Do you NOT go to school plays/dances?

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Like a school play for a little sibling or your own child. I personally have never found them interesting. Sitting there as they sing YAWN! Sure being there for support is good but I just don't like sitting there forever. I was wondering how others on the spectrum fealt about this issue. Perhaps you have children and don't go to there school functions or you do or perhaps as myself you have a young sibling and choose not to go to there functions.

I couldn't have gone to school dances even if I wanted to for most of middle school because of sensory hearing issues being far too overwhelming and sending me into a panicked state with the loud bumping bass, and by the time high school came around I couldn't have cared less and didn't attend any. You couldn't have paid me to go to prom even.

I would attend my kid's school play even though it makes my skin crawl because it's important to her. I can live with an hour. I would likely spend that hour with all 69 lbs of her on my lap because she won't be on stage but won't leave either, but oh well.

I always found school functions way boring.

I also didn't go to prom either. 300 bucks to rent a tux, and then what? Sit around talking to people I can barely stand.

If I had a kid and they were in a play or played sports I'd go support them, but honestly I'd be thinking to myself "I'm only here for my kid."

If I had any younger family members I would make up an excuse to get out of going to such events, I don't care for them and I don't think my potential neices and nephews would care if I were not there, my one younger family member is 6 but lives over a thousand miles away.

I like seeing plays. Earlier this year, I went to a play I wasn't even in, and my sister can't have been in it, because she is younger and goes to primary school. But I went just to watch it. I also go to school dances, I can handle the sound. My main sensory issue is sight, I hate bright lights.

I've never cared for them, neither have my kids. They know that if they are in something that is important to them, we will be there with bells on, but if it's not, they consider it a waste of time and feel that the sparse audience proves the rightness of their disdain for the entire thing. I've been to two beauty pageants a couple of non-school venue music shows, and an awards ceremony. That's it. Usually mine find a way to be checked out of school before the event if it's during the day, or if it's at night they make up some reason and tell the organizer that they can't come to it. They seriously hate those things.

Frances

I love going to Christmas school plays. I think they are so cute, and because children get really excited at this time of the year, I feel a Christmassy feeling in the air that makes me feel excited too, and I also get a bit emotional because I remember being in Christmas plays myself when I was a child.

I can't think of one reason why I would actually go.

I would rather die than step foot in a school again.

I only had a few friends and they never went to dances so I didn't either. I actually could have cared less about them. I'd rather use the money to pay for tickets to plays and dances to get a game instead, something that would last longer than one night.

Those are my exact sentiments.

I'd have loved to avoid going to the Homecoming Dance, especially because of a special interest and a recent discovery, but I am a class officer, and the student government looks bad when a Senior class officer, of all class officers, is absent. Fortunately, the dance was inside a building, so I spent nearly the entire time waiting for the end outside. It really doesn't seem that bad if I just sit down in a quiet area more than 30 meters away from the painful noise the NT's somehow survive without going deaf or getting pain in the ears (the noise is to such an extent that I estimate that the magnitude just inside the doors was above 90 dB, and the rate of increase increases as one gets closer to the source).

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Yeah actually, those were my feelings too, I just completely blanked out , when I decided to have children, the fact that they would have to go to school. I love watching my son on stage, he's so proud, he's so cute.... The "finding a seat" part is hell, during the play or songs I relax, as other people also feel the same about their children and go "awwww" and it makes me smile....
The worst part of school is dealing with the teachers face to face or the IEP meetings...school plays , concerts and dances are way less stressful.

When I was in the school I never went to any Proms or school dances.

Sometimes, they have a "play" in the auditorium during school hours, I didn't really mind attending those as I rather be sitting in there doing nothing than in a classroom doing work.

I never understood the point of any of that crap. I never understood dancing, and I still don't. I never went to my own prom. Hell, I didn't even want to go to my own graduation. I hate formal social events like that. They make no sense to me. Before our graduation, we were told "this celebration is for you." Okay... so if it's for us, then why are we PRACTICING it, like it's a damn performance then? If it's for us, shouldn't WE have some sort of say in what takes place at the ceremony? Of course not, cuz it isn't really for US, it's for the damn parents who view graduation as some sort of validation that they've done a good job raising a child. Too bad it takes next to nothing to actually graduate. High school is a big joke and a social experiment. It's also a place to keep kids and make sure they're monitored, lest they actually go learn something useful and interesting... They didn't even let us throw our damn hats in the air at graduation, and our graduation took place in a church for some reason.