Do you go on group trips, school trips and so on

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Do you?

I don't anymore for now.

I was made to go for the last went when I was 15. I was so disorientated, teachers screamed at me and my overload ended in a semi-meltdown, semi-crying shutdown-something. Totally defeated the purpose of a 'having fun'.

I've been to about 4 over night school trips, and 2 camping trips with guides.
1st: Standon bowers when I was 9 (school)
2nd: Standon bowers when I was 10 (school)
3rd: France when I was 12 (School)
4th: Kingswood when I was 13 (school)
5th: Unity Camp 2006 when I was 13 (guides)
6th: Wales when I was 15 (guides)

I pretty much enjoyed all of them except for the first guides trip because they only allowed us 1 shower in the whole 7/8 days we were there, I fell out with my friend (but we got back together straight after) and there was this really bitchy girl who kept being horrible to me and on the last night we had a disco and she kept standing infront of me when I was trying to join the group and shed kept throwing stuff at me.
My favourite one is probably france because it was abroad and we went to this place where it was like a big cinema room with big screens on the walls and they were playing videos from ww2 and it was so cool, and all these explosions were going off and it made everyone jump.

I always hated school trips. Usually I would have to go to the toilet in the most inopportune moments.

I haven't gone on a fieldtrip since I was fourteen (although I always loved them), but I did go on a ski trip when I was eighteen. It sucked.

Yes. I do go on trips with school and on trips with kids from the fire hall. I have gone bowling and stuff. Been to theme parks.

I went on a camping thingy in grade 10; it totally sucked, as my "peers" saw me away from the sterile and mechanical environment of school. I affectionately dubbed said trip, "The Lord of the Flies". Many "Hulk-smash" moments from me due to being bullied.

Now, the school "formals" and "dances", I think I was the only person who never went.

I've been to a few school trips and stuff. I went to one with a youth club over night and they were very understanding of my food sensory issues(but, imo, too many people knew, and quite a few fingers were pointed at me).
I went to two over night trips at school, and both I hated in regards to food. I don't think I'm going to go on another one at school.
The ones I've went too which weren't over night were OKAY. I prefer being at school though.
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I've been on quite a few trips including exchanges.

I don't think I could really face that kind of thing any more though.
The experiences are exhausting, physically, mentally and emotionally.

On the whole I've enjoyed trips as the good bits have generally outweighed the bad bits.

However, there's only so long that one can put up with being in a dorm room/tent with up to 10 other people. Oh and communal showers...

I don't honestly think that I would have been permitted to go on these trips if I'd been open about my past AS assessment because people seem to have a phobia of the word "syndrome". Which would have been a shame because I was often the most organised and conscientious person on these trips. People must have appreciated me because I won some small prizes on these trips. I've actually learned a lot of things and had fun on these trips too.

The truth is that I would have thrown a fit if I hadn't planned everything down to the last meticulous detail. I'd read the itinerary every night to make sure that I was prepared for the morning. I did everything in my power to try and minimise the possibilities of failure or embarrassment. That's why I hated it when plans were changed at the last moment or when people wandered off without including me. Some of the more spontaneous parts were incredibly stressful. I'm used to a slower pace than this, so would struggle to keep up.

I've had to have others step in and arrange room-mates for me because I had no idea how people grouped themselves up like that. It's baffling. What's even more baffling is that people seem to want to share rooms with the folks each time.

I've also noticed that my happiness on trips had a direct inverse relationship with the number of people I've had to share a room with. The more people in the room, the unhappier and more confused I've been. It's very disconcerting when you're trying to be helpful to people and they call you rude and self centered.

Having to work in very crowded and noisy environments on these excursions is like hell. There have, unfortunately, been a couple of times where I have broken down. I'm not sure if these could technically be called meltdowns or not. I noticed that no-one else seemed to have that kind of issue.

It's the constant contact with other people that seems to wear me down and the not knowing exactly what to do in public places.

The best trips I've been on have been the ones that valued independent working, were well organised, low key and I had my own room.

Day trips, yes. Any longer than that, no.

I have been on most school trips, but in Year 7 I didn't go on an (about) 3-day school trip due to my parents thinking that the school's Learning Support may not come on the trip to help me.

I took an art class at the local university a year ago and we had a field trip to another art school. Day trip sort of thing. The teacher and my classmates rode there in a school van, and though there was room for me in it, I followed along in my car instead.

If I'm going somewhere, I go in MY car because then I am more in control of the stimuli driving there and back of course, but most importantly to me, my car can serve as a mobile emergency sensory deprivation chamber of sorts that i can retreat to as needed. It's very well insulated from sound and has fairly decent tinting on the windows.

I always go to outings with the Student Planning Organization. Every other Tuesday, we attend the Planning and Zoning Meetings in San Marcos, then we meet for pizza.

We were supposed to go on the inaugural ride on Austin's new light rail system, but the ride was delayed indefinitely due to safety concerns.

I would refuse to go on them wherever possible; would get ill every time. Once, someone (one of the adults) screamed at me abusively.

I was on barely a few school trips, I always tried to avoid them – two or three times in elementary school, two times in high school (one of them was a “green school” 7 day trip, I’m not sure if it’s also called so in your countries) and twice in college. When I were younger I liked also summer camps.