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Lol my girlfriend is still dealing with the trauma, mental and physical, of being forced to play football don't romanticize that.
ETA: Also as an uncordinated autistic kid anytime I was "force to play sports" my teammate would put me through some of the worst bullying and ostracization I ever experienced. You dont actually want this.
I would think OP is talking more about playing in people's backyards for fun, not the proto fascist hellscape of school sports
Thats certainly not the first thing I think of when I hear the team "forced into sports". That term definitely evokes being forced into little league or whatever. and RyanGosling hasn't really clarified elsewise.
I played in my backyard pretty much on my own as a kid. But I was doing like, imagination games, not really "sports". Like tech wasnt as ubiquitous then and I definitly stopped doing that after like, middle school. But I think there's a difference between "I wish my screentime had been limited" and "I wish i had been forced into sports rhetorically.
hell i was decent at it and it didn't stop the bullying and attempted murder
Me too. The bullying came from other kids, others' parents, and the teachers! It's taken me decades to dip my toes back into sports and realise they're actually enjoyable in the right contexts.