Gym Class - Did you participate?

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In junior high and high school...not until the teacher allowed me to pursue an interest in lifting weights. When people saw I was serious they started cheering me on. One guy who was usually a bully started spotting me. That was my senior year - a great year indeed! Most of high school was great!

I tried to avoid it whenever I could.... didn't like getting changed around others and they were rough most of the time, afraid of getting hit hard by the ball.
When I had no choice, it didn't suck 100% of the time, but especially when it came to badminton.....I suck more than anyone else at that particular sport.

I always participated in gym class.

I hated PE. I didn't participate at all until grade 11 (final year of HS in Quebec) when I realized a bad mark in gym could drag my average down enough to prevent me getting into college. So I grudgingly participated, in as minimal a way as possible. I ended up doing pretty well actually. I am somewhat athletic, not a jock, but I hate team sports. Grade 11 mostly was about fitness training, and it was a lot of individual working out, so that is probably why it wasn't quite as bad. I wish it had been that way the whole way through. I have no qualms with getting a good work out, but PE is a bad environment for a guy like me

Just curious, but was anyone else instinctively afraid of the ball? I remember seeing all these flying projectiles coming at me and the first thought was... RUN! Get outta there! And for the longest time, I couldn't understand why anyone would find any sort of ball sport fun. You could get hurt that way!

Luckily Gym class where I went to HS wasn't too demanding...we basically picked our share of games to play in a period and went on our way...i actually enjored badminton. I was also a huge basketball fan, so I loved playing bball. I even started at one point for our Middle School team at point guard...was never that good though. I actually enjoyed gym more in elementary school where we played games like puff ball and kickball. Puffball is similar to prison ball for those " in the know."

I didn't like the team sports they made us play in elementary- jr. high school. I couldn't avoid them, but the teachers knew something was up with me and my feelings and tried giving me alternate things to do. I really enjoyed the "free play" periods and the 50-yard dash in elementary school, but hated Sideline Basketball where everybody was in two teams, and each person got up to shoot a basket, and the team that got it done the fastest won.

In jr. high, I switched to an adaptive gym class after a marking period or two, which featured 3-5 students with various disabilities/ quirks and a really nice teacher. It was noncompetitive and was a nice break in the school day.

My high school offered dance as a phys ed option, so not everybody had to take the same stereotypical gym class. I took dance class as a sophomore, and then learned that the regular gym class made you pick different sports/ workouts each marking period. As a junior and senior, I was in the regular phys ed class and always picked the non-competitive options. (Frisbee, aerobics, folk dancing, team building, etc.)

My gym teacher figures I have Autism (even though I haven't got diagnosed - yet) and keeps the big kids off of me and helps me out. First year I have had to take Gym (Stupid FL state mandates).

I'm in 6th grade and actually do not, I use the extra time to finish homework in Planning Center. Really helps take off that pressure

I had to attend it for first half of the school year though, and it really sucked. I was always bullied by the bigger kids

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