Have you done team sports _as a young adult_?

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Not talking about team sports in primary or secondary school, but whether you, as a young adult ever got up the nerve to sign up with an organized team sports league? Something like soccer, rugby, volleyball, baseball or cricket etc.?

And I mean with NT people, not a "league of our own" if you know what I mean.

As we all know, organized sports is an NT social-cohesive construct, and we know that sometimes en masse people can behave like imbeciles. Which is what puts me off about it. I did a soccer league at 18-19 but soon withdrew. The notion conjures up images of drinking chants and aggressive sexual chants and such, and homophobic slurs and put-downs towards those deemed "less alpha", which is a big red "NO THANKS" for me. It also evokes images of hazing and towel-snapping (figurative) in locker rooms, or a-holes deliberately hurling projectiles at me or charging into me, making it a sanctioned form of assault and they could just claim it was "an accident". So, again, NO THANKS. I'll emphasize further, that to me (back in the 90s, as I'm in my forties now), it would have been like entering the lion's den, it would be like a Jew trying to infiltrate a skinhead chapter, it would be like being the pedophile in prison (albeit far less deserved), you are basically a socio-emotionally / motor skills impaired sheep among a pack of wolves.

I did, however, recall one time coming across a YouTube clip of a British fellow with Aspergers who played rugby who successfully dated a great-looking girl, who appreciated him. So anything's possible, I suppose, but I mean *in general*...it's a risky avenue to tread. Unless you have very supportive people who are enlightened and non-judgmental, not the perverse Darwinian loutish-yobbo types.

Get up the nerve? I never gave it the slightest consideration. I got my exercise through practical bicycling, and did interesting work, which was enough to attract the ladies.

No. Left school loathing team sports with a passion.

Took up cycling instead, riding with the local section of the Cyclists' Touring Club on free Sundays and lots of cycle tours on my own and with the three or four (probably un-diagnosed Aspie) members of the section making up "The Vagabond Secion"

I never even thought about doing something like that. Sports were invented so that people could be entertained by watching people suffer injuries or even die because humans are naturally bloodthirsty, like the chariot races in ancient Rome where the audience loved to watch die in a horrible crash.

yes i have

i was addicted to sport

didn't do the social aspect , no after games drink , purposely arrived late and when the final whistle went I couldnt get away quick enoigh

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Interesting. I resumed cycling as a young adult after meeting one amateur racer, but I used it strictly for practical errands at first. The trouble with it socially, apart from the pre-selection for people who don't mind using a single-seater, is that you never meet anyone who rides at the same speed except when they are going the other way. Eventually, I took up touring, and teamed up with one other rider to buck a persistent headwind after meeting him in camp. He was a strictly recreational rider, used to careful warm-ups. I was a commuter, used to last-minute dashes to work. So, for the first two miles, I would ride my brakes, and then we were fine trading off the lead.
I entered a timed race once, and got passed by a guy breaking the course record. After that, I built a streamlined trike, and rode it in a few big competitions as a solo entrant competing against teams, except for sharing rides to the meet. One year, our car took home about half the trophies.
Tomorrow, I think I can get my bike off the exercycle rig and ride it outside again. I bought it new in '77.

That's spectator sports. I'm pretty sure that the sports themselves evolved from games that children naturally play because Ma Nature makes exercise fun. The ability to run and jump is pretty basic to survival in nature. Team sports develop the co-operation that can later be applied to coordinated hunting, or human conflict.

I did at university, where it was easy and natural to get involved. I haven’t since graduating.

But you didn't have to put up with loutish abuse from others?

I have, and I was hoping to get involved in ball hockey and airsoft until the zombie apocalypse began.

Rapping/cyphering is kind of like a team sport, only intellectual instead of physical. That could count too.

^^ The Vikings were seriously into rapping, but as solo competitions in extemporaneous verse. Perhaps it was blow a line and lose your turn.

I'm actually kinda familiar with flyting, since it's literally what caused me to learn how to rap. I have a massive early modern (instead of medieval) fantasy story and invented world it's set in; the story takes place somewhere that's roughly an expy for Jutland, Frisia, the British Isles and that general region and a handful of characters are involved in that. It's not a focus, but I'm trying to build a world were the culture feels real and organic, sort of like how in Star Wars everything is kind of dirty and worn. Even though it's basically 'vikings with guns', it isn't just might that wins followers, the culture appreciates cleverness. Once I figured out how to write bars I got distracted by how much I enjoy coming up with rhymes to focus on the story. And, now that I've figured how to make beats I'm too distracted by making music to come up with rhymes anymore.

Anyways, so flyting is:



And now, Exhibit B:


Flyting or fliting is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse.
Looks like those gentlemen are some serious flyters.

Skald and bard are just older words for emcee.

No. I generally played more niche sports where people were friendly, partially because they were mixed and partially because they had to be or they wouldn’t have enough players. I suspect if I had tried to join the football or rugby teams then I would have had a different experience.

In my teens I played for a local football club and did get what I thought was abuse from my team mates. In hindsight I think one of them was genuinely mean but most of them were trying to have a laugh, and if I’d laughed along with them then my experience would have been different. I don’t blame my teenage self for not realising what was going on, but I do think I would have been better equipped as a young adult.

I used to play softball, basketball, and touch football when I was a young adult.

I played softball as a middle-aged person, too.

I've contemplated joining Roller Derby a few times as an adult because I'm a fairly good skater and it looks super cool and interesting but there are tryouts and I don't think I'm quite skilled enough to be on the local team.

I was so confused about team sports as a kid. I had no understanding of what the point of it was at all. I understand the games now, but still not interested in the slightest.

In gym class in elementary school we would sometimes have to divide into teams for dodge ball, basketball or floor hockey and I was always terrified, always confused, and always pushed around.

As I grew older I liked things like ice skating, skiing, and bicycling. Of course all non-team things.