Exercises mostly for people with NT?

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I would like to hear your wise thoughts on this.

There is something called theatre or drama games.
This year I tried some at a course.
Let me explain one of the games.
We, a group of about 12 people, were asked by a teacher to walk inside of a room saying hello and shaking hands with eachother.
This exercise did nothing for me except giving me an aversion for such games.
We also did an exercise similar to this one:
It gave me very little at all.

I'm thinking about two things here:
1. Perhaps the teacher did not do the exercises the correct way? Or...
2. Perhaps people with ASD are seldom helped by these NT exercises?

To me drama or theatre games is not about getting to know eachother that much as you do not speak to eachother when doing them. Well, at least my group did not. I was never told why we were told to to these exercises. We had a teacher who refrained from explaining anything.

Are such exercise mostly good for people with NT? Should people with ASD avoid such exercises?

But why did I take the course then? I wanted to learn theatre and its techniques. Also, I quit after the second lesson.

"This exercise did nothing for me except giving me an aversion for such games."

lol I think the same would happen for me.

I think the group walk is useful for those musical drama numbers where the group does a coordinated dance on stage.

I did five years of drama classes in high school. It seemed suited to about one person in the whole class,who was very outgoing, but was not for me at all.

At the beginning of that video the teacher is like shouting 'OK CLASS NOW WERE GOING TO DO SOMETHING ...' that would do my head in alone.

I think the same could be said about "team building" exercises.

Management sometimes likes them.

Personally, if they were any fun at all I thought of them as a waste of time when we could be more productive if we were working.

Someday I'm going to start a thread here entitled "I ate a yellow delicious apple and I did not like it. Do NTs like yellow delicious apples more than autistic people do?"

Someone will respond sincerely.

Improvisation is very difficult, I was pretending to be a doctor on the phone one time and lapsed into a stereotypical thing from old movies as well.
If you didn't enjoy the games they are not for you. Your misunderstanding of the high status game could be lack of life experience, its difficult to say.
Have you tried other types of acting classes? (If other types exist?)

I thought I would be able to imitate the time that a doctor called me, so i didnt prepare
My first sentece was similar to how they talk but then i had nothing else.

I'm guessing the instructor meant high social status as in innate confidence, instead of being an upper class toff? im not sure myself actually. I wouldnt have a clue how to do the game either. What did the students who guessed correctly do?

Yes, this looked rather strange to me also.

I have Asperger's Syndrome and my brain works very differently that others. It is like I came from a wrong planet.

So first things first. Many Aspies suffer from much higher stress levels than many NTs (Neurotypicals). Stress levels build up in time until they diminish. This can be done in two ways.

First, some types of exercise can remove stress. It takes a very high level of physical exertion to cause this to happen. Think of a 50 yard dash at full speed. But it works. The problem is that most Aspies are not that athletic.

The second way the body removes this stress build up is by having a MELT DOWN. You reach a point and then almost any little thing is enough to put you over the edge and produce a melt down.

Ah, sure. I like play pretend as a play and as a pretend or an exercise.

I don't think I'd apply it in real life outside any controlled environment.
... Unless I'm outright high and drunk on sugar, or in an utterly shameless and mischievous mood where consequences are all on me and no one else will be affected.

Nor it does translate or transfer well in real life scenarios with real consequences and outcomes...
Unless my ego dies or some drastic change with the way of how I perceive reality.
Or no longer care how it'll affect the people in my life because of my actions. Kinda why I'd rather run away from my family or wish I actually hate them instead. Caring holds me back.


Anyways.
As for physical exercise -- I'd need to lift or exert something 10-15 kilos in bursts. Or punch something to be better.
Running won't do me well unless I do so in reckless abandon with no sense of self preservation like it does during meltdowns.

Because I'm the type who watches their steps and where to put it, hang on tight to what objects I hold and the bags that clings on me, strain my ears for incoming vehicles and presences, then the fact I have to look left and right before crossing the road.

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Im my experience such team building exercises precede some type of organisational restructure. They provide management with an idea who isn't a team player.

I'm afraid we NTs always have an ulterior motive