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30 Apr 2010, 3:05 am

Hello when a lot of Asperges people here I drive and own my car they look well I like to do that. So they ask how hard it was to learn and that which is fine but i feel i rubing it it there faces and I don't like rubbing stuff into other faces should i lie how i got there and all so how many other driver too and what car
I drive a Toyota Corolla 1998 if 88,000Km LOW KM ON IT OF A 12YO CAR



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30 Apr 2010, 3:08 am

Lukey wrote:
Hello when a lot of Asperges people here I drive and own my car they look well I like to do that.


What?? This is English, right?

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So they ask how hard it was to learn and that which is fine but i feel i rubing it it there faces and I don't like rubbing stuff into other faces should i lie how i got there and all so how many other driver too and what car
I drive a Toyota Corolla 1998 if 88,000Km LOW KM ON IT OF A 12YO CAR


Use more periods and fewer run on sentences please. I really have no idea what you're saying.



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30 Apr 2010, 3:15 am

Oh I get what you're asking now. I don't drive or have a license. Cars are too expensive and I have no interest in them.
As for rubbing it in just say, er, that some people with AS may be able to learn to drive easily and some do not. It depends what symptoms they have and how severe they are. There's no need to lie.


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30 Apr 2010, 3:38 am

Lukey wrote:
Hello when a lot of Asperges people here I drive and own my car they look well I like to do that. So they ask how hard it was to learn and that which is fine but i feel i rubing it it there faces and I don't like rubbing stuff into other faces should i lie how i got there and all so how many other driver too and what car
I drive a Toyota Corolla 1998 if 88,000Km LOW KM ON IT OF A 12YO CAR


that IS low mileage [oops i mean KM] for a 12-YO car. i was forced to learn how to drive at the age of 21. i could not have gotten a job without being able to drive to a jobsite. there is a shortage of public transit in the rural places i have lived, for the most part, so having a car is a must. i learned how to drive about as well as the average schlub does, i guess. have had more than my share of accidents, though. i never liked to drive, i always thought of it as a necessary evil. i certainly wished public transit were better so i wouldn't have to drive at all. i have owned more cars than most other folk my age [in the middles], like 20 of 'em- and have test-driven at least that many more. i like cars but i hate driving - if there were no other traffic, then driving would be fun. but traffic sucks big wind.



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30 Apr 2010, 3:46 am

You're asking about whether we drive and have our licenses?

I just got my driver's license at the age of 20. I just didn't care. My dad hated being what he called a "chauffeur." Don't have or need a car though, at least for now, because the colleges I go to are both less than two blocks away. I know about 30 autistic individuals my age and only about 6 have their driving licenses. Maybe all they need is a license to navigate the information superhighway, namely a computer and a connection? That physical driving becomes less important when your destination is more likely to be virtual? I don't know, but there must be a reason that many with AS don't get their driving licenses immediately.



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30 Apr 2010, 3:51 am

i am 34 and don't have a licence..I have concentration and depth perception issues...there are too many things to focus on at once for me to feel comfortable operating a car...it is not for lack of trying though...I did try multiple times...but too many fender benders and serious near-misses caused me to eventually lose confidence..I have failed the drivers test upwards of 3 times...



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30 Apr 2010, 3:55 am

Nope.



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30 Apr 2010, 4:21 am

have both


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30 Apr 2010, 4:35 am

poopylungstuffing wrote:
i am 34 and don't have a licence..I have concentration and depth perception issues...there are too many things to focus on at once for me to feel comfortable operating a car...it is not for lack of trying though...I did try multiple times...but too many fender benders and serious near-misses caused me to eventually lose confidence..I have failed the drivers test upwards of 3 times...


but you tried, so give yourself a hand. i hope you live in a place with good public transit or have lots of friends to drive you places.



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30 Apr 2010, 4:36 am

I don't see the need to lie. If they asked you, then answering them honestly is not the same as rubbing it in their face.

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30 Apr 2010, 4:38 am

I don't see the need to lie. If they asked you, then answering them honestly is not the same as rubbing it in their face.

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30 Apr 2010, 5:45 am

i didn't get my lisence till I was in my mid-20s and I can only drive an automatic car (not liscensed to drive one with manual gears!). i have a 2002 white toyota scion/bb 1.5 with about 50k miles on the clock.



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30 Apr 2010, 8:15 am

Lukey wrote:
Hello when a lot of Asperges people here I drive and own my car they look well I like to do that. So they ask how hard it was to learn and that which is fine but i feel i rubing it it there faces and I don't like rubbing stuff into other faces should i lie how i got there and all so how many other driver too and what car
I drive a Toyota Corolla 1998 if 88,000Km LOW KM ON IT OF A 12YO CAR



It took me 11 years to learn to drive - not constantly, but on and off because I kept giving up, thinking I was too thick. I was 29 when I passed, but I wasn't put in for my test until my tutor knew I was ready, so I passed first time.

And I'm "between cars" at the moment but I have had Mk1, MkII and MkIII Vauxhall Astras in the past.

(sounds obsessive doesn't it? - total coincidence!)



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30 Apr 2010, 9:30 am

The only thing holding me back from getting one is the ignorance of my parents.



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30 Apr 2010, 1:27 pm

I've decided not to get my license, a long time ago. None of the new cars appeal to me, and I can't afford a car, anyways.


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30 Apr 2010, 2:45 pm

I got my driver's license when I was 14 1/2, and I have a car. Getting a driver's license was for me easy, but I live in South Dakota, and I really don't like driving very far out of South Dakota.

I don't understand what's so difficult about driving, but I do see the difficulty in handling other drivers. I drove to Colorado once, and I will never do it again because it's an assault on the senses. I follow all of the rules of the road, but other drivers make up their own rules of the road and then they get angry at me because I don't follow the rules of the road that they made up.

My car is a 1994, and I have 110640 mi or 178058 km on it. (I can change my odometer back and forth.)