What class do you dislike the most in JrHigh or Senior High. Mine was Chemistry. I could not for the life of me master

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126. Physical Education class.

I was WAY too bashful to be able to take off my clothes in front of the other kids. The sports were fine, as long as I could play them with all my clothes on. But being expected to take off my clothes in front of all the other kids? That was something I just could not do. And in fact never did. They finally put me in what they called the "adaptive" P.E. class. I think that was in the 10th grade. The other kids called it the "spastic" class. I felt stigmatized just by virtue of being in that class, and it was as humiliating for me as the regular P.E. class. At the age of 74, more than 60 years after some of the experiences I had in P.E. class, I still think often about some of those experiences and how I wish I had handled them. Is the fact that I think often about those things that happened to me 60-plus years ago mean that I was traumatized by those experiences? I think it does. I had all kinds of problems that sort of cascaded off my problems with P.E. class and that made my six years of high school absolutely miserable. I have a niece who says school was "fun" for her, but it was not fun for me, it was six years of daily torture, with a Sword of Damocles hanging over my head every single day of those six years.

-- Ron