[Icare dixit]

Are you better at endurance sports or maybe sprinting, when manic?

I certainly can endure for longer when running. I'm not particularly good at it, but better at it when manic. I think I'd be better at sprinting but I wouldn't know. I am pretty good at sprinting in general, I don't know why. I can swim pretty fast as well.

Anyone play basketball? Good at it? I think it could be related to BP in some ways.

[newtothis31]

I wish I was good at basketball. I wish that BP came with physical super powers.

I hear you on running- it really helps quiet the mind.

I love following sports- I'm very passionate about my teams

[Icare dixit]

It could be more SZ-like (the belief or the actuality), but I think it does come with physical superpowers. Not as in DC Comics quantities, but still.

I do think/believe that practice making perfect is more true for us than for others.

It's at least a developmental dyslexia thing, but I see that as very much related to psychoticism. Arguably not all types (the more developmental, the more gifted, possibly).

Even accents is a mouth-tongue-ear coordination we can be very good at (there was a thread giving real suggestive "evidence" of that). But many with dyslexia can be very bad with accents as well. As well as differences in type and type in general. However, there are fast-reading and slow-reading dyslexics and the type used does matter.

Another thing is talking very fast. We're generally good at that (until be block, very interestingly). It takes great skill. Some with SZ are always rather bad at that.

ASD is very much the opposite in those respects (as is true of much else).

Not to boast, I can throw the ball into the basket with rather good precision from great distances, like quite easily from the opposite basket. I don't know how, but I do know it took a lot of practice but is now pretty perfect compared to others (it's also because I'm lazy, don't want to run. Just give me the ball already. ).

When I was younger, I won trophies for basketball. I could make baskets from long distances. When I'm manic, I get urges to do things like upside down push-ups. Handstands in general. I think I've caused myself lifetime injury via these activies. My pain levels go down when manic, I feel invincible. I have not tested my basketball skills in many years. Once I stopped growing and everyone was significantly taller than me, I felt very jeapordized physically and stopped playing. I didn't have the size for it at all. I stopped growing in 7th grade. Up until then, I was always tall for my age, but I just stopped growing. By 8th grade I was a little on the short side for basketball. I feel like running when manic but my legs won't let me die to pain. I do take walks when manic and my endurance is much higher when manic.

[Crazy Hitch]

I've been known to start exercise regimes when I'm hypo ... anything to taking out a gym contract or running on the beach ... none of which last much beyond my hypo stage

[Anxiousvalkyrie]

I don't guess I've ever thought much about this. I was a gymnast and played football (aka soccer) when I was younger. When I was in my 20s I started practicing yoga and doing martial arts. Looking back when manic I definitely went much harder in sparring when practicing martial arts. I practiced Ninpo Taijutsu, Kali Sikram and Muay Thai. So it was more practical application rather than just doing forms over and over. When I'd be manic I'd be at the gym 6 days a week and go 110% without exhaustion and getting hit during sparring didn't phase me.

Originally Posted by Crazy Hitch

I've been known to start exercise regimes when I'm hypo ... anything to taking out a gym contract or running on the beach ... none of which last much beyond my hypo stage

I hear you. I've started training for marathons and body-building during hypos. I abandon it when i crash. I'm so NOT athletic, it's absurd.