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Statistics on autistic drivers

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Wagwan bredrins,

Does anyone know if there's ever been a study on the percentage of people with autism who hold a driving licence and/or drives a car? It would be really interesting to know as I'm currently learning to drive and I wanna know what percentile I am in so I can brag to my friends when I eventually pass my test Stuck out tongue

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  • I'm not sure how to start a new topic but luckily what I want to ask is sort of in the same vaine (I. E driving). 

    At the moment I travel to work by train as the parking where I work is £ 13.00 a day upwards I've had it cost me £21.00, the train is causing me to have massive meltdowns at work because the train is packed and I have to stand for 20 minutes and there is so many triggers for me (same with the bus). 

    I had applied for a blue badge as driving for me has a calming effect being focused just on the road, anyway so I enquire today as to what is going on with the blue badge and guess what I have been denied the blue badge... on the ground that I need it for parking Sob.

    How many times can I honestly cope with being denied support last year I begged for support from GP, council, autism westmidlands, the list goes on and not one of them have given me any single form of support ( deeply frustrated).  Can anyone here help me in regards to my rights as someone who due to there triggers can't take public transport?

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  • I'm not sure how to start a new topic but luckily what I want to ask is sort of in the same vaine (I. E driving). 

    At the moment I travel to work by train as the parking where I work is £ 13.00 a day upwards I've had it cost me £21.00, the train is causing me to have massive meltdowns at work because the train is packed and I have to stand for 20 minutes and there is so many triggers for me (same with the bus). 

    I had applied for a blue badge as driving for me has a calming effect being focused just on the road, anyway so I enquire today as to what is going on with the blue badge and guess what I have been denied the blue badge... on the ground that I need it for parking Sob.

    How many times can I honestly cope with being denied support last year I begged for support from GP, council, autism westmidlands, the list goes on and not one of them have given me any single form of support ( deeply frustrated).  Can anyone here help me in regards to my rights as someone who due to there triggers can't take public transport?

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    . said:
    I'm not sure how to start a new topic but luckily what I want to ask is sort of in the same vaine (I. E driving). 

    I can't help with blue badge but I see you did get some help in a different thread, so that's good. I can help with starting a new thread/topic though. 

    Starting at the forum main page choose one of the five main topic areas [Autistic Adult, Health and Wellbeing, etc], click on that, then once the page has opened look to the right and just below the header you will see a box that says "New Thread" click that and it will take you to a page that says "Start a Discussion in [Autistic Adult]" or which ever topic you have chosen, this is were you write you post and start your thread. Hope that helps.