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Agitation (sports related)

Sherlock77

Sherlock77

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I am right now watching my local football (American football) team and two games into the CFL season, we are just sucking!

I find myself getting very agitated, getting upset, almost taking it personally (I know I shouldn't, but it just comes out)... For some reason perhaps I associate sports team success with the success (lack of success) of sports team and let that get to me... And I really do know that's wrong thinking... But I get stuck in that

And it becomes problematic for me as I know I'm acting wrong, freaking out the cat with my yelling, I just need to learn how to watch the games, win or lose... Or maybe it's something to do with how much I don't like losing at anything... But that's another thread
 
I love watching live sports, and I'm a very passionate spectator, even if I know nothing of the teams. Just tell me which team we're rooting for, and I'm all about that.

It doesn't make me angry or anything, okay maybe temporarily. There was that ice hockey game, and we were playing against Canada....

Just have fun with it. It's okay. In the modern era we don't have armies to cheer on every summer as they march away to battle the neighboring kingdom, so sports teams are like our modern day gladiators.

If you're not hurting anyone, then you do you. Just make sure you let everyone in the house know that on Sundays, daddy gets the TV for sports.
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
I love watching live sports, and I'm a very passionate spectator, even if I know nothing of the teams. Just tell me which team we're rooting for, and I'm all about that.

It doesn't make me angry or anything, okay maybe temporarily. There was that ice hockey game, and we were playing against Canada....

Just have fun with it. It's okay. In the modern era we don't have armies to cheer on every summer as they march away to battle the neighboring kingdom, so sports teams are like our modern day gladiators.

If you're not hurting anyone, then you do you. Just make sure you let everyone in the house know that on Sundays, daddy gets the TV for sports.
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We just threw an interception and I didn't react, perhaps I need to intentionally just watch... Good war analogy :p
 
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I used to be that way until I found Yeshua now I can watch highlights and still be interested but not obsessed. Once I found Yah then things like sports don't matter as much.
 
Sherlock77 said:
I am right now watching my local football (American football) team and two games into the CFL season, we are just sucking!

I find myself getting very agitated, getting upset, almost taking it personally (I know I shouldn't, but it just comes out)... For some reason perhaps I associate sports team success with the success (lack of success) of sports team and let that get to me... And I really do know that's wrong thinking... But I get stuck in that

And it becomes problematic for me as I know I'm acting wrong, freaking out the cat with my yelling, I just need to learn how to watch the games, win or lose... Or maybe it's something to do with how much I don't like losing at anything... But that's another thread
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I'm originally from Cincinnati so my local NFL football team is the Cincinnati Bengals. If you're familiar with the team, you know they typically suck. I don't they've won a playoff game in my lifetime. I'm not a huge sports fan but I find it almost painful to watch them. I can get very agitated as well.

I consider myself an emotional person but I wonder if this is related to autism. We sometimes have trouble with emotional regulation and can be sensitive to emotional experiences. I also think some of us are hyper sensitive to other people's pain or embarassment. One of the reasons I don't like watching sports is because I don't like seeing people lose. It sometimes hurts, as if I was the one who's lost.

It might help to just remind yourself that it is just a game, that there will always be winners and losers, and it's not personal. If it becomes too hard to watch, it might help to step away, turn off the TV, or distract yourself with something else. I started recording the games instead of watching them live. It takes away some of the intensity. I can fast forward through the bad parts...also, I try not spoil it but if I know the Bengals lost, I won't watch at all.
 
I know that feeling. I don't follow sports much, but my dad does and he gets really invested sometimes. Fortunately his big team is Ohio State, who are really good at football and clobber their rival Michigan every time, but with basketball or other football teams it's more dicey. It's not that he gets too mad when his team screws up or it's a bad call, it's that he tells us about it every time. If i was more into sports I'd be the same way, but I hope I'd learn from him. :)

Both my parents root for Texas (college football/basketball) and man, nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like they do. That wasn't a typo. Normally if a team's up by enough in the last five minutes you know they're gonna win. Not with Texas.

March Madness this year. They were a 3-seed in the first round of the tournament, so they were playing a 14-seed, Abilene Christian. It's supposed to be a gimme game when you're seeded that high. Not so. Abilene caught up in the last five minutes (what'd I tell you?) Texas came back, though, and they couldn't score at all in the last minute as far as I remember. Texas had a one-point lead.

At 0.7 seconds, zero point seven seconds, some lunkhead fouls an Abilene player who shoots two freethrows and wins.

Texas spends almost $200 million on athletics a year.
 
Yup... Stuff I know, and I just need to be more intentional about simply enjoying a football game, no matter the result...
 
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