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DRIVING

LibstheHobbit

hello!

I would like some advice from some autistic people. 

I'm 21 and I have been considering learning to drive but I am anxious about pretty much every part of driving. 

If you are autistic and can drive could you tell me about your experiences?

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  • was easy. learned to drive a bike and they have more vigorous tests than what cars do so you actually are made sure you can actually drive safely on the road before they even allow you to have any sort of test. although in that case you then get ripped off by people saying your not good enough to pass your CBT just so they can keep bringing you in to farm money off you for lessons, when infact i was actually good enough to not only pass CBT but good enough to pass any of the most advanced driving tests in the world with how much they ripped me off and kept lying to me about not being ready so they can get more money from me lol

  • in reply to Caelus

    When I did my test there was no mandatory training, and they made you go round a square circuit which the instructor walked around watching you from a distance.

    You could also hop onto a Yamaha RD250 at the age of 17 with no training whatsoever!

    The resultant carnage amongst my peers is why you have all that CBT stuff now... 

  • in reply to I Sperg

    I had an RD250, did a mornings training then off, passed my test 4 months late and got a Honda CB900FB.  I think my20 year old Triumph 600 has more power than the Honda

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  • in reply to I Sperg

    I had an RD250, did a mornings training then off, passed my test 4 months late and got a Honda CB900FB.  I think my20 year old Triumph 600 has more power than the Honda

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  • in reply to BJS

    I borrowed a 900 for one ride, and it damn near killed me then later bought an IMMACULATE restored Cb750 of the same model and sold it after a month (for a profit) because it felt "not right" in the handling department. 

    Think I went to a 400/4 after that, which of course WAS right in the handling department.

    Now I ride an ex-racer FZ750, which sticks to the road like, well, you know what sticks to a blanket & provides (apparently) substantially superior performance to a police motorcycle. (I didn't actually know it was a police bike, until the road conditions changed which required me to slow down, when he caught up with me for a roadside chat, apparently after chasing me for a couple of miles) 

    I've had to take a few years off from the biking recently, due to skintness but I'm just fettling and servicing it, ready to return to the road ASAP, as I have a requirement to travel somewhere regularly where the access isn't wide enough for a car...  

  • in reply to BJS

    lucky so  and so  i miss the adrenaline

  • in reply to aidie

    I had the air cooled versions

  • in reply to aidie

    yes, I got a RD400 after the Honda because I went to Germany and insurance was insane

  • in reply to BJS

    RD250 was/is a brilliant bike, the first one i ever rode

    this version