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I finally accepted that driving is impossible. I cannot steer, remember which pedal is which, and follow the road, while minding nearby drivers and the GPS voice. One requires technical focus, the other, social awareness. My monotropic brain lacks the bandwidth to sustain both. Driving = shutdown = fatal accident.
The learning stage is already insurmountable. A voice transmitting instructions scrambles my focus. Worse, the voice belongs to a stranger. Trap me next to an unknown human, get a panic attack.
No thanks. The only car I will drive is in Sonic Racing. Hopefully, I will succeed at cycling.
Anyone else?
I struggled really hard with driving for many years. It's such a big task to learn with a ridiculous number of factors. I was in several accidents my first year driving and I still get very nervous about driving to new places. I won't drive downtown at all. However, after being forced to drive for so long, I am now a pretty skilled driver and the greater autistic pattern recognition skills have made it very easy for me to read other drivers. I haven't been in an at-fault accident in over a decade (I was rear-ended after 15 seconds stopped at a red light once, but that obviously wasn't my fault).
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The biggest thing for me was realizing that just because there is a rule, doesn't mean everyone is going to follow it. My worst collision happened because I thought someone was going to stop at a red light. They didn't.
Of course I don't follow all the rules while driving now (speeding, not stopping all the way at a stop sign, normal stuff), and I am much more mindful of when people are going to break them.