I dont have a car and prior to last year I hadn’t driven in a couple years. I remember driving has always been hard for me. But last year I drove a friends car and it was nearly impossible to stay focused on the right things. I’m too scared to drive now.
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It’s second nature to me. I’ve driven most of my adult life. I haven’t been without a car since 1997. I’ve been in some accidents and gotten tickets but only two were my fault. One was a minor fender bender; I wasn’t paying attention and I rolled into some guys bumper in heavy traffic going about 5 mph. The other one was when I got confused in a left turn lane and I t-boned another car on the drivers side. It was some teenage girl and she was freaking out and getting dramatic because of the accident. It put a pretty big dent in her car and mine too. But nobody got hurt and not only did my insurance pay for her damages but my rates didn’t go up.
I have no problems with driving.
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My anxiety prevented me from driving until my Pdoc recently upped my dose of Lexapro. I have just started getting back behind the wheel after four years, just driving small distances in a small town at the moment. It is going well. 
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I used to read license plates, every plate and decifer secret messages to me and others encoded in the numbers on the plates. Only I and a few highly placed national security people knew the codes. Of course, sometimes aliens would encode messages on plates too. It kept me looking around a lot while I was driving. After I was diagnosed and treated (medicated), it took about two to three years for me to stop reading license plates.
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I had my license revoked back in July 2017. I am hoping to get it back in the next week. I will be contesting it if they say no as I am doing well at the moment, and don’t believe my Sz will affect my driving.
It has been frustrating, as public transport isn’t cheap.
Sz seriously affects my driving. So I don’t drive.
I have both poor reaction times, very poor depth perception, and because of my sza, poor judgement as well. All of which make me a bad driver. As of almost four years ago, I no longer drive.
I’ve never driven on a public road. It has less to do with having an SMI in my case than having poor hand to eye coordination,poor spatial awareness, and rather slow reactions.
A while ago,out of curiosity, I did the cognifit driving assessment. Scores that were in the red,ie bad,were as follows. Maximum possible is 800.
HAND-EYE COORDINATION
Score Received: 8
Tim has received a low score in hand-eye coordination. This skill is the coordination of
the hands and eyes. Hand-eye coordination is a complex skill, as it requires the hand to
move depending on the visual stimuli that the eyes receive. T his is an essential skill for
driving, as it makes it possible to move the vehicle towards the necessary location
safely and while avoiding obstacles.
VISUAL SHORT TERM MEMORY
Score Received: 45
Tim has received low scores in this cognitive skill. Visual short-term memory is the
ability to remember visual information over a short period of time.
FOCUSED ATTENTION
Score Received: 187
Tim received low scores in this cognitive skill. Focus attention makes it possible for the
driver to stay alert during long trips that may be tiresome and monotonous. Focus
attention makes it possible to pay attention to relevant stimuli while inhibiting those that
may be irrelevant.
WIDTH OF FIELD OF VIEW
Score Received: 31
Tim received low scores in ??eld-of-view. Safe driving requires us to have a good visual
and visual-perceptive skills in order to perceive the environment, as well as visual acuity,
a complete width-of-field of view, and the necessary optical corrections.
ESTIMATION
Score Received: 96
Tim has received low scores in estimation. Estimating speed, direction, or distance is
one of the skills that we use constantly as we drive, and is essential to driving safely.
For example, if you want to pass a car on the road, you need to estimate your speed and
the speed of the other car, and estimate the time and distance to be able to pass the
other vehicle safely.
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I’m an excellent driver, but currently only drive 2 miles or something. So yes. Before I got sick, I traveled to La, orange county, and San Francisco easily. I just listened to tool and relaxed.
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I have no problem driving, I have a truck and tow a 25 foot trailer everyday almost
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Sometimes I think I drive better than most people, but don’t ask me to park my car between two cars, lol.
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I use to be a maniac on the road. One time i got pulled over for doing 120 on a 70 (km) three cops were there and i dont know why but they let me off. Today id be arrested and have my license taken away. Very stupid of me, but thats what 17 year olds do i guess.
But ive shaped up and am considered a very safe driver nowadays.
I get intrusive thoughts about driving and wrecks. But I have been in wrecks- I was not the driver in any- and I’m scared of bei ng out of co trol.
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Twenty years ago I could drive on motorway
But once my anxiety set in I cannot drive as far as I used to be able to do I get overwhelming anxiety but I’m pretty good at driving locally
I deliver packages as my job, so I’m on the road for 10+ hours a day on the days I work. I drive a big cargo van.
Outside of work though, I don’t really like to drive. Especially when there’s other people in the car
The drama was warranted. My daughter had post-concussion syndrome after she got t-boned that took months to go away. Talking to her for the first 24 hours was horrible. Word salad. You don’t have to hit your head for your brain to get rattled up against your skull hard.
My schizotypy definitely affects my driving. I don’t even have a permit. I’m too paranoid of others (worried one day someone will just decide bumper cars is a good idea) to trust driving because I can’t control everyone else on the road, so I refuse to take partial responsibility even.
I love driving. Its my freedom.
I would be lost without it, trapped and caged !!!
I won’t drive anywhere new without taking a navigator with me. I’m a good driver but wary. I have good reflexes. I’ve been in accidents - one, a deer and the other, a sand truck crossed the highway in front of me. Oh, I almost forgot. Last October, I was rear ended.