I Can't Swim


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Strange For An Island Girl

Most people find it hard to believe that I can't swim.  I live on an island for heaven's sake!  I should be able to swim! Truth...

Yes...i Really Can't Swim

My parents have been so dissappointed that I can't swim that throughout my life, they have brought me to swimming lessons and everything but...

Don't Even Get Me Started

I never knew how to swim. I still don't. And I'm pretty terrified of it.The summer I turned 11, my parents sent me to take lessons. It was...

I'm Just Not Built For It

I know how to swim. I took swimming lessons as a kid, but, no matter how well I knew the techniques, I could never float. When the time for...

Swimming

When I was younger my sisters and I would go to our grandparents' every summer.  We'd always end up in the pool because we all loved the...

Would Love To Learn Though.

I have always longed to go into the waters and swim and surf. Somehow the opportunity never arose. I wonder if I can still do it. What do...

"please Remove Your Child From This Swim Club!"

I am 21 now and I’m still unable to swim, however this is not through lack of trying! My mother took me swimming regularly when I...
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  • "I dunno why I just always hated swimming . I had some traumatic experiences in swimming lessons growing up lol..."
  • "The end result was that my sister and I clung to my father's legs like live starfish and never learned to swim..."
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Saddest: Thrown In
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62% of people who have this experience are in their teens, 38% are in their twenties, and 21% are in their thirties. 50% of people who have this experience are men.

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