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[quote=Anonymous]Well, it happened on the East Coast in the 80s. And in middle school gym class, they taught us styles of dance like cha cha, waltz, and we had to pick partners! It was an epic mess of anxiety and hurt feelings.

I was an 80s girl who was picked last for sports. I also grew up athletic. Never really great at team sports, but great at track/cross country. I was uncoordinated and anxious as a child. Now as a grownup, I find myself fairly well coordinated, with quick physical response times, which is opposite of how I felt about myself as a kid.

AND HERE IS THE THING: I was emotionally and physically abused. I eventually read that abuse can literally make children clumsy, it's a disconnect between halves of the brain. It's of course intuitive that abuse makes children have anxiety. So anxious plus clumsy, despite inherent athletic gifts, and then compound this with social shame of getting picked last. Abuse is gift that keeps on giving! Thanks mom and dad, for the genes, I guess!

I am now mom to a super confident, athletically gifted child.

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