Your aspiness behind the wheel?

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I find myself driving for a living now.I deliver plumbing supplies.
fortunatley the dispatch guys don't know half the crap I go through.my navgation skills... never lost but left is right right
is left. goods left at incorrect sites driving miles out of my way
and thats when i'm on my own.An offsider in the cab distracts me even more.
Iam more comfortable driving the company truck so
much so I leave my car at home and ride the bicycle to work.I like my cars I just can't drive them.I'm happier if they stay home.
the general feeling in the shop is " he's okay but don't give him to much to do all at once".
the good news is now we have a new driver.. stevie and I thought I was bad. someone glued a $2.00 compass to the dashboard of his truck after his last meltdown.
and he was gunning for him..to say thanks!!

I'm still in the learning process, though I think I will get a license soon. My main problem at the moment is that if I need to take a hand off the wheel, I start to drift.

I find it hard to make a left turn unless there is a stoplight involved.

I am an excellent driver.

Tim

I'm fine except for turning backwards. But I'll probably have trouble if I drive a different car.

If I've been somewhere before, I generally can find it just fine (but downtown always confuses me); I can't parallel park very well at all, so I avoid it whenever possible. When I am in an unfamiliar area, my driving tends to deteriorate because I get confused trying to figure out which lane to get in and finding where I need to go while still watching traffic. My car's been rear-ended twice, so I tend to distrust other drivers' ability to do such things as keep enough distance, pay attention to the road, and stop gently instead of slamming on their breaks at the last possible moment. By the same token, I hate it when people drive slowly in the fast lane on the highway (particularly when there are three or four other lanes they could drive in). I also hate tailgaters with a passion; I do not take kindly at all to someone putting my vehicle and more importantly my life in danger because they're a jackass; I've been known to come to a dead stop in the past when people do that.

I'm embarassed to say but I dont even know how to drive. When I was 16 I never got excited about learning to drive like other kids and since I never bugged my parents about it they never bothered to teach me.

Now that I'm 22 I really want to learn how to drive (so I can get a job) but I think I'm afraid or something because somethings stopping me from going out there and doing it.

One thing that worries me though is that I really have a bad sense of direction and i'm worried that I'll get lost and panic while driving.

I also have this weird personalit trait where I'm unable to let people go out of their way to help me with something. This is a problem becuase people offer to help me learn to drive and I turn them down because I dont want to be a bother.

I was scared to drive until I was 20. I thought I would never learn to drive.

One day when I was riding in the car with my mom near an empty parking lot, she said "Okay, get out. I want you to drive." I got my license about six months later.

I do get very focused on driving and then forget where I needed to turn. And when I'm at stoplights, I tend to watch things on the side of the road or in the cars next to me, and then miss when the light turns green.

I had always known I'd never learn to drive, it wasn't for me, I'd never be able to do it. I envied people who drove. One day my best friend said she'd nudge me so much to learn to drive that I'd prefer to drive rather than hearing her all day. When she started nudging, she was so unbearable that I promised to take one class. In that class I explained to the instructor that it was just a mock class, to appease my friend so she'd leave me alone. The instructor growled: "I don't do mock classes, lady. You get out and sit behind the wheel right now!" So a few months later I got my driving license and I love driving ! ! I was 33 then, 13 years ago.

Maybe they should've called it a Ford Aspie (just kidding, bad joke).

Anyhow, I don't mind driving in a place that I'm familiar with, like around my hometown and the regional area. However, if I go to other big cities and try to drive I get hopelessly confused and second-guess myself with road signs and exits. As far as the mechanics of driving, I have always found it intriguing so I don't mind it in that aspect, and I carefully time and watch the lights (I enjoy the mathematics of it) so that I can drive accordingly with the most efficieny.

Personally, now that I have a Mazda MX3 I like to go 'zoom zoom' now.

I'm okay if I know where I'm going. I hate driving in places that I'm unfamiliar with. I also have the phenomena of spacing out when driving routes that are somewhat long and familiar to me and then come to realising that I have no idea how I'd gotten that far. A little scary. I'm very night blind, so I can't drive at night in places that I'm unfamiliar with.

I get lost, can't go for long distances and have some days when I just know I will drive bad so I don't. It does seem like there are plenty who do just fine though.... I will have to say in an area I know, I do quite well on a good day.

My sense of direction is absolutely horrid. Often times, I can't recall a route I was directed to take even if I had happened to be directed by a passenger sitting beside me just minutes before. If I finally come to terms with understanding and memorizing a certain route, taking the reverse route back to, say, my house can be a nightmare.

I've only recently come to terms with my AS, and it's the little nuisances such as the above that are driving me insane. I feel lost in my own world and it... frightens me, genuinely.

Can't drive. Well I can, but I don't have a license and I haven't driven alone yet. I'm not sure what my problem is exactly.. Horrible attention span, most of all (almost ran off the road the other day because I was admiring an oak tree). But it's also as though my perception is skewed somehow, like an alice-in-wonderland type thing.. Hard to explain. Sensory overload, maybe? Every so often it's like my brain freezes and I forget what I'm doing, kind of, argh.

Because of this, I'm going to have to take a taxi to school every day.. I'll be 19 soon, by the way.

I tend to zone out a lot, which is not good on a motorbike- it's one of the reasons I'm scared to resit the test (my L plates are my lucky charm/get-out clause)