Any other aspies on here not "get" sports??

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It's just stupid. I agree with you.

A couple of quotes from 'Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger's Syndrome' (Written by Luke Jackson, age 13*):

"Q: When is an obsession not an obsession?
A: When it is about football.

How unfair is that?! It seems that our society fully accepts the fact that a lot of men and boys 'eat, sleep and breathe' football and people seem to think that if someone doesn't then they are not fully male. Stupid!"

"I am sure that if a parent went to a doctor and said tthat their teenage son wouldn't shut up about football, they would laugh and tell them that it was perfectly normal. It seems as if we all have to be the same. Why can no one see that the world just isn't like that? I would like everyone to talk about computers all day actually, but I don't expect them to and people soon tell me to shut up."

I completely agree with that. What the hell is the big deal with sport?!

*13 at the time he wrote it.

I don't get sports either like whats the point of running after a ball?
The only kind of sport I get is jumping and eventing, but that is just cause I like horses. I can't play sports either.

Sports is virtual warfare. Soap apera is virtual neighbors. We can't get out buddies together, sharpen our spears, and go raid the next village, so we use sports instead. Likewise we can't gossip about our neighbors because we don't know them, so we gossip about the people we do know --- celebrities, the cast of "Friends", and the soap opera characters.