Can you drive?

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That makes sense, since I get the impression autism is such a variegated animal, where there are many possible 'autistic attributes' one may have or not have, ranging from various elements of social skills (Empathy, Theory of Mind, Expressivity, Tonality, etc.) to sensory issues to coordination issues to sensitivities to a whole gamut of things. I wonder (Wooo... I wonder if "I wonder" would qualify as a phrase that's symptomatic of my potentially stereotyped language usage?) if there's a set of questions that could adequately represent autistic difficulties and sensitivities such that one could definitely rule out autism (Since 'one question' doesn't work, maybe a set of questions would work better?)? I know there's the AQ test, but there's something far more appealing about seemingly more-objective concrete questions like "Can you drive?" that relate to actual impairments rather than associated autistic behaviors/thinking (And actual impairments are ultimately what's important in determining ones level of functioning in various domains, no? The 'aspergers' label seems too easy to stereotype and doesn't seem to adequately describe the actual real life issues an individual experiences, prima facie.).

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I am on the mild side! I can drive, but I don't have a job. I have many difficulties, it's just that driving isn't one of them. I ha extensive evaluations throughout childhood making sure I was developing properly but was never told I was autistic, just HD. Later, I found out I am mildly autistic, but my mom thought I would outgrow it, so she didn't make a big deal out of it. She thought I was cognitively advantaged and that would be enough to catapult me into enormous success.


Concerning video games, I am a meager mediocre but one thing I have loads of talent for and excell exceedingly at is cryptograms. I can do them with enormous haste. They are a lot of fun.
I wish I was better at v.g. but oh well, lol.


In my case they aren't. I can't even play those driving video games. The steering wheel is way different than the one in a car. It's too...touchy.

Oh, bad assumption on my part, lol. What does HD mean?



Weird, I also do really well at the letter-word games (like anagrams). I would often get the 7-letter anagrams on MSN within 10 seconds or less (In fact, my relatives would often just point the laptop screen in my direction and ask "What's this supposed to be?". I think I started bugging them after I routinely insisted on solving it for them and they purposely tried to keep me out of it after a while, lol.), and I attributed that possibly to my enormous storehouse of verbal knowledge and high processing speeds, but I'm now thinking that might be autism. (Well, I don't honestly know too many people with a lot of verbal knowledge and high processing speeds, so I can't really test that hypothesis.)





I've never tried the realistic steering wheels, but I have tried the Wii's hold-the-controller-side-ways "steering wheel" and, heck yeah, they are far too sensitive! It seems like driving is a lesson on how to move the controller as little as possible. 2 degrees of rotation is just too much! lol