How many of you cannot get a driver's license?

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and don't you look smug about it!

It can be much harder for people with AS to learn to drive, although I believe much of this is down to motivation. Its all down to the individual. If there are no medical restrictions preventing you driving (in the UK this is controlled by the DVLA) then go for it. It can take longer to learn than the average of around 45 hours of professional tuition most pupils in the UK take to reach test standard, though, for instance if there are co-ordination or anxiety issues to address.

I've been driving for over 30 years, and am currently in the final stages of qualifying to be a DSA Approved Driving Instructor. I'm doing additional training after I qualify to help with teaching pupils with AS, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Anxiety.

I'll be one of only three AS driving instructors in the UK.

It can be done!

It's not that I can't have a license. It's that I choose not, to have a license.

I'm fully lisenced but my mom always complains that I drive too erratically but its not considered erratic for everyone. Stuff she complains about are like "jerky" lane changes (not that jerky at all. You can't even feel the car sway from side to side nor do the tires screech). Another one is following the car in front too closely but then again, some people have worst tail-gating habits than I do.

I took the test 5x and failed 5x. So I gave up.

Really I NEED my license though, in order to get a job. I fear going back to the US. Like really really fear it.

They don't even ask. So you would pay the same as anyone else of equal age, experience etc.

I didn't learn to drive until I was 28. It was one of the best things I ever did. The hardest parts were the first lesson, where I was so anxious about the unknown that I cried, and the test, where again I was so anxious that I messed it up several times. The examiner on my third go even suggested I try taking tranquilisers before my test.

I passed when I had an examiner who allowed for my extreme anxiety. He would stop me part way through a manover and remind me to breath and then forget about the test on think about what my instructor would tell me to do,

I failed my driving course at 16, which surprised those around me but me not a bit. I loathed driving, and luckily moved into a city with excellent public transportation. I got my license at 25, but didn't start driving with any regularity until I moved into rural and suburban areas closer to age 30.

These days I'm okay with local driving, getting kids to and from school and the like, but I am looking for work and out of necessity have had to apply for positions that would require a long expressway commute. Do.not.want., but student loans don't pay themselves.

I got my license at 18 , to where most kids had theirs at 16 ; before this all you'd hear is, "I can't wait till" .......
I was motivated only by the simple fact that it was a 'necessity' as time was running out; it's sink or swim baby.

I failed "parallel park" due to anxiety , but the instructor passed me on this first attempt.

DoP cannot drive a car for the same reasons already posted on WP four or five times.

Thanks......I'd always expected they'd be onto disabilities like a shot. I know you're supposed to tell DVLC, but that it's not a bar to driving as such.