Aspergers and Driving

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I don't drive. I have passed the school for driving and passed the skills test once. I am trying to get my licence now.

I meant I passed the written once and skills test twice.

I drive and I consider myself a good driver. I use my turn signal, drive the speed limit, and don't tailgate. I wish a lot of other people would do the same.

I don't drive and I don't plan to in the near future. Sometimes I space out and even go catatonic so that wouldn't be good for driving. I would be a dangerous driver because of that. So, that is why I don't drive. I also don't have good enough reaction times for driving. Mine are too slow. By the way I am 25 years young and don't have a license. I almost got my pilot's license though. I was just too scared to solo so I stopped flying. I want to get back into it though. It is fun and safer than driving.

I have recently taken up driving lessons again after having had a long (18 month) break. I am ok at driving except when it comes to roundabouts (the joys of being British) and manoeuvres. Due to my poor spatial awareness, fine motor control and poor depth perception, I find it hard to control the car when doing manoeuvres. I also find that if the instructor tells me exactly how to do a particular manoeuvre, I might be able to do it for the rest of the lesson, but by the next week, I will have completely forgotten. As for roundabouts, I'm ok when I'm on them, but I find getting onto them difficult due to the fact that I find it hard to work out where the cars on the roundabout are going to go. This is probably related to my spatial awareness problems.

Still, I've only had 3 lessons since my break, and I feel that there is a chance that I might pass my test one day. But if I don't, I don't.

I'm a good driver. I drive since I was 15 years old and I am 30 right now. Nobody told me how to drive, I just stoled my dad's car and everything went on automatic. I think many of us can deal with machines almost by intuition.

"Mozart and the Whale: An Asperger's Love Story"

Donald drives a cab but rather unsuccessfully.

drivig is fun and easy!

I've driven for 25 years and never had an accident - i guess that makes me at least an above average driver

I think the issue for aspies is if you LIKE driving or not - if you like it the aspie brain is very good at remembering all the correct moves n rules - obsessively even - but if you dont yr aspie brain is probably busy elsewhere with one of its other obsessions and not giving driving the amount concentration needed to do it well.

I just got my license a few months ago and I now drive everywhere. It takes a lot of practice but you'll eventually reach a point where you are comfortable with it. If I can drive, anyone can.

Driving itself has come very easy to me. I mean driving an automatic car is so easy. I mean, it's basically shift into drive and go and that's it. I'm sure a standard is different but I refuse to ever drive those. I've driven for three years and have never come across any problems. I however, have never driven further then a 20 minute distance. I drive to the same places all the time. I never have left my familiarity zone or I would get lost because I am not good with directions at all. Someday I will probably have to drive to unfamiliar places and I think the only way I'll be able to do that is with that thing that gives you direction while you drive. I have a brain fart right now and can't remember the name of it....grrrr.

I'm both an Aspie and a great safer driver. How can there be a correlation between Aspergers and having bad driving experiences????? You can become a great safer driver ONLY by following the road rules and being patient, confident, and alert when on the road.

I am an excellent driver. Passengers often compliment me on it. Unfortunately, I have a lead foot - damn stereo!

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