Swimming Poll

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Maybe this has to do with where I live, but swimming is big in the Autie community here. There are swim programs and private teachers. Everybody has a pool, so the kids just grow up swimming. If they were NT, I'd be inclined to say the kids are learning more for fun and safety. But, many parents here see swimming as therapy. I kinda do, too. And, I want my kid to know saftey around any body of water.

I took swimming lessons as a child, and flunked!

No they didn't. But I know this:
I wasn't supposed to swim in the deep end without passing the test first. They have that rule for safety because they want to make sure you're a good swimmer. If you can't past the test, then you aren't a very good swimmer. So I tried to show them I can to swim but just because I can't swim good on my back doesn't mean I'm not a very good swimmer. But they didn't like being proven wrong I suppose. That's what I thought at the time but as an adult I know it was because I broke a rule and the counselors had to follow the rules or they'll get in trouble with the camp owner if they let me swim in the deep end without passing the test.

I couldnt swim as a kid, fluid body movements dont come naturally to me though my dad tried to teach me. I sort of did learn my own free-style/crawl though but Im not an amazing swimmer.

Same when I eventually learned to swim, had to teach myself no on else could, tend to do things on my own way. I was also around 12 and swan quarter of a mile none stop... just got feed up with everyone else doing it.

But like you often if could not do things, I would suddenly just start like another other time decided to tread water for the first time, 2 hours later...

But when apply myself seem to be able to do most things and be pretty good, but never learned to ride a bike, feel I could if had space with no one watching and could do in my own way, when is never the conventional way, and like you I am extremely clusmy, and still trip over and bang into things continuously.. .. never it quite manage to get front crawl quite right , coordination thing...

Put me in water and I sink.

I've had 3 near drowning occurances, 2 of them risking my own life to save someone else [when I knew I couldn't swim, so it was a stupid thing to do]...and the other time I accidently went into the deep end and well, just thrashed around for a while before going under and having to be rescued by a life-guard.
I'm never going swimming again....NEVER!!

I'm Special Olympics Athlete who does swim. I do 50m Freestyle, 50m Breast, and 4x25 Medley relay as Breaststroke.

I had private swimming lessons when I was a kid so that I could learn how to swim (I think I didn't learn in the group sessions). I did learn how to do the crawl, but what is interesting is that the swim instructor mentioned to my mom how my left arm hardly came out of the water at all as I was swimming. What we didn't know then, is that due to my NLD, I have left side weakness!

I voted for "Can't swim" because really, I can't.

In junior school, we were made to take swimming lessons, and I was one of only about 6 other pupils still using a float at the end of the year swimming competition.

I managed to pass my 5m test, but I can't remember whether I got my 10m or not. I either just missed it, or barely passed. I could never do more than that though. I just never got the hang of swimming.

I can swim, but I do a miserable breast stroke and crawl. I'm good at backstrokes though!

I'll be plain: Either I'm fully immersed in water or not get wet at all, but having to constantly change what part of my body touches the water is horrible.