Driving Aspergers

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Serving as a continuation from my previous blog post, “Raising Aspergers”, Today I (Ethan Stranger) will be discussing a topic that I’m sure many Aspergers have struggled with for many years...in the form of Driving. As an Asperger Person, I’ve struggled with getting behind the wheel for a long time (since 2012 to be exact), I was taught by Dad, my own Driving Instructor & even a friend of mine, but even that still made me nervous and anxious, to the point where driving (in my experience) is an amalgam of those Fast & Furious Films & SpongeBob’s own driving experience whenever he’s at boating school.



While Driving is important to everybody (of course, it’s the most popular form for transportation on the road), for an Asperger Person getting behind the wheel, it’s more scaring (especially whenever you’ve heard about either drunk or reckless drivers roaming the roads & causing various accidents or police officers pulling you over for no reason). Even I remember my time in both Nepal, seeing the citizens struggle in driving on their broken & destructed roads, even whenever there’s an accident, they didn't even give a damn, if the driver or motorcyclist was injured, they just get back up & drive off like nothing really happened (they’re like “Real-Life Luke Cage’s”). Being in Lima didn't really help as I was seeing rude drivers (cutting you off or honking rudley).



While I’m pretty sure there are a lot of Aspergers out there who wanna learn how to drive so badly, I can definitely relate if you're having trouble doing it. For me, like you've seen before, there's a mixture of things that make it difficult to drive: fear of a negative situation that can happen (even though I know it's not very likely), my varying levels of attention and the uncertainty of driving itself and sharing the road with others and I’m still learning how to handle a dangerous machine on my own.



And while easy to obtain self-driving cars are still a little far off. So if you're a parent, dealing with an Asperger person who wants to learn how to drive so badly, you need to either teach him or her yourself or find a trustworthy driver instructor who has the patience in dealing with a newly well-driven Asperger driver, but if you feel like that he or she just really isn’t up to driving, then don’t pressure him/her into doing it. Plus, there's always more, and different ways of getting from one place to another.



(This Post is dedicated to my Friend, Quincy, who passed away following a Car Wreck Accident)


(Ethan Stranger Signs Off)

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