Struggling with Driving: Anyone Else?

@Skelerang I definitely zone out plenty too - can relate to that happening often during conversations or reading a book etc. For me though, I know it’s also related to my ADHD

@offthebeatenpath Thanks for sharing! This sounds very similar to a lot of my challenges! Working memory and processing speed (especially visual scanning) is difficult for me, and I get lost easily / find it hard to follow map directions or develop the awareness of space/timing of the car and world around it (difficulty doing that with my own body too). I havent been able to get my license yet (even though I’m now in my late 20s) but I hope to one day be able to do what you do and drive with certain precautions/limitations to stay as safe as possible and make it manageable.

@AnimalBoy I hear you, it was very emotional and difficult for me to accept that I definitely can’t drive as safely as everyone else (if I can drive at all) without taking certain precautions and being very careful / getting training that accommodates what I need to learn how to drive. Realizing that I couldn’t just do something that’s considered so everyday normal and essential to life and gives you significantly more autonomy - it’s taken a lot of years to process and come to accept.

@Prismatic Hey there, thanks for sharing! I’m wondering have you ever gotten the hand eye coordination and spatial skills assessed? I have the same challenges and I’ve tried to understand it through the lens of my confirmed hypermobility and somewhat confirmed dyspraxia, or unconfirmed dyscalculia (math scores were way below everything else for me but not low enough for my assessors to give the DX). I wish there was an easy way to put a label around those issues. My visuospatial skills when it comes to patterns, design, some types of puzzle solving is high, but when I take that into navigating the 3D world its like a slap stick comedy of running into things, tripping, and getting lost.

@DarcyD oh yeah that was what did it for me. The processing was a no go and honestly my hand eye coordination is also so bad. Nothing wrong with it its just how we work.