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I'm with you

That's what I am getting told never to be able to drive (by psychologists) as I withdraw in my head too much and "form a danger".
I read in German forum for autism that a diagnosis of autism makes you not being allowed to drive in Germany, but I read it about 2 years ago and I do not know if this statement is right, have no traceable history of the statement in PC anymore.

likewise, i can easily memorize several hundreds of decimal places of pi and rattle them off without much effort or thought. i also went through several years of advanced math in a few months and have an affinity for fine art. i think all of it boils down to visual memory: i'm good at recalling numbers, symbols and imagery.

my thinking isn't all that well adapted for traditional learning environments, though, so sometimes i struggle. my auditory processing is simply terrible along with my ability to disambiguate abstract instructions. i also spend an inordinate amount of time appearing disconnected because either i'm focusing on minute details in my environment, or because i'm so deeply entrenched in visualizing what a person is saying me, i appear not to be listening at all. this is one of the reasons i have such poor eye contact: when people talk to me, i often experience their words as if i were watching a film. consequently, i cannot listen and look at the same time because it's disorienting. like having two films playing at once, on top of each other.

My speech processing is awful.

Hybrid

Yes, I think in pictures and think in numbers although I am poor at math so that complicates things a lot, I learn best from pictures, or example I was able to teach myself to build a Fender Telecaster from scratch using other then photos of others doing the job and with the critical measurements. The text was not as useful as always for me, mostly useless, verbal advise is usually very unprocessable at least in part, my head was able to imagine the process and on we went, figureing out the process by playing with the pictures is the thing I appear to do that others often can't. I design and build without blue prints alot or at least incomplete ones. I write shopping lists and to do lists simply becouse I get distracted or overwhelmed easy and can't always count on my short term memory. When I load my truck weekly with tools and parts I know if we have everything just by looking and compairing the photos in my head, if something is missing it won't look right, no list needed. I never tryed memorized pie to the 1000th decimal becouse I see no use to it, my drafting compass only has so small of a margin of error, I still remember the 5 digit lock combonation to my bike in grade 1-2.