I cannot, apparently, drown without help. DH, OTOH, cannot float without some forward movement going on, and our StE takes after him. And with both of them, it's bone density, not muscle mass that sinks them. DH played soccer from age two to age 22, including college and semipro, with lots of sprains and bruises but never a dislocation or a broken bone. With me of course, it's all this lovely buoyant fat. And also the fact that I can float forever. I swim incompetently ("I only dog-paddle"--Fezzig), so it may take me forever to reach a destination, but I'll float forever, and can rest, so I should make it eventually, barring riptides, undertows, and predatory animals.

I am one of those people in ita's krav classes that where she would say " put your feet this way" , I 'd say ok, look down and relizes my feet are doing nothing like what I think they are. So it took me a long time to learn to swim well. and to ride a bike. and to ice skate. That fact that I went to one capoeira class, is a big deal. That fact that if it was closer , I might have gone again - is amazing. Because it would have been a very long road ( they were amazed that I could not do a cartwheel)

eta: I think extra letters are attracted to my posts today.

OY. Somehow the line between me helping manage a project and being an admin assistant seems to be lost on one of my co-workers. I wonder how to give him a chance to behave before ratting him out. Because this is just annoying.

I loved to swim when I was younger but I would never swim in deep water. This is partly because of fear and partly because my legs just aren't strong enough to make me a really good swimmer.

I'm a SJ-hata

I admit I was skimming when I saw this and wonder what I did to make ita hate me.

didn't grow up near water, learned in pools when young, never had our own pool, never became a really good swimmer, don't like lakes or the ocean because there are things in the water, deep wide pools affect some form of vertigo in me if I look down, so swimming across them becomes a bit of a battle of my will. No idea why.

I'm now wanting to continue to ask about childhood skills. Cause now I wanna know what I think of the norm and whether they really are the norm. Like, can you ride a bike? Do a cartwheel? Catch, throw, hit a ball? Jump rope? Skate? Any other skill I didn't mention?

Like, can you ride a bike? Do a cartwheel? Catch, throw, hit a ball? Jump rope?

Yes to all but the cartwheel, provided that we're talking about childhood skills rather than adult ones.

Like, can you ride a bike? Do a cartwheel? Catch, throw, hit a ball? Jump rope?

No, no, kinda, sorta, no, yes.

And I can rollerskate, but now it scares me.

Yes, Childhood I think. I can still do cartwheels, but I'm a freak. Cartwheels are, I think, gendered.

Have you ever tried to teach an adult to swim? Not inconsiderable.

No, but I've never tried to teach an adult to pat her head while rubbing her belly, either.

I do remember learning to locomote with my head under water (as opposed to the generalized doggy-crawl) at about age seven, because I gave myself a black eye due to locomoting with my eyes closed, directly into the wall of the pool.

In fact, it is the only black eye I have ever had.