Do you have trouble driving?

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Well I made a thread about my current experiences right now, maybe some people can provide some advice for that:

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As for the general question of this thread. I do not drive. And a lot of these threads don't address the sensory overload driving adds on top of other sensory overloading situations. I cannot drive right after work, or my therapy or my social events. It's too much. Makes me too tired.

And when I am too tired, I lose motivation. I lose any want to do anything. It's a terrible place to be.

I'm just the opposite. When I drive, I tend to be more relaxed (provided there isn't much traffic, or I'm not driving in the middle of Manhattan).

Taking mass transit is sensory overload sometimes. The noise of the train!! ! The general frustration of everybody.

If I had a parking space at work (or if parking costs less than $100 a month), then I'd drive to work every day!

I've been in a few accidents (once when I was five and my mother was drunk-driving with me in the passenger seat, and we were in the mountains near Vail, CO; another time I got hit while biking to the library), and I also have a general fear of people on the road (and a little fear of myself on the road, too).

I would love more than anything to drive (I got a game on Steam recently called Assetto Corsa which is a pretty good racing sim, and a game called City Car Driving which is a good driving course sim), I just get to anxious in the driver's seat. The only time I get anxious as a passenger is when the driver is being blatantly and stupidly irresponsible (texting, speeding, etc.). Then I tend to tense up and blast to some Opeth or something else, if I have my phone and a pair of earbuds readily available.

Anyways, the City Car Driving game (plus a Steam controller with the gyro function enabled) seems to be helping a bit. It's funny though, because I still get a little anxious when driving in the game.

I am an excellent driver. I just get too agitated on the road, because people are f*****g idiots. I am within walking distance to all my amenities, so I don't bother with transit or automobilism.

I like to drive, generally. I have this unanswerable need to move whether physically or proverbially, and driving gives me some relief from the ever-present frustration of going nowhere way too slowly. I have something to focus on, directly, but not too much, my body is in motion, and my mind in zero gravity. However it doesn't work if I'm just "going for a drive," I actually have to be going somewhere for a reason.
I need to learn to drive stick - I've had a few goes, but a relative was teaching me and kept putting her hand over mine on the stick and shifting the gears if I didn't do it fast enough, and I'd snatch my hand back. I don't want to be touched. Don't touch me. I told her to stop touching me. She kept touching me. The lessons didn't progress much further than that, but I'd like to try again provided she keeps her hands to herself!

I can't drive in big cities, too much traffic complexity, too damned many wayward pedestrians/bikers which sometimes make me come unglued when they jaywalk on my green with no warning.

3 years on from when I attempted driving lessons, I'm still finding the idea of me driving difficult to process.

It took me a very long time to learn...about a year and a half with an instructor.
I also ended up switching from learning to drive a manual to driving an auto.
The manual just involved too much multi-tasking and I'd get panicky and over-whelmed, by comparison learning to drive an automatic was a breeze!

I'm still a new driver really. What causes me the most anxiety is other drivers - rude, impatient, aggressive ones.
I have to remind myself that it's their problem! I am apologetic if I make errors but mostly people are just annoyed because I don't drive over the speed limit like everyone else seems to do!
A tip I've picked up is to not look at other driver's faces. But it still doesn't make it anymore nerve-wracking.

It still beats having to deal with public transport - crowds and strangers everywhere and slower journeys. That had me more on edge. When I'm in my car I'm alone in my own vehicle and that's pretty nice.

I don't like driving for the most part but I'm alright with it. Yeah i get anxiety sometimes but if its a place I know really well I don't mind as well if there's not a lot of cars out and the roads aren't small. I rather be in the passenger though. I love it especially on long road trips. I love to just sit back with the chair leaned a little down and think while on the road. It somehow has a soothing effect on me. Sadly I'm rarely ever in the co-pilot seat and mostly in the driver seat.

i'm perfectly fine with driving on long, relatively empty freeways and roads.

city streets unnerve me because of the sometimes irrational fear of some moron running in front of the car too close for me to respond in time. and also because i feel like i may scrape the cars to the right of me. it always looked close but it is now even closer after i scraped the car with a brick post at grandmas house, trying to pull into the driveway.

i failed my test three times: failing to pull into bike lane and look over shoulder, not yielding to passing cars, and going too slow.

not yet...

i'm driving with a permit.