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Alrighty, Roo so.
I am talking about autism and driving today because that's
a lot of taboo about it.
A lot of people think that people on the autism spectrum count, try, they're
able to drive or be bad drivers.
How can they drive on?
They have autism and look autism spectrum disorder.
So there may be people on the autism spectrum who will never be able to
drive because of some other learning difficulty that autism presents to them.
But there are.
Also lots of other people on the autism spectrum, because it's a spectrum who
will have lots of opportunities to drive and no, um, you know, errors in the
way that they could actually formulate a learning plan to learn how to drive.
Now, this is.
Absolutely fine.
I know lots of autistic adults who drive and, um, what does it get?
We'll see don't drive, but I myself drive a car.
Um, and I learned in a manual, a gear car, but I wanted to really talk about like
overcoming the issue and understanding how, how do we come to the, to solve
the problem of like driving because driving is a difficult task and there's
lots of people on the autism spectrum who wants to learn to drive, but then.
hesitate about it because they think, Oh, I'm not gonna be able to drive because
this at any other and blah, blah, blah.
But I wanted to kind of put out there saying that, you know, you
will be absolutely fine driving.
You just have to learn more.
I'm going to teach you in this video, which is pretty interesting.
So when I was learning to drive, I felt like quite overwhelming.
You know, you put it this way.
You're a non-sexy person.
You have to kind of be around another person in a small proximity.
You don't really know that.
Well, the driving instructor, then you are in an environment
that you can't really control.
It's a car.
It may smell like that air freshener, but you may or may not like the
environment may be too hot or too cold.
You can't control that the seat may not be as comfortable as you want it to be
all these sensory processing issues.
And you have social anxiety issues.
And then on top of that, you have to then drive a car and you're driving a
vehicle and the anxiety of driving a vehicle for the first time, it was crazy.
And you got all this stuff going on.
On top of that, you've got to figure out how to drive the vehicle.
And this is what's difficult that learning to drive is quite simple
when everything else is relaxed, but when you're on the alternate spectrum,
everything else is heightened.
So there's level of like, complete like, ah, you know, I need, I need
space and it's very difficult to do it.
But coming to terms with trying to listen to the instructor, teach
you how to drive a car and they basically teach you from a perspective
of just learn to drive the car.
Right.
But I figured out.
You know, a few months into my driving lessons, that one of the
things that helped me a lot, and this was kind of like the aha moment.
This is like the secret to kind of really getting it.
Was that the main thing was that.
I, I, I needed to know how the cow worked.
Right.
I knew I knew what I was trying to do.
Like move the gears and my pedals and stuff.
But then I was thinking to myself, well, why am I, what
am I doing with these pedals?
What's going on in the cow?
Well, how does it work?
And autistic people are logical thinkers.
So they want to know how things work.
They like to know the ins and outs of stuff.
So, yeah.
I decided to research how cat gearbox worked and how the pedals worked
and what was going on mechanically.
And when I looked at that, it kind of made sense.
Cause I realized what I was doing inside the cockpit versus like what was going
on in the engine and then it kind of all slot into place and made sense.
So I was like the main thing that came out of this for me, was realizing that.
I to logically look at something it's not just learning how to drive.
It's learning how a car drives.
You know, it's the two things is lending how a car drives on learning
to drive a car, but let us drive a car is a lot easier when you know
how the car is actually moving.
Now, that was like a proper aha-moment for me.
So if you're watching this right, and you're, you're
artistic and you want to drive.
Learn how a car works, right?
So if you're an autistic person and to drive a car, or you're a parent
of somebody who wants to learn how to drive, then present this to them
in a way where you can say, well, why don't we just look at how a car drives?
Why, why don't we look at the engine types?
Why don't we look at the gears?
How the gears work, how does the car move look at the ins and outs?
Because it's a well-rounded picture.
If you're moving a piece of machinery, if you're operating a big piece of
machinery, you'll want to go to.
You're going to want to know how this is moving.
How are you, what are you doing?
That's making it move on that the key to succeeding with autism and driving.
Um, I know that you can do it.
You know, the another thing is confidence, but you know, you'll have so much more
confidence when you know how to drive the car because you know how it's driving.
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