To absolutely HATE dancing?

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I’m off to a party tonight and yet again it’ll be full of people dancing and trying to drag me up on the dance floor where I really do not want to be.
Just leave me with a drink and chatting to whoever is around.
I’m useless at it, I’ve got two left feet, no sense of rhythm, and feel like everyone is watching me especially if I’m at an event where I know lots of people.
Everyone else seems to love it though and never looks like an idiot like me when I do?

YANBU. I detest it and cannot bear people who won't take a bloody hint and drop it after the first refusal.

I'm with you all the way.Those that know me have given up asking, thankfully.

What I also resent is the idea that I can't be truly enjoying watching others with a deep-seated urge to dance myself.

I hate dancing too.

When i used to go clubbing, I mainly preferred to prop up the bar talk to good looking men

I absolutely hate it too, I feel and look awkward and the thought of people trying to drag me to the dance floor makes me not want to go to a place where dancing will happen ever

I’m glad I’m not alone! It’s shit that this makes me dread a social event all day and secretly wish it’d be cancelled rather than just being able to just feel comfortable with my choice to be on the sidelines!

Dancing's not for everyone. Every time I see that clip of Bill Gates dancing on stage at the Windows 95 launch a little part of me dies on his behalf.

I hate it and I hate people trying to make me do it.
I don't mind a bit of Strictly, but frankly the average wedding guest dancer is just embarrassing to look at. I can't bear it. We were at a wedding two weeks ago and it was torture. I actually find it quite stressful and always have, even as a child or a teenager. What makes people think it's ok to try and drag you onto a dancefloor?

There is a special corner of hell reserved for people who try to force people up onto dance floors.

I can take it or leave it. Usually leave it if I'm sober 😂

As an SEN teacher I am almost certain that I’m dyspraxic. I can’t dance, do a keep fit class and I can’t even do a dab!

Forced dancing makes me so stressed.

YANBU. I've no moves or rhythm & get embarrassed. I come out in a bright red stress rash all over my neck if pestered by people to get up.

I have to be in the mood. And if I'm not I hate being hassled. I remember one horrendous event where I'd recently put on a lot of weight and popped the stitches under one arm of my dress as I got out of the car. I sat there all evening with one arm clamped to my side, utterly mortified and really wishing I could tell the very irritating tipsy woman on our table to fuck off as she continuously harrassed me and called me miserable/boring for not wanting to dance.

Just say NO. Say it firmly. If they persist say it firmly again and turn away.

I LOVE dancing, but its not for everyone.

I hate people who try to make me drink more than I want. You need to cultivate a firm unapologetic - NO

That Bill Gates video is hilarious! Those poor sods - what were they thinking? Who, who is not a professional dancer doing a choreographed routine, wants to dance on a stage like that? NOOOOOOOO

I am with you. I just dont enjoy it. I think people assume that I'm worried about what people think about me, but I'm not - I wouldn't dance if I was alone either even to my favourite music

I'm afraid I just end up drinking more than I want to, as if literally everyone is dancing it somehow seems more acceptable to stand at the bar drinking by yourself, rather than standing by the sidelines watching by yourself. Either that or hiding in the toilets!

YANBU. I do not dance. Full stop. This can cause some awkwardness when well-meaning people who don’t really know me try to persuade / coerce / bully me into dancing, because the situation inevitably ends in a blunt, flat refusal from me.

I enjoy the sort of dancing where there is a set plan, e.g. barn dance or Scottish country dancing. But being expected to make it up on the spot? No thank you.

I am a professional ballroom dancer and even I hate dancing at a party 😉 I've always hated it and not seen the point, since well before I had any interest in dancing of any kind.

I also hate dancing and really, really hate people trying to talk me into dancing. I'm very clumsy, especially after I've had a few and I usually end up injured in some way!

I have a friend who always tries to request Whigfield's Saturday Night because she knows the routine but has a horror of having to freestyle.

I absolutely loathe dancing....I just can't do it and feel utterly self conscious (and bloody stupid) doing it. I'm sure that if the little green men from Mars landed when people were dancing they would seriously question our normality.
I can just about stomach watching Strictly (unless scary ginger Neil is pouting into camera) but I don't get the expression or feeling or need for it.
I am a heathen.

Ah there is nothing better than letting loose on a dance floor, whether you’re good at it or not. But then again there are probably cold water swimmers who say the same thing and I wouldn’t want them to force me into a pond so no, you’re not being unreasonable!

I'd feel much more self conscious and out of place when everyone is dancing, music is blaring out, if I was just stood there.

Not being unreasonable at all - if you hate it you hate it.
I love it and am lucky enough to have reached the age when people look at me tolerantly as a rather bonkers old woman, as I throw my shapes. I am also dyspraxic and have been known to fall over while dancing (sober but clumsy - luckily I bounce), I think I probably make weird faces when I dance - but I don't care. I am happy to dance on my own or with others. I often dance with children at weddings - they appreciate my talents

But definitely if I am allowed to inflict my dancing on people, you should be allowed to sit it out and enjoy having a drink or chatting etc.
As matter of interest - do you like to watch others dance or do you find it all a bit cringy ?

I'm another one who loves organised dancing (ceilidh or French bal) as then I know what to do. At a wedding disco I am absolutely useless, end up awkwardly avoiding it.