'Hell Bound'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
I can ride a bike, but it's been decades. I grew up in the country, and distances, hills and roads without shoulders kept me from going far. Can jump rope. Fairly incompetent with a ball. Cartwheels are a mystic art to which I have not been initiated.
Cartwheels are, I think, gendered.
Very true. That would be a great name for an all-girl punk band, too, now that I think about it.
Just read this story and it made me happy, so I thought I'd share it. [link]