traits are mostly related to distance hunting practises and are not general in nature.

I'm good at climbing up, but can have a little difficulty getting down.

I generally do not like heights (cannot stand up against a window in a high rise office) but am confortable at the top of a tree.