I love sports. I'm terrible at team sports like football or basketball though, I always tend to run into people and injure myself or another by this.
But I was always very good at running, even though my teacher claimed that I ran strange and bad - as if I could have been so bad when I was third fastest of all the class! and I actually love football and can play in a team that I know, so that I can try to predict their movements. I'm an addicted strategist that loves to watch football games for the sake of watching the players and trying to analyse the formations. Strange for a girl maybe.
I love dancing and ballet too. I'm okay at that, most people get it faster than me, but that's because they imitate while I can't.
It's funny: I was considered worst at one dancing club, but when I agreed to meet some other people for a random practice, they needed hours to remember the order of movements and the exact movements without the trainer showing them - while I knew them right away the other day when I met them! They were all like "wow... why aren't you like that during practice?" I didn't know how to answer this at that time.
I know now though: I need longer, because I really need to learn and know things independently, but I learn faster to do things independently than all the non-autistics who only imitate what is shown to them. Gee, very autistic thing, well, yeah. It gets in my way often and I get frustrated about it even more often.
22 Nov 2007, 10:00 am
