Forced Athletics in School

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thank god for lifelong PE exemption... thanks to cerebral palsy, and now in the last year a neurodegenerative disease http://www.alinssite.info for more info on the disease...

P.E has always sucked... i could never run, never ride a bike. and i even walked funny before this disease... i should have gotten this powerchair im getting soon a long time ago!

you didnt make a voting option for "too disabled to do P.E"

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my motor tone isnt the best but it seems schools and atheletics (including gym class) it was taught like some fat camp were tehy try to push you to work out and then they dont beleive you if you happen to be sick

as matter of fact i was known for not liking any sports, not going to any games (as a spectator) or talking about sports in my high school yearbook, also elected as least atheletic


i too have heard run forrest run as well they woudl want a 5 minute mile (4 times around track)by time about 2 and half i would be tired and walk rest of way and lengthen it to about a 10 or 15 minute mile

i did tell gym teacher about aspergers and hypotonia and she just said just do what you are able to do.

when i did like gym I perferred weightroom over arobics and anarobic (excersize such as situps, pushups)

I also thought of gym as structured recess with no playground

I am clumsy and can't do sports. The only thing I enjoy is rollerblading, and that didn't take any gym teachers, jocks or other people to "force" me into it; I went into rollerblading out of my own interests of physics and science.

I hate mandatory athletics classes because they are poorly labelled, the teachers are mostly terrible, most of the students act like jocks, and for the longest time ever, I associated sports with stupid, worthless people because intelligence could do what physical strength could not alone. If I did anything in sports, either I completely sucked at it, or ended up hurting a student and being labelled aggressive, even though I only injured other students out of my own clumsiness, and had no intention whatsoever to hurt anyone else. Sports should teach more strategy in games, not brute strength or "skill"--I want the mind to be made use of better, or else it will go to waste. And that's probably the reason why I don't like very many ball sports. It's terribly boring. All you do is throw the ball around mindlessly; there seems to be nearly no purpose, strategy or thinking involved at all. Or at least you're not taught to use any of those things much.

If we could learn to rollerblade or play any other sports because of our mental capabilities to understand science, or some other ingenious method of learning to do something in sports, then athletics would no longer be a jocular activity. It could be something that people who have better thinking capabilities could enjoy.

for me it was not really a care in the world for sports and seen no point.

as far as sports like rollorblading, i go slow then gradually get faster. i dont do it for long because it hurts the ankles unless i have the clamps on tight (as if to act as ankle-foot braces like polio victoms wear because the "boot" goes to about just below calf level)


bicycling, i perfer using a bike with shocks on front and back and i have one but barely ride it anymore due to busy inside house on puter or cold out

I am currently weight training. When I first started I was extremely weak. I couldn't lift even 10 lbs with my hamstrings, quadriceps, biceps, triceps, and calfs. For some reason, my chest, back and abs were a bit stronger but not that much stronger. Now, I'm still weak but I can lift more.

Hamstrings: barely 30lbs
Quads: at least 30lbs
biceps: at least 20lb
tricepts: about 20lbs
Calfs: about 15lbs
Back and chest: at lest 68lbs
abs: at least 90lbs (these are starting to look good)

(Don't bother pointing out that I still suck; I know it already.)

I was dreadful at everything... except endurance. I did karate as a child for about 10 years, so had brilliant fitness and stamina and always out-did most people at distance running. Problem was, I hated it, so even though I'd get into county finals etc I'd always refuse to do them.

Anything else... well, let's say I was a very strange teenager who 'had my period' pretty much non-stop. I figured they can't argue with you if you say you don't want to do something because of that, and they can't exactly ask you to prove it, so it was the perfect excuse. So I had it all the time, according to my PE teacher hehehe.

Swimming was the worst when I was younger though... I'd just refuse to do it. Sit on the pool and nobody could force me. I was a lot more obviously AS then though - I've learnt the art of subtlety as I got older.

I hated PE as I got older because it got harder and harder because it was all sports now. When I was little, it was all fun games and I enjoyed those games even though I wasn't good at them. I only remember one day when I was 15 when I actually liked PE because it was back to my old elementary school days because of the games we were playing. We were playing circle tag and crab soccer and it was lot of fun. We couldn't do our normal PE because the gym had down wrestling mats for the tournament.
Plus in high school, kids wouldn't participate and some didn't even play the games right because they didn't take it seriously so I hated PE even more.

In elementary school it was mandatory and I totally sucked at everything. My school would always have some stupid team competitions that were mandatory but I never went and no one said anything about it. I middle school the state required a semester of swimming but I was really good at that. I was even asked to join the swim team but refused to do so. I told the coach that I swim because I like it and joining a team would make me hate it. Team sports suck and blow at the same time. In college I was into competitive archery and riflery and was one of the best, again a solo and not a team sport.