AS and driving?

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I was the coolest guy in school when I rolled up in my mom's mini-van.

I have a license but I no longer remember how to drive. I believe I have coordination/multitasking issues + anxiety. I could probably drive if I tried but would have a higher chance of an accident. I've also seen a few stressful consequences of accidents (injury, financial, legal). I'd die from stress if that happened to me. So I will never drive again but will keep renewing the license.

I've been driving since I was 16. I drove 35,000kms in the last 12 months. The most I've ever driven was probably North of 60,000kms in a year - 44k on one of my cars, at least another 16k on a work van. I like driving.. which is a good thing considering I live in the suburbs and work in the city.

My twin brother had a learner's licence a couple of times but never followed through with getting a drivers licence ever. He has some pretty serious anxiety about driving & thus doesn't like it.

I've been driving since I was 17. I failed my drive test the first time though, primarily because the driving instructor I got had a heavy Indian accent I could hardly understand anything she said.

I had already learned the principles of steering from playing with RC cars and found it was no different with full size cars. What I had trouble with at first was learning to gauge the amount of foot pressure needed to accelerate and brake properly (i.e. without moving jerkily, throwing myself back in the seat, or forward into the steering wheel).

No significant accidents, but I've lightly bumped things a few times in parking lots.
I have trouble telling how close things are to the front or back of the vehicle, but not to the sides interestingly (at I've gotten cars through spaces where I had an inch or less of clearance on either side).

There is no way I can drive a car with a manual transmission though. I've tried many times before, but utterly failed.
I just can't use both my feet and hands in a coordinated manner at the same time (plus having to pay attention to everything else).

I don't drive, my dad took me for a few spins around the block when I was 15 or 16 which I did pretty well with but we didn't continue with that any they never got me lessons, I never thought I would be able to learn it well enough from my parents to be confident doing it but they certainly didn't take the initiative to make sure I knew. At this point I think I'm a lot more anxious and its hard for me to focus so it would be a battle between the two, I haven't even tried but I'm not sure how I would handle it now. I don't have money for a car or gas or insurance anyways so I guess it doesn't matter. I'm sure I'll try sometime in the future, my parents will probably get me lessons eventually even if its 10 years late.

I'm an excellent driver.

i drive pretty well, my vehicle control is eccelent, any my sharpened perception makes it also safe.

on problem is that in towns, there is so much going on that i get fatigued quickly, but on the interstate i can drive for hours no problem.

When I see a red light, I stomp on the accelerator and I never stop for stop signs. I get honked at a lot. If I lived in Boston, I would probably get cussed out by everyone.

I used to drive to Boston, though I'd usually park in Cambridge and walk over to the city. Driving around the city can be quite the adventure during the afternoon when there is a lot of traffic and pedestrians.

I found it much harder to drive and talk to passengers than to drive alone.

I love driving, it's like therapy for me. Without it I become really depressed and feel trapped because I can't walk anywhere alone. Out of the car I can be dopey at times, and have poor timing skills. I could never catch anything that is thrown to me. In the car it is perfect and can always brake in time. I'm more alert in the car because I enjoy driving. I've never had a crash and on several occasions have managed to avoid having them.
However, I am terrible at parallel parking. I get confused with which way to turn and my first car had several dents from reversing into things especially posts or signs (ironically one of them was to warn that there was a barrier behind )

Sounds as ridiculous as the 'expert' who told me I could not have "Asburjurs" because I work full time.

I not only drive but am an excellent driver: got a perfect score on my road test and 15 years without even a parking ticket. I even had a police officer accuse me of going 25km/h over the speed limit and I practically laughed in his face. It helps that road networks and traffic lights were an obsessive interest. I once know the patterns of all 200+ traffic lights on my city.

Raymond Babbitt is an "excellent driver."

I will first clarify my comments by saying I am neither diagnosed AS or NVLD but most probably fit the latter better.

I have only driven a car down a farm lane with my father accompanying me when I was a teenager. My father gave up after a short while because I was so inept. I have never taken driving lessons and due to my visual spatial difficulties, poor reaction times and poor judging of space would never consider myself safe to drive a car.

I used to love to drive once I got my license at age 25. I was afraid of driving before that. I have come to be very afraid of driving once again. I have trouble keeping track of all of the selfish BS going on on the roads. I have been hit and forced off of the road which led to rolling my car. I have panic attacks while driving now because of all of the aggression on the roads.

Sometimes I can't even focus well enough to drive at all.