Forced Athletics in School

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I don't understand the poll but I was generally bad at PE.

- Generally I didn't focus and couldn't figure out how to participate better (often didn't care 'cause I was busy getting into random fights)
- I was forced to play team sports but then I was picked last for the teams and was ignored during play - meaning I never got to touch the ball.
- There was a time when I was around 14 years old and people began actually throwing the ball my way; I was baffled in light of almost a decade of being excluded so I couldn't take advantage of that to secure a better social standing.
- I got bullied by typically idiotic/loser PE teachers.
- I hated running.

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A few things I noticed:

- Despite everything, as a little kid, I was one of the best at climbing trees.
- If there was a small, informal team game (soccer, basketball, whatever) to which I was invited; I suddenly became an actually useful member of whatever team I was in - scoring and all. . .
- When I took my fitness into my own hands at about 15 I did a good job; since then I think people notice I'm one of the fitter guys in whatever group I am.
- People in martial arts and combat sports have appreciated both my overall skill and certain fitness traits - I suspect; even to the point of overestimating me.


All this, as usual, as repetitive as I am, casts a shadow of doubt on whether, as somebody that might have an AS disorder, I was ever hardwired to suck at sports (with implications on either myself, the checklists or both). It rather seems to have been a environment/approach problem.

I think PE in school should not be required. It should be an elective only.
The irony for me is that when we had do "gymnastics" involving vaulting over a leather horse thing, I f**ked my knee up for life; two surgeries later, a lot of the time I can't do the "lifetime fitness" things I want to do- you know, the things that gym class was supposed to imprint on us as important and valuable.
At least I can walk again.
Thanks, gym class.

Well, now we can conclude that the people who have particular disorders that get ignored because the gym teacher is too moronic to understand how physiology works, and the other people who don't play well in sports because their teammates (or the gym teacher) are complete unsupportive jerks, and even other people who are forced into standards that don't suit them appropriately are the ones that don't end up doing well.

And I say this has to change.

The only explanation I can think of is that the fat gym teacher has diabetes or low metabolism. In which case, they would be considered hypocrites if they didn't allow other students with similar conditions special considerations. If the fat gym teacher doesn't exercise and preaches to students to exercise regularly, that would also be a hypocrisy.