Are there any other people with autism who find bus's hard?

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I loved the airport shuttles. Maybe that dosen't count. I loved holding onto the handles and being thrown back into a seat when the driver turned.

Buses are my special interest, so it's all right for me.

I have no trouble at all with public transportation. As long as I study the route beforehand, and let the driver know what stop I'm looking for if I'm not familiar with the area, I do just fine. I've gotten used to traveling (somewhat long distances, too) on public transport alone, so it's not big deal to me. My main issue isn't my AS, but my vision impairment, which makes reading signs at speed very frustrating and difficult sometimes.

I remember the bus. the wonderful bus that i would have to sit around waiting for an hour to get on. the wonderful bus that took 1 or 2 hours, or ever more, to do what would take 20 minutes in a car. the bus that was so time consuming and mind numbing to use that i would ride a bicycle in heavy traffic just to reduce my commute time to around 45 minutes from 2 or 3 hours. the bus that took so much time to use that once i stopped working, and decided to use instead of my bicycle as i was tired of the stress of cycling, caused my mind to turn into a mental no signal screen every time i waited on something which was a habit that i carried with me for several months after i stopped using it.

yeah, the bus is hard, because it sucks. all those ret*ds that want you to use it for the sake of the environment are insane BTW.

no, they didn't die. they just sat by and watched their life pass by as they were sitting on the bus. too poor to own a car and enjoy the things they could have had time to enjoy had they not had to waste their lives on the bus, they instead die later with the horrible memory that they have wasted a significant percentage of their lives on an illogical, inefficient, over expensive pile of sociological phenomena, which is public transportation, all because some bunch of dumbasses thought that bus lines were cheaper than proper city planning or just buying a cheap car for everyone that needs a car.

don't get me started on carrying groceries on one of those horrid things.

My only problem with buses is that I get lost easily if I dont know where I am going and I also hate that I can't control that fear of getting lost traveling by buses in a new place.. If I have to wait in a bus stop for more than 5 mins alone and the place I want to go is within walkable distance I walk because otherwise I get bored waiting,,,

To make the bus stop for you, you have to hail it (unless someone is getting off at your stop). I feel so uncomfortable with putting people off that i never do a full "hey, pick me up!" hail, and so have had countless buses pass me by while i stand there. :/

If i do ride one though, i tend to sit on the seat which the wheel arches protrude into, despite being 6'1". That way i know people won't choose to sit next to me. :p

But buses are a last resort for me. I'd rather walk if it wasn't raining (and even then...).

How is hailing a bus putting people off?

This seems to be rather common. While I do have a problem with buses I have absolutely no qualms with trains. Maybe it's because I see buses as the unwanted sibling of the public transport world and I only catch them when train services are delayed or cancelled, meaning that I'm already in a bad mood before having to catch the bus.

I live in a major city, and I don`t have a car, so bus and subway travel is a must for me.
I have no executive problems with public transit, I can find my way well enough - but My God is it noisy and crowded! It`s just awful. The buses wheels and even doors squeal in such a high pitch that I get migraines if I don`t cover my ears. Simple headaches if I DO cover them. And there are so many people.. looking at me, eating, doing weird things I`d rather not see.

It`s just the worst way to travel and I hate myself for not having a car. lol.

I hate when smokers put out their cigarettes just before they get on. The stench is unbearable. I also hate people standing near the entrance, when there are seats at the back or they could move up. I get into a panic, if I'm getting off and I think the driver might not notice me among all the people just standing there. It's much easier these days, now that I don't have a baby in a stroller as well. I don't drive and don't think I will ever be able to, so I just have to put up with the bus.

I had to train it as everything else. First I watched people getting on and off, a bit like a robber is watching bank, for few days. Then I read time tables to figure out the system a little bit (a young age I did not understand why there is not writen the place I WANT TO GO TO on front of the bus ). And then I aproached the driver (in London one has to TALK to bus driver and pay to him ) with most humble smile and sweetness, because people mostly have mercy with sweetness .

Otherwise I still do not quite like it especially because of the crowds of people, but I find my MP3 and a book verz helpful - I hear nothing, I see nothing.

I do not like travelling as such too much - for it means change of routean and one would have to be able to solve lot of things by talking to other people or by figuring it out from the not quite understandably written signs. But I quite like to see places, so have learned few basics (keep forgetting them, so I try to write these methodic informations down). And I quite like trains, wouldn ´t have to necessary sit in them, would prefere to just watch them , but, if I HAVE to go somewhere I would rather take a train. Of course, needless to say, I plan all my jeurney before hand on computer and I would buy seat reservation - that saves me from lot of stress..

I don't like public transport in general, the people are mostly rude, some smell bad, or they are just too noisy, with there phones & mp3 players. But now I can drive, So its not a problem any more.

So, only poor people who have no prospects in life use public transportation? A friend of mine, who lives in Short Hills, New Jersey and makes a comfortable 7 figure salary as a CFO, disagrees. He takes public transportation into NYC every day. Someone else I know, who retired about 4 years ago (in his mid 40's) and now has a multi-million dollar oceanfront estate at which he spends virtually no time because he is out on his yacht for months at a time, also disagrees. He, too, used the public transportation system to commute to his job, as a stock trader, daily.

Personally, I wouldn't be able to live in a place that was big enough to have an efficient public transportation system. Driving in a really big city is insane, and I simply cannot make sense of using buses/trains.

In sixth grade, I had to take a bus from the middle school to the high school, then get on another bus to ride home. The first day, getting to school was easy - get on the bus at home, ride to the high school, and then every bus that was leaving was going to the middle school. Get n a bus - any bus - and I'd end up where I needed to be. At the end of the day, however, some of the buses went to the high school, and some left to take more local kids directly home. I ended up having a full-blown meltdown and needing to have a teacher take me home. The next day, I was given explicit instructions on which bus number to take at each place, and I neverever took a different bus from the middle to the high school, even after I learned which ones were which.