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Autism And Driving - The Secret To Overcoming The Issues (MUST WATCH!) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Some autism and driving Here is the secret to overcoming the
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  issues. All that's coming up Hey guys,
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  welcome back to the aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, ADHDOCD and dyslexia, and I make weekly
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  videos all about this type of content.
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  content. What's going on guys?
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  Welcome back the place where we think differently daily it's
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  going on. Different thinkers, Man.
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  It's been a been a hot minute, but if you haven't already, make
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  sure to go and download my free Autism Life Hacks PDF book just
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  for you at autismhacks.net. Alrighty.
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  Woo. So I am talking about autism and
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  driving today because there's a lot of taboo about it.
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  A lot of people think that people on the Autism special
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  can't drive. They're unable to drive.
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  There'll be bad drivers. How can they drive?
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  And they have autism. And look, autism is a spectrum
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  disorder. So there may be people on the
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  autism spectrum who will never be able to drive because of some
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  other learning difficulty that autism presents to them.
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  But there are also lots of other people on the autism spectrum
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  because it's a spectrum who will have lots of opportunities to
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  drive and know, you know, errors in, in the way that they could
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  actually formulate a learning plan to learn how to drive.
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  Now this is absolutely fine. I know lots of autistic adults
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  who drive and I know lot of autism.
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  We don't drive, but I myself drive a car and I learned in a
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  manual gear car. But I wanted to really talk
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  about like overcoming the issue and understanding how do we come
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  to solve the problem of like driving?
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  Because driving is a difficult task and there's lots of people
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  on the autism spectrum who want to learn to drive but then
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  hesitant and and hesitate about it because they they think I'm
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  not going to be able to drive because this and the other and
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  blah, blah, blah. But I wanted to kind of put it
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  out there saying that, you know, you will be absolutely fine
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  driving. You just have to learn what I'm
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  going to teach you in this video, which is pretty
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  interesting. So when I was learning to drive,
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  I felt like quite overwhelming. You know, you put it this way,
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  you're you're not as a person. You have to kind of be around
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  another person in a small proximity.
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  You don't really know that well the driving instructor.
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  Then you are in an environment that you can't really control.
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  It's a car. It may smell like that air
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  freshener, which you may or may not like.
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  The environment may be too hot or too cold.
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  You can't control that. The seat may not be as
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  comfortable as you want it to be.
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  All these sensory processing issues and you have social
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  anxiety issues. And then on top of that you have
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  to then drive a car. You're driving a vehicle and the
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  anxiety of driving a vehicle for the first time is crazy.
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  And you got all this stuff going on.
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  On top of that, you've got to figure out how to drive the
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  vehicle. And this is what's difficult.
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  The learning to drive is quite simple when everything else is
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  relaxed. But when you're in the autism
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  spectrum, everything else is heightened to the level of like
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  complete, like, ah, you know, I need, I need space.
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  And it's very difficult to do it.
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  But coming two terms with trying to listen to the instructor
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  teach you how to drive a car. And they basically teach you
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  from a perspective of just learn to drive the car right.
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  But I figured out, you know, a few months into my driving
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  lessons, that one of the things that helped me a lot, and this
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  was kind of like the aha moment, This is like the secret to kind
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  of really getting it was that the main thing was that I I
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  needed to know how the car worked, right?
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  I knew I knew what I was trying to do, like move the gears and
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  my pedals and stuff. But then I was thinking to
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  myself, why am I, what am I doing with these pedals?
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  What's going on in the car? What?
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  How does it work? And autistic people are logical
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  thinkers, so they want to know how things work.
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  They like to know the insurance and outs of stuff.
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  So I decided to research how car gearbox worked and how the
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  pedals worked and what was going on mechanically.
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  And when I looked at that, it kind of made sense because I
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  realized what I was doing inside the cockpit.
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  This is like what going on in the engine and then it kind of
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  all slot into place and made sense.
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  So I was like the main thing that came out of this for me was
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  realizing that I to to logically look at something, it's not just
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  learning how to drive, it's learning how a car drives.
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  You know, it's there's two things, it's learning how a car
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  drives on learning to drive a car.
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  But learning to drive a car is a lot easier when you know how the
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  car is actually moving. Now that was like a proper aha
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  moment for me. So if you're watching this
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  right, and you're, you're artistic and you want to drive,
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  learn how a car works, right? So if you're an autistic person,
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  learn to drive a car or you're a parent of somebody who wants to
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  learn how to drive, then present this to them in a way where you
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  can say, well, why don't we just look at how a car drives?
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  Why don't we look at the engine types?
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  Why do we look at the gears, how the gears work, How does the cow
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  move? Look at the INS and outs,
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  because it's a well-rounded picture.
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  If you're moving a piece of machinery, if you're operating a
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  big piece of machinery, you're going to, going to, you're going
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  to want to know how this is moving, How are you?
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  What are you doing that's making it move?
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  And that is the key to succeeding with autism and
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  driving. And I know that you can do it.
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  You know, another thing is that confidence.
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  But you know you'll have so much more confidence when you know
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  how to drive the car because you know how it's driving.
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  All right, guys, if you have anything to add to this video,
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  pop it in a comment down below. I read every single comments.
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  That's never wasted. Also, if you think this is
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  valuable and could help somebody, please share on your
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  Facebook, Twitter and Instagram account.
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  And if you enjoyed this video, give it a thumbs up.
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  I'll see you in the next one. Guys.
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  Peace.