#p.e.

[lifelesscomplains]

As an autistic person I FUCKING HATED P.E:

Getting chosen last for team games, my lack of coordination making our team lose, BEING OBLIGED TO EXPOSE A GAME OR A TRAINING SESSION IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE CLASS WHEN I'M OBVIOUSLY BAD AT IT.

I hated it when I was 4. I hated it when I was 16. Now that I'm 17 and this is the first year I don't have P.E, even though this is supposed to be the most stressful year of my education, I can feel such a weight being taken off of me. I don't cry on Sunday nights anymore and I don't feel ashamed all the time anymore either. AND YET I WAS CALLED SENSITIVE

[plastic2000s]

P.E. Activities

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

Wait.

The Librarians are just teachers.

Jenkins- Principle

Flynn- English/ Drama

Eve- P.E.

Cassie- Math/ Science

Jacob- History/ Art

Ezekiel- Computer

[goodnightngoth]

[autisim-power]

I didjnt have pe kit and I'm in a random class I don't even talk to none of these people who also forgot kit!!!! >_<

[kpop-bbg]

[lizbix]

Played volleyball for the first time today!!

[lizardtheacorn]

I need to rant about my fucking PE classes rn 💀💀

PE at the school I go to is bullshit 😭. Every quarter we have a different sport (soccer, volleyball, track and field, etc.). After a few weeks, we get tested on it. And not just playing the game outside for a bit blah blah blah. WRITTEN PE TESTS. WRITTEN. AS IN, THOSE STUPID BUBBLE TESTS FOR PE. Like, the shit is so stupid 😭😭. Was talking to my harp teacher (best teacher btw, love the guy) and he literally agreed. Everyone I’ve spoke to outside of my school agrees that it’s bullshit lmao. On top of that, aerobic runs. FUCKING AEROBIC RUNS ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE. I suck at running, and I get out of breath very easily. Almost threw up after the last one, but didn’t go to the nurse because I couldn’t miss my science classes due to the fact that I hadn’t been caught up on anything while I was on a short family trip. I just wanted to catch myself up blah blah blah. Anyways, I’m normally an all A student, but PE is the only class I have a B in because of aerobic runs, my average grade being a 79, and my PE tests, which have been from an 82 to a 92. In summary, our PE is fucking bullshit and everyone around my has collectively agreed.

[not-a-boot]

i hate the fitness gram pacer test with a burning passion

[annoying--moth]

I think one of my most humbling experiences was in grade 9 P.E. when the teacher was asking everyone their sizes for gym uniforms and all the other girls were going "small" with mayyyybe the occasional "medium", and then she turns to me and I go "large"

[fruitisthenewvegitable]

Dude I’m in gym class right now sitting on the bleachers on my phone because the teacher doesn’t mind, and a (fabric I think?) frizbee almost hit me in the face but I somehow managed to block it with my hand?????? I was so cut off guard omg

[fly-sky-high-dragon-hoard]

Bastard energy

I might wait to scan these to make a proper post about them

Have photos for now

[bluebabiesunshine9008]

Elementary school memories 🩷🩷 2014-2016

🩷🩷🩷

[rosekiller-addict]

GUYS

does anyone have any good tips on how to get out of gym class? i have physical testing which i do not feel like doing so i need a way out

my current plan is to go to the nurse like at the end of my class before either saying that i have a really bad headache or that my stomach hurts and hope to at least miss half of gym

If yall have good suggestions PLEASE LET ME KNOW

[fshoulders]

Incredibly true. I went through 10 years of compulsory Physical Education at school and all it did was make me miserable and contemptuous of fitness and anyone who pursued it. The President’s Tests, getting picked last, my chronic asthma: a boring litany of humiliation — the first few years of it set to the A and B side of one single mix-tape (no wonder I still have trouble liking 80s pop.)

Past a certain point, of course, my bad attitude didn’t help. I remember walking the compulsory mile without running at all as a sort of dumb-insolence protest. Running in particular was absolute misery and even after my asthma diagnosis, no one understood (least of all me) that even when I didn’t have any attacks, I was walking around with 50% large airway occlusion and was not faking being devastatingly (excuse me, “over-dramatically”) winded after one or two laps.

Whenever I actually enjoyed something (obstacle course, hurdles, climbing wall, racquet sports) the teachers seemed bemused. When I got too involved in flag football or basketball and ran myself into a wheezing mess, I don’t remember any support or advice. Gods help you if you “whined” to a female P.E. teacher that you didn’t feel up to running because you had bad cramps.

I now know that if I watch my lungs and my heart rate, I can take short breaks and return to running, and if I do that over time my asthma — not just my performance, but my 24/7 experience of small lung capacity — is improved. I now know that moderate aerobic exercise and calisthenics can reduce the knock-on muscle tension and gut problems that come with cramps, and if done regularly can actually reduce the cramp pain. None of that was ever taught to me in P.E., even when I went to a posh high school with a class size of around 15.

I don’t have an Education degree and I don’t know how P.E. classes should be taught to make them not a smelly echoing hell of social cruelty: but I know it would do a lot of good. P.E. should teach kids how to listen to their bodies and find things they like and are good at to pursue lifelong; teach them how exercise can benefit them and their happiness and health.

Instead, it put me off the entire topic so much it’s a wonder that at age 24 I randomly felt like running one day. I scraped some shorts out of a drawer and put on my high school junior varsity tennis team shoes and ran until I was tired, then stopped and rested, the ran again. I got to stop whenever I wanted. I got to decide when to turn around and go home. No one was looking at me and jeering. When I took a puff of my inhaler, no one was examining me for signs of malingering. It was an immense yet stupid revelation, and one I absolutely shouldn’t have had to bumble and wheeze into by myself.

more people would exercise if this culture didn't make it absolute hell