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💧 Can you swim? 🧜‍♀️

Swim?

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 66.7%

  • No

    Votes: 5 33.3%
  • Total voters
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VisionofMilotic

VisionofMilotic

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    Do you know how to swim?

    I can swim a little bit, enough to do a breast stroke across a gym swimming pool, but not where I am a good swimmer, just basic life saving techniques, no diving, surfing or anything like that, unless it's an hm move, since those are compatible with milotic.

    I do like being around water, it is beautiful and soothing when I get the chance to visit a lake or beach, since I don't live near any, it's only on rare vacation occasions that I can do this though. If I did live in a seaside town where I always had a place to swim then I think I would try to learn to swim well to experience the water more closely, and be able to go beyond just dog paddling around a few feet away from the shore.

    Do you swim at all or are you are total land animal?
     
    Actually yeah, I can swim decent enough.

    As in I've been in water deeper than my own height.

    I've never had formal lessons and I wouldn't call myself anything close to an expert, but I grew up with a pool.
     
    I took swimming lessons growing up, so yes, though I'm not big on it. The feeling of being submerged in water is overstimulating for me (the autistic kind, not the fun kind) so I generally don't swim. Though on the upside, whenever I go on vacation with my family, I get to have whatever we're staying in to myself for a bit while everyone else goes to the pool. My sister always wants to go swimming while we're away, so we always try to get a place with a pool so she and my dad can swim. My sister also has autism and needs constant supervision, so mom will go sit by the pool and keep an eye on her. Which gives my introverted butt some much needed alone time when I otherwise wouldn't be able isolate myself enough to recharge.
     
    [PokeCommunity.com] 💧 Can you swim? 🧜‍♀️

    Growing up, I never really learned how to swim? I took a few swimming lessons at a public pool, a couple times actually, but none of them really stuck with me as I got older. I've always thought of it like never wanting to be in water, but if I was thrown into a pool deeper than my height I could at least swim back to the ledge and pull myself out. Though as I've gotten older I've gone from thinking I was the only person who never learned how to swim to learning it's actually more common than I thought, and feeling a lot less insecure about it.

    I enjoy going to the beach but I won't really go into the water though that's more because of the thought that other things could be living in it. I can go into water just fine, though really, the thing for me is boats. I can't do small boats, anything I can feel rocking on the water because I can't shake the feeling that it'll tip over and I'll get dumped out far from shore. Growing up next to the ocean and the island means I've been on the ferry a few times, and that's thankfully big enough of a boat that I don't feel like I'm in danger. I went out on a boat for whale watching with a friend from out of town as a tourist-y thing for them, and I wasn't paying attention the entire time because I was silently freaking out that the boat would tip.
     
    Not really. Took quite a few swimming lessons (unwillingly). Absorbed very little of it. Might not drown immediately.

    Pushed the swimming lessons for no clear reason, also. Lives kind of close to a large body of water, but not that close. Visited the beach a few times when younger. Guesses no more than twice, maybe three times a summer? Considers nobody in the family to be particularly keen on swimming (in a pool or otherwise).
     
    I love swimming, I started my first approach with water when i was like 4. I still remember the instructor carrying me around in water. When I was in elementary school, I had proper lessons, one year i used to go like 3 times a week. Then I stopped because I started being busy with other stuff. I usually swim in summer at the sea or at times in the swimming pool. I am still good at it, but not trained. I usually try to see if i manage to get some sort of subscription to go to the pools during the year, but I've never managed.
     
    I've loved swimming ever since I was a kid. My family has a large pool, so I've always spent most of my summers in the water. Sadly, it won't be a case this summer, since my family's house is being reconstructed. I also love going to the beach and swimming (and diving) in the sea/ocean. But I live in an in-land country, so this happens only rarely, usually when I'm on vacation.

    I also used to swim competitively for a while in high school, but I stopped after starting university, as my responsibilities and interests shifted in a different direction.
     
    Yes! I absolutely love swimming. Where I live it's actually quite common and affordable to have an outdoor pool in your garden so during the summers I'm swimming a lot since I've moved here! I'll definitely be in there this weekend given it's supposed to reach 39 degrees C!!!!!! (102f)
    I used to have swimming lessons when I was very young but hated them a lot. I've improved a lot since moving here due to the amount of swimming I can now do. Definitely not a professional but I'd say I'm above average at it!
     
    Technically, I can. I've been in pools since my very first summer alive because my mother loves swimming herself. So I grew up comfortable around water. Never learned how to swim on any athletic level. Just enough that if I fall in to water, I won't be in too much danger. I was supposed to learn in high school, but those days were terrible for me, so the less said the better.

    The problem is that I haven't been swimming in years, so I don't know how great I am these days. It's not something that one forgets how to do, but being in water is a different sensation than being on land.
     
    Barely, but I don't care. I'm too dysphoric to go to a pool.
     
    My parents made a point of signing my sisters and I up for swimming lessons when we were all kids. For various reasons I haven't been in a pool or at the beach in over a decade and have no real interest in doing so again though. I'm sure I can still swim a little though, once you learn how you don't really go back to the "I will immediately drown if placed in water" level.
     
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