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MrSinister
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I'd have been shocked if I'd been picked anything other than last, frankly...
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Lily_cat
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severe asthma, outdoor and indoor allergies, severe clumsiness, inability to socialize very well, and popular girls who were always team leaders because they sucked up to the teacher
I wasn't always picked last - sometimes I wasn't picked at all (and got to go read elsewhere) |
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Reclusive
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Location: London
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Nobody ever wanted me on their team and I was always picked last. This was because I was unpopular; they thought I was weird and really unsociable, and also because I was probably the worst in the whole school at sports. I am un-coordinated and couldn't throw or catch a ball, couldn't hit a ball with a bat and they said I 'ran funny'. The team that got landed with me used to complain that I was making them lose. They thought I just wasn't trying, and that was one more thing they could pick on me for.
The one thing that I really dreaded was being asked by the teacher to pick a team; nobody would have wanted to be in my team, and I wouldn't have had the nerve to pick anyone. Fortunately it never happened. |
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skahthic
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| I was usually one of 2 kids routinely picked last for any kind of gym-related event. I couldn't hit a baseball or catch it. I didn't throw well. I couldn't kick well, either. I suck at basketball. I could only do one thing really well--- run ( which was important when you had to escape bullies). So I did do well at races against other kids. |
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Josie
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| I was usally always picked last. |
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byrlawson
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Location: Germany
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| I was not picked last. I was left over. |
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pluto
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I was usually picked last for football (soccer) teams,despite the fact I often confounded
them by actually being not bad at playing it.Seems that ability didn't make up for being a
social misfit !
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Nairin
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Yep.
Being overweight with no sports skills and being an aspie kinda makes people hate you in gym.
'Being an aspie' because I'm convinced that one guy hated my aspieness.
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Tim_Tex
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It was the gym teachers who assigned teams, so students didn't pick anyone.
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Capriccio
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| I was consistently picked last, yes |
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Le_Samourai
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Indeed I was. Mostly because I sucked at sports and everybody picked their best friends to be on their team first.
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Astrid
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In elementary school we weren't allowed to pick teams. Then in middle school I had no friends and was picked last (after the unathetic kids). Then in high school people decided I was funny and semi-athletic and I got picked after 1/3 of the picks.
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Fnord
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I was picked last only when they thought to pick me at all.
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Glasscutter
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Me... ALOT of time in primary 
btw:(im aussie!) |
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greyh
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In junior school i was pretty lucky in that I was good at football, athletic, and the class clown/joker so I tended to picked 1st/2nd or 3rd on average, depending on whether the chooser and I hated eachother or not 
When i started senior school i went a bit more introverted, wasn't expecting the much larger environment, nobody really knew me and I didn't make much effort to get to know them, so I wasn't really picked that much - then again we hardly ever did team sports and when we did the teacher picked teams for us anyway when I moved to a different senior school we played football at break but we never picked teams, just counted how many people there were and split in half, so never was an issue.
I think a lot of the reason people don't get chosen is because they aren't outgoing or well known - and so they get ignored, regardless of their actual skill in the sport. I was just as good at football in senior school as I was in junior, but I wasn't as well known or confident, and so I got picked less. |
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