Can People with Asperger's syndrome learn how to drive a Car

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09 May 2013, 7:31 am

I've been driving since 16. I hit a deer once but never had an "accident" yet, nor tickets. I'm mostly leery of driving in urban areas because there's too much going on around me. I'm afraid I'm going to hit a pedestrian one of these days. I have a certain level of anxiety about traveling in a car in general because my brother died in a car accident. If I don't have to go somewhere I won't.



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09 May 2013, 10:25 am

I don't drive a car, I drive a Jeep.. Then again who needs roads? :lol:



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09 May 2013, 9:19 pm

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Can People with Asperger's syndrome learn how to drive a Car ?

I had my first car when I was 13. It was a '39 Dodge Coupe. It was up on blocks in a field when I bought it. I got it running. My second car I bought for $10 when I was 15. It was a sales stunt. First come got it, and stayed there in the sales lot all night long.


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23 Apr 2014, 10:35 pm

Eh, I will never be able to drive. Too much to keep track of, and my mind seems to be incapable of navigating to new places. I'd be driving slower than an old woman anyway. People should be happy that I'm not on the road.

Still, I'm just an aspie with sensory overload, heavy introversion, and an attachment disorder. One might think that someone as smart as me could drive, but no, I can't. My brain is already being used by too many things to be able to drive safely and to find the target location. Meh.


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24 Apr 2014, 5:10 pm

I have been driving since I was 12 years old. I even drove trackers, concubines and backhoes. When I work at the marina, I drove all kind of watercraft from 10ft fishing boats to sail boats, jet skis, power boats and house ferries all the way up to cigarette boats and multimillion dollar yachts. When you work as a harbor boy(water valet) at a marina. not only do you have to know how to drive the boats, but you have to also learn how to maneuver them as well. Some of those maneuvering tricks can be harder then parallel parking.

I got my drivers license when I was 18. When I took the test on the machine(BTW: this was a mechanical slide show machine, not a computer.), I flunk it 8 times and decided to take the written test and got a 100% on it (Go figure!). I failed the first driving test and pass the second.

I can't really tell you if asperger's had help or hindered my driving skills, but I have been driving for over 25 years and I never had a speeding ticket and have only been in 2 "not at fault" accidents. I can't speak for everybody but I can tell you that it is possible to be an aspie and have excellent driving skills. Driving has never been an issue for me.



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24 Apr 2014, 5:50 pm

I wasn't aware when I was growing up that I was an Aspie and that was occasioning motor skills delays. I flunked driver's ed the first time around and had to beg my instructor to pass me the second time around by promising not to seek my license until my 17th birthday. Despite some crabbiness from the examiner, I passed the on-the-road test for my license the first time around.

However, I know of a number of relatives and acquaintances who I have suspected may have been on the spectrum who never learned to drive due to anxiety or motor skills or didn't learn to drive until late in life when they had no other way to get around.



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24 Apr 2014, 6:05 pm

I received my driver's license when I was 16 years old. I actually backed into another car in the DMV parking lot on my driving test, but they still passed me! Most people don't like driving with me though. They say I drive like an old lady. I also have no depth perception, so pulling out on to a busy street takes a very long time for me. I also have a very difficult time judging how close things are to the sides of me. Because of this, I absolutely cannot drive next to concrete dividers or down narrow streets. I've only had one serious accident though, I rolled a car at 70 MPH. That wasn't fun.



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24 Apr 2014, 6:29 pm

I have been driving since I was 15 and I got my license at 17. I never had any problems driving and I have been driving for over thirty years. I can also drive on any road, highway. freeway. country road whatever. And I can drive any kind of vehicle, stick shift, automatic, tiny cars, big vans. I have never driven a really big truck though but I could most likely do it. I have pulled a trailer too. Sometimes bridges scare me a little though especially super high ones. I try to stay on the inside lanes on those. Sometimes night driving is hard for me though because the headlights on other cars are too bright. But I just got some of those HD night glare reducing driving glasses so I am going to see if they help.


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24 Apr 2014, 6:56 pm

I am not going to try to get my license anytime soon.
1) I get lost easily
2) am clumsy
3) I don't have that much spatial skills
4) I startle easily
5) I panic easily
6) I have trouble paying attention at more than one thing at a time
well, so far buses are just fine :)



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26 Jan 2020, 4:14 am

Yes, absolutely.
I have my full license and I have never had a crash - I have had one person crash into me once many years ago at no fault of mine.

I have been told by others that I am a good driver. I enjoy driving and I love my car.
I do get anxious driving to places I have not driven to before and feel more comfort taking the same route to a familiar location each time.


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26 Jan 2020, 9:45 am

Can People with cars learn how to drive aspergers?



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26 Jan 2020, 9:55 am

Impressive necromancy. This thread was dead for over 5 years before yesterday~

I can drive. I kind of enjoy it when there's not too much traffic.



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26 Jan 2020, 1:06 pm

Some autistics have driver's license and some autistics don't have driver's license

Just like some neurotypicals have driver's license and some neurotypicals don't have driver's license

Based on posts from Wrong Planet, it sounds like a disproportionate number of autistics don't have driver's license

Autism is comorbid with Visual Spatial Processing Disorder



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26 Jan 2020, 1:10 pm

I've been driving since 1986, so yes. Then again, I don't have Aspergers Syndrome ...



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26 Jan 2020, 2:11 pm

I would be a danger to other people if i drove a car no joke, let alone getting insurance, being eco-friendly, and living local to work so public transport is reliable at least. It would often be a dream of mine should I have the money to get lessons and pass the test and get a nice fancy SUV as a first vehicle.



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26 Jan 2020, 2:15 pm

I have a license but I don't drive very often, and I avoid it as much as possible because it makes me nervous. I took Driver's Ed and private lessons and I studied very hard for my tests. I passed on my first try even.


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