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After school and weekend activities

TheCatWoman

Were you taken to after school and weekend activities, like dance classes, brownies/guides, cubs and scouts, sunday school etc? 

I think they're a lot more common now, every child's life seems to be full of activities, but when I was younger there didn't seem to be so many and I was never allowed to go anyway.

Do you feel that lack of activities has held you back in some way, or did you dread being forced to go to them?

I'm really interested in how social groups and social skills develop as well as anything people learn such as music, dance, drama etc. How were these things introduced to you? For me things like singing and dancing were something people on telly did, not quite real and something that it never occured to me that I could do.

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  • I was made to go to church and some other church related activities with a sibling. I hated going when I was a child and I don’t recall talking to children there, only adults. I also went to pony related activities but I don’t recall how it was introduced to me. We had horses in the family so I think it was just something expected yet I had only limited conversation with one or two girls intermittently. I enjoyed the pony side of things but couldn’t cope easily with the ‘strange’ children who participated.  I definitely found it easier to communicate with adults than children.

    In some ways I would have liked to do more activities yet I couldn’t manage the social side of things back then. I was a very late developer and if I had the physical capability of a young person now, I would likely do many more things than I currently do.

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  • I was made to go to church and some other church related activities with a sibling. I hated going when I was a child and I don’t recall talking to children there, only adults. I also went to pony related activities but I don’t recall how it was introduced to me. We had horses in the family so I think it was just something expected yet I had only limited conversation with one or two girls intermittently. I enjoyed the pony side of things but couldn’t cope easily with the ‘strange’ children who participated.  I definitely found it easier to communicate with adults than children.

    In some ways I would have liked to do more activities yet I couldn’t manage the social side of things back then. I was a very late developer and if I had the physical capability of a young person now, I would likely do many more things than I currently do.

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