Asperger and Team sport

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uhm....i was pretty sure to have AS but now......i have always enjoyed team sport

I was a decent goalkeeper at soccer and i played basketball 4 years with above-average results

While i'm very uncoordinated( I tried martial arts and swimming ad suck at them) and have some problem with manual skill( i can't draw and my handwriting is illegible) this didn't affect me

I spent the summer between third and fourth grades worrying myself sick because I'd been told we would have to do Phys Ed every day and I was so abysmally uncoordinated that having to stand in a row and do jumping jacks was humiliating - I couldn't keep rhythm with everyone else to save my life. Turned out, we didn't have to do that after all, and I've never been asked to do them since, thank gods.

My folks were determined I was going to be 'normal' and forced me to play little league baseball, where I spent most of my time in left field or on the bench. In spite of the hours they spent in the backyard tossing practice pitches at me while I begged to be left alone, the ball hit me more than I ever hit the ball.

I went out for football in seventh grade because my only friend didn't want to do it alone. I had the size, so the coach made me Right Tackle, whatever that is. My parents wouldn't let me quit, because they claimed I owed it to the team to honor my commitment, but I'm sure both the coach and the team would have cheered if I had walked away. The most memorable moment from the whole season was a guy in a helmet head-butting me in the stomach and rendering me momentarily unconscious.

I hate the word TEAM. People in a group are the most ineffective waste of time I've ever experienced. A committee is being abundantly productive if they can brew a pot of coffee. I can get more done in ten minutes alone than a TEAM can do in a year. People. What a waste of oxygen.

Hi Willard
Zorry to butt in.

I th*t I was the only one to end up off someplace
else when my parents tried to put me in Tball,
I hateed that stupid game, it made no sense, and
just wen I th*t I was running, around all 3 bases,
then I get to "home" base and they said I'm "Out"?
Screw this game. I QUIT. and I did.
In spit of their stupid "you can't quit" rubbish,
I sat there in the dust and did not move.
Why couldn't I just sit in the stadium with
dad watching the NY Yankees intstead like
we used to?

Most of my time was spent playing out in the
field somewhere, chasing a butterfly/moth or
a toad.

If your intristed in the way I spell that word you
hate, I hope you might find it funny.

I spell it
t - I - e - a - m

I would like to make a public service announcement video
that says something like"

"Tieam, because as a matter of fact, there IS
an I in tieam."

I HATED Gym. I am very uncoordinated and in some sports I didn't even understand what I was supposed to be doing. Of course I always got picked last for teams. Eventually, I just started skipping gym class.

I Skipped P.E because of team sports, i hated them, i was always picked last and i would always fall out with my teamates over something

I play football (soccer for you americans).

I never did as a child. I was always the kid that got picked last for any team sport at school. It has only been since I've grown up that I tried doing anything sporty. When I started I was probably the worst player in the team. I have really poor co-ordination and awareness of what's going on around me in the game.

It's taken time and effort to get anywhere with it, but I made going to football part of my routine. Slowly I have improved, I'll never be one of the top players, but I don't feel like I'm just there to make up the numbers any more.

I'm still not so much part of the group or "one of the lads", but they encourage me and it's nice to feel like I'm improving at something that I have sucked so badly at all my life. I don't leave until the final whistle during a match, but sometimes when something has been said or something has happened between myself and teammates I will walk off as soon as the 90 minutes are up without a word to anyone. The social aspect of the team is something I think I will always struggle with, whereas the physical side of things I am slowly improving at.

Overall though I am glad I have put the hours in and it has allowed me to put the horrors of my school P.E/Gym lessons behind me.