DId you dislike playing sports when younger?

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I was never really a huge fan of playing sports when in grade school. I found when I played basketball or other sports everyone else was always better which made it less fun and even stressful. I hated going to gym at highschool for this reason. It always increased my chance of possibly getting bullied. I was never really in to sports in the first place but I thought games would at least be a lot more fun on an equal skill level.

I wouldn't say I disliked it, I was very small as a child and I went to poor schools so athletics weren't widely available and the people that did play the organized sports generally were much better athletes than me so I basically was discouraged from ever trying. I was a very active kid, I always gave 100% effort when doing something physical, I think I could of been good at something but I never had the initiative. I wish my parents forced me to do more things, play a sport or learn an instrument or another language or whatever. It seems like I wasted my childhood.

Depends on the sport. I have a short and stocky build and I never cared for participation in sports where height or leg length were an advantage, i.e. basketball or track. Due to my SPD I'm also a klutz with a ball in my hands. I can't throw or catch anything to save my life and I know I could easily win a fumbling contest in (US) football if they had one. I did discover though I had decent feet for kicking, so I ended up playing intermural football in college as a kicker/punter. My best success was in amateur freestyle wrestling, where I ended up winning two medals (four years apart).

I still am a spectator in a number of other sports I would not be any good at as a participant.

My parents tried to make me play sports when I was a small kid, namely just baseball and soccer. Maybe they thought it'd help my socialization, but instead it just made me detest the outdoors and needless physical activity. I'm just absolutely not a sports guy, not at any part of my life.

I did take up bowling around the same time and that I've stuck with for over 20 years, if mostly because it's a somewhat solitary activity and far less overwhelming, sensory-wise.

I loved sports, until I hit puberty and my figure completely changed and I suddenly became lopsided and clumsy >:/
I used to be great at ballet, gymnastics, karate, loved baseball and soccer... I miss that. stupid hormones.

I was put in ballet classes as therapy for my motor clumsiness. (I suspect they were worried I might accidently injure somebody on the wrestling mat.) I ended up really enjoying it and discovered that boys who do ballet are really athletes despite dance not being considered a contact sport.

I wasn't even good at recess/playtime activities like hopscotch, skipping rope, or catching a ball as a kid. I was even once excused from class for a while each day where this lady tried to get me to do such things properly. She also pointed out I walked up the stairs the "wrong" and showed how to do it correctly.

I usually go up and down stairs the wrong way now because my knees make it hard or painful to do it normally. I guess in a few more years I'll be lucky to be able to climb stairs at all.

As a young child, certain sports were played, but almost all emphasis was placed on baseball/softball. I had no coordination so i couldn't hit a pitched ball nor catch the ball. Failure to "meet expectations" in that sport made me even a bigger outcast, more to some teachers too.

That went on through 9th grade when i got bigger and had some ability to play (American) football then things started to get better all around.

I hated sports as a kid. I guess that this due to my clumsiness that I have since outgrown.

Even though I was never particularly good at anything, I did use to enjoy playing cricket, tennis and football (known as 'soccer' to all you Americans out there). But this could, in part, be attributed to my upbringing. My father has always been somewhat of a gregarious jock and his influence on me cannot be understated.

During my teenage years, in spite of my many social shortcomings, I would play for a local cricket team every weekend. Peculiarly, at one of the club's annual awards' nights, I managed to win three out of the five available trophies. When the dreaded photographs of the prize-winners were taken, the other club members playfully mocked me for the inexpressive mannerisms I exhibited during my shoot. From that day on, I was given the wonderfully uninspired nickname, "smiler".

I was not a fun but I can't say I disliked sports. More like I never had chance to try myself in them. I was always the last one chosen to teams and they avoided giving me ball unless they had no other choice.

I believe it was social issue, not my clumsiness because I don't think I was that clumsy. Sure I could damage both opponents and my teammates when I tried to catch a ball because I had no idea what other people around me are doing but I was not that bad in aiming at the ball and goal.

I was the best of class in hockey (because once puck got near me everyone was escaping from the stick in my hands, lol) and I also managed to throw basketball to the basket from half of the huge sport hall in our school, surprising even myself. Everyone seen the ball up high and getting clear into the basket but noone seen me throwing (I was watching their practice from behind their backs, seen a stranded ball rolling to me and decided to try throwing it from where I stood). I still remember how proud I felt when they yelled "Wow. Who throw that!?!" without knowing it was me, the girl they usually bullied and called good for nothing.

Last edited by Kiriae on 09 Aug 2015, 4:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Sports was a concept that I could not grasp and I had lots of huge anxieties.
I never had an idea of what was happening, and all this activity sent me to extreme overload where I had or shutdowns or meltdowns, but severely.
Also there was this thing with swimming, where children had to go to the public swimming pool once a week to get "swimming badges" measuring their abilities in swimming.
I have none because I just had big meltdowns each time to go there.
So the teachers just left me in the "baby pool" (though I was 10 up to 14 years old), but also there I was just freaking out, lots of crying because of sensory overload.
But these meltdowns I had in many sport acctivities and I got always "released" from it somehow.
The only thing I could tolerate was "short marathon", I just had to circle around the field a couple times, and I was quite good at it, like "Forrest Gump" running.
But I became later good at classical ballet (started age 17 but reaching professional level), but I watched it first, liked it, then started autodidactive training by books, then entered private school and then entered professional school (but got kicked out after 2 years because of "behavioural problems").
But I still do dance and sometimes do performances in theaters.

I couldn't do anything other than run awkwardly or get in the way, so I quite enjoyed playing football (soccer) in defense but dreaded having to play any other sport. I was absolutely terrified of cricket balls. Rugby is just for people who enjoy getting hurt. The worst was gymnastics, I was so bad at it that I could have carved out a career for myself on stage with a niche comedy routine. Swimming I don't even count as a sport, that's just a form of torture.

I hated the 100 meters run (the one that you start from hands on ground position - I always had hard time getting my balance after position change so I was wasting time while other kids were speeding up, I couldn't understand how the position is supposed to speed you up) but I was good in "marathons". I outsmarted other kids because they were all running fast at start and then losing all their energy and walking last a few circles while I was keeping a steady pace from start, without worrying about them running faster than me and then I was speeding up in the last circle if I still seen someone in front of me and outrunning them because I was not tired and they were.

My body build is not well for regular sports. I'm small and thin, but have high speed bursts, ideally, your stereotypical assassin... but not good for regular sports, as I have very little strength to compensate and low endurance and frequently bulled by peers in gym class alone.

Definitely. School sports when I was young tend to be team sports like footy, basketball etc. As I have fairly awful hand/eye coordination, not good at it. Being jeered at didn't help. It also turned out that I am even worse at sports involving rackets as I can overextend my arm to a certain degree: me aim at full swing is always off.

I loved hiking and swimming though, as those are things I can do by myself.