Is anyone here obsessed with climbing?

[Sabrina]

Does anyone here has climbing as a special interest?

Would you like to talk about it?

My boyfriend fits the aspie profile and he was describing a climbing buddy (not exactly a friend) that also fits the aspie profile, so I got curious to know if it’s a pattern.

 

[WittyAspie]

CLIMBING IS LIFE!!!!

I don’t think it has anything to do with AS; it has everything to be with being amazing. Have you ever tried it. All it takes is once to get hooked.

 

[Tom]

I was, when that was what was available (out west). I tie it together with other sports that I tended towards naturally that were done alone or semi independently, like running, hiking, surfing, swimming, bike riding. I think that was tied to my Aspie side more.

But I am also very much part NT (as I believe all Aspies are to one degree or another) and competitive and did every team/group sport imaginable. But in those cases I was most definately wearing masks to fit in.

 

[Starfire]

I’m really interested in climbing. The current book I’m reading is a biography about Don Whillans who is an absolute legend and was the bad boy of climbing and mountaineering. The next book I have is by Sir Chris Bonington which I’ll start shortly.

I don’t know if it’s an Aspie thing but it could certainly appeal to many of us. These days I’m a bit old to climb and I’m responsible for two children so I couldn’t afford or risk any accidents or worse. I have to make do with hiking, UK mountains and finding the most remote places I can. Nothing beats the silence, which is only broken by wind and the occasional bird or a stream. The views too, I’m never more at peace than when I’m out and there’s no one in sight for miles. Add to that the skill and thrill of getting on a rope and pushing yourself with the technical challenges involved in a climb and I can really see the appeal for Aspies. I have been thinking about an indoor climbing centre but that’s more sport climbing which is different, coincidentally my younger daughter has a session booked at one on Thursday evening.

 

[Starfire]

This is well worth watching for anyone interested in old school climbing with almost no equipment, a cloth cap and cigarette breaks lol

 

[unreality]

I don't like cliff climbing, too scary, but I love climbing high mountains and seeing the great view. Climbing to the top of Mount Whitney, California is on my bucket list. It's the highest mountain in the lower 48.

 

[tree]

Any climbing I do is limited to roof tops or
part way up an old tv antenna to hang up
the hummingbird feeder.

Going up is much easier than getting back
down.

 

[George Newman]

I climb from a walking position over to the couch. Now you might think that doesn’t sound like too much of a feat but with a bag of chips, a tall-boy beer, and the remote control all in my arms the level of complexity is great. I am dedicated to perfecting this move in that I practice daily. You talk about a muscle burn. It’s intense. Honestly, I think I am too practical to climb for personal satisfaction only. I’d need a tangible reward like fried chicken or a bean quesida. Okay, okay... I understand the climbing can be addictive. The rush of the next hand hold, the delight in a good toe placement. The satisfaction of accomplishment, the peace one finds at the top. Hats off to the climbers. Chase your obsessions.

 

[Loren]

I enjoy hiking and trail walking through our local mountains. I, currently, have a Patagonia literature obsession, and, cannot get my hands on enough of it. I'd like to travel there, at some future time...

 

[Ezra]

I have a pretty strong urge to climb stuff.

 

[Progster]

I do have some instinct to climb up to the highest point, be it a steeple, hill, up stairs in a building to the top floor, for some reason I feel better when I can see a long way around me and I'm up, away from the street, the city, the crowds. As a teenager I belonged to a rock climbing after school club and we went to a local climbing wall. I really liked it. Nowadays, I don't do any climbing, just hiking in the mountains, foraging for mushrooms or herbs.

 

[Mr Allen]

I can't do it.

I once tried to climb a big Wall, like the one that used to be on Gladiators, and it was one of THE scariest things I ever did.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

I love hiking, It is in the same environnement, and I also love some lesser climbing activities, I did it during one holiday it was not exactly climbing but not Hiking neither something in between, like a path very secured and easy on the mountain. I love this environnement and even if its cool it is still a bit challenging physically.

On year I did actual climbing, well it was a very easy climbing sessions with teachers , on a natural wall , we were climbing and then descelating (? it is the work kek)

I hated it, it was realy stressfull for me , in addition my sport teacher did a joke and pretended one string was like cut or something. I never did climb again.

And sometimes I did it during sport lesson at school on artificial wall but I realy didnt like it, like when something looks so risky I just find it idiot to do that...
There is plenty of sport less dangerous why would you need to do that xD

 

[Chance]

I love hiking, but cliff facing... no. My equilibrium just gets all weird and I get sick feeling. I like it. I tried it, but its just to much risk. I do like climbing man made rock walls and stuff like that. I guess that huge cushion down below helps keep my thoughts from derailing... Overall I'm not real fond of heights unless I'm in a plane... Makes no sense, but most the time I make no sense anyway... : )

 

[WittyAspie]

I have a pretty strong urge to climb stuff.

Do it!

 

[WittyAspie]

I do have some instinct to climb up to the highest point, be it a steeple, hill, up stairs in a building to the top floor, for some reason I feel better when I can see a long way around me and I'm up, away from the street, the city, the crowds. As a teenager I belonged to a rock climbing after school club and we went to a local climbing wall. I really liked it. Nowadays, I don't do any climbing, just hiking in the mountains, foraging for mushrooms or herbs.

Why did you stop? Ever consider doing it again?

 

[Sabrina]

. Have you ever tried it. All it takes is once to get hooked.

Yes, twice. The first time I freaked out a bit, because that route was too diffcult for a beginner. But the second time we went to an easier wall, and I loved it. I felt like I was a teenager again.

 

[Sabrina]

I was, when that was what was available (out west). I tie it together with other sports that I tended towards naturally that were done alone or semi independently, like running, hiking, surfing, swimming, bike riding. I think that was tied to my Aspie side more.

But I am also very much part NT (as I believe all Aspies are to one degree or another) and competitive and did every team/group sport imaginable. But in those cases I was most definately wearing masks to fit in.

Ok, this is an odd coincidence, that’s the mask my boyfriend is wearing in his FB profile

 

[Ezra]

Do it!

I climb what I can.

 

[Mr Allen]

A long time ago, I went Abseiling with a group of other disabled people in a social club I was in when I was a kid.

Some of these guys were Paraplegic, had no legs and they were doing Abseiling, was quite eye opening! I know I'll never say anything negative about these guys anyway.