do you dance

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I was a great dancer when I was a kid. Really skinny too, I used to get top marks. I quit because the girls were bitchy to me.

Nowdays I love to dance when out at night.

even if i could dance better than my cat, i still don't care for modern dance moves nor the music that accompanies it, as they are visual and aural noise to me.

When I was college age, the place I lived in country western line dancing was very popular. There were about 3 or 4 common line dances. Also two relatively easy couple's dances, the two-step and the waltz. I actually learned to do them all, though I was bad at it and got out of step a bit more often than most people, nobody cared. During that time in my life I was sort of obsessed with socializing and observing people and trying to be "normal." I really hated the smoke, noise, and crowds so the dance phase didn't last long!

These days, maybe once a year I end up someplace with techno dance music and people are doing the free form thing. Even if I 'm drunk, I'm too self-conscious to do it, though I can see how it might be fun. I just enjoy watching them and listening to the music. Thankfully I never get pressured to, because my husband has never danced and won't try it.

I find that I'm unable to follow the steps in a dance routine. I tried to take jazz dancing in high school but I simply couldn't do it. I also can't do gymnastics. Being upside down and twirling around a bar is unthinkable to me. It's like I can't figure out where my body is in space, though I'm not generally clumsy or uncoordinated.

I did well at ballet when I was little, because it didn't involve learning a routine, just standing at the bar and performing simple moves over and over. I'm reasonably graceful.

I have never danced at high school dances. I was way too self-conscious and I felt too awkward.

In a book I read about people who are mildly autistic -- not enough to even qualify as AS -- there was an example given of a man who couldn't dance, and that was the telling clue that he was on the spectrum. He was able to eventually learn to dance by using a different learning technique rather than have to follow other people doing complex routines, which he couldn't follow by imitating the movements with his own body.

Dancing doesn't serve any real function in life, so I don't do it.

i too used to do ballet. it's very scripted.

spontaneous dance = no.