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Driving and Anxiety

Halima

Hello, 

I recently did my driving test and failed due to anxiety , I just wanted to get some tips from autistic drivers who failed first time what advice they may have for me to smash the next exam? 

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  • I had tons of lessons with a manual car but couldn't get on with driving at all (I was good at stalling).

    I gave up but a few years later started lessons in an automatic car.

    This, along with a driving instructor who specialised in disabled people (without me knowing I am disabled) proved to be the perfect combination.

    I reversed into a tree on my first test (not ideal) and on my second test the same examiner said 'Well, Miss ..., you missed the tree this time' and I knew I'd passed or he wouldn't have made the joke.

    This was, by-the-way, in my mid 40s.

    As so many more new cars these days are automatic rather than manual, I suspect that learning to drive will become easier.

    All the best.

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  • I had tons of lessons with a manual car but couldn't get on with driving at all (I was good at stalling).

    I gave up but a few years later started lessons in an automatic car.

    This, along with a driving instructor who specialised in disabled people (without me knowing I am disabled) proved to be the perfect combination.

    I reversed into a tree on my first test (not ideal) and on my second test the same examiner said 'Well, Miss ..., you missed the tree this time' and I knew I'd passed or he wouldn't have made the joke.

    This was, by-the-way, in my mid 40s.

    As so many more new cars these days are automatic rather than manual, I suspect that learning to drive will become easier.

    All the best.

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